Hannah's Journal

Hello, I'm Hannah. Student. BSc Hons in Digital Media Development. University of Winchester.  Class of 2016. This is my journal, detailing the progression of my projects www.hannah-kilby.co.uk

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10/01/16 - Don't panic, try not to panic, ok just stay calm you can do this 

 So it's officially the last semester of uni. Last chance to learn stuff and prove I can do shit. 

 Major goal and mantra this semester is to...

Finish what you start! 

Looking back at last semester, you did stuff but everything had loose ends. Can only hope I scrape semester 1 with a pass to be honest. I can at least try harder this semester though. 

 Let's start this whole work thing then

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I can't code by myself Steve 😭

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3/12/15

We're live in vodka at rendezvous

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Interactive Visual Display Developement

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4/11/15 Arduino

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3 - 14 /11/15 - IVD Prototype Experiments

As I was struggling to work the getUserMedia js function, but now had a client that was eager to see at least a prototype of my idea, I thought I would create one using a demo I had seen here http://w-labs.at/experiments/audioviz/ as this simply analyses and responds to a preloaded song. I then combined it with the previously made tweeter interaction.

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17/10/15 Atoma Visual Loop Experiments 

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13/10/15 Another play around in after effects similar to the other just using the audio spectrum effect with this one

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13/10/15 Playing with audio in after effects. Used the audio waveform effect and played around with the settings just to get an idea of what they do. Ended up with this look

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30/10/15 - Rendezvous 

Organised a place to showcase my interactive display - Renzevous Thursday night event at Vodka Nightclub in Winchester

Emailed the SU a couple times but never heard back from them. Probably would have been up for it if I went in but not needed now. Mentioned it to my housemates friend at Vodka (Josh Mitchell), and he seems really excited about it. Time to step up the game and make this thing!

So the agreed brief is to create an interactive visual display to go live on the TV screens at the nightclub, keeping on brand with existing digital media forms e.g. the poster featured here (credit Ally Perry)

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22/10/15 - MAMP databases

We set up database things in the lecture today using MAMP and php 

<?php $servername = "localhost"; $username = "root" $password = "root"

// Create my Connection

$conn = mysqli_connect($servername, $username, $password);

if(!$conn) { die("Connection failed" . mysql_connect_error () ); }

echo "Connected to the database sucessfully";

?>

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29/10/15 Feedback week

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3/12/15 - Testing at Rendezvous

Did a live test with the interactive visual display at Rendezvous

Bugs

Media tweet script will only media and text script will only show text, need both in one script

Twit pic can sometimes be too long and hang off the edge of the tweetbox

Wider tweet box

Smother colour change

Next week is christmas party, maybe add snow?

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26/11/15

Steve helped me with getting images from database to show up on my portfolio 

Before, I was using a Blob but that came up really weird.  The column is now set as a VARCHAR which I enter the name of the image. The code then combines html and php to display the image

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20/11/15 - Apps World

We got lots of free stuff. My favourite is the poster by www.studiographene.com featuring a Melson Mandela. Very relatable when you’re knee deep in code and all seems impossible.

Donky isn’t urber for donkey rides (should be!), but looks pretty cool. Could have done with that for the human values project last year

Applause guy was cool. Signed up to work for them at test.com

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15 - 17 /11/15 - Volume experiments

After not having much luck trying to mash together the code from the equiliser live input display test and the prototype using preloaded music, I decided to start from scratch.

I found another demo http://webaudiodemos.appspot.com/volume-meter/index.html that simply took in made a shape get bigger and smaller by by metering the volume.

I played around with this code, seeing the different translations I could make. This was my first time using the HTML5 canvas tag which was a new and interesting experience. After researching it, it’s quite impressive what can be done in the tag, e.g. games.

After struggling to make the circle scale up and down, I later had a tea break epiphone. It's not the scale, it’s the radius of the circle that needs to be affected by the volume. I then also saw how you could change the start and end angle of the circle which gave an interesting effect of breaking up the circle line, similar to original animated visuals

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17/11/15 - Freelancer Workshop

Felt this was a bit of a recap of what we’ve covered in DMD lectures e.g. social media branding, financing a project. Still good to network though. One thing I did take from it was at the start we had to list 3 things that were unique about us. Here’s mine...

Creative code, focussing on audio visual

Most people use code with a focus on function, whereas mine is more artsy 

Semester abroad

I have a knowledge of the industry on a global scale after study at Southern Oregon University in the USA, the only person from our degree to do so

Risk taker 

I’ve heard so many people say how they’d be happy in their future lives as long as they can live comfortably. They don’t want to be living paycheck to paycheck and always worrying about bills. I say I don’t give a fuck, I’ll risk it all! I’ll do whatever it takes in my career to get where I want to be, to reach my full potential.