WINOL week 7 (sem II), TV Studio floor managing, filming and photographing sports

While the nation prepares for the election the students at Winchester University vote for their new president of the Student Union. On Tuesday this week our production team took care of making a 1 min videos for the three candidates applying for the role of president of our university. Every each and one of them received a fair chance to give a 1 min talk about themselves to give the students reasons to vote for them. The studio was prepared and the spot lights set on candidates, the three videos can be found on our local news website WINOL.CO.UK.

After quite a thundery decision making over appointing the roles for our Sub editing team we have eventually seen a fair decision made over who did what this week. The whole idea of winol is us learning how to work and deal with problems within a team and it is part of the working environment to overcome the difficulties or differences in opinions within members of the team it is important to find solutions that would help to avoid the conflict the next time. The winol experience is not only meant to train our technical skills for future profession it also shows what should be the right and what are the wrong attitudes when working within a team in a pressurised environment. It is clear that it is important to be able to communicate with the team members on the right level, be fair and respectful for each other and sometimes doing less means doing more. Meaning since our group of sub-editors has to me shifting around different roles beginning of operating Autocue, Floor managing, filming, VT or sound operating, script writing and vision-mixing or directing. All these roles are significant as if even one of them was not covered the Wednesday bulletin would not take place. The level of difficulty or skill involved in filling some of these roles are not equal to others but they are all important and our job is to make sure they are filled and they are filled well. And so if any of our sub-editors feel they want to do a little bit more or fill the time around their appointed role, winol is open to fill other positions like helping out within the news or sports reporting and it is always good to be open and willing to help our team of reporters in filming or even covering the stories. Above all we are all here to learn and we should try to make the best of each role given and give a fair chance to all our team mates to try themselves out in all roles they would like to.

I sub-edited few stories and my new role this week within the production was floor managing of the TV studio and also Autocue operating for the rehearsals. The day before winol I joined the sports reporters to help out with filming and photographing a football game. It was a good experience again and I discovered that I really like photographing sport events, their dynamic and passion makes quite interesting experience of capturing important moments like goal scoring or saving a penalty shot. A new experience a new interest discovered.

From the feedback we found out that our news headlines were strong sports slightly not matching the pictures. Stu's story was one of the bests and it was a follow up of his previous one. In the story about the university's budget the right balance wasn't done and in Teachers story the GV-s could have been more creative. Our presenters, Catherine, Rob and Keileigh did well in new set of the scene and it was good that Rob could try himself in a new role. Keileigh presented as our political correspond er and showed a lot more confidence comparing to last week and Cathrine did a great news presenting, making a strong and confident performance of her role.

It was a challenging week in many aspects, indeed, we had a studio guest and a skype call from Austria about an election and our reporters did a great job on our news content once again. We have overcome a difficulties this week that were not only of technical nature and we have put out another great news bulletin and we should be proud of ourselves. Chanin did really well on not giving up trying to make the skype call happen and took our news to the next level. WINOL traffic 170 unique users with a market penetration of about 3-4 percent which would be at the Daily Telegraph type level, rather than Sun or Mail.

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Multimedia Production , WINCHESTER NEWS ONLINE WEBSITE

Hitler the rebellion of the middle class, Wilhelm Reich's theories

National Socialism's basic anti-soviet attitude in Adolf Hitler was evident nearly from the beginning.

"If land was desired in Europe, it could be obtained by and large only at the expense of Russia, and this meant that the new Reich must again set itself on the march along the road of the Teutonic Knights of old, to obtain by the German sword sod for the German plow and daily bread for the nation." (1)

Hitler was a son of a civil servant in the middle class family himself. His father wanted him to become a civil servant too but Hitler "rebelled against the paternal plan, resolved 'on no account' to obey, become a painter and fell into poverty in the process." Along with the rebellious nature of his youth Hitler respected and accepted the authority of his father. And this is a basis of s classic middle class structure of attitude from a child to an adult specifically when the financial situation of the family is not so easy.



Hitler idealised his mother, Klara Hitler, it appears that the only time he cried was when she died), he was very close to his mother but not so with his authoritarian father, who would also frequently beat young Adolf.

Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck was his idol, Hitler admired his theories of unification of the German nation and fight against the Austrian dynasty (Hapsburg's) as well as anti-Semite Lueger and the German national Johannes Schöner. They all influenced Hitler greatly and shaped his development. From them his aim became national-imperialistic.

Führer recognised effectiveness of organised power in "masses for every political movement."

His further aim was to "implement nationalistic imperialism with methods he has borrowed from Marxism, including its technique of mass organisation." However, eventually, it was the "authoritarian freedom-fearing " structure rather than his personal charisma that enabled his propaganda.

It was common that lower middle class would support National Socialists (bourgeois democracies) but there was something that made them change their political position. The social situation (its psychological structure), for lower middle class. "Fascism's lower middle class was exactly the same as liberal democracy's lower middle class, only in different historical era of capitalism (1930-1932)." (1)

"National Socialism polled its new votes almost exclusively from the German National Party and the smaller faction parties of the German Reich. Only the Catholic center maintained its position(...). It wasn't until the later election that National Socialism also succeeded in making an incursion into the masses of industrial workers. The middle class was and continued to be the mainstay of the swastika. And it was this class, championing the cause of National Socialism, which stepped onto the political tribunal and halted the revolutionary reconstruction of society during the most severe economic convulsion the capitalist system had experienced (1929-32)." (1)

Until mentioned years, middle class was given not enough importance as the focus was rather on development of political reaction and authoritarian leadership of the state and politicians were not familiar with psychology of the masses.

From now on, "the rebellion of the middle class" model was given far more attention to, and eventually National Socialism was turning into imperialistic nationalism, "which was intent upon eliminating every 'socialistic' from the movement and preparing for war with every available means, did not contradict the other fact that fascism, viewed with respect to its mass basis, was actually a middle class movement." And all this become an anti-capitalist and revolutionary .


The University of Winchester Journalism Course
History and Context of Journalism, part IV

Inspiration & links:
1. The Mass Psychology of Fascism by Wilhelm Reich - book
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mass_Psychology_of_Fascism
3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmund_Freud
4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler
5. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler%27s_mother

Interview with Roger Perkins - The Winchester University Journalism Course

WINOL news bulletin in week 6 of semester 2 in 2nd year of Journalism Course. 

Interview I filmed in week 6 of Winchester News Online weekly bulletin production with Roger Perkins. Interview was made by a second year journalism student Tomasz Otrebski at The University of Winchester Newsroom.

