Today was a really fun day, we had a field trip at the houses of parliament in Westminster. We were given an assignment to create a VT package on Brexit. Before going on this field trip, my group met up and discussed what angle we would want to take and our order of filming. We […]
Monthly archives: February 2019
Week Five: Day of Excel
This week I was not present for the morning session with Micheal as I was helping a friend out at the hospital. However after reviewing the presentation on Moodle , I saw that they discussed ‘Finding data sets’. They started off with going over the homework and then later on went over examples of finding […]
Week Four: Brexit VT Practice
For the first session with Rebecca, we discussed the homework from the previous class. Each VT group presented our VT’s on student life to the class. We were provided with feedback from both Rebecca and the class, enabling us to make improvements in the future. We moved onto the second part of the homework where […]
Week Four: Data and Excel
In the morning session with Micheal, we started by going over the homework, as we always do. We had to write a story on a discussion between Sarah O’Connor and Tim Harford. Talking abut what they discussed, whether we agreed with what was said and if there were any reservations. As well as using this […]
Week Three: Intro to VT Packages
We had the morning session with Rebecca, we started off by looking at different VT packages. It helped us compare different packages and learn what the best VT packages include. An example of a VT package was one on the start of London night tubes. We also went through a long list of vocabulary, such […]
Week Three: Too much math!
Today we started off the lesson by discussing the homework, which was comparing infographics on the state of the union speeches. We discussed most of the graphs that were provided in the presentation. A few people gave their views and which ones they had compared and what they managed to extrapolate from it. This week […]
Week Two: iPod Kit
We started off our introduction to broadcast journalism by being introduced to the iPod kits. Sam gave us a mini ‘tutorial’ on on what was in the kit and how we can use them appropriately. He started off with the iPod touch itself, informing us what the code for the iPod is. As well as […]
Week Two: Doggiegraphics?
Today we started off the lesson by going over the homework that we had to do, which was writing about what stories we can extract from certain databases. We had quite a few examples, the ones we went over in class were the following: are MPs expenses, Wikileaks war diaries, Gapminder comparing income to life […]
Stories hidden within databases –Are Hollywood movies true or false?
The website ‘information is beautiful’ has a page “Based on a true true story?” which analyses Hollywood films, scene by scene and states whether the events that happened in the scene are ‘true, true-ish, false-ish or false’. Each of these options are colour coded, making it easy for the reader to see an overview of […]
Tate Modern: Magic Realism in Weimar Germany makes you feel a whirlwind of emotions!
“A man paints with his brains and not with his hands” Michelangelo I have never been much of an artist myself, but I have learned to appreciate it. My uncle whom also lives in London, is a big fan of art and has a Tate Modern membership that allows him to bring an extra person. […]
