i am very disappointed. we had our presentation today and everything technical that could of gone wrong did indeed go wrong. there was no sound on the first clip for an unknown reason. then Lowri's laptop couldn't be connected to the projector so we moved the PowerPoint file to a computer the would attach to the projector but then the embedded video wouldn't play and for some unknown reason the hyperlinked video would not go to the default browser and then wouldn't play any clips from you tube.

luckily we had a contingency plans in case of such technical difficulty. i had previously uploaded all the the videos into you tube. and they could be accessed through the default browser. it was a shame because it didn't have the professional edge that we had worked so hard to achieve but none the less we were able to give a presentation and make all the points we intended to.

All and all i have really enjoyed the module. i have found it to be very thought provoking and challenging in and positive way. It has made me think about points i had never even considered before.

I went up to Lowri's house again to put the PowerPoint presentation together and rehearse the presentation as a whole. Last night i made an image for the slide show that looks like a
graphic from a late night news program. lowri put it onto the first slide and then we put on a musical acompaniment as you might find on the opening title of a news program. initially we made a piece of music from scrach on Lowri's mobile but we couldn't seem to get it to play in powerpoint. so next we went through the music the slide show software came with. we found an appropriate piece of music and then organised someslide to co-ordinate with our script.

We struggled with the technology in placing the videos in the powerpoint presentation. The camera phone video as it refuse to embed onto the slide so i placed all the videos onto youtube and then created a hyperlink. Lowri then embeded the manifesto onto the next slide.

we rehursed the performance all the way through until we were confident with the piece. were going to meet 2 hours before we a due to start the presentation incase any technical difficulty arise.

Today i went to Lowri's house to do our filming. The weather was really good, which was a great relief . Lowri got all dress up as a miner and i put black stuff on her face to simulate soot. we filmed the miner escaping from the mine on her camera phone and this is what it looked like.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfO35ADYsEM

Later in the day we filmed our manifesto. we practiced a couple of time with alternate paragraph and then we filmed the footage on webcam. We messed up a couple of times and you can see our finished manifesto and all our mistakes on our joint blog.

http://someminerinformation.blogspot.com


it was a really productive day and i feel we worked really well as a team.
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