 

Roger Perkins (BA Liverpool, PGCE, RSA (Dip) TEFL) is a "creative director at Seager UK and an experienced journalist and teacher. In the field of print publication he has been part of editorial teams on the Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph, Punch and Birmingham Post. He became deputy editor of the Electronic Telegraph website in 1998 and subsequently international editor at Vizzavi and then editor of mobile content for T-Mobile UK. Before his career in journalism Roger taught in Algeria, Italy, Venezuela and Spain. His book reviews often appear in the Sunday Telegraph's Seven magazine.” (http://www.buckingham.ac.uk/english/aboutdept/staff.html#perkins)

The University of Winchester Journalism Course
Multimedia Production , WINCHESTER NEWS ONLINE WEBSITE

WINOL bulletin week 6 (sem2) Autocue operating and sports filming

As mentioned in the headline of my post I have operated an Autocue in the TV studio as well as filmed football this week. After not very successful attempt to practice and learn how to use the Autocue on Tuesday I felt that it was in my own hands to arrange myself some additional training with someone that really knows how it works and most definitely what to do if it fails. Using it looked pretty straight forward but it kept freezing all the time and the text kept disappearing from the screen and so we could not do a proper practice on the script from the previous week because text would not be available when needed and I did not know how to deal with that problem. The next morning I went to ask someone from the loan counter to help me to understand how to deal with faulty Autocue.

It is worth mentioning that before using the Autoque it is important to make sure if everything is set the way it should be. There are few things that can be followed to make sure of the right setting of the program. If you go to Properties, then Settings it has to be on Screen 2- and ticked: extend my Windows desktop and press OK.
- Properties
- Settings
- Screen2
- Extend my Windows desktop- ticked off
- OK
The next step is to upload the script:
- 1 P.Pro,
- START
- File- load
- change colour of the background to black and writing to white, and go to Edit- set up Two Displays - L-R (check if it on the right one)
- EXIT and adjust the speed of running or make used to natural pauses in reading of presenters or make sure that I did all the right speed-ups if it is needed during script reading.

As soon as we are used to presenters’ reading pace and know all the details of the script we have to make sure that if there are any last minute changes made to the script we simply have to update the text on the Autocue (typing in changes). While operating the Autoque it is also worth remembering not to use the mouse to move the arrow for scrolling the text up or down as that may interfere with the program working properly or even freeze the program. Secondly, as it happened to me the day before, the missing text from the script can be caused by a dongle being loose so I had to make sure that the dongle (small USB on the side of the laptop) was properly in and kept checking every so often.



In overall, the WINOL bulletin went well again, we had good links, good opening, a lot better graphics and quite strong pictures for the news and sport packages. We have been praised for good effort for getting the interviews for the reporters and also for the production team working smoothly together mastering the techniques of our inseparable roles. Unfortunately our sound had some issues this time, in some packages it was all over the place. We have been advised that it is good to write the script for the OOV before setting the pictures as it is easier and more accurate to set the right length of pictures to already recorded audio than the other way around. John's package had a really good sign off, and even though some of the framing was out of place his package had the right balance within OfCom regulations and quite a strong scripting.We have been told that we use too many sign shots and GVs of the campus and so we need to try to avoid signs and get other pictures than of the campus. Catherine's package had a very strong piece to camera and as we heard in the feedback it's production was pretty solid, however it was a little bit confusing and it didn't wasn't fully clear that there was a link made between the national newspaper's story and Winchester (which was originally planned). In sports story, we noticed that softening and disguising in editing (blending sound underneath the picture) was attempted but not fully achieved but as always great attempt for reaching for the right contacts and efforts put in filming and finding the stories. And finally story happened to name the drug company too much and it came out to make a little bit of an advert for it so it was suggested in the feedback that perhaps next time when doing similar story we don't necessary have to name the company at all or at least not more than once.

In summary, our news team is trying their best in getting the stories but perhaps it would have been a lot easier and less stressful if each of them tried to bring at least two ideas for the stories to the news editor on Monday morning instead of starting the research on Monday. As it was noticed by our tutors the stories this week did not belong to the strongest ones and they know our reporters can do a lot better if the put enough effort in it. It was also mentioned that not enough of the stories come from the previous ones- follow ups which can be a good source for new stories.

This week brought us around 180 unique user sessions what means that we are still below the score we are aiming at. As our tutors suggested more attention should be put into promotion of our website and continuity of Date with Fate- which again, hopefully will boost our user sessions up.

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Multimedia Produvtion , WINCHESTER NEWS ONLINE WEBSITE

Freudo-Marxian influences in The Mass Psychology of Fascism by Wilhelm Reich

Understanding of Fascism must proceed from understanding Marxism as the German freedom movement prior to Hitler who was also inspired by Karl Marx. And writing his Mass Psychology of Fascism, Reich was not only touched by Marxian but also Freudian influences.

Marx "recognised the industrial productive forces as the progressive force of society and that he depicted the contradictions of capitalist economy as they relate to real life." The very same Marxism that kept through the economic crisis of 1929-33 would lead to an ideological "leftist orientation among the stricken masses" and that unfortunately later on, developed into the Right [ideology of broad layers of society of middle class] the ideology of "the proletarian strata of the population." (1)

The misery of the working class was a cause of dilemma in people turning them either to start thinking towards "socialism and barbarism" and if they followed their consciousness and appreciate their importance to the society they would stay within their social importance. Clash between the social situation of the working class and their consciousness of this situation implies that, instead of improving their social position, the working masses worsen it. And it was "precisely the wretched masses who helped to put fascism, extreme political reaction, into power."

From the composition of the classes in Germany and their distribution according to socio-economic structure in that time, it shows that the ideological distribution was different to economic differences that was decisive to chose NSDAP on the German Nationalists (Right) giving them nearly double the amount of the votes more than to Communist and the social Democrats (Left) all together. And so "the political importance of the lower middle class is greater than had been assured."

"The Marxists had failed to take into account the character structure of the masses and the social effect of mysticism." (1) Roots of Reich ideology of sex-economy come from Freud's idea of repressed sexuality of a human being. For Freud consciousness is only a small part of psychic life and it is ruled by psychic processes from unconsciousness and are therefore not accessible to conscious control. Every psychic experience (like dreams) has its meaning and can be understood if we trace its etiology (psychics of the brain, brain mythology). Freud's second discovery was that children develop a non-procreation led sexuality and so sexual and genital are not the same.

