Digital Press Pack 3 (extract from workbook)

13/11/07: Ok right I have just been given a tip from a friend of mine that I can insert pictures into my email press pack by downloading the new version of windows hotmail instead of having the Beta version I need the full version. In order to download the hotmail, I will first need to dowload firefox because the new version of hotmail will not run with Safari. I am really hoping that this new version will allow me to create the press pack I want.
13/11/07 - 21:00: After all that hassle of downloading things and getting my hopes up it would work, it turned out to be a waste of time, it still didn’t let me create the presspack I wanted. Im really annoyed now. I am taking all the crap codes and supposed links out. I am just going to have a wrtitten email. An extremely well written email explaining the Safe and Sound project and giving the web addresses of the sites I want people to access.
23:46: I have also created a myspace account for my personal work with a relating factor to the safe and sound project. I thought that seems as though the stupid email will not work, I will create a myspace as a back up option. Afterall it is all creating much needed publicity for both me as a photographer and the developing safe and sound project. Within my myspace, I have uploaded my stills, uploaded my video, wrote a small paragraph about my work as a photographer and a paragraph about the safe and sound website. There is also a link to my blog space and the safe and sound website. You can never have to many links, we have to think of that search engine count. :) Anyway seems as though Ive finished anotherchapter of my project Im off to bed to catch up on some much needed sleep.

Digital Press Pack 2 (extract from workbook)

I decided to search for a site that could teach my HTMIL codes or generate the things I needed in order to add images and links into my email press pack. I used google to do the search and it came up with some sites that generated the codes needed to produce them. However after writing my email and sending it to one of my other email addresses as a test, none of the codes worked? I have no idea why this has happened and how to make them work.
What my email said:
"
The Safe and Sound Project was created because the head of LCF (London College of Fashion), Frances Corner, wanted to celebrate the colleges centennery by a new look response to issues of health and safety for young people. This idea was then discussed with Karin Askam, who approached Mark Lebon to express the project in an innovative way. At this time one of Marks students and assistents, Charlie Green, had recently had his life cut short by a drunk driver. It was this tragic event that got Mark motivated to produce an emotional response to the issues of health and safety, and from this, Safe and Sound was put into action.

"
This code was supposed to insert a picture!
You may have seen the i-D issue of Safe and Sound, this was a massive promotional step for Safe and Sound by the hands of Mark Lebon and his working contacts within the magazine. It uses photographic images along side the accounts of various This code was supposed to be a link to the safe and sound website!"
"The healing site is there to act as a form of help. Please click the link to view the site and feel free to contribute to this cause.

The second link is direct to my own personal blog related to safe and sound. You can navigate through my thoughts, feelings and work produced as a response of the Safe and Sound Project. Feel free to leave comments or just simply browse
"

This code was supposed to be a link to my blog page!"
The image below is a snippet of the work I have produced.
"The image below is a snippet of the work I have produced.
This code was supposed to be an image of a still I produced for the Safe and Sound Project!
"
"Thank you.

Miss N.R.Willis
"

Digital Press Pack 1 (extract from workbook)

For my digital press pack I have decided the best thing for me to create is a well written email explaining the Safe and Sound website as well as figure out a way to add images into the email and links to the safe and sound website, my personal myspace and my blog space. The reason for this is to gather as much puplicity as possible. I am hoping that by either adding links (if i figure out how), or giving the addresses of the websites it will encourage people to look at the sites. I am also hoping to find out a way of encorporating images into the emails. I am going to have to use search engines to find a site thatn can give me ways of doing this. Im sure I will have to look into tons of HTML coding. Even if it doesn't work I am sure I can think of something to draw attention to the message of safe and sound.
As well as using email I have also looked into the possibility of sending a tetxt message as this is also a modern way of sending a message. As well as simple text I could send a picture from my camera phone with the message underneath. Perhaps something short and simple. Maybe just the web addresses.

