Test CU Media Production http://testcumediaproduction2.wordpress.com Mon, 26 Sep 2011 14:55:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU en 1.0 http://wordpress.com/ http://testcumediaproduction2.wordpress.com 105mc-key-concepts 160mc-developing-meaning 161mc-creating-impact 162mc-narrative admin uncategorized http://wordpress.com/ http://s2.wp.com/i/buttonw-com.png Test CU Media Production http://testcumediaproduction2.wordpress.com LINKS http://testcumediaproduction2.wordpress.com/links-2/ Sun, 18 Sep 2011 11:06:06 +0000 http://capellarecruitment.wordpress.com/ STUDENTS: This page features a selection of links your tutors have recommended as useful reading/viewing for the course. Feel free to add to these with links you find helpful or inspirational (PLEASE DELETE THIS NOTE AFTER READING) COURSE LINKS Media Production Website Media Production Twitter feed - news and useful links about the course Media Production facebook page - a place to share our stuff on facebook Coventry East Asian Film Society STAFF LINKS Mez Packer's Bookmarks on Delicious and twitter feed Pete Woodbridge's website and twitter feed Ken Fero websites

Clifton Stewart's blog

MEDIA PRODUCTION RESOURCES Creative Cow peer to peer support community for media production professionals Mandy.com Film and TV production resources - good source of professional experience opportunities Guerilla Filmmaker.com a website full of everything you need to know about being an independent filmmaker in the world today IMPA AWARDS Movie Poster Awards and all the Latest Movie Posters British Films British Council Film’s British Films Directory is an extensive searchable database of new British films. FilmSound.org the most important forum on the planet for practitioners of sound design ScriptORama Over 10000 free movie scripts, transcripts, screenplays, teleplays and more Shortfilms.com a video driven social network which enables filmmakers to upload their short films and view others Bill Myers Online information, articles, tips, tools and techniques on product development BFI online The British Film Institute archive, cinemas, festivals, films, publications and learning resources Rhizome.org the Rhizome ArtBase is an online archive of digital art for works that employ materials such as software, code, websites, moving images, games and browsers towards aesthetic and critical ends Online tools:

Pixir.com - a free online image editor
Prezi.com - online presentation creator
Soundcloud - audio sharing site
Audioboo - audio sharing site
Flickr.com - online photosharing network
Camtasia - screen capture software (free 30 day trial)
Camstudio - screen capture software (freeware)
XtraNormal - this is fun Movie software

Data Visualisation - links and tools/apps:

Wordle - a site that generates “word clouds” from text that you provide.
IBM’s Visualisation tools - experimental data visualisations
Create a data visualisation in 3 steps (Many Eyes) - how to create a data visualisation on the Many Eyes website
Google’s Visualisation Tools - galleries and tools for creating data visualisations
Best Visualisation Projects - great examples of creative data visualisation
Information is Beautiful - graphic data visualisations from a wide variety of sources
Chris Jordan's images - incredible artworks incorporating data visualisation

Surveys online:

Survey Monkey - create and publish online surveys
Kwik Survey - online survey tool
Zoomerang - online survey tool

Shorten your links:

TinyUrl - online utility for shortening long web links

Help with your tasks:

Adding content to your Googlemap
Uploading videos to Youtube
Vimeo Help Centre (for uploading/encoding etc)

]]> 34 2011-09-18 12:06:06 2011-09-18 11:06:06 open open links-2 publish 0 0 page 0 _edit_lock _edit_last _wp_page_template 162MC Developing a Narrative http://testcumediaproduction2.wordpress.com/2011/09/18/162mc-developing-a-narrative/ Sun, 18 Sep 2011 18:46:52 +0000 http://testcumediaproduction2.wordpress.com/?p=1184 1184 2011-09-18 19:46:52 2011-09-18 18:46:52 open open 162mc-developing-a-narrative publish 0 0 post 0 jabber_published _edit_lock _edit_last 161MC Creating Impact in Media Production http://testcumediaproduction2.wordpress.com/2011/09/18/161mc-creating-impact-in-media-production/ Sun, 18 Sep 2011 19:45:16 +0000 http://testcumediaproduction2.wordpress.com/?p=1181 1181 2011-09-18 20:45:16 2011-09-18 19:45:16 open open 161mc-creating-impact-in-media-production publish 0 0 post 0 jabber_published _edit_last _edit_lock 160MC Developing Meaning in Media Production http://testcumediaproduction2.wordpress.com/2011/09/18/160mc-developing-meaning-in-media-production/ Sun, 18 Sep 2011 20:42:14 +0000 http://testcumediaproduction2.wordpress.com/?p=1177 1177 2011-09-18 21:42:14 2011-09-18 20:42:14 open open 160mc-developing-meaning-in-media-production publish 0 0 post 0 _edit_last _edit_lock jabber_published 105MC Key Concepts in Media & Communications http://testcumediaproduction2.wordpress.com/2011/09/18/105mc-key-concepts-in-media-communications/ Sun, 18 Sep 2011 21:28:22 +0000 http://testcumediaproduction2.wordpress.com/?p=1168 1168 2011-09-18 22:28:22 2011-09-18 21:28:22 open open 105mc-key-concepts-in-media-communications publish 0 0 post 0 _edit_last _edit_lock jabber_published HOW TO LOAD YOUR XML FILE http://testcumediaproduction2.wordpress.com/2011/09/19/how-to-load-your-xml-file/ Mon, 19 Sep 2011 08:36:05 +0000 http://cuphot.wordpress.com/?p=134 HOWTOLOADXML