Furthermore, the energy of sexuality recognised as "libido" (bodily) is the prime drive of psychic life and therefore biology and social conditions of life overlap in humans mind.



Thirdly, child's sexuality is of which "what is most crucial in child-parent relationship ("The Oedipus complex") is a part, is usually repressed out of fear of punishment for sexual acts and thoughts (...) child's sexual activity is blocked out and extinguished from memory. Thus, while repression of childhood sexuality withdraws it from the influence of consciousness, it does not weaken its forces." (1)



Another of Freudian discoveries was that "man's moral code was derived from educational measures used by parents (...), those educational measures opposed to childhood sexuality are most effective." (1) The conflict between parent's and child's desires later on becomes the one between instinct and morality within a person. Reich "agreed with Freud that sexual development was the origin of mental illness. They both believed that most psychological states were dictated by unconscious processes; that infant sexuality develops early but is repressed, and that this has important consequences for mental health. At that time a Marxist ( Freudo-Marxism), Reich argued that the source of sexual repression was bourgeois morality and the socio-economic structures that produced it. As sexual repression was the cause of the neuroses, the best cure would be to have an active, guilt-free sex life. He argued that such a liberation could come about only through a morality not imposed by a repressive economic structure." (4)

Reich believes that the authoritarian state gains an enormous interest in the authoritarian family, the state's and family's ideology become "molded" (1). Sexual repression in a child makes a child afraid, shy, fearful of authority, obedient and good in the authoritarian sense of the words. It has an incredible effect on man's rebellious forces because every vital life-impulse in now strangled with severe fear and since sex is a forbidden subject, thought in general and following that, a man's critical faculty also become inhibited. (1)

"Reactionary politics automatically makes use of those social forces that oppose progress; (...) not only regressive but also very energetic progressive social forces emerged in the rebelliousness of the lower middle classes which later constituted the mass basic of fascism." (2) The formation of the authoritarian structure takes place through the anchoring of sexual inhibition and anxiety.The symbol of SWASTICA evokes the fantasy of the primal scene and that was a good example of manipulation of masses unconsciousness. (2)

The University of Winchester Journalism Course
History and Context of Journalism, part IV

Inspiration & links:
1. The Mass Psychology of Fascism by Wilhelm Reich
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mass_Psychology_of_Fascism
3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmund_Freud
4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Reich

Theory of the Reich's secondary drives that ruled the mass psychology of fascism

"Fascism is the vampire leeched to the body of the loving, the impulse to murder given free rein, when love falls for fulfillment in spring." Wilhelm Reich

Fascism is not the act of Hitler or Mussolini, but it is "the expression of the irrational structure of mass man." Reich also says that Marxist economy was not false, it was right for the times and structures it was created in the beginning of XIX Century and further on, as the nations and were developing, expanding and believing in knowledge and scientific studies the world went in different direction and that could correspond to the rapidly changing structures of the nations and philosophies that would respond to particular changes in the societies.In his theories about the layers of the humans mind, Reich mentions that " every natural, social, or libidinous impulse that wants to spring into action from the biologic core has to pass through the layer of secondary perverse drives and it is thereby distorted."



The second layer is an "intermediate character layer, which consists exclusively of cruel, sadistic, lascivious, rapacious, and envious impulses. It represents the Freudian 'unconscious' or 'what is repressed', (...) it represents the sum total of all so-called 'secondary drives'."



"Various political and ideological groupings of human society correspond to the various layers of the structure of the human character" and everything that is genuinely revolutionary , every genuine art and science, steams from man's natural biologic core. And the biologic core is the third layer hidden behind the secondary intermediate character layer, which is the cruel one. And so none of the genuine ideas coming out of this layer can hold attention of masses for long nor could such person stay long as a leader.

In Reich's theory, coming out of philosophy of character layers, fascism is driven by a second layer, its "essence embodies neither the surface [the first layer- reservation, politeness, compassion, responsibility and consciousness] nor the depth [core layer], but by en large the second, intermediate layer of secondary drives."

"This distortion transforms the original social nature of the natural impulses and makes it perverse, thus inhibiting every genuine expression of life."

For Reich, Fascism is only "the organised political expression of the structure that is linked neither to certain races or nations nor certain parties, but is general and international." From his scientific discoveries Reich also came to the conclusion that Fascism is a kind of international phenomena, "which pervades all bodies of human society of all nations, " not only German or Japanese as the general thought was. He compares Fascism to nothing more than an imperialistic interest or simply a prejudice which turns religious concept of suffering into a sadistic murder. A little man (Hitler) studies the big man's behaviour and brings it in a distorted and "grotesque fascism".

The University of Winchester Journalism Course
History and Context of Journalism, part IV

Inspiration & links:
1. The Mass Psychology of Fascism by Wilhelm Reich - book
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mass_Psychology_of_Fascism
3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmund_Freud
4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Reich

Sexual suppression in study of the mass psychology of fascism (Wilhelm Reich)

"Fascism is the basic emotional attitude of the suppressed man of our authoritarian machine civilization and its mechanistic-mystical conception of life." Not as it was seen before, just a "political party (...) which advocated an organised political idea." (1) Wilhelm Reich

The question at the heart of the book is "why did the masses turn to authoritarianism which is clearly against their interests? " (2) Wilhelm Reich analysed economic and ideological structure of German society between 1928-1933.

Reich took quite an effective approach to fighting fascism as he was studying it scientifically using methods of psychoanalysis. He recognised that to fight fascism, we would have to be able to recognise the forces of irrationality and stop on focusing on mysticism of it. Also, in his book Reich argues that a big part of the reason that Nazism was chosen over fascism was a sexual repression of the German nation. Sexual repression that began in German middle class child's mind.

Children of members of the proletariat had learnt to suppress sexual desires, hence as adults they became rebellious and filled with anxiety caused by sexual impulses. Hitler would know exactly how that rebellious young minds worked as he came from a middle class authoritarian structure of the family. As I already mentioned on my previous post ("The New Left and Sexual Revolution") Suppression of a natural sexuality in children makes them "reprehensible, shy, obedient, afraid of authority, good and adjusted in the authoritarian sense; it paralyses the rebellious forces because any rebellion is laden with anxiety; it produces, by inhibiting sexual thinking in the child, a general inhibition of thinking and of critical faculties." (4) It is easily recognisable that the aim of sexual suppression is to produce individuals who will "adjust to the authoritarian order and submit to it despite of all misery and degradation." (1)

Going from a child's psychology to a family structure (chapter V) "From the standpoint of social development, the family cannot be considered the basis of the authoritarian state, only as one of the most important institutions which support it. It is, however, its central reactionary and conservative individual. Being itself caused by the authoritarian system, the family becomes the most important institution for its conservation. In this connection, the findings of Morgan and of Engels are still entirely correct." The family is the first cell of fascist society. Nazis political ideology exploited tendencies of a repressive family and religious sadistic educational system. All the above operated in and through individual unconscious psychology of emotions, traumatic experiences, fantasies or libidinal economies. (2)

"Sex-economic sociology was born from the afford to harmonise Freud's depth psychology with Marx's economic theory." The point of view of sex-economic biophysics is "getting more to the root of things [more radical] than that of regular Marxist."

