This week our group had to edit and upload our video to the Internet. As previously stated, we used iMovie and GarageBand to make our video. We used iMovie to make our video into a news format and to crop or delete the shots we did not need. We used GarageBand to make the voice overs for the video.
When will the NBN get to your place? What are the benefits?
Planning and construction of the NBN is well underway.
On 16 September 2011, the final mainland first release site was launched in Willunga (SA), following Townsville (Qld), Brunswick (Vic), Kiama Downs/Minnamurra and Armidale (NSW).
People in these sites are being progressively connected to the NBN as part of trials being carried out by retail service providers.
Commercial services will begin from October and more providers will be offering services from that time.
To date, 12 retail service providers have passed through NBN Co’s certification process in readiness to test services. They are: AAPT, AARNet, Adam Internet, Exetel, iiNet, Internode, ispONE, Nextgen Networks, Optus, Platform Networks and Telstra.
Business – “The increasing availability of ubiquitous high-speed broadband connections and the establishment of an effective online presence will allow Australian businesses, particularly small businesses, and not-for-profit organisations, to participate in a global marketplace”.
Households - " timesaving activities such as telecommuting, remote work and study opportunities, information gathering, price/product discovery and access to health services".
Environment – “An NBN-empowered digital economy can improve Australia’s environmental sustainability by supporting applications that encourage more efficient use of water, energy, transport and infrastructure”.
Education – “The availability of ubiquitous, high-speed broadband has the potential to significantly extend the reach, availability and quality of education services, particularly in regional areas, to help meet these needs”.
Health and aged care – “Increasing pressures on Australia’s health system from an ageing population, increased rates of chronic disease, and health workforce challenges mean it is critical to consider opportunities to deliver high-quality services more effectively and efficiently”.
Find out who your local, state and federal representatives are.
Local representaitive – Broadwater – Ms Peta-Kaye Croft (Parliamentary Secretary for Emergency Services)
What is censorship and what place does it have in democracy?
Censorship is the prevention of speech or other public communication (books, newspapers, movies, internet) which may be considered objective, sensitive or harmful to the general public as determined by a Government, media outlet or other controlling body (What is Censorship? 2002).
Democracy means a form government in which people have an equal say in one way or another in the decisions that affects their lives (definition – government by people) (Miroslav Kolar 2005).
There is not place for censorship in democracy. The government should not be able to hide important information to the public, just because it might hurt people’s feelings. For example the bill that the Christian Democratic Party introduced in the Upper House for to make it an “offence (maximum penalty $550) for a person, without reasonable excuse to wear a face covering in public place”(Funnell N 2010). Critics were quick to label the Bill the “burqa ban”. It should be up to the general public to decide whether or not they want a “band of the burqa”.
“There isn't as much censorship today as there was in Roman times, but people still disagree about what behavior is appropriate”(‘What is Censorship?’ 2002).
Reference list
Funnell N 2010 intolerance and censorship have no place in democracy, viewed 23 september 2011, via <http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/intolerance-and-censorship-have-no-place-in-democracy/>
Miroslav Kolar 2005, what is democracy, viewed 23 September 2011 via
This week our group wrote the script for our short video and later in the week we meet up to shot our video. In the script we decided to have the interview in sections. First we had the reporter interview the spokes person from apple, then have the reporter go on site to interview the “lucky winner” of the iPhone.
We had to work out who was the reporter (Ara Jeong), the spokes person form Apple (me) and the lucky winner (Nils Wiiburg). We also came up with the name for the new iPhone; it’s called the iPhone iFriend. This is the scrip for the short video:
The cast was:
(J) Spokes person form apple – Jasmine Copper
(R) Reporter – Melisa Grey
(B) Lucky winner – Brad
(I) iPhone iFriend
(S) Sam – Jasmine Coppers iPhone iFriend
In studio:
R: Hi, welcome to New Com. Tech. News. I am Melissa Gray. Today with us spokes person from Apple, welcome, Jasmine Cooper.
J: Thanks for having me, Melissa.
R: What are you going to introduce to us now, about the new iPhone?
J: Well, the new iPhone iFriend will change the way we use phones and table devices. The iPhone iFriend has new technology that allows people to communicate not only with friends and family but with the actual phone. Each iPhone iFriend has a chip inserted that enables it to have a personality.
R: A real personality?
J: Yes. Each individual phone has a personality that you can change using the iFreind app. Each phone can source information from the net simply by asking it. This phone will actually talk to you as your own friends and family would and give you a great emotional and informative advice. This is my iPhone iFriend, Sam. Sam helps me with organizing my work schedule; keeping me up with all the news and even helping me find recipes to cook dinner for my family. Say hi Sam.
S: hi, how are you?
R: Now we are going to look at one of the lucky volunteers that won the chance to use the new iPhone iFriend for a whole week, to see what his opinion was.
On site:
Voice over: This is Brad Wilson. He is 20 year old uni student, majoring in Communications.
R: There was a competition that was held by Apple to win the chance of using the new iPhone iFriend for a week. This was created to get the opinions of different types of people and to find out whether or not this would be a popular new device.
B: Yes, I won the opportunity to use the new phone. I love the way I can change the personality and have intellectual conversations with the phone. If I am stuck on an assessment, the iPhone helps me find right references. Even if I am having girl problems, it will give me good advice on what to do. Watch!
