unit 7 and 16 media prep

Task: Create a podcast, using your own original article. This podcast focuses on your creation and use of sound.  To prepare for this, listen to some podcasts in your own time. Sound within different media industries: Film - TO ENTERTAIN Tv programmes - TO EDUCATE/ENTERTAIN Computer games - TO EDUCATE/ENTERTAIN Animation - TO SELL/PROMOTE/ADVERTISE/EDUCATE/ENTERTAIN Audio visual advertisements - TO PROMOTE/ ADVERTISE Radio drama - TO ENTERTAIN How are sound elements used across media industries? Wild tracks - audio recording intended to synchronise with the video, but recored separately. recorded outside. Atmospheric sounds - also known as ambient sounds, refers to the background noise present at a given scene or location. Sound effects - these are artificially produced to emphasise content. Dialogue/ speech - conversation between two or more people/individual spoken words. Music - theme tunes, incidental music. How do these elements create different effe...

Definition: Press sub-editors, or subs, check the written text of newspapers, magazines or websites before they're published. They're responsible for ensuring the correct grammar, spelling, house style and tone of published work. Subs make sure that the copy is factually correct and suits its target market. They also lay out the story on the page, write headings and captions, and may be involved with overall page design. Like other journalism roles, sub-editing is demanding and requires constant attention to detail in a fast-paced working environment. Responsibilities: To be a good sub, you must be an all-rounder - you need to know media law, have a keen eye for detail and be able to put a story together with speed and style. Depending on the nature of your role, and the extent to which production and layout work falls within your remit, your tasks will typically involve: Editing copy, written by reporters or features writers, to remove spelling mistake and gra...

Sources:  Sources are vital too all news stories. Without research, journalists have no stories - and can leave themselves open to legal action. Usually, journalists will wait for information to be confirmed by two sources - unless that source is a witness or an authoritative provider of quantitative data ( like the government). Definers are used by journalists as key types of sources. Primary definers : These are individuals who have power, expert or academic knowledge and/or control whom news institutions use as a source of information to support an argument. Articles will often quote primary definers to add value to a point of view. Secondary definers : These are individuals, often the public, whom provide opinions. Public opinion is often quoted in articles aimed at a mass audience in order to convey a populist point of view. This sort of opinion can be gathered quickly on social media or online blogging sites and forums. Research methods :

IPSO: is the independent press standards organisation. Is the independent regulator for the newspaper and magazine industry in the UK. They hold newspapers and magazines to accounts for their actions  protect individual rights  uphold high standards of journalism  help to maintain freedom of expression for the press IPSO took over from previous press regulator - the Press Complaints Commission - after the PCC was shut down following complaints about their poor handling of the News of The World's role in the 2011 phone hacking scandal.  IPSO provides a set of rules to regulate journalism and press standards in the UK - The Editors Code.  Some areas covered in The Editors Code: Accuracy  Privacy Harassment  Intrusion into grief or shock Reporting suicide  Children  Hospitals  Reporting of crime  Clandestine devices and subterfuge Victims of sexual assault  Discrimination  Financial journalism Co...

Two media theorists (Gatlung and Ruge) developed a system for classifying how 'news-worthy an event is" Frequency : negativity  unexpectedness unambiguity  personalisation meaningfulness reference to elite nations  Reference to elite persons:   conflict  consonance  continuity composition  competition predictability  time constraints  The language of this article portrays many frequencies. The unexpectedness in the title of the article suggests that the Uk experiences about 20-30 earthquakes minor each year. According to the British Geological Survey (BGS). A few hundred smaller ones are recorded by sensitive instruments. Similarly, this article was written to inform and educate the British population on unusual weather patterns.  The composition of this article was written under a time constraint as it is breaking news and had to be published in order to inform the world of a potentially deadly virus that w...

5Ws and 1H of journalism: W ho is the story about? This may be covered in more or less detail dependent on how important each person is to the story and how much the journalist can safely assume the reader already knows about each person. W hat has happened? Key details about the event. The level of detail here depends on the significance of the event, the level of the background/context needed to understand the event as well as how much the journalist can safely assume the reader already knows about each person. W here did the event take place? Could be as detailed as a street or vague as a country or even planet - largely decided on how familiar the journalist can safely assume the reader is with an area. W hen did the story happen? Breaking news needs to be broadcasted immediately to notify people, whereas general news can be released at any given time with no pressure that people need to know. W hy is the story significant? In what ways is the story significant to the rea...