Reich believes that the authoritarian state gains an enormous interest in the authoritarian family, the state's and family's ideology become "molded". Sexual repression in a child makes a child afraid, shy, fearful of authority, obedient and good in the authoritarian sense of the words. It has an incredible effect on "man's rebellious forces because every vital life-impulse in now strangled with severe fear and since sex is a forbidden subject, thought in general and following that, a man's critical faculty also become inhibited."


The University of Winchester Journalism Course
History and Context of Journalism, part IV

Inspiration & links:
1. The Mass Psychology of Fascism by Wilhelm Reich - book
2.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mass_Psychology_of_Fascism
3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmund_Freud
4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Reich
5.http://veronicafryd.blogspot.com/2010/03/new-left-and-sexual-revolution-week-5.html

The New Left and the Sexual Revolution (Freud vs Reich)

The sexual Revolution was supported by not only ground breaking discoveries of Sigmund Freud but also Wilhelm Reich, who believed that people cannot be happy without having proper orgasms. Freud’s philosophy was that primitive sexual and aggressive forces,can lead to chaos if not controlledand and that was the basing point of developing new theories by Reich.

To understand Reich we have to understand philosophies of Sigmund Freud as well as Karl Marx as they both influenced Reich’s life and therefore his theories.

In Freud’s point of view, if you have behaviour problems then deep down these problems reflect issues on the primitive level. By his psychotherapies, he wanted to get to the source of the problem. As mentioned in some of my previous posts like ‘Freud, Bernays and beauty of James Joyse's Ulysses' or The Century of the Self documentary by Adam Curtis.



Freud’s discoveries led through studying the dreams as dreams are the royal way to human’s unconsciousness. Through the therapies he did on his patients he was studying their dreams and trying to get into the roots of their insecurities and reasons for unhappiness. Freud named three layers of human’s mind, ID- instinctive drives and impulses, EGO- conscious mind (organising thoughts) that would help to make sense of the surrounding us world, and SUPER EGO that keeps the control over the other two. In his psychoanalysis he concluded that forces that are hidden deep in our sub-consciousness, like for example Edipus complex, should be controlled by our consciousness otherwise the bad ID will come out.

Even though Wilhelm Reich was brought up in Freud’s and Marx’s theories, he decided to create his own theories and publish the discoveries from his researches. Reich first practiced psychoanalysis and psychiatry in Vienna and then moved his research to Berlin in 1930s. His fascinating book, The Mass Psychology of Fascism was published in 1933 when Fascism was not only a symptom but also a cause of sexual repression. Considering the overall circumstances that the book was brought into public view it was considered to be a liability to the Nazis as well as Communist (Red Fascism) in the Soviet Union. Reich believed that the fear of revolted sexuality influenced irrationality of the people on the mass scale. Suppression of natural sexuality in a child makes it oppressive, shy, obedient, afraid of authority, good and adjusted in the authoritarian sense.

Comparing his theories to Freud’s layer’s of human’s mind, Reich believes that “every natural, social, or libidinous impulse that wants to spring into action from the biologic core has to pass through the layer of secondary perverse drives and it is thereby distorted”. (3) The second layer in the cruel and sadistic one (Freud’s unconsciousness/ secondary drives) is repressed by the surface, polite on; and underneath these two lies core, that represents honesty, good and loving. And so on contrary to Freud, he says that inside our mind there is good and it is society’s repression that makes the distortion and makes people dangerous. And so before Freud’s ID layer, there is another one that is pure and good which Freud didn’t get to. The three layers were repressed in society and the way we can see existence of the core layer is through music and painting. He developed an orgone box, an accumulator that was a cloud buster that in his mind would remove that orgone build up from human’s body. Along with his disciples, Reich bought a land in Maire where everybody had a vast amount of sex and they called it orgonon. Reich went so far in his belief in this box that he started to spread an idea that his box could cure illnesses, the ending point of his irrational beliefs was when he got arrested and convicted of spreading “the truth” that his box could cure cancer (Reich died in a prison).

Also, as the sexuality is the key, the sexual pleasure was the ultimate way to happiness. Effectively, if one is sexually repressed, one’s social relations will be affected. Sex in this way could represent a weapon of political domination. Reich was obsessed with sex, if there is no proper orgasm there is repression. He believed in Orgone energy that every person has inside and that has to be released, if it is not then it will build up creating so called body armour. The ability to loose ourselves in sexual ecstasy is the ultimate measure of well being.

Fascism is in our second layer it is not specifically the weakness of one nation it is in everyone and if manipulated it can be brought out as it happened to german lower classes during IIWW. And if a society can be manipulated, the society can be controlled. Lower middle class was the targeted, vulnerable class that responded to manipulation. In the idea of lower middle class family, father’s figure is dominating and so the rest of the the family was sexually repressed, that created rebellious children and so they were repressed and rebellious at the same time. This model of the family was used to dominance and repression and that was perfect for developing the authoritarian power. Reich believed that repression existed not for improvement (Religion) or for sake of culture (Freud) but to create citizens who obey authoritarian regime.

