Hard Drive problems

There was a couple of struggles we faced in the editing of footage in our news package.Several of our most  important filler shots were saved on one hard drive and the actual edited news prackage file was saved on another.

Luckily we figured out a way to move the files over from one drive to another by finding the original seperate clips, then putting it on a usb to transfer it into the drive so we could access it in our actual adobe premiere news project file.

#J.A

Importing Voice Over to News Package

This lesson me and jasmine have been importing the voice over to our news package. Due to Shahram not being in for medical reasons me. Along side the voice over we are also importing the press red sign I created a while back. We are also inserting some filler shots into our news package to cover up areas which are a bit wobbly.

By Akin Aydin

Recording with Group

Last week me, Shahram and Jasmine went out to london bridge to record our news package footage. We had to record specific areas for our news package which were areas such as interviewing smokers which we have successfully accomplished along with other parts of areas we had to record.

By Akin Aydin

Filming: Professional Interview

We decided on having 2 interviews in our news package. One person with a personal account, so in this case a parent, then a professional perspective.

The professional perspective for out news package
comes from a NHS representative.

Shahram and I went to visit the actor for this section. I set up the camera at a mid shot angle and following the rule of three, I directed the actor to face away from and to ignore the camera ad if talking directly to a person.

The mise en scene for this scene had the actor wearing professional formal clothing in a GP/office space.

I then filmed a shot to put before the actual reply to the news topic. I postitioned the camera to film a two-person scene with Shahram posing as a medical patient talking to a doctor, to put over the introductory voice over and to portray what the 'doctor's' profession involves, which is talking/advising young people.




#JA

Variety of short shots.

Hi there, long time no post! I just thought I'd update you on our filming status. Over the winter break I filmed several shots outdoors of young people smoking, cigarette packets and lighters and cigarettes.

Also I did more filming for the title sequence as the group decided we needed more shots to fill up another one of the picadilly circus screens.

We're still in the process of doing our main footage and more variety of filler shots. So I'll keep you more up to date once I've got more to show you.

Over and out
#JA

Voice Over

Today me and Shahram completed the voice over, we recorded each section of the script separately in order to make it easier for the final piece which we will edit. We used garageband to record our voice over and also used a microphone in order to get the highest quality of recording. 

By Akin Aydin

Location Recce

We will be visiting various hot spots within central london to film our various pieces for our news package. 

As a group we will go out to central london in order to complete the footage for our news package. We will be meeting on Saturday 2nd Febuary 2013 and go out to specific area which we will record within central london. There are going to be some health and safety issues such as the camera being at risk of getting stolen, also the weather ruining the camera and equipment we are using. Also when we are recording we may obstruct the way of paths which will cause people to have to walk past us causing a health and safety risk. 

Akin, Shahram and Jasmine are all going to go out as a group and complete our recording for our news package CLN. We will all be taking turns in recording some parts of the news package which will give us all a chance to participate fully in the completion of our news package. The equipment that we will use will consist of a tripod, video camera and the clip mic. 

By Akin Aydin

Filming Title Sequence

Today me & Shahram will go out to central london and film parts of our title sequence such as the shots of people smoking and other shots such as cigarettes at corner shops. These shots will hopefully give the audience a short introduction to the news package and hopefully give them a clear visual about what the news package will be about and what it will contain.

By Akin Aydin

Website Progression - creating articles

I'm baaack! your now locked on shahram moosa's blog...That's Right!!! so this one goes out to all my people, and I'm going to do it like this.

So i started off by getting the log in details for our WIX website from a fellow group member and then began by working on the different pages within our website, the main pages that interested me were the "Sports" and "Arts and Entertainment" page.

This is where i felt i could make the most contribution as part of a group to get the most out of our website and because i read the news and watch TV a lot of the times, I'm up to date with the latest stories happening around the world.

