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