In 1950s America Sigmund Freud’s ideas were hugely influential. His nephew, Barneys implied his uncle’s theories into marketing (Crowd Psychology & Manipulation)



Freud’s daughter Anna led her life following her father’s philosophies about repressing inner-unconscious desires keeping her ID layer of the mind under constant control. 1960 brought more and more interest in Wilhelm Reich’s ideas practising releasing repression or anger.(2) And times of the new left came representing parts of the society living and believing in necessity of suppressing feelings and certain behaviours and rebellious and in-need-for freedom people wanting to not only no free their mind of the policeman but also express themselves as individuals. In mid 60s student protests began promoting the slogan of there is the policeman inside our heads and he must be destroyed. (2)



Democratic convention in 1968... protests continued and new strategies were undertaken to deal with rebellious students. Other manifesto of self revelation was creating Esalem Institude that took Reich’s ideas and developed into their own theories of self-release. The encounter groups were created to express difficult feelings and transcended them (race groups and convent 300 nuns). Setting yourself free will eventually lead to make the society free. (2) effectively, in 1960/70s the need for individuality became more and more visible in all aspects of life ( product choice- economy, society etc). As history shows the progress of technology helped in great deal in fulfilling more diverse needs of certain individual groups of the society (new products, better choice, bigger variety). People wanted to express themselves through not only their image but also new philosophies or free mind thinking. The market had to overcome new challenges. Eventually, corporation was possible and more suited products were available for individuals (conformist products). Reich’s idea in Marketing was all about you and selling it to you that started a new trend and drive in the sphere of consumerism. The market identified values and started targeting people after their values, demographics and lifestyles. The same idea was also implied into politics. And it has been carried on until current times.

Inspiration:
1. History and Context of Journalism (part IV), lecture in week 5
2. Screening in week 6 The Century of the Self documentary by Adam Curtis
3. Wilhelm Reich, The Mass Psychology of Fascism

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The Outsider by Albert Camus, Existentialism

"Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday, I don't know. (...) That doesn't mean anything."

Albert Camus (1913), author of The Outsider, was Algerian, he studied psychology at the university of Algiers and became a journalist and an organiser of a young avant-garde dramatic group, Theatre de Lequipe. The Outsider was published after Albert got back to Paris in 1942(after German occupation during II WW). During the war Camus contributed to underground newspaper while being a member of resistance. In 1957 he was awarded a Nobel prise for literature.

The Ousider is a manifesto of existentialism, it describes through the main character, Meursault, all the behaviour and attitude towards life and human's existence that the perfect existentialism would have.

The time is continuous for Meursault, nothing matters and nothing can touch his emotions, even his own mother's funeral, "I'm going to ask them to close up the coffin. Before I do, would you like to see your mother one last time?" asked the caretaker, "I said no." replied Meursault. Nothing changes and nothing has a meaning for him, "I saw a reflection in the mirror a corner of my table where my spirit-lamp was standing beside some pieces of bread. I realised that I'd managed to get through another Sunday, that mother was now burried, that I was going to go back to work and that after all, nothing had changed.

Meursault's relationship with the neighbours was built on the basis of the fact that they were his neighbours so they became part of his life not that he actually wanted to meet them or get to know them. An old man with the dog had his everyday routine of swearing at his dog and was a perfect reflection of how existentialists approve of the routine in their lives. Raymund, later became part of a reason of a breaking point in Meursault's life. Raymund was a criminal who bullied his own girlfriend; he had an irresistible need of punishing her for things that may have been purely in his imagination. His need to hurt his girlfriend was so strong that he created a perfect reason to justify his violence towards her- an affair. Meursault ignores it he does not see any reason why he should get involved and help the beaten girl and sees nothing bad in Raymund's behaviour. Since these two become mates who start to see each other more. Raymund tells Meursault to write a letter to his girlfriend and to be a witness and tell the police that the girl was cheating on him. Meursault agrees because he "doesn't mind" doing it. He sees only that Raymund is friendly towards him and so he doesn't matter what Raymund asks of him, he wouldn't mind doing whatever would that be. When a woman, Mary appears in Meursault's life things still stay the same, there is no emotional attachment, no romantic affection... there is physical attraction and situations that happen to make the two to keep seeing each other. The only emotions that come out of Meursault's mouth are described in the way that he "fancied her" because "she was wearing a pretty red and white striped dress and leather sandals". Another 'romantic' experience that Meursault had with Marie was when they went to the beach and enjoyed the summer night together. After a while, when Mary asked him if he loved her, he said that "it didn't mean anything but that he didn't think so" and so he read her reaction as "she looked sad"- these are the only emotional discoveries that were seen through Meursault's eyes. He could potentially name the emotional states that people were in but he was not able to experience them himself.

Was he really unable? And was it following a philosophical movement, existentialism and being aware of it? Or was it purely ignorance or perhaps mental illness, autism?

Meursault's boss told him that he has no ambition and Meursault thought nothing of it and could see no reason why he should change his life. He said, "Come to think of it, I wasn't unhappy. When I was a student I had plenty of that sort of ambition. But when I had to give up my studies, I very soon realised that that none of it really mattered."

Chapter 6 takes us straight to the darkest possible implementation of existential lack of moral and emotional response from Meursault, "I realised that I'd destroyed the balance of the day and the perfect silence of this beach where I'd been happy. And I fired four more times at lifeless body and the bullets sank in without leaving a mark. And it was like giving four sharp knocks at the door of unhappiness." When he murdered one of men that previously attacked him and Raymund he thought nothing else of it than his personal disturbance of enjoyable day.

Meursault's trial for murder gained popularity amongst journalists, while being questioned Meursault said that it was the first time "in years, I stupidly felt like crying because I could feel how much all these people hated me." It was also put forward that his behaviour was rather heartless when his mother died. When hearing the caretaker's evidence in the court, Meursault for the first time realised, he was guilty.

Prosecutor recognised the there was a "profound, tragic and vital relationship" between emotionless behaviour on the funeral and killing a man. "Yes, I accuse this man of burying his mother like a heartless criminal," said prosecutor, and that had a remarkable effect on the jury's verdict. Meursault was said to have no soul and his empty heart makes him a man that threatens to "engulf society." He should have no place within the society, which fundamental rules, he ignored and could have no appeal to heart when he "knew nothing of the basic human reactions."

"My last wish was that there should be a crowd of spectators at my execution and that they should greet me with cries of hatred."

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History and Context of Journalism, part IV , lecture in week 3 Albert Camus, The Outsder

The Wings of Desire movie- thoughts on Existence

There are angels on the streets of Berlin, they walk along beside you and they listen to your thoughts.



The Wings of Desire is a fascinating example of a floating existentialism used in the art of movie making.
The movie is of the best director on festival De Cannes in 1987,seen as a masterpiece from the history of cinematography.

