My Project

Hello and welcome to my Extended Project blog!

Here I will be recording the development of my project digitally and in a chronological way. First, I would like to introduce the fundamental premise behind my project; through my higher level of study into History, I've taken a particular interest in a variety of subjects - particularly Richard III and the Crusades - and wish to combine my newly honed Media skills to produce an educational video. History is crucial to a better understanding of the world and our past as a species, if there is a way to better revise the material and perhaps gain interest into the subject from the youth - much in the way Horrible Histories did - then it would be interesting to explore that.

The educational video will likely inform the target audience (likely to be other students as they are studying the topics I wish to use) of either the Crusades or Richard III. To appropriately format and clearly project the information in the video, I will likely need to analyse other educational videos and assess what they do well; I've seen a few and they typically include animations or other key visuals to illustrate the information and will therefore include them myself.
As such I will be using YouTube as a strong basis for my research into the formatting of the video however the overrall knowledge will either be my own or from various libraries - I've managed to gain access to the Durham University Library and may use it to research into my chosen topic further.

I believe it is worth noting from the start that I have done the Higher Project and it was on animation, aiming to improve my ability and research into animation generally. Due to this, along with my home interest in illustration, I have a decent understanding of animations and wont be going into much detail about my abilities or the 'How to...' - simply offerring insight into the process and how I aim to use it. My main focus will be the aforementioned structure of the video and its overrall quality and presentation, perhaps even working on character designs for the visuals to show the development of these concepts.