Having said that i decided to base the sports page of our website on the recent boxing fight between "Manny Pacquiao" and "Juan Manuel Marquez" i found this to be a good story as it shows boxing as its best and shows two elite boxing athletes representing the boxing industry, reviews have shown and critics said that it went down as one of the best fights in history showing the excitement in sports.

Furthermore i then decided to base the arts & entertainment page on the biggest singing competition in the world which I'm sure your all aware of...THE X-FACTOR! i personally felt that this topic will bring out a lot of entertainment as the contestants who sing for their fate narrowed down from 12 to the final 2, with two of the best singers to have come on the show, it ended with a victory to James Arthur and the second position went out to Jahmene Douglas.

To create the articles i simply added original content written by me for both the sports page and the arts & entertainment page, i then searched for some images relating to the story and then put it all together to make a professional looking article as part of our WIX website.

S.M













Fore more information, please visit our WIX website: http://orisboss123.wix.com/centrallondonnews

News Package - Storyboard

December 5th... this may be my last blog for this coursework, so anyways i would like to begin by saying that i shahram moosa, one of the members of the CLN group recorded a video clip of our news package storyboard and uploaded it through YouTube, furthermore i also drew a sketch for our news package project based on our news group CLN, you can see i have organised the sheet in terms of 9 frames, where i have drawn the order chronologically from what appears right from start to finish.

You can find the video clip of our CLN - News package storyboard at the bottom of this blog ↓

The structure of our storyboard which i have sketched on paper goes from the following:

1. (Voice over + filler shots) there is a voice over as various filler shots are displayed on the screen such as smoking and cigarette related images
2. (Normal interview) there is an interview with parents or guardian speaking about their views on smoking, the parent is usually from a family where one of the child in the family smokes so the interview will be in more depth with detail as its a personal experience
3. (News strip band/label + voice over) there is a mid shot of the news strip while a voice over explains what the news strip is displaying from the normal parent interview
4. (Voice over + filler shots) there is another voice over with some more filler shots relating to effects smoking have on the body
5. (Expert interview) there is an expert interview with a smoking specialist/consultant having a discussion with someone who is currently smoking giving them tips and advice to try and stop and so on
6. (Facts & statistics + voice over) there is several information from smoking related facts and statistics which is rehearsed from a voice over
7. (Statistic filler shot + voice over) there is a visual image of a pie chart that represents smoking related illnesses while a voice over explains this
8. (Vox pops) there is a set amount of questions that is going to be asked to the members of the public on their views on smoking and cigarettes
9. (Up sum) there is a voice over who establishes our news package and ends it in a conclusion

Here as you can see i have finally uploaded a video clip of our CLN news package storyboard after several attempts of converting the file to see if it would work but no luck however with very hard work i did manage to find a way to succeed in the end.

The quality of the video has been affected during the process of uploading it on blogger, beside that everything else is in perfect condition.







S.M

News package structure.

 This is just a quick look at the structure of our news package.

Voice over/filler shots – to introduce the topic and use the filler shots to intrigue the audience.

Interview - with a parent for a personal yet specific opinion on the news topic.

Voice over/filler shots- to transition between interviews.

Experts Interviews- with a NHS consultant for an opinion on the news topic from a professional point of view. (This may be assisted with a diagram/animation)

Facts and Stats graphic and voiceover- to extend the professional aspect and provide the audience with the reality through facts and statistics in an interesting way.

Vox Pops- to give the public a voice and get more input into the topic, to present how current situation is and how it affects society.

Conclusion/voice over – Up sum to end the package

Initially, we decided to do a 'piece to camera' at different points in the news package, but decided against it, as we recognized how effective it could be without, as it would keep a professional constant flow in the voice over. 

#JA

Vox Pops

To fulfil this task, as expected we will need a variety of equipment to allow us to achieve our aims.

The equipment that were going to include when recording our vox pops are...

Camera Recorder

Tripod

Clip Microphone

S.M

Creating 'Press Red' Sign

In our news package we are going to include a press red sign which will be placed in the top right hand corner of the screen in order to create a sense of professionalism which will give our news package the edge to other news packages. So in order to accomplish this task I had to use adobe photo shop to create the press red sign. As you can see below it shows the final completed press red sign.

