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 ...
Read More »Part One – Decision Making March 10th 2019 The data set I have chosen to focus on is the rate of Teenage Pregnancy across England and Wales. I came across this data set whilst browsing the Office of National Statistics website and decided to use it as the amount of data that was readily available would allow me to produce several different angles from one set of data. As the data set dates b...
Read More »This week in Rebecca’s class we began by looking at everyone’s analysis of the different TV news shows yesterday. We discussed story selection and coverage and presentation and compared the content shown on each news programme. Group by group we then took turns to read our studio intros to the class and play our Brexit VTs. We received feedback on how to improve from both our peers and...
Read More »This morning we started off by reviewing the datasets that we had chosen for our infographic pieces. Michael gave us all feedback on how we could further challenge the data and ask more questions about the information. We then had guest speaker Valadis come into our session and we were introduced to Fighthoax, what they do and how we could use the system. 00
Read More »On looking at different datasets for my final infographic assessment piece, I have decided to study the numbers of children that are being adopted in the London Borough of Brent. I chose these particular datasets as I wanted to look at the number of children waiting to be adopted vs the number of children that are actually being adopted. I also wanted to see how much the numb...
Read More »This week our class headed down to Westminster by the house of parliament to film our Brexit VT’s. My group decided to focus our VT on the thoughts and reservations of the British public a month before the Britain leaves the EU. We interviewed both Brexit supporters and opponents and carried out a piece to camera whilst we were out there. In the afternoon, we separated and each worked on our...
Read More »The morning session with Michael started with a look into big data and what it consists of. With a guest lecturer, we discussed the issues around storing data in today’s GDPR sensitive society, and how security protections such as encryption help to protect the datasets from getting into the wrong hands. We then started looking at different ways of obtaining data and understanding which sour...
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