'MULTIMEDIA'???

The term multimedia is used frequently in discussing how/what to blog to get into the high marks band. You're partially marked on the 'level of care in the presentation' and 'use of ICT' within your blogs. What does this mean? Multimedia = a combination of images, hyperlinks, podcasts, videos, vodcasts, links lists and other blog tools, use of Facebook/YouTube et al for audience feedback/research/marketing etc. Level of care means taking time to appropriately illustrate posts, find useful hyperlinks to include [generally make a phrase into a hyperlink; don't just type 'here is a link:'!], and checking your links work, images have been properly embedded (always: save and upload, never copy/paste or drag in), posts don't have massive gaps/white space (if you place a lot of images in a post it can take some tweaking!). I try to apply these principles. Make your blogs at least as good as this one!

Saturday, 7 November 2009

The Horror, the Horror...[YouTube for genre research]

(Which is of course the immortal line from Brando in possibly the greatest war movie ever, Apocalypse Now)
This will work for any genre... Tried a simple search in YouTube: 'horror'. Very useful results; there are planty of horror buffs out there who have made compilations of films and characters and various mini-docs. Gives you the opportunity to look at a wide variety of films without having to spend fortunes doing so, though you may of course want to buy some based on viewing a clip or too.

One YouTube user, for example, has created his own channel based around horror, eg this installment of his ultimate scary characters, including Pennywise the clown.
Another user has created a series called 'Scariest Horror Movie Scenes' - see part 1 here.
I haven't watched it, so have no idea if its any good (comment with your views if you do!), but another film has a fan discussing their favourite horrors from the noughties.
Plus there's a micro-site dedicated to horror trailers (probably not teasers though).

2 comments:

Conor said...

The scariest horror movie scenes is pretty good.

Ellis Clark said...

I like the pennywise the clown one