The first step in achieving this sign that CLN needed was that I inserted a rectangular shape which I inserted the text 'Press' and the red circular shape which I edited a bit in order to get that 3D look. 

By Akin Aydin

Reasons for choice of background on blogger

Blogging from the library, i will be explaining the reasons to why we chose to use the background that there is for our CLN blog.

As the background is blue mystic smokes on a black surrounding, we took this time to think and imagine how this picture could relate to our CLN news report project and our storyline.

As our news report scenario is based mostly on health and cigarettes, with my imagination we had this vision where we visualised that the blue smokes could be representing the smoke thats being exhaled from the people who smoke, this analogy gave a more deeper prospective to our CLN news report and makes it clear of our purpose right from the start to the background and its meaning behind the picture down to all the blog posts.

The image you see on the left is the background that has been used on our CLN blogger.









S.M

Website/webpage sketches for CLN

Blogging from home, here you can see I have drawn a sketch of what may be a possible look for our CLN website, reason being i have done this is to give myself an idea and a vision of how the website will look in appearance, after making the sketch i will analyse some positive and negative aspects of the drawing and then take some points on board to implement on the real website.

On the sketch i have drawn for our CLN website as a rough guideline i have included elements such as mandatory buttons to navigate around the website, the buttons consist of the "Home" "About us" "Health" and "Finance" the home page is the main page where everything can be located such as the latest news, live video streams of coverage on news, furthermore links that take you to stories relating to smoking, money, fitness, transport, nightlife, entertainment and technology, so in other words simply everything that covers life in the city.

Furthermore elements on the home page would be a search bar to search internally on the website if a user is having trouble of finding a certain thing through navigation of links and so on, in addition there is a weather forecast which shows the weather for the day from the morning through out the night.

On the "About us" page is information based on the group behind CLN, details will include things such as when the news company was established, who are the main people that formed the team and the company, as well as the amount of staff that work for the company, and their speciality etc.

Moving on to the "Health" page as obvious as the title makes it, this page will be covering information about health tips and facts, and ways to improve health through exercise and diet.

The last page "Finance" also from the heading makes it clear what information will be held on this page, this page is dedicated to information about the economy, money issues and ways to save money and manage money to last longer and so on.

Based on my sketch, if the group and i were to follow whats on the paper, throughout the website the CLN logo and the landscape of the city in London will be presented always on the top of the page in the header, and the social network links displayed at the bottom, such as Twitter and Facebook and lastly a YouTube link as well.

This is what the final preview of the drawing sketch looks like.

Here as you can see above is the same drawing sketch of the website but with annotations to explain what each part is and the functions and features on the website and so on.

KEY:

Going in clockwise order from the diagram.

• Blue = CLN logo
• Green = Central London landscape
• Red = Latest news slide show
• Purple = Live video coverage
• Turquoise = Different story topic links
• Orange = Social network links e.g. Twitter & Facebook + YouTube
• Brown = Weather forecast
• Pink = Search bar
• Grey = Website buttons

S.M

Opening Title Sequence: New Direction

Right, in my last post around editing, I explained how we covered the top screen with a blue shapes. Turns out, it did not turn out as well as we planned it to be. So I've removed the titles and the shape itself, in order to fit in an alternative inside of it. Sadly, I'm going to have to leave the editing for the title sequence for a bit to focus on the actual news package, but I will eventually have it done to fulfil it's potential and make it the best opening it can be.

#JA

Analysis of news packages - Sky+ITV

Today in class i will be focusing on analysing and explaining certain things about news packages such as the layout of the clips and how they are presented, and also the different features they might incorporate which could possibly be the following:

• Piece to camera
• Voice over
• News strips
• Filler shots
• Interviews
• Expert interview
• Facts & statistics
• Vox pops

all the above elements are what it takes to produce a high quality news package, and my job is to research and find out what news companies resemble to these elements and what they lack in by which i could suggest future improvements, overall as a conclusion after having evaluated some news packages by that my group and I will contemplate and consider to include all the essential elements to try and make our news package of highest quality.

so starting with Sky i will now advance to explain in detail their news package.