]]> 134 2011-09-19 09:36:05 2011-09-19 08:36:05 open open how-to-load-your-xml-file publish 0 0 post 0 jabber_published _wp_old_slug _edit_lock _edit_last ABOUT http://testcumediaproduction2.wordpress.com/about-3/ Tue, 20 Sep 2011 09:42:40 +0000 http://cuphot.wordpress.com/?page_id=2 STUDENTS: As a student at Coventry University you will be expected to set up and manage your own blog to use throughout your degree. To help get you started and provide some helpful resources, this ready made template provides you with all you’ll need to get started with WordPress blogging. ONCE YOU HAVE FAMILIARIZED YOURSELF WITH THIS TEMPLATE PLEASE REPLACE THIS ABOUT PAGE CONTENT WITH A BIOGRAPHY, OR SIMPLY DELETE THE PAGE. Along the top of the page you can see links to other pages in the blog. These include; HOME - Your HOME page is where your ‘posts’ will appear in a time-line. Most of your blogging will be done on this page. ABOUT - You are currently on the ABOUT page, once you are familiar with how your blog works you can change the text in this page to tell your audience about yourself, or simply delete the page. HOW TO - The HOW TO page features a quick guide to get you started with blogging, from creating pages to posting images and text, you’ll find the answers here. LINKS - The LINKS page has a selection of useful websites for help with your WordPress blog and modules as well as other University links. You may want to add more useful links to this page as you develop your blog. CU RESOURCES - The CU RESOURCES page links to essential Coventry University pages and resources that you will need to use as a student, these include the Library website and the Media Loan Shop page.]]> 156 2011-09-20 10:42:40 2011-09-20 09:42:40 open open about-3 publish 0 0 page 0 _wp_page_template _edit_lock _edit_last HOW TO http://testcumediaproduction2.wordpress.com/how-to-2/ Tue, 20 Sep 2011 11:05:10 +0000 http://capellarecruitment.wordpress.com/ STUDENTS: ONCE YOU HAVE SUCCESFULY UPLOADED YOUR XML FILE AND ARE FAMILIAR WITH CHANGING THEMES AND GENERATING POSTS YOU SHOULD DELETE THIS PAGE FROM YOUR BLOG There are plenty of resources on the Wordpress support pages that will go into much more detail than the following but it should give you a good starting point. Also worth looking at is this overview video on Youtube by NuuVidea NOTE: This brief tutorial requires that you have already set up and activated your Wordpress website. For more details on how to set up a Wordpress website, see the setup guide. If you can view this text you will have already uploaded the XML file and so can ignore the first step of this how-to and jump straight to step 2: Choosing a Theme for your Blog.

STEP 1 - IMPORTING THE XML FILE

From your blog dashboard, head to TOOLS > IMPORT Select Wordpress from the list of blogs Locate the XML file that you wish to upload and click upload file and import Tick the Import Attachments box and click Submit Shortly after clicking Submit, you will recieve an email confirming the upload, you can check the upload has worked by clicking on the blog link in the email

STEP 2 - CHOOSING A THEME FOR YOUR BLOG

A blog's 'theme' i essentialy a skin and controls the look of the website. Different themes have different options and appearances so find out which one works best for you. Click on Appearance > Themes

You will be presented with a gallery of themes to choose from

Once you have found a suitable Theme, you can activate it or preview and then activate

