Week 13 - News Report C.A

We had officially finished the module by week 13, but since we had missed a full week back in week 10. The class had been given a C.A to complete before week 13, and we still had to present it. The C.A consisted of a news report, in which we had to create a mock television broadcast on a particular "controversial story in the media recently, but we had to put our own biased slant on on the broadcast.

This was a group C.A, and I had the privilege of working with Siobhan Gallagher and Eamonn Cahill for the project. We chose to report on the recent household and water charges. Combining both of the taxes into one story. Our slant was that we were create a fear campaign and trying to scare people into paying the charges. We interviewed students young and old around the college campus. Some people had different opinions to the ones we were trying to portray in the broadcast but we had to convince them to change their opinion for the sake of our news story.

Siobhan and Eamonn worked hard on the video, audio and editing side of the broadcast, while I worked behind the scenes, researching, gathering information, quotes and statistics to use within to broadcast. Only certain statistics were chosen in order to get our preferred meaning across to viewers. We all chipped in and worked on the technical report that was to be handed in. In the end, We came out with a relatively believable and very professionally presented 3 minute news report and video.

We gathered many vox pops from many people around the college and acquired media footage from the rte.ie website. Statistics were gathered from newspapers websites, the Irish Times and Irish Independent. The continuous report from the project can be found from the blog of the project. The voice over was done by scripted and recorded by Eamonn.

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