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When a story is reported, the stages between the event happening and it being reported on the news or in a newspaper are varied depending on whether or not the specific broadcast reporter is in the area where the event takes place.

For instance, if hyperthetically North Korea launched a nuclear bomb at Japan, the news companies would first have to be informed of the event taking place, this would usually from someone who was loosly following the story anyway and who alerted the authorities and the news companies, if the BBC wanted to be one of the first to report it they would have to either get in touch with one of their reporters stationed in Japan or Korea and then the reporter would most likely have to collect notes and get eye whitness accounts (if they arent all dead) such as actual witnesses of the event, the special services or ‘victims’ and try and collect all the notes to try and make a story that would be likely a news worthy story, there is a bigger chance of the story making headlines if there are any Brittons involved because then that makes it a story that Brittons are more likely to care about (e.g. Tsunami in Tailand) but they did not have a reporter stationed in Japan or Korea, they would have to try and either get in touch with a News Agency and they would have to pay for the story such as Reuters, ITN or Bloomberg

The data is then relayed back to the press office and is sent via the internet back to the press office and there is where the report is put together. After that happens, the story is sent off to one of the BBC’s news stations and there is a discussion on whether or not the story is ‘news worthy’, if the broadcasters decide that it is then the story is broadcast on the news.

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Broadcast News – Case Study Analysis of News Stories

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Using a variety of news websites, choose a minimum of 6 current news stories to use as case studies. Below is what you need to do with each story – and in as much detail as possible:-

• Give a summary of the news story

• What kind of news story is this? – Is it a new development or a continuation of a longer-running story?

• When did this news story break?

• Why do you think that this event is news worthy? – Which news values are relevant here?

• What do you believe is the institution’s agenda behind reporting this story?

• Is biased reporting evident? – In what way?

• How do you think this information has been gathered? – Local/National/International correspondent, expert opinion, eyewitness statements, news agency?

• Are there any images/video with this news report? – How do these impact on the way the news story is recieved by the audience?

• How are the relevant social groups featured within this news story represented?

• Is there any interaction between the institution and the audience? – I.e. Opinion poll, audience email/text responses to story, any other means for audience to voice opinion/interact with this news story?

• Is the same event reported on other news sources? – How does this report differ to the first source you found?

Try a variety of news sources…  here are some to get you started – BBC News, Sky News, Reuters.co.uk, Bloomberg, NewsNow, CNN, Fox News, ITN News, Euro News.

You should either post these case studies on your blogs (those of you who have them!) or submit on paper… but this is expected to be completed, and is a prime resource of revision come exam time! (See exam countdown clock on Renier’s blog…. tick-tock-tick-tock..!!).

Ed Balls and Yvette Cooper ‘flipped’ homes three times: MPs’ expenses

Ed Balls and Yvette Cooper, the husband and wife Cabinet ministers, “flipped” the designation of their second home to three different properties within the space of two years.

MPs’ spending is causing outrage as they spend the tax payers money frivolously and charge second, third or even forth homes on their allowance given to them as part of the job, they are taking advantage and charging tiny amounts on their account under ‘expenses’, these enraged the pubic for these reasons-

Julie Kirkbride, MP David Camron’s wife, claimed on their parliamentary expenses for both their homes.

Justice Minister Shahid Malik, who ran up the highest expenses claim of any MP, has refused to pay back any of the money to Parliamentary authorities.

Former international development secretary admitted claiming thousands which she was not entitled, months after standing down as a Cabinet minister.

i think this story is more biased than balanced as it has caused outrage in the country, it is part of a continuation story as more news on MPs’ expenses are still being leaked onto the press.

Frequency: everyday because new updates are coming in and the public want to know about it.

2. Threshold: considerably because there are a lot of people that are interested in this matter as for the people that are supposed to be running the country are unable to handle their own money that they aren’t really fit to run a country so by putting this in the paper and on the news it makes people want to either watch or buy the newspapers.

3. Unambiguity: i would say that this story is unambiguous because there is no denying the facts and figures of the spending amounts that the MPs have decided to charge as ‘expenses’

Meaningfulness: the story is really meaningful for the time because of the current climate and the recession, the public want to know where their money and their taxes are going, to find out that it is being spent on Politician’s second homes makes people angry so they have a right to know.

5. Consonance: i believe that this story did fulfill the media’s expectations because with the recession, the media were just waiting for the government to slip up and give the public a reason to hate them even more, plus…no one likes Gordon Brown

6. Unexpectedness: i think that a lot of people saw this coming and therefore it didnt come as much of a shock

7. Continuity: 

8. Composition:

9. Reference to élite nations:

10. Reference to élite persons:

11. Personalization:

I think this story is news worthy because it deals in the current climate, the public are suffering and losing their jobs, while the MPs are spending their money that they don’t have to spare.

