Self-evaluation for me and Chan’s Media video From previous experiences with making videos (our production for year 12) we’ve learnt that planning is the key to perfecting any video. Planning and research was a vital element in showing depth to what we have learnt over the last four weeks. As me and Chan didn’t have a lot of time to produce a video, I think we worked well in making sure we made a short clip to the best of our ability. The first step was to storyboard our ideas and organize the camera angles and type of shots we would further develop in our videos. Although we obviously didn’t use all the shots, a brief number of shots allowed us to be selective of our choices and to decide what shots would be best used in our video. Storyboard planning is a great way to know where you are going and prevents you from having to start filming at the beginning of the video because you know what shots you are going to be using. We thought through ways of being as creative as we could in our video. We decided to give our clip a more visual and realistic medium and use different shots, such as: side shot and tilt-up shot of news reporter. We then used slow zoom in shots to convey the extent of how technology is used in our everyday lives (e.g. the phone zoom). I think one thing that was quite creative was the fact that the whole video focused around a computer and our actor was just typing the questions and facts into the Google search engine and a word document. I believe this conveyed realism, as it’s more realistic that society would turn to the internet to search questions and subjects up. Another creative idea was when our actress drew the globe on the whiteboard. We sped up this clip to give it an arty “Art Attack feel”. Our aesthetic and production values overall strengthened the performance of our video. We were quite good at organization and facts used. Although we still used elements of the facts we were taught, we also researched quotes and facts about the internet, which we then submitted in our own work. We made sure we used media terminology as a way of conveying to our audience that we know about the media. This could then allow our audience to find us more reliable and trustworthy. The main thing we lacked in or could have done better was probably the use of background sound when we came to interviewing media students and teachers in our school. Although I thought our idea to use a variety of different people to answer our questions and give their own opinions based a good argument. The background noise also made it harder to hear what they were saying. Although, another idea would have been to use some more of our own facts for video.

homework

Studio news readers

The first convention of a news report is that the setting is in a studio were the news readers are that they always wearing suits sitting behind desks never standing up and always with a stack of paper in front of them.

Also they always wear a formal start be talking about the headlines then moving on to the main headline then ending on a good note.

Field reporter
The presenter is usually wearing formal clothes and the type of shot is a medium close up of the reporter with the object of what the story is about in the background. The conventions carries on the story from the studio going into more detail about the story some with footage of what happen.

Links to studio
codes are the news reader will introduce the reporter then turn to the left or right and reporter might say now refer back to the studio.

mode of address to the viewer
codes are voice over a off screen  voice that directly addresses the audience,convetions footage of what the story with the reporter describing what is happening.

interviewing codes/conventions
are medium close up, in a home or work place , rule of thirds, shot of mouth or hands , nodding is used when you only have one camera so that footage is shot after the interview showing the interviewer just nodding this effect shows the effect that they are in the same room. Also, if the interviewer wants their identity hidden the body will be black out  and voiced over by a actor.

experts and witness codes/conventions
are that experts will always have facts behind them theories witness are on screen they tell the audience what they saw many times this is an unreliable and the witnesses bring their on views into it and this may differ from the fact of what has happened many times they are reliable since people have started using camera to get footage of what is happening this gives people a clear sense of what happened. News reporter will use footage from witnesses and use facts that they know and conclude an answer of what has happened.

report structure codes/conventions
the headline never complete sentences quick to get interest
The most important structural element of a story is the intro the story's first, or leading, sentence the goal is to articulate the most encompassing and interesting statement that a writer can make in one sentence, given the material with which he or she has to work with.

internet questions

What is so special about the internet?

The internet is a “mass media experience” and allows audiences to access a whole variety of different websites. It consists of all forms of information, entertainment and escapism. Such as: google, yahoo hotmail and videogames. The net caters for all different ages and demographics. “Penetration” also plays a lot within the network especially by broadband connection. In 2007. 15 million households in the uk were connected to to broadband connection. The internet has also be considered the “new revolution”. As technology has become diverse, advanced technology is being found every minute. However, we simply don’t understand the impact the internet has on us.

What is wrong with the internet?

There are many criticisms that the internet has on society today. A big criticism that is so severe, privacy settings have rocketed sky high is pornography. Statistics show that one in six queries put in a search engine is sex related. The criticism is that even young children are being exposed to pornography when trying to gain access to video games online. Another criticism is that reliability of information on the internet such as Wikipedia. Wikipedia enables anyone to re-edit and post information that is not always reliable.

