Sam Anderson Unit 7 and 16

Learning Outcome 3 (U7):   Be able to research and plan content for an article Learning Outcome 2 (U16):   Know the techniques and processes used to create sound elements P4 (U7): Research and plan content for an original article My news article will be based around an issue that is very prominent today, especially in London. It will be an article about the mass knife crime in the capital, with links to modern racism and inequalities that young black people face often. This is a very powerful topic, and will require an appropriate amount of research, with the majority of this research being primary. This is because it will ensure that the facts, statistics and stories I get will be 100% factual and not covered up by any institutions. The genre of the article is crime, as well as being serious reportage.  To ensure that my article is as 'real' as possible I will go down to places where people, who the issues in my article are directly linked to, live, at places s...

Different platforms use different techniques techniques to transport the audience into their on screen entertainment; wether thats video games, films, TV shows, or radio stations. The different techniques that are common are: foley sound, wild tracks, atmospheric sound, as well as using sound compression, to either make sounds louder or amplify quite sounds. In Infinity Ward's Call of Duty Modern Warfare, the producers used many different audio techniques to create the necessary sounds, resulting in a game that brings the audience into the game, with its realistic sounds. For the footsteps, Infinity Ward used actual footsteps, and applied the necessary sound compression, either upward and downward, depending on the distance of the steps, in the game from your character. This makes the game feel very realistic, and makes the audience feel more involved and invested in the game. The gun sounds were created by placing a microphone at the end of different guns, and altering the p...

Learning Outcome 2 (U7): Know the construction and content of news articles P3 (U7): Describe the structure and purpose for different news articles Organisations will put their news stories onto different platforms, in order to appeal and aim at a wide variety of audiences. This is effective, as it means that everyone is exposed to both specific stories, as well as specific organisations. The Observer The Observer structure is that of a traditional newspaper, using the traditional paragraph structure of short bursts of information, as to not overwhelm the reader with loads of information at one given time. This allows the reader to take in all the necessary information, not being overwhelmed. The Observer This is a common convention of broadsheets, and is used throughout broadsheets. Broadsheets are more text heavy than tabloids, so to counter-act this heavy text, broadsheets use short paragraphs, as a way to lay out the page in a le...