Media News...

After looking on Google, researching media stories, something caught my eye almost immediately.
"Job Losses in Newspaper Business"
I am quite interested in the prospect of going into Media as a career, the main area I am interested in is magazine publishing, or maybe something to do with a newspaper. I am currently doing Photography as well as Media, so maybe something incorporating the two is my ideal job.
So after seeing this headline I wondered if this career move would be wise.

"The U.S. Department of Labor estimates some 21,000 newspaper industry jobs disappeared this year. Somehow, newspaper owners continue to think that the way to handle economic downturns is to make their product worse be eliminating its most important asset, people. But with fewer reporters to dig up news as newspapers transition to the Web their content is going to look more and more like everything else online, limited and poorly reported."

This is something I found on a website:
www.realclearpolitics.com
This also links with a class we had about a week ago with Mrs Francis, we read an article that read "Critical Condition." It talked about how more and more business people are turning to Blackberries to hold meetings, and generally becoming more technology based as companies. In the article it also stated that more people are deciding to find out information of all sorts online, therefore less newspapers and magazines are being bought, so less people are needed to write for the newspapers and magazines. Furthermore, supporting the fact of society becoming more technology based, as they are using the internet for finding out things that could easily be found in a newspaper or magazine. Because of this, less and less jobs are needed, hence the 21,000 job losses.
As an area of interest from my part, I think it is a shame that jobs are being lost in such an interesting part of media and life.

Film Making Update...

Our film is veryyy nearly finished, we just have some tweeking to do on the final bits.
We had some slight trouble with the ending of the film, the audio did not fit with the video clips, but we soon sorted it out.
We also had trouble with the timing of the film itself, it was over 2 minutes 20 seconds, so we had to make some quite serious decisions to make our film the right time!

At the moment we are finishing to make the credits that role at the beginning of the clip, and again at the end, telling the viewer about the Director etc. This has been the least difficult bit of the whole thing, but in a way, the most time consuming, we had to change the font quite a few times, and the effect we weren't sure about a lot of the time. We eventually got the right one and are in the process or incorportating it into our film.

I think we made a wise decision by choosing the genre of our film to be Suspense/Tension, and I like the way the film flows.
I liked making the music for our film, we did not get it off ccMixer, we made our own music on Garage Band, which I think worked very well with our specific video. We were then able to add drums to the original tune we created when the tension is at a climax etc. Garage Band gave us more freedom to create exactly what music we wanted.

I have enjoyed this piece of coursework this term, and although it took us a while to get back in the swing of things after our preliminary task, it was all worth it in the end. I am pleased with the outcome of the clip and it has been a good experience to really get to grips with Final Cut Express and using the computers for video-making.

Youtube?!

Youtube has stopped playing music videos...



I mentioned in one of my earlier blogs that I often spend a long time wandering around Youtube, and often end up on someone different to what I started on.
Although this was a bad habit, I enjoyed it, and enjoyed the amount I was able to access that was linked to the topic of interest.
Now, I do not have the chance to carry on with this bad habit! A lot of the things I search on Youtube are music videos that I have not yet downloaded from iTunes.

This may be a disappointment for me, it is good for the rest of the media world. Artists could be losing money because of their work being displayed for free across the internet. It may also be reducing the amount of innapropriate images and language being displayed for all of society. The amount of young children now accessing the internet is increasing rapidly, and the idea of reducing the amount of innapropriate factors within the music industry is a clever idea. This could overall change ideas about the music industry and different artists through generations.

The positive of what has happened with Youtube outweighs the negative, but I still won't be able to wander as much!