The film is shown from the point of view of angels, the camera floats giving away existential style of the movie. The artistic angles of the camera and unusual shots of the scenes take the audience into a mystical and limitless world of art, as well as uncovers dark and depressing sides of human’s mind. It appears that all the negative thoughts are never said out loud and humans are holding back with sharing their real thoughts with others which makes them unhappy. The scene with a disabled girl sets a dramatic and dark entrance making us think about the existence and reasons for tragedies in life. It sets the movie in a deep, meaningful and spiritual mood touching problems of real life through the ‘eyes of art’. The movie shows variety in thoughts representing different moods and stages of human’s life and their different realities. Most of the dialogues are expressed through the stream of thoughts of the actors. The angels can read peoples’ mind, they shift among different types of people and listen to their inner thoughts. They witness all the history because they are immoral, they are watching, waiting and studying humans’ behaviour. The two angles travel together exploring and learning through listening, they love going to the library, which is where they can learn from others while they read or contemplate, they study along with humans.


There are people constantly asking themselves about the reasons for existence and sense of life. Adults' thoughts are filled with worries and concerns of different matters. It appears that the only time that they stop worrying is when they are intoxicated or their thoughts are deafened by music. The real joy and free mind is possible only through alcohol and hypnotic music.

Angels like listening to childrens’ thoughts, careless and free of worries, filled with innocent curiosity for life and happiness, thoughts that are not yet toxic-ated with misery and problems of an adult life and awareness. The anxiety in adults' life makes people sick, they don’t know how should they live or what to think, the grey reality takes over their lives. Following an old man, the angels see the sadness and longing of a person in an old age, for things that he used to know, places and people that used to be part of his life. He is lonely and lost in the world in which he feels useless and not needed. They meet a young prostitute that wishes no one recognises her on the street and thinks of how much money will she be able to earn this time. There is also an element of how the war made living conditions worse for people, it puts the movie in context of time and place (Berlin, after II WW) and brought some of the justification for misery. Angels meet an American actor, Peter Falk (best known for his role as Inspector Columbo), who plays a German officer in a film about WW II. Then angels talk about the evolution “when there was nothing” and use the phrase from an ancient philosopher, Socrates, “I know that I know nothing”. The movie jumps from a scene to scene touching different concepts, and brings different characters without any chronology, it’s following the idea of stream of consciousness (Ulysses, Joyce) giving the plot even more unpredictable flow.

One of the angels, Damian, starts to wish that he could experience the physical and emotional part of human's life, like smell of the morning coffee. Damian is fascinated by the humans' world and would like to become part of it. He does not want to know of things or be certain anymore, he would like to throw himself into unknown and question things (existentialism), become mortal and bleed when getting hurt. He sees the emptiness and lack of things in being an angel. Damian meets Marion the trapeze artist who is filled with the desire for love, need for love that would make her happy and save her from her meaningless life (nostalgia, longing for something). After her last performance she is thinking of death, she realises that she will have to go back to work as a waitress and mean less to the society and herself to when she was a trapeze artist. Damian likes watching her performances and begins to worry about her and her future (human feelings). This is when we see first scenes going into colour, everything so far was in black and white. It can symbolise that for Damian the existence as an angel was senseless and with no emotions but with the moment Marion became part of his existence the movie is shown in colours. When Damian fell in love with her (Existential love) and all the angel life was not enough for him anymore.



In the scene when Peter, the American actor behaves as if he was talking to Damian, Damian realises that this is what he wants, to become a human. Become a human and show Marion love, that she deeply desires, make her happy and bring meaning to his own existence.
“He, who loves her, decides to fall.”
Damian becomes a fallen angel going to live among the humans. He discovers that Peter, was once an angel and made the same decision. A romantic feeling for the trapeze artist brings Damian to the girl and in the labyrinth of happiness “she showed him home” and he knows now what no other angel knows.

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History and Context of Journalism, part IV , week 4, screening The Wings of Desire

Studying the role in week 5 of WINOL- Output Editor (sem 2)

Neil Churchman, a senior producer in the BBC’s Radio Newsroom in London says that there are two main rules that must never be broken when writing Cues for Radio and I believe they should be equally applied to cues for TV news bulletins too,
“Whatever you do, don’t bore or confuse your audience. Some stories are simple and compelling; others can be rather dull and complex. Your job is to make people sit up, understand and take notice. The cue is our shop window and we’re selling news.”

As an Output Editor you have to try to sell the stories through the headlines and links. Just as it is in every written story, there is a headline, an intro and the body of the copy, similarly the cue should be doing the job of the first two, leaving the explanation of the news package to the reporter.

The viewer has not much time to absorb what the presenter is saying through links so it is crucial to keep it simple, attractive and in accessible language. In other tips from Mr Churchman that stand out is that we should "avoid a maze of sub-clauses" so therefore when a sentence gets too long it is worth splitting it up and making it clearer for the ear. And of course, we don’t want the cue and piece to contain exact the same words sentences or entire phrases in the link to what will be used in the package. So it is important that as an Output Editor, you know the content of the stories to be able to write relevant links summarising them. When writing a script you will find that the links can simply become re-phrased first lines from the news packages and that is fine as long as these links give all the necessary information to make a good catchy link.

“Headline writing is art”, says Huw Edward a BBC news presenter on the BBC College of Journalism website.

It is important to think of a strategy when writing headlines; search engine optimisation is a good idea to follow. When writing a headline we should be aiming to make sure that the SEO can find our peaces and so we need to have in mind key words that we will include in the headline that will bring the reader to our website.

Brian Whelan, a senior broadcast journalist on the BBC News Channel gives tips on headline writing. He emphasises how important it is to think ahead and be aware of future events, he says that “If you can get a sense of the story before it actually happens, it gives you much more time to focus on producing those pithy headlines (…)” Good headlines will engage the reader with their attention grabbing wording and catchy phrases. Good cues grab the attention immediately and go straight into the action of the story.

Along with thinking of creating an interesting headline or a link we mustn’t forget about being correct and current. One of the easiest mistakes to make is to lose the correct sense of the story. When working on the script we always have to be aware of the last minute changes and developments in the stories. It is as crucial to changes in the headlines as it is in writing links for the bulletin. The classical way of approaching writing links is covering information for the 'four Ws": Who, What, Where, When. This usually gives the audience overview of the oncoming news story but not too much detail not to give the whole story away but to tease to stay for the whole news package.

As Mr Whelan points out it is essential to remember that we are working within a team and we can ask another team member to keep an eye on things for us so that we end up with the best material.

When deciding about headline order it is important to think about the juxtaposition of headlines and taste. “Some headlines naturally sit next to each other because the stories are in fact linked” (Brian Whelan), but others cannot be put together, like for example “a motorway pile-up headline followed by one on booming scrap-metal merchants” (Brian Whelan).

