One of Instagram’s latest features the ‘Restrict Tool’, is to be rolled out globally, Instagram Bosses announce. Initially trialed in the US earlier this year as a way to help ‘combat’ online bullying, the tool allows users to hide comments and block accounts from seeing their activity. The tool is thought to be first of its kind on social media allowing its users to “silently block” profiles, wit...
Read More »As this was our first session back from the Easter Break, We spent the day having 1-2-1’s with Michael discussing the progress we have made over the Easter holidays and what we had left to do to ensure we finish our work at a high quality, in good time. 00
Read More »In class this morning, we finished off our Fighthoax work by discussing our experiences and what we had gained from working on the project. With LJ in the Afternoon, we each had an assigned time to turn up and have a 1-2-1 with LJ to discuss our infographics 00
Read More »With Michael, we continued to work on Fighthoax and began to ask more questions around how we can use it to our advantage as journalists. In LJ’s class, we took a look at several websites that offered a free infographics service. We started with Visme and began to have a play around with each of the websites to see which one we felt more comfortable using to create our pieces. 00
Read More »In the morning session with Michael, we continued our Fighthoax work – finding articles on Facebook and importing them into Fighthoax. In the Afternoon with LJ, we had a look into typography and the different ways in which we could communicate our infographic messages through the choice of text. 00
Read More »In class this morning we continued with our Fighthoax work. We were split into 5 different teams and were then instructed to find a news article on the theme of Brexit on Facebook, and then use the Fighthoax system to analyse it. In the afternoon with LJ, we were introduced to illustrator and learnt how we could possibly use it to create our infographics 00
Read More »Social Media solves Teenage Pregnancy spell The UK’s teenage pregnancy rate has more than halved in the last 20 years. According to figures released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), the amount of under-18’s conceiving has hit an all-time low. When records first began in 1969, there were 45,495 reported teenage pregnancies, a number which decreased by 59% to 18,076 in 2016. The T...
Read More »Rebecca & Michael: This week our live shows took place. I worked on the Radio show along with 3 other members of the class and Michael. Our first job was to decide on the topics we wanted to cover. Once we had all picked one, we headed off to write a short script for the presenters to read out. As I was the producer for the day, it was then down to me to create an opening and closing paragraph...
Read More »Rebecca: In class with Rebecca this week, we focused on submissions, ensuring that we had everything ready ahead of our deadlines next week. We then reviewed inception again ensuring that everyone felt comfortable with it and knew both how to access it and how to use it before our life shows next week. Michael: With Michael, we spent this week’s session going over any issues or questions we ...
Read More »Rebecca: In class with Rebecca this week, we had a look at the submissions form and went through all of the requirements to make sure that we all know what we need to do when it comes to submitting our work. In our VT groups, we then had to present our VT submission ideas to the class – discussing the shots we plan to show, who we plan to interview and the idea we intend on communicating thr...
Read More »Rebecca: Week 9 with Rebecca consisted of the class reviewing the Vox pops that we had filmed during the end of the class the previous week. We received feedback from both Vanessa and the rest of the class, before discussing what we learnt whilst out filming and things we can improve for next time. We then compared the night before’s news headlines and stories and looked at how they differen...
Read More »The profile VT that my group decided to film this week was about a student photographer who uses her art to fund her studies. As our target audience were UK university students, we thought that this particular profile could turn out to be extremely helpful to them as many students are having to turn to alternative methods to pay for their student lifestyle. My group and I beg...
Read More »Rebecca: This week in class with Rebecca, we looked at our Profile VT’s that we had completed as homework for the week before. On viewing them we received feedback and comments from both Rebecca and our peers. The main feedback that my group received from the session was that the interviewee needs to be looking off camera at the reporter rather than directly into the camera lens. We are also...
Read More »This week in Rebecca’s class, we started by reviewing the news programmes from the previous night that we were assigned to watch. We compared the news treatments of similar stories and the varying headlines between programmes. We were then tasked with creating a Brexit Learning Blog detailing what our VT story was and why we had decided to cover it now. We were also told to touch on the proc...
Read More »The VT that my group decided to create was about Brexit and the publics thoughts and reservations around the topic. We decided to cover it at that particular time, as the countdown for the final 30 days before Britain leaves the EU had begun making it a harsh reality that it will soon be happening. From the start, we pretty much realised that gathering peoples’ thoughts ...
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