Overall Sky have done a fairly good job in terms of their news package consisting of some features that a well structured news package would have, this includes news strips with detail and voice overs, filler shots, interviews and expert interview.

ITV

Now i will be moving onto ITV's news package to go through their features they have on their video.

Here as you can see ITV's news package in comparison to Sky is much less in detail, and incorporates less features, also their is a lack of vision in terms of how much is presented on the screen, making ITV's news package have a lack of interesting aspects and come across to be quiet dull.

S.M

Advanced Production Portfolio - Television News Package Proposal

Groups Name

Our groups name is CLN and we are made up of a group of 3 people who are Jasmine, Shahram & Akin.

Proposed Subject / Story 

Our proposed subject is on smoking and the different effects it can have on a human body along with some statistics and some professional advice on how to quit and techniques on quitting. Our topic will be aimed at under age smokers and the effects that they can have on family atmospheres. 

Proposed Interview

In our topic we will be interviewing a range of people. We will be interviewing family members and understand the effects which smoking can have on their family environment and what they think about smoking them selves. We will also interview professional NHS doctor who helps smokers quit with a weekly plan giving his patients nicotine patches and other things which help people stop smoking. Finally we will interview different people who smoke and some people who don't to get both the views about smoking.

By Akin Aydin

Brainstorming Ideas for News Packages

Key:
RED = Location Ideas
BROWN = Specific target audience and People who could be involved
BLACK = Actual story/news package ideas.

After brainstorming our ideas we figured that effectively could use any London based locations and could interview anyone as we realise smoking happens to everywhere around us in general public and we can interview almost anybody as even if you don't smoke a lot of people know someone who does and have been affected by it.

#JA

News Package - Strengths & Weaknesses

News Package

Strengths

There are a great amount of strengths that we have in our news package due to it being based on smoking and the effects it has on the human body. They are listed below: 

• Our news package not only informs the viewer of the effects of smoking but will also suggest different types of techniques and products which a smoker can use to stop smoking. 
• Along side that our news package also takes the view point of other people and what they think about smoking. For example in our news package we will be asking families and what effects it has on them and their family atmosphere. 
• Our news package will also be getting quality advice from a professional NHS doctor along with a set of questions we will ask him. This will give the opportunity for the viewers to get a professionals view of smoking and the different sorts of effects it can have on the human body. 
• Our news package will also give the viewer facts and statistics on smoking which will allow the viewers who smoke to really understand the effects which smoking can have on their body and informing them about what can happen to them in the later future of their lives. 
• In our news package we will also be getting smokers views on what they think about smoking and the reasons why they smoke which will give the viewers an understanding of why smokers smoke.

Weaknesses

There are also some weaknesses within our news package and they are listed below:

• Our news package may be quite a personnel topic which people may not want to talk about straight away not feeling comfortable about it and thinking its something they would rather keep to them selves.
• Also we were going to base our new package on stoptober which has just passed leaving us with a lower range of things to talk to which the government is doing to help stop smoking.
• Shop keepers may also not want to be interviewed about selling cigarettes to people and we will have to cut the interviews on shop keepers out.

There aren't many weaknesses within are news package and the ones above we will try to make happen in the most positive and suitable way we can.

Reasons for Final Choice
The reasons why we picked smoking for our news package is for a range of reasons, these re listed below:

• Smoking is something that people can easily relate to and it will give them quality information which shows the effects it has and also different techniques and products they can use to stop smoking. 
• Smoking is also something which is a huge global drug that is legal so it will give people who smoke some advice on what to do in order to quit.
• Smoking also effects families and due to our choice being smoking it will give the families the advice they need in order to make a better family atmosphere without smoking.

By Akin Aydin