Unit 7 and 8 Prep

🎷🐛🎷🐛🎷🐛🎷🐛🎷🐛🎷🐛🎷🐛🎷🐛🎷🐛🎷🐛 For the second nested unit you will be required to create a podcast, using your own original article This Podcast focuses on your creation and use of sounds Sound within different media industries: Film- Entertain Fiction/ non fiction TV programmes- Educate/ inform/ entertain Computer games- Entertain Animation-Entertain Audio visual advertisements- promote/ sell Radio Drama- Entertain Wild track: Audio recording intended to synchronise with the video, but recorded separately. this is recorded OUTSIDE Atmospheric Sounds: also known as ambient sound, refers to the background noise present at a given scene or a location Sound effects: these are artificially produced to emphasise content Dialogue/ speech; Conversation  between two or more people/ Individuals spoken words Music: Theme tune, incidental music all sound created and included within media products has been done so far for a reason! In terms of enhancing visu...

CORONAVIRUS COULD KILL US ALL? The death toll for the coronavirus in China has now reached over 100.  With more than 4,500 infections confirmed, Chinese authorities have ordered the construction of a new hospital in just 10 days. The outbreak started in Wuhan, eastern China. “The whole place looks like ruins,” one person said of the city after it was put under quarantine, with authorities fearful that it could spread, potentially reaching epidemic levels.  There is a confirmation that the virus has infected more than 4,500 people. High-speed trains and ferries that cross the border will be suspended from Thursday; Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam announced. She wore a face mask .  It is now mandatory to wear a mask in public in some chinses cities. This is so the outbreak is less likely to occur. Companies are telling staff that they should stay at home. This is showing that the country is petrified that they are going to catch it and it might kill t...

Sub editor Checks written text of news paper Ensure grammar is correct have to be fast paced House style is correct Ensure tone is correct Proof reading- Check spelling, grammar, sentence and paragraph structure -sense and style- ensure mode of address and language code is in keeping with the paper as well as ensuring enough  context is present -Editing quotes and readers comments- shortening and formatting where necessary -writing headlines- active voice, awareness and tense, some 5Ws, snappy Writing stand first- first few lines of an article, usually in bold, elaborates on headline when writing our article for coursework consider -checking pictures and caption- accuracy and suitability -legal and regulatory compliance- IPSO, Libel, media law -meeting the brief

Sources: Sources are vital to all news stories. Without research journalists have no stories- and can leave themselves open to legal action. Usually Journalists will wait for information to be confirmed by two sources- unless that sources is a witness or an authoritative provider of quantitive data (like the government definers as sources One key type of source used y journalists are definers. Both of the below are primary sources with information obtained from them through a variety of research method. Primary definers: These are individuals who have power, expert or academic knowledge and /or control whom news institution use as a source of information to support an argument. Articles will often quote primary defines to add values to0 the point of view Secondary Definers: These are individuals, often the public, who provides opinion is often quoted in articles aimed at a mass audience in order to convey a populist point of view. This sort of opinion can be gathered quickly...

IPSO- Indépendant, Press, Standards, Organisation IPSO Provides a set of rules to regulate journalism and press standards in the UK- The Editors Code Areas covered in the editors code Accuracy Privacy Harassment Intrusion into grief or shock Reporting suicide Children Children in Sex cases Hospitals Reporting of crime Victims of Sexual assault Discrimination Financial journalism The Public interest Privacy may impact journalism as they may not get the full story they want because they cant invade peoples privacy such as releasing a celebrities address or hacking someone's phone conversation as it would breach their privacy and could therefore put the individual in danger.

Two media theorists (Gatlung and Rude) Developed a system For classifying how 'News- worthy' the subject was News values Frequency Negativity Unexpectedness Unambiguity Personalization Meaningfulness Reference to elite nations Reference To elite persons Conflict Consonance Continuity Composition Competition Predictability Time constraints This story presents the news values of Negativity due to the fact it's showing the beginning of something that may be killing people and could potentially spread across nations therefore infecting us . This may begin to scare people and cause moral panic in todays society. The headline will grab peoples attention as its negative and I feel negativity effects people more than positivity therefore leading to people reading the article. This story presents the news values of Negativity and conflict. This is shown with the constant battle of people assaulting police officers and potentially killing ...

