ICT/Media Documentary Notes

Sudan documentary 1

-Small clips

-Pictures

-Some text

-Background music (the country’s style music)

-Narrator (cannot see)

-Pictures/small clips are relevant to what the narrator is saying

-Focus on peoples eyes for more emotion

-Quoting

-Background information

Sudan documentary 2

-Different pictures/video clips shown at once

-Narrated by a native

-Start with background information

-Questions

-Constantly showing the word Sudan

-Music

Inside Job trailer

-Lots of clips

-Overlapping of clips/pictures

-Multiple languages

-Interviewing people

-Music

-Quotes

All these documentary's have something in common, they both have a narrator talking about it; the narrator is not visible, they all use short clips instead of long ones, they always talk about the background information (e.g. if they are talking about a country then they will start off with where the country is, who lives there, etc...), they all in a way made the viewer closer to make it a bit more emotional like focusing the camera on the eyes of the people in the documentary and they all have music.

Media - Sudan video reviews

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USLDoIiFzzg
I watched this and I thought this was a good video because it explains in detail about the war, how it started and the people suffering when this happened.


 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reUqSTZlgY8
This video is about two girls who have something in common, they both had parents and saw them get killed.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymlDzExwMQw&feature=relmfu
This video talks about the aftermath of the conflict and how people in Sudan are still suffering.

Media - Sudan video reviews

While watching the different youtube video’s about Sudan, I noticed that none of them really had anyone smiling. Most of the people were doing things like fighting for water or getting water out of the drains, there were some who were TRYING to smile but when I saw them I knew they were really sad on the inside.

Another thing I noticed about the people were that they were based on the most badly affected places such as Darfur.

Science - My genetics game review

My genetics game is basically a questionnaire. It has several questions with multiple choice answers and each answer tells you to go on a page. If you are able to answer most of the questions right then you can go through it quicker but if you answer most of the questions wrong then you would have to take longer to answer.

In the game, I made sure the questions were not too easy but also not too hard so it could be possible to answer. The gameplay however was a bit boring because it was only answering questions (but for some reason some people found it interesting, they were probably being sarcastic). My original intention was to add these bonus's and disadvantages to the wrong and right answers to make the game more interesting but I decided to get rid of that idea because of the fact that it got too confusing that I almost was not able to understand it myself. I did it on a powerpoint (Weirdly, no-one else's uses a computer to play) because I thought that it would be easier to make than a board game but I was wrong, when it came to placing the questions on different pages I was a bit stuck because It was a bit hard to add the right and wrong answers on without actually giving it away like the first one (The first three were wrong and the last one was right).

As a conclusion, I thought that I can improve it to make the game more interactive because the purpose of this was to make a way of learning this without it being reading of a textbook or doing questions and I  did not do that. Another improvement I should make is to have more questions because I only had three questions in the questionnaire (if you got them all right) and that isn't much to help learn. One final improvement is to make it more complex because if I had four answers for a questions and they lead to a page (e.g. pg 5,6,7,8), I sometimes just mix up the numbers (e.g. 6, 8, 5, 7) and people can still easily see the answer.

Science - Genetics games review

When I was playing with the genetics games, I only got to play Lewis's one and Maddy's one.

Maddy:
I think Maddy's game was good. There were many good questions (there were also some I didn't know), the actual gameplay was fun and it was not really complicated. A few problems with it was that there are some parts that send you way back or send you close to the finish line too easily, at the start there was a yellow box that asks you to move to the next yellow box and the next yellow box said move 15 steps. Doing that will basically make the player answer less questions so they won't learn as much.

Lewis:
Lewis's game was simple but good. It was a bit like monopoly, it had some cards, a board and on the boards there were steps with a question mark, L or T, normal spaces and a space where you skip 2 turns. There were many interesting questions and the gameplay was not as fun as Maddy's one but it was still good. I didn't really see many flaws with the game except for the L or T spaces (stands for luck or trouble). Sometimes you get L or T that moves you forward but then you go to another L or T and you have to move back again.

As a conclusion, I prefered Maddy's one because it was a lot more fun and I thought the question was a lot more challenging.