Spreading Word of The Knightly News

Just yesterday, in DigCit, we held a Google Hangout call with a professional freelance artist, Kevin Beaty. He attended our school before the high school was created and we were just a middle school, however our art teacher taught him in high school which is where the connection was made. The great thing about what he does is that this class is mainly describing what he does for a living. He gave us certain advice on how we can get out into the public and spread awareness for our projects. Mainly my goal has just been in person at school and on social media. But now, after talking with a professional, I realize that doing more in person would also be just as helpful as social media. Personally, I feel like social media would be the best for my project because then I could just add the link to my videos in any post that I make about The Knightly News. 

Whilst talking to Kevin, he showed us an informational booklet that he used to promote his work and to recieve new jobs. I think possibly making, almost a commercial for the Knightly News would be helpful in getting the word out all around the school. Also, I think that this way people will know when to expect the next episode and hopefully the will be looking forwards to it. Like I have said earlier, I want this project to be as informative as possible, but in order to make it interesting and have students look forward to watching it, there is going to have to be a comedic element in the videos. 

Public Proposal

Just last night my entire class of DigCit and I held our Passion Project Proposals in our school right before the school play. As I have mentioned multiple times my project is a video series entitled The Knightly News, it was created as a visual alternative to the announcements once every two weeks so that students may be more involved with what is going on around our school. In my opinion the proposal went very well for everyone, I think we were all a little nervous at first but once it got into the swing of things it was really smooth and nothing went wrong that I could think of. This was considered our midterm for this class so it was important that we prepared visually and what we were going to say when groups of people came up to us and were curious about what we are working on. Here is a picture of the visual that I created. 

Overall, I think that the proposal was a huge success and it was great for our whole class to get our projects out into the public community and not just within our four walls. 

Minor Setbacks

The Knightly News will hopefully have its first episode released soon. Unfortunately, the recording has been delayed as multiple members are involved in the school play and cannot make it after school until after the play is done. So, the episode will likely be delayed but hopefully not by more than a week. Other than that one issue everything else is going as planned. We have gathered enough members that can hopefully fill the entire script. A rough draft of the script has been written, hopefully after the Twitter chat in December we will be able to adjust it accordingly to best suit other students. We have also been able to successfuly gather multiple cameras, tripods, audio equipment, and a greenscreen for filming. 

Luckily, this is not a major setback, our plans to film were only slightly delayed. I was expecting some bumps in the road and if this is a bad as it gets I would consider this project a great success.