5 Ws (And 1H) of journalism Who- Is the story about? What has happened?- key details about the event Where- Did the event take place? When -did the story happen? Why- is this story significant? How- did the event happen? Elaborate code- Is language used by well educated people. The vocabulary is extensive , detail and articulate. Its language used by school teachers, in text books and in formal occasions Restricted codes-Is language used by friends and family in informal settings. kits sometimes slang, grammatically incorrect with basic vocabulary. It tends to be very basic language which is used by both working and middle classes. The difference is the working class use it all the time whereas the middle class know when to resort to the elaborate code Headlines: Active voice awareness of tense some of 5Ws snappy Photographing--Short each one has an engaging beginning and end each one has a clear focus with contributes to the main story Uses of comma- ...

Mode od address simply means how a media text communicates with or addresses the audience. It is expressed in three words: Either Direct or Indirect Either Formal or Informal A third adjective : Another word to describe how test 'talks' to the audience. It might be aggressive, friendly, hostile, humorous, serious, sensational... or any other descriptive word Purpose: What is the intention of the story and how does that impact the structure? Is it to give an overview of a story to tackle it in depth, to give an opinion, to provide a balanced point  to introduce it? Audience: Who is the story for? Particularly in terms of age, socioeconomic group interests and level of education? How does that impact the complexity, content and length of story Context: What happened previously in the story and around the key people in the story? Is it the beginning of a news arc, the end, somewhere in the middle or an overview of. Online news changed the gameplan by linking older sto...

We Media We media is a way to begin to understand how ordinary citizens empowered by digital technologies that connect knowledge throughout the globe are contributing to and participating in their own truths, their own kind of news. The major example of this is citizen journalism. Wiki news The headlines are quite lengthy Cover major news stories Stories are quite short Citizen journalism: Stage 1 Providing content for corporate/ Professional providers Stage 2: Reporting events using open-source platforms Stage 3: Creating then reporting he news using open-source platforms to sway the opinion of or mobilise the public. Fire in Australia Spread all around social media through images people took which then s hares through a hashtag Instagram and twitter were used to spread the awareness for donations the news story was reported on BBC traditionally on TV and was a headline on the news for weeks now People record the fires and took videos of them saving animals and ...

Distribution Physical Hard copies TV Apps Social media platforms Radio Website Gatekeeper Role Controlling, Managing, Transferring knowledge  The Gatekeeper decides what information should move to group or individual and what information should not. Features of a traditional news  company Owned by a large conglomerate Has news subsidiaries, often specialising in a specific audience or geographic area Products available across a range of distribution platforms Clear political ideology News Corp Is a large conglomerate Has many news subsidiaries often specialising in a specific audience or geographic area News Corp operates in 6 different media industries this includes TV, News, Magazines, Radio, Internet and advertising  They operate in 3 different countries including the UK, Australia and the USA. The News Corp brands I have heard of include: Talksport The s...

Sports-apps such as sky sports Finance- Financial Times newspaper Celebrity gossip- Tabloids, apps, snapchat Breaking news- Apps, Apple devices send them out BBC news Special channel e.g. BBC news Radio 4 Social media news Unit 7: Journalism and the news industry Research news genres, platforms and ownership Analyse articles the research, plan, write, and sub-edit your own Evaluate in terms of writing and regulation Unit 8:Photography for digital media products Analyse work of professional photographers Research, plan, consider legal/ethical issues and then take creative photos Edit, organise, produce a portfolio of an evaluate photos Serious reportage- proper news which deals with serious issues that have significant consequences (genres include crime, politics, education, business) Dealt with in a serious tone by journalists General interest- less significant news, often more popular with mass audiences (genre include sports, arts and culture (music,...