Wednesday, 30 September 2015

People linked with Newspapers

Simon Ostrovsky is a reporter for Vice News, before the conflict in Ukraine and Syria, he was a freelancer that Vice News hired whenever they needed reliable translators for places that speak Russian or Ukrainian, he is also very skilled journalist, going to places of war and reporting on them unless he is stopped. During the start of the Crimean annexation he trespassed on a then Ukrainian military port to speak to the crew of the ship while being told to leave the area by ''little green men''.

Most of his tweets are about things that are happening at the time or about the stories and reports that he is involved with, lately he has been involved
with #freerasool which is about a journalist that was arrested by the Turkish government on false terrorist allegations. Most of his tweets though are still retweets of stories from the official Vice News twitter page, or his own posts that link to the stories he's involved in like his constant reports on ''Russian Roulette'', He mentions people in his tweets and uploads appropriate images if one os available.

Shaun King is a civil rights journalist, he isn't affiliated with any specific newspaper or outlet but he does work as a freelancer for various outlets,

Most of his tweets are about social, racial and religious justice, as a civil rights activist he is very open minded and what he says is supported by facts and not speculations like actual news outlets. He is a very active user on twitter and mentions people and links to articles whenever whatever he is talking about is associated with a specific story.

Thursday, 24 September 2015

Wednesday, 23 September 2015

Multimedia Journalism, Newspapers & Social Media

 Like all the other news outlets on here, the Daily Telegraph will cover a variety of stories, ranging from the ridicioules story like this about a CEO rising a price to an absurd amount, to serious stories about death and news that have some sort of impact in the world
 The flip side of the other story are stories like this, about real people who mattered and who have passed away and who were somewhat important in the world
The Guardian also covers important and serious stories, but are more professional on the issue, for example they won't use hashtags or pictures on a story about deceased people
 They can also cover more silly stories like the one about the pope, as can be seen there are hashtags, emojis, images and a link to more explanation about the story as twitter has a limit of 150 characters, which limits what people can say on twitter
 The New York Times is one of the bigger newspapers in America, not only centred about the city of New York or the state of New York, clearly as can be seen here now they cover stories from most of America, like in this tweet about Los Angeles and the city's plans of dealing with homeless people
 They would normally cover stories about American celebrities or other international ones if they happen to do something bad or funny in the US. This tweet clearly being a bit more serious as it is about a dead person.
 The Sun covers less serious news, centred about celebrities, gossip and speculation. The audience of the Sun will be younger people interested in gossip or older people who will find stories like this one interesting, because of course it is about quite an old topic like the original James Bond
 Some of the Sun's stories are a bit more serious and have some sort of impact in the world but mostly they aren't, this is as serious at the Sun could get, as they would receive a lot of criticism for covering more serious stories like the refugee crisis because of the Sun's political bias, the conservatives being their preferred political party.
 The Times of London covers the stories that people living in London might be interested in or might worry about, for example the refugee crisis, people in London are currently worried about the influx of refugees in London
 Another side to the Times of London is this less serious tweet, about the Pope and his visit to America, in this tweet a hashtag can be seen and what seems to be a pope emoji with an American flag in the background
 Vice normally covers somewhat goofy stories that involved either some random people who shared their experiences online, or if a member of staff or one of the producers does something crazy, for example one time a vice producer spent an entire week smoking marihuana and then talked about his experiences, or sent a film crew on acid to a monster truck show
They cover stories that involve real people and normally don't centre about celebrities and gossip, if any celebrity is on a vice article, it will most likely be a indie artists who is starting and happens to get a vice interview.








Most of these tweets contain hashtags when its an unimportant story like the pope in America, and the news outlets mostly don't use them in stories covering dead people in order to respect the ones who died. Most of them have an appropriate image if one is available. Virtually all of them have links because twitter doesn't allow for a whole news story in one tweet with its 150 character limit, and some of them tag other twitter users in them if a particular story is about them or if they are asking for a response or opinion.

They are using social media to promote themselves by having multiple twitter accounts that cover different news, like sport, economics, politics etc, and then the main twitter account would normally retweet the posts from the other outlets to promote them

Thursday, 17 September 2015

inDesign part 1

 This was created using the pen tool in inDesign, I used a colour that somewhat resembles blood red as a filler for my name, and lines are blue on the inside and black on the outside
These were created using the shape tool, a square, a coloured square, and circle and a pentagon
These are the same shapes as from the last one except that they were messed with using gradients and the direct selection tool which allows you to move each corner individually
Again these are the same shapes as the previous ones except that they had text aligned to the shape using the type on a path tool
 We created text boxes which we then filled in with random latin words and later we added an image of our choosing and added it into a frame, we made sure to use the highest possible quality by using advance search on google
Same thing as the last one except that this one has the image with a drop shadow attached to it, that drop shadow has a 100% opacity and the light is coming from a custom position

Wednesday, 16 September 2015



This is the image I chose to represent landscape, it is a wide shot and there are no people in view.
This is the image I chose for portrait, It is in the portrait orientation and it is a close up of another humans face


This image was chose to represent the scientific type of photography as it was taken in the science lab and it is model of a cell
This is for forensics as it shows some clothes with some stains on them which could be blood
 This is for photojournalism, it is a filled up bin which could be used as a generic stock photo for news stories within the college about littering
 This is the image for street photography, its a really artsy kind of picture of the rooftops in the college
 This is an advertisement for the 'sport makers' who leave advertisements around the college
This is the image for fashion as it shows a mannequin in a dress made out of newspapers