Open Day Shooting Report

We were giving the task of shoot our college open day and edit the footage that we shot so we could produce a video for the college website. we were split into groups of five. I was in the group with Fergal, Brian, Gavin, Sanjo.
We got into our groups and decided what the roles were and what questions would be asked.
I was the interviewer, the rest of the group is as follows:

Fergal and Brian - Camera

Sanjo - Photographer

Gavin - Editor

After we had decided our roles, We planed out the questions, there was three questions for students and three questions for students. 
Questions for students,

Q1:What made you choose O Fiaich?

Q2:What do you think of facilities?

Q3:Whats your future goal after O Fiaich?

Questions for teachers, 

Q1:Whats involved in the course?

Q2:What are the benefits of doing a PLC before going to third level college?

Q3:How would you encourage students to take part in this course?

With the questions done, all we had to do was to wait for the open day.

The open day had arrived. We got into our and started filming, we used different types of shots that we learned from class. We used an extreme long shot to show the college in it's entirety, We used long shots when we're shooting in the class rooms to show everything about them, For the interviews we used medium close up shots. The most trouble that we had during our shoot was the sound in the main hall where the stand were, it was hard to communicate with fellow students part of that might have been the distance between us and the channel of communication was being distorted by the noise of other people talking. I was the encoder, trying to send info that I wanted to communicate with the receiver but they must understand what I'm trying to send to them at the end of the communication channel.  We solved that problem by speaking more clearly, loudly to the other person and we got them to do the same for us.

They equipment that we used:

1: DSLR Camera

2: Flip Camera

3: Batteries for the cameras

Overall the day was successful because we got some good shots and we interviewed someone from every class.

A Good Public Speaker

Everyone in this business has to be a good public speaker, they are out in front of a crowd every week. I have chosen to do my public speaker on a wrestler. His name is Shawn Michaels and on the 29th of March 2010, he stood out in front of the crowd and he gave his farewell speech.

Overall I thought this was a good speech because he is standing in the middle of the ring looking at the crowd and pouring his heart and soul into the speech. He was thanking the crowd for watching him for over 20 years, He thanked his friends and co-workers. The best that he made in that speech for me was when he thanked Bret Heart for forgiving him for they have had together and what had happened between in 1997 and also when he thanks the boss for keeping him and helped him when he was in trouble. His body language was good because he always looked at the crowd while delivering his speech.

Everything that he had said in his speech was true. I think he prepared his speech by just saying what he felt about the things that had happened and who he had to thank it was relevant to the audience because a lot of them grew up watching him, I was watching him wrestle since I six years old so it was relevant to me. This speech was easy to follow and also easy to understand.

Yes I do think he achieved his aim from his speech because he told the crowd how he felt, they were cheering his name some of the fans were crying and he had tears in his. He delivered the message well he got to thank everyone and share his thoughts and feelings. His eye contact was great he kept looking at the fans. His tone was warm and heartfelt like he was speaking from heart. Overall I thought this was a great speech, I hope you think so too.

Here are the clips.

WWE Raw 3/29/10 Shawn Michaels Leaves The WWE Part 1/2

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6MPg6_Jcjw

 

WWE Raw 3/29/10 Shawn Michaels Leaves The WWE Part 2/2

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=SEXdW2AOPpU

Multimedia Communications Analysing Media Using Media theorist

The media theorist that I have decided to do my analysing media on his Dutton. He gives 12 of the 'most significant' news values from the work of Galtung and Ruge (1973) 

They are:

1: Frequency

2: Threshold

3: Unambiguity

4: Meaningfulness

5: Consonance

6: Unexpectedness

7: Continuity

8:  Composition

9: Reference to elite nations

10: Reference to elite persons

11: Personalisation

12: Negativity

The media that I am going to analyze using Duttons theory is Katie Price and Peter Andre. 

1: Frequency

Short term events are favored over long term events. So when they met in 2004 on I'm a celebrity..Get me out of here. It was there when they started making headlines in the tabloids and magazines like Hello, OK etc. After awhile the headlines stop until it was reported that they had fallen in love with each other while shoot I'm a celebrity, it wasn't until the show aired and rumours started spreading about the two being a couple. Once they admitted to being a couple that's when the headlines started again.

2: Threshold

The size of the event indicates it’s importance, so when they married each other on the 19th of September 2005, with all the tabloid newspapers and magazines showing up with live cameras and tons of other celebrities came as guests. They made over 2 million pounds from it and then Ok magazine paid a lot of money for the exclusive wedding photos and interviews, because of the amount of people that were interested in these two the media kept releasing headlines about them.

3: Unambiguity

Events must be accessible to the public meaning it has to have relevance to the viewers every day life, so when ITV gave them their own tv show called When Jordan met Peter people tuned in to watch it so they could see what their lives were like. When that show was finished ITV2 gave them 4 other shows, because people liked seeing what they were doing.

4: Meaningfulness

People have to be familiar with the story as well as having a relevance to that person so much so that it is discussed amongst the home culture something that poses as a threat. This being when rumors of their was marriage was hitting bad times. People would read the newspapers and magazines to see what is happening and would discuss it with other ones that are interested.

5: Consonance

This is were people would be familiar with this type of story and they could tell how it is was going to end up. As for the case between Katie and Peter most of the people would be right because they got divorced in 2009.

6: Unexpectedness

This refers to the rarity of the event which cause instant interest in the story which leads to it’s circulation in the public. Dutton states that the new ness of the event is processed with a familiar context. It must work with No.4 & 5. In most cases the media would leave it at that but because of eho it was the headlines continued.

7: Continuity

Once a story achieves importance it will be continued to be covered for some time. As with the case with them The headlines kept going once they started to attack each other in the newspapers and magazines.

8: Composition

Once they've played the story about Katie and Peter they would then show a story about an old woman being helped across the road by a child or something along those lines of a story. It is to provide a sense of balance, gloomy news with good news, foreign with domestic.

9: Reference to elite nations

Events are more likely to be reported if they occur in the developed world, the threshold system would apply for developing countries' events to be reported. If this happened to them if they were in America they wouldn't many headlines because people over there would be more interested in Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. They would be the American version of Katie and Peter.

10: Reference to the elite persons

The amount of coverage that Katie and Peter are getting is normal for celebrities, if this was happening to ordinary people they would get no coverage. The famous and the powerful are more newsworthy than ordinary people.

11: Personalisation

Events are seen as actions of people as individuals. This was the case when Katie was photographed with another man and she was drunk. This happened because of the events that happened between her and Peter.

12: Negativity

Bad news is good for the press and TV news. The threshold is much lower for bad news than for good news. So when ever Katie or Peter would say bad things about each other, the newspapers would cover it quicker than they would cover their own dinner.