Chinese New Year

On Sunday the 29th January, we went to Leister Square, China Town, to film the great annual Chinese New Year Festival.
As we entered the narrow streets of China Town we were suprised to see such a huge crowd. We were able to smell the strong chinese aroma before evening stepping onto the streets. Decoration filled the town up with baloons colours and the noises were filled up by crowds cheering and the children playing with the fire poppers. There was alot going on starting from, street stalls selling handycrafts and hot food, leading the way to the Lion dance which were being performed in front of shop to shop wishing all businesses in the town a successful new year. It was great to see so many people from different cultures who were able to enjoy this festival all together, it was truly a cheerful outing.

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Team

Now that the major filming is complete we are dividing the team, so every member will have a separate task which they can concentrate on. This will make us more productively efficient and allocatively efficient as no time will be wasted. Although we will still be helping each other out and working in all area's of

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Footage

We have got most of our footage together, meaning we can start piecing our new package together. This is the harder part of the process as we have a limited amount of time in which we have to show enough footage and give as much information so users feel fully informed.

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Inspiration

We have been looking at other news websites like the guardian and news packages from BBC and ITV. Watching these have given us ideas to use in our news package and website.

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Filming in Central London

On Friday the 20th of January, we all met up outside Westminster Station, early morning, in order for us to start filming for our Vox Pox, reporter speech and some extra footage for our title sequence. Since, the concept of our news is 'culture and diversity' we thought that getting Vox Pox interviews from people of different races would be most appropriate and central London being a place of most of tourist attractions, the busy locality of office goers, Westminster was the right place to be.

From this Vox Pox, the main idea which we were trying to capture was the views of the local Londoners about what they think about diversity in London.

Questions which we asked:
 1. Name a few cultural festivals which you celebrate?
 2. What are your views on the mulicultural diversity in London?

Therefore, by asking two significant outlining questions we were able to capture all the views appropriately.
Westminster is in the heart of London and so we were able to film the top attractions of London all together as they were all fairly near by, for example; Big ben, London eye, Houses of Parliament. Then we headed further on to film Buckingham Palace and Trafalgar Square. With all this footage together, we will be able to cut down and create our title sequence.

Finally to finish off our day, we went back in front of the London Eye to film my reporting scene, we chose this location as it is very iconic to london and it is also a part of our 'ICNLondon' Logo.


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