Friday, 28 February 2014
This is the link to our official TRC News Website!
http://277161.wix.com/trcnews
We received the feedback for our news package from our supervising teachers, and there are many ways we can improve our work to take it to the next level.
The OCR Spec has 3 Levels; to attain the most proficient in our skills we must.
- Use IT appropriately for the task set
- Show understanding of conventions of layout and page design
- Show awareness of the need for variety in fonts and text size
- Shooting material appropriate to task set
And these are just some factors we need to incorporate to improve our guide.
Specific points that we need to change or improve for another draft include:
- Re-filming
- Using more advanced graphics when to do with text
The OCR Spec has 3 Levels; to attain the most proficient in our skills we must.
- Use IT appropriately for the task set
- Show understanding of conventions of layout and page design
- Show awareness of the need for variety in fonts and text size
- Shooting material appropriate to task set
And these are just some factors we need to incorporate to improve our guide.
Specific points that we need to change or improve for another draft include:
- Re-filming
- Using more advanced graphics when to do with text
Wednesday, 26 February 2014
After handing in our first drafts before the half term and we received a sheet filled with feedback and advice of ways in which we can improve and develop our news package.
- Our opening scene where David is speaking through a computer screen with green technological graphics in the background. In our draft we have still image of the green graphics in the background with David speaking and being the only moving object within the frame.
- We are going to develop this scene by animating the codes and green technological background in order to match Davids dialogue. We are going to keep the frame the same but develop the graphics slightly by getting the code of letter and numbers to move vertically down the screen as David speaks.
- We then need to re-film the scene of Akshay presenting the news channel and giving an overview of hacking. Factors such as the sound and volume of Akshay's voice needs to be reconsidered in order to make the dialogue a lot more clearer, also the shots used to film this scene need to be re-evaluated as some shots were shaky but also some of the shots used weren't great therefore by re-filming the scene were are able produce a more professional finish to our work.
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Thursday, 13 February 2014
Yesterday, we had arranged and completed an interview with the CEO of the Future Fortune Group, an insurance company that specialises in working with large corporations and conglomerates. As the company has financial relations with large firms, it is paramount that their online data is kept secure. As a new age company, FFG is well aware of the dangers of using online financial systems, banking and the storage of sensitive and confidential files.
After contacting his office, we managed to agree upon a time to meet him at his office for later that day. We set out with the camera and a set of questions. We sat down with him for roughly 20 minutes talking off record about how his company assures its clients complete confidentiality and security online as well as how they cope with constant developments of hacking and the growing population of people who seem capable of hacking.
The questions that we recorded on camera were related to his own personal opinion and recommendations on how to deal with the constant threat of being hacked as well as having control of your data and how reliant you become to online services.
We had a few problems at first with lighting as his office was walled with windows, letting in light. this meant that the shot would always come out darker than it really was. To solve this, we used a flashlight application on a smartphone to counteract the light from outside. this made the colour of the shot more balanced. Additionally, the mic embedded in the video camera sounded muffled, therefore we placed a mobile phones in close proximity to both the CEO and the news reporter who asked the questions.
All in all, I'd say that both the interview and the discussion were successful in providing us with vital knowledge of how large businesses try to cope with the dangers of online crime, as well as obtaining a resourceful interview that would enhance our portfolio as a professional online news team.
Monday, 10 February 2014
Scene 1 - Exterior
(AKSHAY)
- For example, if a hacker enters your computer and steals
financial information such as your credit card number, or the password to your
bank account, they could use that information to make purchases.
- We are live outside the house of Robert Jason, the
man being accused of one of the largest hacking scandals this year and we have been given access to his property.
Scene 2 – Interior
VOICE OVER
(AKSHAY)
- Mr Jason was caught trying to break into the most secure
online virtual vault in an attempt to embezzle a large quantity of the highly
valuable BitCoin.
- Police believe that they have had a stroke of luck as
evidence suggests that the self-taught hacker was conspiring to hack several
other online systems in a string of devastating attacks on several large
corporations. The extensive list includes Chromecast, Prime, Apple, ThinkGeek
and Ebay. So if this man could single handily commit such a hanus digital crime
how hard could it really be?
Scene 3 - Interview with the head of security for
Question 1 - What in which do you as head of security, ensure that they companies files and data are not hacked and accessed by an outsider?
Answer 1 - We as a company have a database called... which monitors and records the activity of every worker within the setup. We also have reminder and pop ups that inform us of what each employ is meant to be doing within the setup therefore as soon as something goes wrong, an urgent alarm is sent to all of the directors within our company allowing us to put a stop to this activity.
Question 2 - How effective has the software been for your company and have you had any recent encounters of hackers trying to access your data?
Answer 2 - So far since i have been at the company we haven't had any encouter with possible hackers which is good, we often run monthly tests of the system to ensure that there are no faults within it and it still works to its full potential.
Question 1 - What in which do you as head of security, ensure that they companies files and data are not hacked and accessed by an outsider?
Answer 1 - We as a company have a database called... which monitors and records the activity of every worker within the setup. We also have reminder and pop ups that inform us of what each employ is meant to be doing within the setup therefore as soon as something goes wrong, an urgent alarm is sent to all of the directors within our company allowing us to put a stop to this activity.
Question 2 - How effective has the software been for your company and have you had any recent encounters of hackers trying to access your data?
Answer 2 - So far since i have been at the company we haven't had any encouter with possible hackers which is good, we often run monthly tests of the system to ensure that there are no faults within it and it still works to its full potential.
Thursday, 6 February 2014
When we sat down to try and come up with an emphatic way in which we could start the news package, we realised that it would have to make an impact on the audience to give them something to ponder during the intro sequence. To gain some insight on how it is currently done, we looked at samples of openings from packages that were similar to ours. After watching this youtube clip of BBC Click, we were inspired to create a similar scene but chose to include a rhetoric question.
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