Ref:
WINOL week 5, being an Output Editor- script writing
BBC College of Journalism website:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/journalism/skills/writing-styles/writing-headlines/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/journalism/skills/writing-styles/writing-radio-cues/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/journalism/skills/writing-styles/writing-headlines/writing-heads-clips-1.shtml

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WINOL (sem2) week 5- Multitasking this week: Output Editing, News & Sports Reporting

Great Quality journalism

Along with practising script writing I have also got to cover one of the news stories and film Totton football mach on Tuesday night. As script writing is not a role that would fill all the three days of WINOL production I decided to get myself involved in other departments helping whenever and wherever it is needed. On Monday I managed to study my role a as an Output Editor a little more theoretically through going through the BBC College of Journalism website (I published the conclusions in the separate post “Studying the role in week 5 of WINOL- Output Editor” ).


On Thursday afternoon Maddline and I decided to help the news team since no other reporter was available at the time, we covered the story about the spam fault in IT department of our University. Sarah Fulford, the User Services Manager posted a message on the portal that due to two people ignoring the rules of not giving out personal details via spam the University was attacked with vast amounts of spam. All that caused the Outlook Web access to go offline for some time and made the access to university emails unavailable for students from outside the campus. We had to rush to try to get more details from the Services Manager so that we could cover the story while the problem was still being dealt with. This story became an excellent practise for us from the legal point of view. Sara Fulford agreed to give as more details about the issue but didn’t allow for having herself on camera nor the inside of the building that the problem was at that moment being tackled. We left the room with more details but no pictures for the package. We decided to get Maddline to do PTC in front of the building to at least show the viewers where the problem was being dealt with. We were unfortunately not able to do that either as Mrs Fulford decided that she did not wish us to film the IT services building even from the outside, despite the fact that legally there were no restrictions for us to do so, we were acting within the public interest and there were no signs or legal restrictions about not filming that building but a pure personal concern from Mrs Fulford and wish not to allow as for filming it.

We were not sure what to do in that matter and so we came back to the newsroom to reach a professional advise from our tutors. In that moment we were reminded about the The NUJ's Code of Conduct which has set out the main principles of British and Irish journalism since 1936. And that it is “part of the rules and all journalists joining the union must sign that they will strive to adhere to it.” It is stated in point one that:
“Members of the National Union of Journalists are expected to abide by the following professional principles: A journalist:
1. At all times upholds and defends the principle of media freedom, the right of freedom of expression and the right of the public to be informed “And since that IT building is even named and given a direction to on the way to it (sign saying “IT services”which we have on tape) and there were no signs forbidding filming or stated in the University’s regulations that, that building should not be identified by filming and so we were legally not only allowed but also obliged as journalists to film it pointing at the place of the event happening with the pure intention for the public interest. We were advised to film from the public footpath instead of directly from in front of it, and so we followed that advise, additionally I took pictures of where the camera was standing proving that we did it from the public footpath. If we were asked by the security not to film it even though we were in the public area outside of the University premises we would try to explain the Code of Conduct legal obligations and reasons behind our decision to have gone back to film the building having a full legal and professional justification for it. We would probably not leave until we would be aggressively shouted at or physically removed but then we would have a legal right to put a complaint against the guard that would remove us thanks to the Article 10 Right to freedom of expression in European Convention on Human Rights Act 1998 :
“1. Everyone has the right to freedom of expression. This right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by a public authority and regardless of frontiers. This Article shall not prevent states from requiring the licensing of broadcasting, television or cinema. (...)”

In other words, as it is written in Your Rights Liberty website in The Liberty Guide to Human Rights, “Article 10 protects your right to freedom of expression. This includes the right to hold and express opinions yourself as well as to receive and impart information and ideas to others. Before the Human Rights Act came into force, the right to freedom of expression was a negative one: you were free to express yourself, unless the law otherwise prevented you from doing so. With the incorporation of the European Convention on Human Rights into English and Welsh domestic law, the right to freedom of expression is now expressly guaranteed.(…)”
We broke no law and we fulfilled an informative responsibility as journalists in the public interest, we can also prove that the building is identified in other ways (sign on the way up), there are no signs forbidding filming or picture taking of the building and we can prove that our camera was on the public footpath when filming (we have pictures). We stated only facts that we were given by the Services Manager so everything was within the rule of fast accurate and fair. Everything was truth and we could prove it, we were covered by law and NUJ Code of Conduct. The next day Maddline managed to get an additional interview to fulfill the balance of the package and update on the story.

On Monday night I also went along to film the Totton football match with the sports team, it was amazing to gain a new experience and practice something different. Most challenging were probably weather conditions and late hours of filming apart from that I found it quite enjoyable. I tried to keep tighter shots on the players and use some wacky and artistic shots from behind the net angle to make the peace more interesting.

In Overall, the bulletin was quite strong editorially. There was a timing issue as when I finished the script it was showing around 12minutes and the bulletin ended up taking 13minutes instead. I was told that we could still upload 12 minutes but 13 was too much. Some cuts had to be done in post production. We have to make sure of keeping it within 10minutes for the following scripts.

The Spam issue story (mine and Maddie’s was given as a perfect example of using knowledge about our legal rights and the NUJ Code of Conduct. We also found out that the university has its own policy where we can speak directly to people without speaking with the press officers. The Green party story was well balanced and was generally really well done. There was a suggestion that we broaden the area of covering story and stretch it onto the Winchester City rather than keeping it on the campus. Catherine’s piece contained interesting and effecting shots of fashion but came out as a ‘puff piece’. The sports story had to be cut for legal reasons (libel), there was a good example on 'No denial - denial' (no comment) in the same story. Joey’s story had strong quotes, good PTC and was generally an impressive news piece apart from a little bit boring pictures. The Army story’s link was well formed, which I was pleased to hear. Additionally, our “Date with Fate” is back and already ‘working on getting' our traffic up.

NUJ Code of CONDUCT: http://www.nuj.org.uk/innerPagenuj.html?docid=174
Your Rights Liberty website in The Liberty Guide to Human Rights: http://www.yourrights.org.uk/yourrights/right-of-free-expression/article-10-of-the-european-convention-on-human-rights.html

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Multimedia Produvtion , WINCHESTER NEWS ONLINE WEBSITE

WINOL (sem2) week 4, Output Editor-Script writing

Rehearsal, rehearsal, rehearsal! WINOL 03/02/10

Thanks to having multiple rehearsals before recording the necessary adjustments and improvements could be made which affected greatly the outcome of the bulletin, was it just not so much better?!



The gallery felt a lot more professional and fully under control. And as we can see now smaller and smaller mistakes are being pointed out which automatically put our work in higher standards and shows how we are improving within the WINOL experience.