Director -Bryan Singer

Awards -11 wins & 23 nominations

American box office opening weekend-$54,471,475 (USA) (16 July 2000) (3,025 Screens)

British box office opening weekend-£4,749,241 (UK) (20 August 2000) (434 Screens)

Cast Members

	Hugh Jackman	…	Logan / Wolverine
	Patrick Stewart	…	Professor Charles Xavier
	Ian McKellen	…	Eric Lensherr / Magneto
	Famke Janssen	…	Jean Grey
	James Marsden	…	Scott Summers / Cyclops
	Halle Berry	…	Ororo Munroe / Storm
	Anna Paquin	…	Rogue / Marie D’Ancanto
	Tyler Mane	…	Sabretooth
	Ray Park	…	Toad
	Rebecca Romijn	…	Mystique (as Rebecca Romijn-Stamos)
	Bruce Davison	…	Senator Kelly
	Matthew Sharp	…	Henry Gyrich
	Rhona Shekter	…	Magneto’s Mother
	Kenneth McGregor	…	Magneto’s Father
	Shawn Roberts	…	Rogue’s Boyfriend

create cover sheet

• see Andreas about this

“Your reflective analysis should select key micro features of the sequence and demonstrate how they make meaning(s) and aim to provoke response(s) in the audience. Those of you working in a group, should focus on the construction and impact of your chosen micro aspect”

• 750-words (10 marks)
• include camera angles
• how editing is used
• etc.

schedule a viewing for other students

• create a ‘focus group’
• create a questionnaire to pass out to the viewers after they are through watching the film short to get positive feed back, and see the areas that we can maybe improve
• get a wide demographic of subjects (different ages/gender/backgrounds)

Aims for achieving a level 4 mark

1. excellent understanding of micro features demonstrated in sequence
2. excellent, creative use of appropriate micro features
3. excellent visualization, demonstrating a high degree of understanding of appropriate conventions
4. excellently structured and accurate use of appropriate language to communicate clearly

look into target audience

• (further revision needed)

create hazard report

• location
• shooting time
• availability
• props
• shooting conditions
• hazardous objects or materials

list influences

• (further revision needed)

finnish and edit my scene

• locate all shots and voice over scenes and edit appropriately

take pictures of set (…during/after shooting)

• setting up the location
• hooking up the camera and lighting
• shot of the actors and costume before shooting begins
• pictures of actors and production team while shooting film
• pictures of production team after shooting has ended and wrapping things away

get call sheet (actors and location)

• (further revision needed)

EDL (edit decision list)

• which shot goes where and the significance of it
• e.g ’shot 15 after shot 492 because…’
• list effects for editing (e.g black and white) and significance

list props

• letters from family of murder victim to play into the story
• unlit cigarette (to put in hazard report)
• newspaper
• ‘dear john’ letter

costume

• mid 1920s ‘flapper’ girl style for femme fatale
• conservative appearance for ‘Amelia’
• ‘frumpy’, covered up for Gracie-Lou so that she looks misleadingly ‘innocent’
• smart suit for Harry
• battered suit for Eric

From the results of the questionniare that i handed out to people to fill in i have found that people who are in the 16/19 age bracket and have moved on to further education are more likely to use New Media Technologies.

From the results i can see that the majority that used these technologies most often were from a Caucasian British background.

My survey showed that it more the younger generation that prefered using NMTs because they believed that by using them it can make life a lot simpler and entertaining, as others said that it was a source of relieving boredom.

Many said that by using NMTs it allowed them to stay in contact with their friends and family a lot easier by using such programs as MSN and MySpace as a social networking site where they could talk to people that they hadnt seen in a while for free.

Many stated that in making technologies more portable and compact made them more appealing than carrying, although the newer, more compact models do tend to be a lot more expensive and therefore discourage them from spending their money on such an expensive luxury.

Another disadvantage that i found is that some people thought that having NMTs would make your life too easy and therefore you would become too lazy to do regular tasks that you would have done before but now you find tedious and so take less care in doing.

i have found that most people like to use their technologies either in their houses or at work/college because i have found that most people like to use their technologies as a form of recreation and a way to unwind after having a day at work using either the internet or games consoles.

From my studies i have found that the most popular of these techologies are; the internet, iPods, games consoles, Blu-ray and laptops.