STEP 3 - USING PAGES

Pages can be added and removed easily on your blog and are designed to seperate your traditional blog timeline from other information. Pages cannot be 'posted' to and are best thought of as 'static' pages To manage your pages click on Pages on the left hand side of your dashboard, you will be presented with a list of your pages. From here you can add, remove and edit pages

Clicking on one of your pages will open up an editing page where you can insert a title, text, images and so on. Once you have finished simply click on Publish/Update and the page will be saved

STEP 4 - CREATING POSTS

The main feature of your blog is to regularly post items to your followers and peers. The way to do this is through posts which will appear in a time-line on your blog, with the most recent displaying at the top. To manage posts and create new ones, click on Posts In the post management screen you can add, remove and edit posts, just as you can in the Pages screen To add a new Post click on Add new The post editing screen will load and just like the pages tool you can add your title, text and any other images you require before clicking publish for your post to go live ]]> 29 2011-09-20 12:05:10 2011-09-20 11:05:10 open open how-to-2 publish 0 0 page 0 _wp_page_template _edit_last _edit_lock CU RESOURCES http://testcumediaproduction2.wordpress.com/cu/ Tue, 20 Sep 2011 11:05:49 +0000 http://capellarecruitment.wordpress.com/ STUDENTS: Below are links to several essential CU websites that contain information on your course, staff and University services. YOU CAN DELETE THIS PAGE WHEN YOU NO LONGER NEED THESE LINKS BUT ENSURE YOU BOOKMARK THEM FOR CONTINUED USE. Timetables - get your latest timetables here Coventry University Portal features links to Moodle, Webmail, Solar & more Moodle contains all of your essential module information, links to module resources and information on your coursework submission. University Coursework Submission Portal - submit your coursework here. CU MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION features information on courses as well as important contact information for staff members Itunes U - Art and design The Media and Communication iTunes U features podcasts from key lectures, seminars, coventry conversations and other sources Media Loan Shop Once you have had an induction to the loan shop you will be able to book out media production equipment from this website Students' Union provides access to content, events and societies organised by the SU. CU Student Services provides a range of central services to support all students.]]> 32 2011-09-20 12:05:49 2011-09-20 11:05:49 closed open cu publish 0 0 page 0 _edit_lock _wp_page_template _edit_last ABOUT THIS WORDPRESS TEMPLATE http://testcumediaproduction2.wordpress.com/2011/09/20/about-this-template/ Tue, 20 Sep 2011 12:39:01 +0000 http://capellarecruitment.wordpress.com/?p=57

As a student at Coventry University you will be expected to set up and manage your own blog to use throughout your degree. To help get you started and provide some helpful resources, this ready made template provides you with all you'll need to get started with WordPress blogging. Along the top of the page you can see links to other pages in the blog. These include; HOME - Your HOME page is where your ‘posts’ will appear in a time-line. Most of your blogging will be done on this page. ABOUT - You are currently on the ABOUT page, once you are familiar with how your blog works you can change the text in this page to tell your audience about yourself, or simply delete the page. HOW TO - The HOW TO page features a quick guide to get you started with blogging, from creating pages to posting images and text, you'll find the answers here. LINKS - The LINKS page has a selection of useful websites for help with your WordPress blog and modules as well as other University links. You may want to add more useful links to this page as you develop your blog. CU RESOURCES - The CU RESOURCES page links to essential Coventry University pages and resources that you will need to use as a student, these include the Library website and the Media Loan Shop page.

]]> 57 2011-09-20 13:39:01 2011-09-20 12:39:01 open open about-this-template publish 0 0 post 0 _wp_old_slug _edit_last jabber_published _edit_lock Welcome to Media Production http://testcumediaproduction2.wordpress.com/2011/09/20/destroy-after-reading/ Tue, 20 Sep 2011 13:02:19 +0000 http://cuphot.wordpress.com/?p=151 STUDENTS: ONCE YOU HAVE READ THIS FIRST POST, PLEASE DELETE IT SO THAT YOU CAN START WRITING YOUR OWN POSTS WELCOME If you are seeing this post you have successfully registered your Wordpress blog and have uploaded the XML file to start your blog. Now head to the HOW-TO page for information on changing the appearance of your blog, and starting to create posts and pages. Make sure you delete this post after reading]]> 151 2011-09-20 14:02:19 2011-09-20 13:02:19 open open destroy-after-reading publish 0 0 post 0 _edit_last _edit_lock jabber_published _wp_old_slug