Sitting here at 8pm on a Friday night watching the football as usual. listening to my boyfriend complain about every call an yell at the screen whether happy or not… as usual. not saying that I'm not a fan of the sport and that i hate every minute of the game but it is understandably quite annoying, funny but quite annoying. "Go Hoffman!! GOOOOO! this is gonna be a good game!" is what he just yelled… not sure if he realises that he is talking to himself considering I'm generally not listening and we are sitting here alone but 'whatever floats his boat'.
Brisbane Broncos versus Gold Coast Titans- the South Queensland Derby. One of the only games i usually pay attention to when the cowboys are not playing, not that I'm a huge cowboys fan but it does make it easier to watch when you know who the commentator is talking about. talking about the commentators- some of them are great but some need to be shot! how is it possible to talk so much about one person running 2 metres than getting tackled? and do they have notes in front of them? or are they just that amazing that they know everything about every player? but the ones who are bad are usually the ones who are bias, and generally that means they favour NSW… now thats annoying! even for a 'not so huge fan' like me it is annoying. i can stand listening to someone constantly complain about how unfair the refs are NSW but WE ALL KNOW THAT THE REFS ARE PAYED TO LOVE NSW! well thats my thoughts anyway.
6 all the score at 30 minutes! and now further remarks from the boyfriend yet… which is kinda unusual. so i don't think he is really paying much attention. He doesn't look to phased, i think oh wait he is asleep… Ad Break. OH i just had another thought of something that i hate about football, the refs who have to video ref everything, like come on you are right in front of the players, if i can see its try you should be able to see its try. i saw that forward pass the refs on the line should have seen it… well i am usually wrong about my calls but still come on. haha.
Oh well thats my rant over with a few words form the boyfriend…"why didn't you pass?!!"
Friday, 5 April 2013
Lecture 6
Fundamentals of Reporting.
Caine’s Arcade goes BIG!
Caine, a nine year old boy, had the surprise of his life when his
cardboard arcade was created into an
LA event for all. Caine built his own arcade out of cardboard in
South Los Angeles.
Caine’s’ arcade was pushed into international fame when local Nirvan
posted a short video about Caine and his arcade on the 9th April
2012, 5 days later the film launched a movement.
Nirvan had only played at Caine’s Arcade once, before deciding to
make the short film and get the public involved.
The above story was a activity done in week six's lecture regarding the Fundamentals of reporting. Through watching a short clip about Caine using the three act method (Start, Beginning and End, Alike a most fiction stories) we were asked to make his story 'news worthy' using the inverted pyramid (who, what, when, where and why followed buy the less important details). By classifying who? Caine and Nine year old boy, what? surprise of his life, when? 9th of April, where? South Los Angeles. By having these questions answered in the first 3 sentences it quickly shows us that the method used to create the new story is the inverted Pyramid.
During the Tutorial this week we were asked to do the opposite and make a story with the Three Part Method…
Stayed Tuned.