Film 7 (extract from workbook)

7/11/07: I have finished the ordering and editing of the stills which was unbelievably simple to achieve, now all I have to do is add some visual trnasitions and effects which also seems to happen at the press of a button. I have now decided (after thinking about it all damn night and after trying both out at 4am) which song I am going to use. In the end it came down to which one sparked my own emotive response. In doing this I have realised that I want to use the Marilyn Manson because whilst watching it with the film I had a flood of emotion that I didnt know I felt about my attack. It wasnt sadness or self pity, but anger and the want to prove a point. Im not sure if this is a good thing or not but with it producing this response I want to use it. After watching the film I had a sudden drive to produce more work. I ended up using this to update my blog and start creating the digital presspack.
11/11/07: I have found a problem within my film, I cant actually work out how to save it so it can be viewed within quicktime. I also have to work out how to compress the fille so it can be uploaded to something like youtube. Using film is confusing and quite complicated. It doesnt help that Im not particularly confident within the media of film. I think Im going to need some help with making it play in quicktime, as nothing I am doing seems to be making a difference.
12/11/07: Hurrah I have managed to work out how to save my film as a quicktime film by using the help button within the iMovie programme. All I had to do was simply go to FILE-EXPORT-SAVE AS-QUICKTIME- then choose the type of compressed file I wanted to save it as. It was easy to do. After saving it as both a high resolution film and a film for web, I have uploaded it to youtube and created a link on my blog page to the youtube viewing of my film. I am extremely happy to have this part of my project finished with as it was the part I was most anxious about.

Film 6 (extract from workbook)

Lyrics of Marilyn Manson - Beautiful People
"And I don't want you and I don't need you
Don't bother to resist, or I'll beat cha
It's not your fault that you're always wrong
The weak ones are there to justify the strong

The beautiful people, the beautiful people
It's all relative to the size of your steeple
You can't see the forest for the trees
You can't smell your own shit on your knees

There's no time to discriminate,
Hate every motherfucker
That's in your way

Hey you, what do you see?
Something beautiful, something free?
Hey you, why you trying to be mean?
You live with apes man, it's hard to be clean

The worms will live in every host
It's hard to pick which one they eat most

The horrible people, the horrible people
It's as anatomic as the size of your steeple
Capitalism has made it this way,
Old-fashioned fascism will take it away

Hey you, what do you see?
Something beautiful, something free?
Hey you, why you trying to be mean?
You live with apes man, it's hard to be clean

There's no time to discriminate,
Hate every motherfucker
That's in your way

Hate! [x8]

The beautiful people
The beautiful people (aahh)
The beautiful people
The beautiful people (aahh)
The beautiful people
The beautiful people (aahh)
The beautiful people
The beautiful people (aahh)

Hey you, what do you see?
Something beautiful, something free?
Hey you, why you trying to be mean?
You live with apes man, it's hard to be clean

Hey you, what do you see?
Something beautiful, something free?
Hey you, why you trying to be mean?
You live with apes man, it's hard to be clean


The beautiful people, the beautiful people
The beautiful people, the beautiful people
The beautiful people, the beautiful people
The beautiful people, the beautiful people
The beautiful people
"

Analogue Press Pack 4 (extract from workbook)

15/11/2007: I have decided not to include the lyrics of the Bif Naked song in my analogue press pack, the reason for this is because it doesn’t really have any relevance anymore. Its just a little too random and doesn’t bring the project together. I am just going to have the mask, with the label directing recievers to the websites. I think this is a muchmore direct approach.

Analogue Press Pack 3 (extract from workbook)

14/11/07
Ive just finished creating my analogue press pack. I have used the mask from my shoot as it will hopefully tie all of my work together, afterall the main subject within the work I have produced was the symbolic content of the mask, and the idea of facing your demonds. The mask has two nostil holes allowing the wearer to breathe and it is through these holes that I have attatched a a kind of baggage lable with the web addresses of safe and sound and my blogspace. Im gradually finishing off my project and starting to feel the stress of everything leave my body. Just to be sure I am going to have a massage today and relax at a health spar. Yey!