This week was our first fully deserved success. Our joined efforts effected in a best so far news bulletin. Technically we did an amazing progress, which was in a big part thanks to rehearsals and continuous practise as well as very detailed handover to new roles.

What would make it even better would be making sure of good headline pictures and also ensuring of handing in all the headlines in the afternoon on Wednesday and then making sure of handing in the LINKS, IN/OUT-WORDS as well as the length of the news/sports packages always soon after the headlines. All this allows the Output Editor finish of the script for the bulletin and give the Gallery-team sufficient time for rehearsal before recording the bulletin. All the roles within Winol are incredibly dependable on each other and that is why the team work and respecting the deadlines are crucial. As we have learnt from the past bulletins missing the deadline for packages or handing in the headlines late affects the whole look of the bulletin. In the first few weeks we had hardly time for rehearsing if any, and we were still learning the roles, this week we could hand over the roles that some of us have already practised, like operating VTs, directing or vision mixing, which allowed for giving advises and helping the next person to adjust quicker and practise on old scripts. Every new person can be trained in Gallery on previous script and VTs.

When I did directing I found myself having not even one chance of going through the script myself, once I didn’t even get the script till the very time of recording the bulletin live. Handovers from sport to news and coming in and out of the packages was one big guessing game. Also being one of the first students in the team as a director there was no one to hand me over their role or teach me how to do or not to do things which effected the bulletin. Winol is a sea of surprises filled with different experiences and lessons that we take out of it.

Being an OUTPUT EDITOR this week, I found myself learning how to use ENPS and write the script for the bulletin. I knew how important it was to deliver the script on time so therefore, I put my best affords to get the relevant information to finish of early enough for the new Gallery team to rehearse before going live. It is very responsible and detailed role, it is crucial to make it accurate and on time as well as making the bulletin a worth to watch peace attracting viewer’s attention with catchy headlines and interesting Links before the packages. Main difficulty is to chase the information like, headlines, links, length etc, I had to make sure that I took relevant information from reporters and finish it in time for pre-recording the headlines followed by decent rehearsal for the bulletin. I am still going to have to work on making the script crisp and catchy and learn how to re-write a good Headlines and Links.

Editorially, our news stories were stronger with a lot better angles.
Joey’s package came across as very engaging, was very strong technically and had a good set up. He is pretty confident in his PTC and delivered an ambitious news package. Jon’s package was brilliant technically but it was a “puff peace”, meaning it was talking about the topic only in superlatives, there were no negative comments about the simulator. For example Jon’s sign off-s should or could have brought is a balance. We should always remember about the BIG “BUT”, balancing the piece. We also didn’t see any pictures of the actual simulator and the interviews were slightly too long. The story about the Fair trade was not explained fully, vix-pops were interesting exposing reporter’s good interviewing techniques. In Kayleigh’s package we could notice a classical Expo by the reporter, as she explains details of her story for quite a long time; other two examples of expo story are ‘Bexpo’ - short explanation or ‘Lexpo’ - long exposition, there is also a third, unofficial one called ‘Flexpo’ - f****** long explanation(:o)
In Sports, we would like to see more of tighter shots. Grant did well with his PTC which added a value to the whole feature. The sports team, however, should remember not to assume the viewer’s knowledge about the topic.

Additionally, we were also reminded about the OfCom regulations, ‘underdue perminance’ – danger of giving more air time to one side of the argument/political favour which makes a piece unbalanced and therefore not broadcast able. As a recap we also heard about ‘subterfuge’ - going undercover (Section 7 of Human Rights Act), this stile of investigative journalism can only be applied when we act in public interest, must have prior permission and also can be done in no other way. ‘Equal air time’ (Section 6 Human Rights Act) is very important especially with oncoming election, this is a major restriction to broadcast journalism during the period of a general election campaign. The Ofcom Privacy act (Section 8 Human Rights Act), forbids identification of young persons under the age of 18.

Generally we got 200 user sessions, which means that we are still falling behind the amounts that we reached in the last semester (around 600) so we really should focus on advertising and trying to make the site better known around the campus and not only. However, as we all know in second semester there is generally less students around than in semester one therefore having the same amount of user session will be a considerable challenge for us. Despite these and other difficulties we will be trying our best to bring the traffic up and improve the quality of the bulletin as well as work on the website layout to make it more attractive.

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Multimedia Production , WINCHESTER NEWS ONLINE WEBSITE

Directing and Vision-mixing for WINOL, week 3, Sem II

Setting the green screen before Vision-mixing
• Funk button (left hand side) - press to use other functions
• Memory – 3rd page SD card – to load the image for the green screen
• Press Load
• backfinal (name of the screen for news)
• press F5 to load it
• ChrKey
• Pick Aux
• GrKey (left hand side Key) – Marker On
• press Sample start
• Press Key- next to the fading handle (put the handle up)
• Back to Background

Example 1 of News-Sport camera handover (Camera 2 and 1-right)
News to Sports handover
• VT for last news package running
• Cam 2 (Autocue) moves to sports presenter
• Cam 1 on standby - prepares for hand over from News to Sports presenter (wide shot of both of them)
• Cam 1 News presenter hands over
• Sports presenter continuous to Cam 2 (Autocue)
Sports to News handover
• VT for last sports package running
• Cam 2 moves to News presenter
• Cam 1 on standby –prepare for wide shot handover from Sports to News presenting
• News presenter continuous to Cam 2 – And finally story…

Example 2 of News-Sports camera handover (Camera 2 and 3-left)
News to Sports handover
• VT for last news package running
• Cam 3 on standby (set very close to cam 2)
• Cam 2 News presenter says “And now to …(whoever is the sports presenter) with the Sport”
• Cam 3 - Sports presenter says “thank you for that…” to Cam 3 - in the meantime Cam 2 moves quickly to Sports presenter (very quick handover)
• Cam 2 Sports presenter continuous with sport link and VT
Sports to News handover
• VT for last sports package/ Graph running - Cam 3 on stand by, prepare for handover
• Cam 2 Sports presenter says “That’s all for sports” and now back to News
• Cam 3 News presenter says “Thank you… (name of a sports presenter)” to Cam 3 – in this moment Cam 2 moves onto News presenter (quickly)
• Cam 2 News presenter continuous to Cam 2 - And finally story

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WINCHESTER NEWS ONLINE WEBSITE
WINOL NEWS BULLETIN 24/02/2010 in Week 3, Sem II