Ideas for news story part 2

Our previous brainstorm ideas were mostly based on artists and an event occurring to do with this artist which could bring about debate. We thought some of these ideas would have made an interesting story as our target audience are teenagers. 
However we found many faults with trying to think of what we would include in those stories and the fact  that these stories may focus on one particular artist from one genre of music. So we have decided to open up the topic more. Therefore we have looked into topics that we can get a lot of information on and can still be a interesting topic for our target audience. Hopefully we will be able to pick one out of these that we feel is a relevant topic and is also engaging. 
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                                        IDEA NUMBER ONE

                                               

                                          IDEA NUMBER TWO

                                           IDEA NUMBER THREE

MTV News analysis

Conventions of a news package

I have looked at a couple of news clip videos but in particular I focused on the 'How to report news' video. This focused on the key conventions/common features of a news clip,which we will have to use as our guide. These include: 

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Updating the website

I've made a few more adjustments to the website. I've tried to make it look more appealing since the website looked a bit "boring" so I tried adding more purple in particular places as purple is the colour that represents our news channel.

#AB

Title Sequence Feedback

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We submitted the first draft of our title sequence before half term to give our teacher plenty of time to look at it and give us constructive criticism.

We were told that our title sequence was really good except our ending needs to be re-done. The constructive criticism we got was:

• Our logo doesn't look clear and it looks pixelated
• The Youtube, Facebook and Twitter links do not look professional/good on the end
• The non diegetic music needs to carry on for longer as it cuts off before our sequence finishes

To rectify these issues we are re-doing our logo, re-uploading it and making sure that it looks professional.
We wil get rid of the Youtube, Facebook and Twitter links as it does not look good.
Moreover, I will change the music and make it longer so that it covers the whole of the title sequence. 

#RG

Brainstorming ideas for News Story

Today we all started brainstorming news package story ideas. We thought of a number of stories; however some were better suited to music than others. As Earmunch is a music news channel we have to find the link between an engaging story which has to link to the music industry.

During this brainstorm we discussed aspects such as who we would interview for the particular story and how easy access would be. We also discussed if it was possible to find statistics or do vox pops on some ideas. This has now cancelled out some of the ideas we had thought of, but we are going to think of the right story for us that is engaging but at the same time a serious topic within the music industry.
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Final Logo

After editing this logo about 1020894739939289 times we finally cleaned it up and made it look more professional compared to this "crispy", "overcooked", "shabby" logo (Below). It has been EXTREMELY stressful having to re-edit the logo over and over but hopefully this is the final time. I guess it has to be done if we want to get top praise.
We also added "News" to the logo to add a bit more professionalism and after-all, we are a news channel so it's only appropriate to put it in.

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Group Meeting

We have been rather stressed lately with regards to our logo and the way it looks on the website. Therefore it was time for a team meeting to occur. In this meeting we discussed if we would rather redo the logo altogether or change the colour of the logo which would therefore mean changing the colour theme of the website. We have been procrastinating with this logo and just hoping it will fix itself, so the decision had to be made. We concluded that we would like to keep our logo the way it is and we would just upload it in a different way, in order for it to look better. We are really hoping the outcome of uploading it again will make our logo look much cleaner.  #NK

Editing the Ending

We have reached the end of the Earmunch title sequence where our logo is going to appear. The Earmunch logo is currently on a black backgroup which we find very plain, therefore we need to come up with something else. 

 We have thought of putting icons to our social networking sites: Youtube, Facebook and Twitter. These have been uploaded and are going to be placed where we think would look best. This is good to end with as it is the last thing the audience see in the sequence.

 

We have decided that instead of just having the icons for Facebook, Youtuvbe and Twitter, with this we should also have what they are called. So therefore it is easier for the audience to access Earmunch, just by liking us on Facebook, Subscribing to EarMunchNews and Following @Earmunchnews.

These will appear one by one in a fade with a fade in effect.

  

 

 

 As we do not want our logo on a black backgroud as it seems to be disengaging and stops the flow of the sequence we have choosen to put our logo ontop of a shot of our footage. We have decided to go for a shot of records which will be frozen and then the logo will go ontop of it. Hopefully this will allow the flow better to the end of the sequence.

#NK

The 'Munch' Sound Effect

Heyhey!

I needed to find a 'munch' sound effect to put on our title sequence, but I couldn't find any good sound effects on the internet.
Then, we decided to record the munch sound effect because then we could have it exactly how we wanted it.
Soooo Kaira volunteered to do the 'munch' sound and we recorded it on a Mac on Garage Band and then saved it and now I'm just adding it into our title sequence and trying to find the right place to put it in.
I don't want to just cut off the soundtrack so I am thinking of slowly fading out the music and then adding the munch sound. Let's see how it goes!

Kaira recording the 'munch' sound effect.

#RG