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>
The production tools that our group will be using are iMovie and GarageBand on Mac. iMovie is a video editing software application which allows users to edit their own movies. GarageBand is a software application that allows users to create music, voice recordings and podcasts.
The device that we will be using to film out short video is a 12megapixel camera that also records. To add the video or shots that you have recorded, you simply drag the shot that you want into iMovie. With iMovie you can edit your film, such as cropping a shot and adding a news production theme. To add voice recordings and music to your video, you simply upload your finished video to GarageBand and edit the sounds, as you like.
When uploading your own video to the Internet, you have to think of copyright.
An example of a problem that you may have with copyright over elements that you did not create is: If you were to use an image or song in your video that is owned by someone else and upload that video on the internet, they could sew you.
When uploading a video to the Internet, you have to be careful of defamation. Defamation is: “any intentional false communication, either written or spoken, that harms a person's reputation; decreases the respect, regard, or confidence in which a person is held; or induces disparaging, hostile, or disagreeable opinions or feelings against a person”(The free Dictionary 2011).
According to a survey by DLA Piper, “Only 5 per cent of Internet users said they were clear on their legal responsibilities.” "The combination of confusion and complacency about the relationship between the law and (user-generated content) puts users at risk as they come under increasing scrutiny online," said Duncan Calow, a digital media partner (Edgecliffe-Johnson, A 2008).
References
Edgecliffe-Johnson, A 2008, Bloggers warned over defamation, Journal of The Financial Time (London ed.) Issn. 0307-1766, p. 4, via ProQuest Central database.
The Free Dictionary 2011, defamation, viewed 22 September 2011,
How is Hollywood affected by the rise of the Internet?
With the Internet rapidly growing and becoming faster, people are able to download movies and items with ease. Hollywood fears that a lot of people would rather download a movie for free through downloading the torrent, rather than going to the cinema or renting the movie from the store. Its hard to prove the fear that Hollywood faces, especially with even more renting opportunities through the Telstra T-Box, Foxtel on Demand (downloading movies directly to your TV) and other similar devices. With my independent movie rental stores closing down, you could blame the illegal act of downloading movies via the web or just the evolution of home movie rental devices.
The Internet threatens Hollywood as they think that consumers will no longer see movies at the cinema but would rather download free, not as good quality movies. Downloading movies illegally for free takes money out of the cast members, crew and the producers. With less people renting movies or going to the cinema, its fair to say that soon, the quality, size and actors salary in movies will drop, as the makers will not have enough money to fund the production.
In the year 2000, Disneys CEO, Michael Eisner made a speech to congress, he warned them of the potential threat that the Internet (very efficient distribution mechanism) and computers (very efficient copying machine) has on Hollywood he said “Just as computers make it possible to create remarkably pristine images, they also make it possible to make remarkably pristine copies (Goodwin M 2002, p.26).”
My name is Jasmine Danvers; I’m currently studying a double bachelor degree in Business and Communication at Griffith University on the Gold Coast. The majors that I’m interested in are marketing for business and pubic relations for communication. Last year I completed a Diploma of Events at Gold Coast Tafe. I decided not to follow a career or study events as it is very hospitably based. I learnt then that I wanted to learn more about marketing and public relations as we covered it briefly in events. In the future I’m hoping to work or a makeup company (Mac Cosmetics, Napoleon Perdis, ect) in there marketing department, as I’m a qualified makeup artist and that’s one of my interests.
2.What is Stephen Stockwell's band called and what does he play? Can you name a couple of their songs?
I used Yahoo to find this answer. The band name was ‘The Black Assasins’, he plays the keyboard and a couple of their songs are: Somebody's Gonna Get Their Head Kicked In Tonight and Death Take Me Now.
3.What is the weight of the world’s biggest machine? How much did it cost to build?
I used yahoo to anser this answer. The Largest machine is the Liebherr T 282B which is a earth-hauling truck. It weighs 203 tons when empty and maxium weight when operating is 592 tons. Cost: US $3.5 Million.
5.What is the cheapest form of travel from the Gold Coast to Melbourne?
Bing provided me with this answer. The cheapest form of transportation from the Gold Coast the Melbourne is to fly with virgin (dates that flight leaves 20th of October 2011), which is $85.
6.Who is Hatsune Miku? What company does she belong to? What is her birthday?
I used Bing for this answer. Hatsune Miku is an animate character from the series synthesiser developed by Yamaha corporation. Her birthday is on the 31st of August 2007.
The language of film & the Construction of Meaning
What are the Narrative Conventions and why are they important to classic Hollywood Cinema?
A narrative is the way in which the plot is told to the audience. “Narrative is usually considered as one of the most established forms of mediation between the self and community.” (Biti, V 2008) The first narrative convention is: human centered. It is told from single characters point of view and delivers storyline to the audience. The character will grows through film and develops from start to finish.
The next narrative convention is: Is driven by desire. It is very important to have in a film; it gives the character a reason to do something or a goal to achieve. It is usally based on needs and fears. The character generally wants something, needs something to survive or a fear so they can complete an act.
After desire is: Is built on opposition and conflict this is the tension and the heart of any good narrative.
Actions/events are linked in a chain of cause and effect is next. In the story line someone poses a question and the character has to answer that question. This action always deals with a cause and effect relationship.
Following cause and effect is: dominated by the clear and complete motivation of action and event. This allows having a much clearer understanding of the story. It answers the question: why is the character doing what it’s doing. The character is clearly motivated at all times.
Tends to have an objective or omniscient narration is dominated by a strong scene of closure. In classic Hollywood films they are usually not opened ended, they will have a scene of closure to keep the audience satisfied.
References
Biti,V 2008, Narrative Idenification, Arcadia, Vol. 43, Is. 1 P28, via ProQuest Central
The Social networking site that I have chosen is Facebook. I think with any social networking site there should be terms and conditions of use, but some of the terms are a bit extreme. For example if you delete something off Facebook (photos, videos), they still have to right to keep that information in their system. They reefer to it as “a manner similar to emptying the recycle bin on a computer”, you understand that you have deleted the information but yet it is still kept somewhere in the backup copies. Once you post content on Facebook, they basically own it. Facebook guarantees that they “never share your personal information” with their advertisers and that Facebook’s ad targeting is done entirely anonymously. “If advertisers select demographic targeting for their ads, Facebook automatically matches those ads to the appropriate audience.” I think that Facebook would be more popular with their users if they get rid of all the pop up advertising on the side of the page and just let the user decide what they want to look at and follow adverting wise on Facebook. I think that they should have to tell the user when they update their terms of service and what are the new terms that they have added.
