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.

#NB #ZT

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.

#ZT

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.


#NB

Filming the lighting of the menorah.

In celebration of Hanukkah, we went to film the lighting of the Menorah at London's Trafalgar Square on the 20th of December. We did some research before we went out filming to find out the place and the exact time the menorah will be lit to ensure we will not miss it. Having arrived a couple of hours before the lighting, we were able to film some of the live entertainment performed and speeches by the mayor of London, Borris Johnson, Vice president of the Jewish leadership council, Lord Janner. Although the event was not as grand as the Diwali festival that took place in October, there was a huge amount of people who came to celebrate the lighting of the menorah that evening.

#KH

Giant Lego Christmas Tree

After watching a BBC news report we find out that a Giant Christmas tree made out of lego has been constructed and placed in St. Pancras station. This very interesting because it has never been done in london before, and if now a cultural attraction for tourists. We are hoping to make our way now there to film a couple of seconds and take some photo's to show off this beautiful construction, of what some may call the modern christmas tree?

#AK

Second Filming Session

We are currently arranging to meet up in central london, oxford street on Monday the 19th of December. This will be to film our title sequence. We are going to be walking around central london looking for cultural landmarks such as the london eye and Big Ben. We are going to film and use these cultural buildings/landmarks in our opening sequence.

#AK

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