B: What should I do??? I went on a date with this girl named Laura. I thought we had a great time together. I tried to call her next morning to plan another romantic date. She would not answer. I have tried to call her for the last 8 days and still no reply... Do you think she is sick or she is not that into me?????? What should I do???
I: Forget about her. Pull yourself together man! Obviously she doesn’t like you. You need to move on a.s.a.p. Research shows that if a girl doesn’t answer your calls within the first three days, she doesn’t like you.
R: So would you buy the new iPhone iFriend? Email us with your answers at NCT@news.com or follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
After writing the script, a couple of days later we met up to film our video. We decided we wanted to shot somewhere that had a colourful wall so it looked like we were in a news studio. We found a bright red wall in block G31 downstairs. So we first shot the reporter and the spokes person from Apple. Then we headed out the front of G31 near the bridge for our second shots. With the reporter and the lucky winner. It took us approximately 30minutes to shot the video. We decided to meet up one hour before class to edit the video.
Open source software is a programming philosophy, which under a license allows you to make copies of the software and pass them on to anyone, this means aspects of the program are open for review (what is What.com 2008). A source code comes with the software that allows you to change to meet your needs. Open source software is usually free or a low cost and available to download off the Internet. Each license can be different, so when downloading make sure that you read the license before using or changing the software. “Some licenses require you to make any changes made to the source code publicly available, while others will allow you to keep those changes private” (business Link 2011). Some advantages of downloading and using open source software is:
Lower software licensing costs
No supplier lock-in
Freedom to do what you want with the software
Open standards that support collaborative development
Freedom to upgrade software as it suits your business (Business Link 2011)
Some of the main disadvantages are:
It may be difficult to get support
Some propriety formats Microsoft Word's '.doc' format are so widely used that other formats may be less acceptable for business (Business Link 2011)
http://comsoft.org/proprietary-software/
The opposite of open source software is propriety software, whereby the development of the program is by the supplier and made available for you to use under a license. The source code is only available to the developer of the software and to people that successfully hack it. When buying propriety software you are not buying the software, you are buying the rights to use it in a specific way. When buying propriety software, it prohibits you from:
making copies of the software and passing them on
Selling your license to someone else (Business Link 2011)
This week I met my group members for the video tutorial task, as all of us were away the week prior, we formed a group. We wanted our video to have a humorous side, I remembered watching the Ellen Degeneres show and her making fun of ridiculous iPhone apps. The group decided that we wanted to “make fun” of the iPhone.
Our first idea was to create a new iPhone that allows you to take apps to a new extreme. It allowed the user to select an app that they wanted; an example would be the hairbrush app, an actual hairbrush would slide up from the phone allowing you to brush your hair with the phone. We then realized how difficult it would be to make a video to show that, so we had to come up with a new idea.
We knew that we wanted to stick with the iPhone, so we decided to make the new iPhone have a personality. This means that you would be able to have emotional and informative conversation with the actual phone, like you would with your friends and family. It would be able to source information, just by asking it.
The message behind this video is – how fast technology is advancing, who knows what the future holds?
We thought that it would be a better concept if we made the video a news report, introducing the new iPhone. The idea for the report was to have a spokes person from Apple, telling the reporter and audience how to use this new phone and other information. Then we will have someone that had the chance to use the iPhone for a week to see what his opinion was.
We decided that we were going to meet outside of school hours next week to write the scrip for the short video.
How is the Internet affecting traditional journalism?
The Internet has affected traditional journalism with the introduction of citizen journalism.
Citizen journalism is when a private individual report information through podcast editorials or reports on a blog, it can include text, pictures, audio and video. The Internet has made citizen journalism possible with the ability to transmit information globally. Where traditional journalism is “the activity or profession of writing for newspapers or magazines or of broadcasting news on radio or television”. Citizen journalism might reach only a small audience, where traditional journalism targets a broad audience.
Traditional Journalism started dying when the television started producing the news, a large amount of people stopped reading newspapers. People now turn to the Internet rather than the television to find out news. People find it easier to search what they want to know about and when. News storys now usually break first on the internet, then later being showed on air or in the newspapers (Courtemache R 2008)
A survey was conducted in June 2010 by PR Network Oriella, of 770 journalists across 15 countries to report on how the Internet was affecting their business, their publishing formats and the quality of the content issuing forth from the newsroom. The survey determined that many are still concerned that traditional media formats might not succeed in the long run (O’Dell Jolie 2010). “Concerns about the viability of journalists’ traditional media channels (print, radio or television) have intensified”(Oriella PR Network 2011).
Journalism is rapidly changing to meet the changes in technology, also to meet the demands of the changing world. Inexpensive technology and Internet has changed traditional journalism.
References
Courtemache,Robert 2008, How the internet killed traditional Journalism, via Suite101, viewed 22 September 2011, <http://www.suite101.com/content/how-the-internet-killed-traditional-journalism-a81253>
O’Dell, Jolie 2010, Mashable Business, How the Internet is Affecting Traditional Journalism, viewed 22 September 2011,
Oriella PR Network 2011, Oriella Digital Journalism Study 2011, viewed 22 September 2011, < http://www.orielladigitaljournalism.com/visual-report.html>