The name iPod was proposed by Vinnie Chieco, a freelance copywriter, who (with others) was called by Apple to figure out how to introduce the new player to the public. After Chieco saw a prototype, he thought of the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey and the phrase “Open the pod bay door, Hal!”, which refers to the white EVA Pods of the Discovery One spaceship. Apple researched the trademark and found that it was already in use. Joseph N. Grasso of New Jersey had originally listed an “iPod” trademark with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in July 2000 for Internet kiosks. The first iPod kiosks had been demonstrated to the public in New Jersey in March 1998, and commercial use began in January 2000. The trademark was registered by the USPTO in November 2003, and Grasso assigned it to Apple Computer, Inc. in 2005.

the name for the iPod was created by Vinnie Chieco, a freelance copywriter. after he saw the prototype he thought of the movie ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ and a phrase “Open the pod bay door”, after research into the matter it wa found that there was already a copywrite on this. Joseph N.Grossow had listed the name ‘iPod’ trademark in the US Parent and Trademark office in July. the first ipod kiosk had been demonstrated in 1998 and commercial use began in January 2000. the trademark was registered by the USPTO in November 2003 and Grasso assigned the name to Apple computers, Inc in 2005

BULLETPOINTS!

• the name ‘iPod’ was originally created by Vinnie Chieco
• after seeing th prototype it reminded him of a phrase in a movie but after research found that it was already copywrited
• Joseph N. Grasso listed the name iPod trademark
• in 2005 Grasso assigned the name to Aple computers

MySpace is a popular social networking website offering an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music and videos for teenagers and adults internationally. Its headquarters are in Beverly Hills, California, USA, where it shares an office building with its immediate owner, Fox Interactive Media; which is owned by News Corporation, which has its headquarters in New York City.

The company employs 300 staff and does not disclose revenues or profits separately from News Corporation. The 100 millionth account was created on August 6, 2006 in the Netherlands and a news story claimed 106 million accounts on September 8, 2006, and the site reportedly attracts 230,000 new registrations per day.

^{this article states that myspace is a way of social networking on the internet, it is a way of connecting people and it is a way to upload photos, music and videos, you can post blogs to update people on what you are doing. their headquaters are in everly Hills California which is owned by Fox Interactive. it employs 300 employees and does not disclose revinues or profits seporatly from News Corperation. the 100 millionth account was made in the Netherlands in August ‘06. the site gains 230,000 new registrations a day.}

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• ^{myspace is a social networking site}
• you can upload photos, music and videos either from your own collegtion or froma site like youtube
• it has over 300 employees
• you can post comments to eachother to stay in contact
• in August ‘06, myspace gained its 1000,000th register
• the site gains 230.000 registers a day

YouTube first appeared on the web in early 2005, and it quickly gained popularity on MySpace due to MySpace users’ ability to embed YouTube videos in their MySpace profiles. Realizing the competitive threat to the new MySpace Videos service, MySpace banned embedded YouTube videos from its user profiles. MySpace users widely protested the ban, prompting MySpace to lift the ban shortly thereafter. But since then, links from each embedded video on MySpace to the home pages of the video on YouTube have been blocked making it more difficult to find the same videos on YouTube’s website.

Since then YouTube has become one of the fastest-growing websites on the World Wide Web,outgrowing MySpace’s reach according to Alexa Internet.^[ In July 2006 several news organizations reported that YouTube had overtaken MySpace. In a September 2006 investor meeting, News Corp. COO Peter Chernin claimed that virtually all modern Web applications (naming YouTube, Flickr, Blogger, Google and Photobucket) were really just “driven off the back of MySpace” and that “we ought to be able to match them if not exceed them.”

^{this article is about the site YouTube.com. it allows users to upload videos and create video blogs to update people on what they are doing with their lives at the moment. it has been made available for users to upload their videos on youtube and then to put it on their myspace page to make it look more professional, but now, links on myspace pages to youtube sites have been blocked, making it harder for users to access that video on youtube. this site has become the fastest growing site on the internet, so much so that it has overtaken myspace.}

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• ^{you can upload videos and video blogs}
• ^{you can put videos from youtube that you have uploaded onto myspace}
• ^{links from youtube to myspace have been blocked so make it more difficult to find them on youtube}
• ^{it is the fastest growing website}
• ^{it has become more popular that myspace}

The ‘hundred-dollar laptop’– which was specifically designed for children in developing countries and promises to overcome the practical and technical problems inherent in ‘standard’ computers – continues to be a divisive issue. Yet, throughout the heated debates about the merits, or otherwise, of this laptop, little is heard from the developing countries who supposedly need it. Therefore, Burkina NTIC, the national knowledge sharing platform on ICT4D in Burkina Faso, organised a workshop in February this year to give Burkinabes working in the education sector the chance to demonstrate and discuss the usefulness of this revolutionary computer.