5.2.2 Tracy Radio Recording And Editing

To record my news bulletin I used a zoom microphone and recorded the bulletin I had already wrote. When recording my bulletin, I had to sit in the stair well as it was the quietest area in the college. To edit my bulletin I am going to use garage band.

 

One difficulty I faced was that my bulletin didn’t record on the microphone. To solve this, I had to re-record it. I also had difficulty with getting one part of my bulletin off of the software and onto a newer edition. I solved this issue by working off the older piece of work.

Magazine Double Page Spread

project double page spread

7.2.2 Building Your Website

Once I chose my website layout, I started to save images from https://www.pexels.com and adding them to the page to replace the coloured blocks. I did this by clicking on the block, then fill and selecting the images I wanted. Because some of the images didn’t look right in certain boxes, I rearranged and changed my design slightly.

To create my text template I added a two column wide box and made it fill the whole two left columns. I then added another box to where I want to have an image. To fill in the rest of the space I added lorem ipsum text.

I created my gallery template by adding coloured boxes to where I wanted them. I then resized them to fit onto the page. To make the page look a little different and not as plain, I decided to add a slideshow. I did this by clicking on the widgets icon and selected slideshow, I then chose which style of slideshow I wanted.

I then started to create the articles for my site. I did this by copying across some of my work and then inserting images that related to it from what I had taken or from pexels.com. I then linked them to my homepage by clicking on an image, on my homepage, that represented that article and used a hyperlink.

I then created my gallery and did this by selecting images from pexels.com that I liked and saving them to my desktop. I then filled in the boxes I made for my design with an image.

For my video template, I decided to create a page of music videos as I really like music. I did this by clicking on the widgets library, social and then I dragged the youtube box to the page. I then copied the code of the video.

5.2.1, 5.2.2 Radio Script and Vox Pop Interviews

To make my vox pops interviews, I created a question related to one of my news stories and then asked five people around college the question.

One problem I came across was when I was trying to collect my interviews from the microphone. I overcame this by asking the technician and finding out that I needed to turn the microphone off.

One key rule for writing a radio script is to use the five Ws and firstly write those into the script. If you have anymore free time, then you can add more information. Also, if you can’t say a complicated word, then you should try writing it phonetically. Another key rule is to not use abreviasions because the audience may not know what they mean.

One criticism of my script was that I said “striking ” too much. To improve my work, I re-worded the news story to take out the majority of times I said the word “striking”.

 

 

Cue in: Good afternoon, I’m Jess Bradley. (namecheck)

The government is imposing a 20% tax on sugary drinks and snacks in hospital cafes.

The tax is to combat obesity in the UK and has been backed by celebrity chef Jamie Oliver.

We asked students and staff if there should be a ban on the sale of sugary snacks in colleges.

Lilly Turner, 18, a public services student at Hillsborough said “……..”

OUT WORDS: Hillsborough said

DURATION: 21 seconds

This year, junior doctors are striking.

Since 12^th January doctors across the country are striking due to being asked to work seven days a week.

This is the first strike by junior doctors in 40 years leading to 17 day surgeries and 180 outpatient appointments being cancelled in Hull and East Yorkshire.

OUT WORDS: East Yorkshire

DURATION:18 seconds

Since December, squirrels across Yorkshire are gaining weight.

Because of the warmer winter, squirrels have been eating their food storage as well as the food regularly available.

OUT WORDS: regularly available

DURATION: 9 seconds

Cue Out: This is Sound Radio

7.1.1 Issues related to media usage

What are some of the main issues related to general internet usage?

1. addiction – in the UK, 2 out of 5 recognise they are spending too long on the internet, but admit that they can’t stop. 3 in 5 of us check the internet first thing in a morning and last thing at night. 9 out of 10 people would rather be surfing the web rather than reading a book.
2. no privacy – ‘cookies’ track where we go everyday and our mobile phones log data about our movements every five seconds. We are always leaving digital breadcrumbs on our online travels. Every year, in the UK, we leave up to £5000 worth of data online which is sold to marketing companies and harvested, filtered and cross-referenced to provide detailed insight into our lives.
3. online crime – in 1990 the NSPCC estimated there were 7000 images of child pornography at large and in 2014 the American law enforcement found 42 million images on one server. On Twitter, as a whole, people tweet 10,000 racist slur terms a day and 2000 tweets are sent containing the word rape. 69% of young people in the uk have experienced cyber bullying.

 

What percentage  of the world population use social media sites?

Company Info

Facebook = 1.36%

Instagram = 0.54%

 

What are some of the main issues related to social media use?

1. Mental Health – research has been carried out on the affect of social media on teenagers. It has been revealed, through questionnaires/focus groups, that teens who use social media all the time are more than likely to have mental health problems.
2. Cyber bullying – since social media has been increasingly popular, more and more people are being cyber bullied because it is easy to hide who you are on the internet and social media.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/social-media-mental-health_us_55b129d9e4b08f57d5d3eedf

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/sep/11/teens-social-media-night-risk-harm-mental-health-research

 

 

7.1.1 Website Analysis Powerpoint

 

7.2.1 Website Planning

Here are a few design ideas for a website homepage.

Masonary is blocks that are the same width apart but are different lengths. It is one of the mostly commonly used at it is used on Pinterest and Tumblr.

Metro is quite similar to masonry but the boxes are all different sizes and can take up as many columns as you want. Windows 10’s start menu uses the metro design.

Grid is simply just squares of the same size. It is quite boring and an unpopular design. A website that uses

the grid design is food gawker.

Column is also a simple design as it is rectangles of the same width and length on top of each other.

I have decided to use the Metro design as it would look the best as a website with images as most images are landscape. Also, you can change how many blocks you have on a row and you can change the size of the blocks to suit your needs.

This is my site plan, including my home page and three page templates.

6.1.1 Researching Storyboards

To plan our video footage we need to create a storyboard, but before we actually create it we need to reach different types of storyboards.

The first storyboard doesn’t have  an explanation for each scene.
Even though I like that it doesn’t have an explanation, I find that it should because it seems quite hard to follow. However, the drawings are extremely  detailed so you don’t need a really detailed explanation. Not having an explanation suits this storyboard as you can easily understand what is going to happen each shot because of the extreme amount of detail. Also, it includes a range of shots like long shot, medium shot and close up.

The second storyboard isn’t as detailed as the first, so if it didn’t include  a description then it would be hard to follow. However, since it includes an explanation for each scene, even if they short and simple, it allows the drawings to be really simple and easy. This storyboard also includes a range of shots like long, close up and medium.

I have chosen this storyboard to show how easy and simple you can create a storyboard. But, this storyboard is slightly hard to understand because the drawings aren’t clear and the explanations are in the same box as the image which makes the storyboard hard to understand. Furthermore, it isn’t clear what types of shots are going to be used as all the drawings are to the same scale and doesn’t have an explanation of the different shots used.

 

By using different shots it makes the video more interesting and keeps the audience watching as it isn’t all take from one perspective. Also, different shots can show the audience how they are supposed to feel throughout, extreme close could mean intense. Furthermore, different shots could show that the scene is from different perspectives.