Tabs for Blogger

Hello,

In order for the audience to view our blog easily, I have decided to make tabs for our news blog so that it prepares us when making our news website, in which we need to make tabs for it to look professional.

Making the tabs also means that it is more convenient for a person to browse around the site or blog, therefore moving around only takes a click of a button. I split the tabs into different sections, for example: cultural videos, twitter link, a biography etc. The tabs are clearly labelled so that the audience can choose what they like to view in the different sections. There will be more tabs added soon!

Keep Following!

#ZT

Filming at Winter Wonderland

On the Sunday we also made a trip to winter wonderland (Hyde Park). At Hyde Park we filmed all the main attractions like the 'fun fair' rides in action, the food stalls and people having the time of their lives. When filming the rides we filmed from a range using establishing shots to help set the atmosphere of the fairground. We also used many panning shots to try and show the whole fairground in one smooth motion.
On the whole our trip to Hyde Park was very usual to us for we gained key footage but it was also an enjoyable day out.

#AK, NB, ZT, KH

Filming at Oxford Street

Seeing that the Christmas lights have been put up around Oxford Street, we decided that it would fit perfectly in our news package, therefore we went to film there. The reason filming there is because our theme is culture and we wanted to revolve around festivals and celebrations close to this time of Year.

We had many types of shots of the lights and also got footage of many cars and people walking, so we can add that 'fast pace' effect as we open or close our news sequence. We went there early, so that the low key lighting wouldn't affect our footage. Although it became dark quickly, the camera managed to pick up the lighting well and the footage was still clear.

We aim next week to finish filming our opening title sequence at the London Eye and Big Ben. We have done the music and the logos, which leaves us with one less thing to worry about.

#ZT #AK #NB #KH

Filming at Selfridges

On Sunday the 19th our team met up at 3:00 outside Selfridges, Marble Arch. We sat down at a cafe and talked over the shots that we were about to film. Once made clear with each other, we begun to go to our first shooting point which was at the top floor of Selfridges. On the escalator we discovered these cool 'energy generating spinning lights'. So from the top floor we were able to get a great view of these stunning lights and also crowds of people doing their christmas shopping. We took some steady high angle shots for a minute or so which we will then speed up in the editing suite for a part of our title sequence. The footage was bright and it will hopefully go great with the title sequence music too. We then made our way down the escalator and filmed people going down and up, these shots will too be added perhaps in our opening sequence. Once all the filming of the Selfridges department store was completed we made our way out of the building to the main streets for us to film the Oxford Street lights.

#NB #AK #ZT #KH

Questionnaire

We created a questionnaire to find out peoples opinions on News as a whole, this was to help us better our news package by finding out what our audience like. Our questionnaire contained 10 questions and we asked 20 people to give us a verity of results. We asked questions like:

"do you Watch the news?" - this was to help us find out how many young adults watched the news.

"What news Channel do you watch?" - this was to help us find out the most popular news channel, so we could research what techniques they use to reach that level of popularity.

"what is your opinion on cultural news?" - We asked this question to gain an insight to how popular our news package will be if it was going to be released publicly.

"How do you prefer to receive you news?" - This question help us find out how young adults prefer to access the news, so we could try and include this in our news package.

Our Results found that most Young adults watch the news and that BBC was the most popular news channel; and that young adults accessed the news about once a day. Our results also showed us that people were interested in cultural news and would watch it if the service was available.

We are hoping to draw up another questionnaire asking more questions.

#AK

Christmas Lights

As always Christmas lights are put up in Oxford Street and this year was no different. So this weekend we have planned to go and film the lights. With a lot of discussion we've decided to meet up at around 3:00 in order for us to first film our title sequence (the central london part) and once it begins to get dark around 5:00 we will make our way to Oxford Street, set up our camera's and start filming. We will continue to use the HD camera and the radio mic.

#NB

Change name to ICN London

As a group, we decided to change our news channel name to ICN London. After posting a questionnaire, we found out that many were confused by the name and could not understand the meaning behind the name. We have now clarified that our name stands for Independent Cultural News London(ICN London).

We decided to have this name as for having abbreviations for our other name was hard as we had a pun on the words. We've kept the logo the same with the London Eye behind the logo. This represents the London Eye that will feature in the title sequence of our news package. It also shows that we are local since we are filming in the heart of London. We aim to start filming our news opening sequence and some of our news package this Sunday!

Thank you.

#ZT

Jeremy Hunt interested in Local TV

Ironic of the fact that we are currently making a news package for our local area, we have found out that Jeremy Hunt has enthusiasm for local TV.

He has said thta there is enough 'interest in sustaining a network of local TV stations across Wales.' Mr Hunt reveals how media is marching forward and how we are living in a multi-media age where local information can be gathered on iPods and iPhones, not on TVs.

He mentions: 'The cost of running a local TV station would be similar to the cost of running a local newspaper', whereby the stations could be run by potential volunteers.

#ZT