How does the internet change audiences?

The internet gives us a variety of information at the click of a mouse. We come into contact with a variety of information, entertainment and escapism that not only remains in our country but around the world. The internet also changes audiences as more of society  have become more curious about what the internet actually is. People have taken part in surveys to find out what really makes the internet and how is has changed over time.

internet sections

Brief summaries of the Internet article

Section 1: Naughton uses St Petersburg 1917 revolution to explain. He says that there’s many “conflicting rumours and theories” but that no one knows what the result will be. He says how hindsight is the only way for people to be clear what’s going on, but it can also be misleading as it leads to confusion. He then describes us as “living a radical transformation of our communications environment”. We’ve learnt from the history that with hindsight we start to overestimate the short and long impact and implications of technology. Naughton then explains how we see this all the time as professional people try to interpret and define the internet for all kinds of reasons. The writer uses examples of casual answers such as: “wants to be free”, but explains how it doesn’t explain much to us. He then uses a radical idea of how technology has changed the world once before by the invention of movable images and printing. Naughton then uses the first printed Bibles to convey the better use of print. The writer then ends section 1 by saying that we have the right to demand answers about the internet, as long as we are patient.

Section 2: The widespread conception is that the internet and webpage are the same thing. However, they are not. The internet is used to “track and signal”. Whereas, the web deals with much more disruptions such as: “freight trains”. On the Internet, webpages are only one problem that it has to face. The other problems consist of music files exchange, movie files travelling, software updates, email, instant messaging, phone conversations on skype and many more. There will also be many more problems in the future. 

Section 3: It troubles society how peoples net capacity leads to disruption and how one minute a business is doing really well and then the next there “struggling for survival”. Naughton believes the answer lies deep in the “networks architecture. In 1970, Vint Cert and Robert Kahn (lead designers) came up with a theory that, whilst coming up with how to link networks together,  it all comes down to two axioms. One, that there should be no central ownership or control and the network should not be optimized for particular application. This then lead to the twin protocols essentially known as “Global machine for spring surprises” and the idea that by using data packets, you have access to the internet. In 1991, Tim Bernes-lee put a code on an internet server without any permission. However, his teenage son (Shawn Fanning) spent six months writing software for sharing music files and in 1999 put his information on an internet server. This then started many people putting programmers on the net.

Section 4: In an analytical framework of mind, it’s become useful to look at what’s happening in the media  through ecologist eyes. As the web went mainstream in 1993, it has become “immeasurably complex”. Whereas, the old industrialised media ecosystem has been expanding rapidly. To an ecologist, it can be considered that “an ecosystem who’s biodiversity has expanded radically”.

Section 5: If you don’t agree with the ecological theory, its still clear to see that the information environment has still become a lot more complex. We have to address the new reality of the complexity even if it’s difficult and harder to predict. Naughton believes that the mindset and government are not well adapted for dealing with the complexity. Organisations have to deal with this problem by reducing complexity. This provides in providing better strategies for dealing with what the network environment might do next.

Section 6: A while ago a computer was described as a “standalone Pc running Microsoft software.” However, it eventually held internet network via office networks and then Globally. As broadband became a commonplace, the faster your connection the more people didn’t worry about there location or the computional tasks such as: yahoo and Google. These taks also became easier and more updated. As time has gone by, it has led to the emergence of “cloud computing”  that provide “powerful services” wherever you are on the net. This enables you to be able to use you own privacy, security and perceptions.

Section 7: The web was once a “publication medium”. However, for media businesses they still have a “mental model of the web”. The web has gone through three stages, Web 1.0, Web.2.0 and is now verging on web 3.0 due to Tim Bernes – lee idea. This will result in enough pages fit metadata.

Section 8: Many critics, such as Neil Postman predictedthat two writers would “bracker our future”. Aldous Huxley believed we’d be destroyed by what we fear. The next has been a profoundly liberating influence (Huxley). It has required communication, opportunities for communication and more. However, on the other hand (convellian), the internet could be described as the “nearest thing to a perfect surveillance machine the world has overseas”.

Section 9: A few years ago, copying was strenuous task. However, now its effortless and in some circumstances it gets done for you. As, copying was difficult, Haughton believes that its not surprising that it seems “increasingly out of sync.” The internet provides us with software tools to create bloggers and webpages themselves. However, this can be seem as a disagreeable fact. Our copyright laws don’t have as much of an impact then they should.