Confidentiality/Privacy
1.Confidentiality - Official secrets act and test of condfidentiality, You cannot diclose information without lawful permission. People may pass on information to journalists in confidence, and they have the right to expect this not to be passed on to anyone else.
2. Privacy - Dispute between Article 8 of the human rights act; the right to respect for private and family life, his home and correspondence And artcile 10; the right to freedeom of expression
3. In the public Interest - NOT just the interest of the public. Article 8 says that you have the right to privacy, however when you discover something that is in the interest of the public they have the right to know for example when;
.Detecting or exposing crime or serious impropriety
.Protecting public health and safety
.Preventing the public from being mislead by action or statement of an individual or organisation.
For example it could be argued that if an MP is portraying themselves as a family man for which they have a private life to, however if they are caught having an affair then this may be of interest of the public. The people who voted for the MP have a right to know as they are representing their constituency.
Also it is important to remeber that people have the right to privacy so you should always be sure that you have permssion to use what someboday has said or film them. In situations such as demonstrations such as we have seen recently, these people are in public looking for attetion for their cause so to a degree they can expect to be filmed. This is what is known as implied consent as staging big public events is not a private matter.
The Official secrets act (1911) ELIMINATES the public interest defence.
If somebody reveals secret information to a journalist, this has the potential to be ' third party breech' injuctions can be put on to stop publication. An injucntion gives the person anonomity. A super injuction means that nothing can be said at all, there is effectively no story.
A Breech of confidence happens when;
- It has to be ''the necessary quality of confidence''
- There has to be circumstances imposing an obligation
- There was no permission to pass on information
- Detriment is likely to be caused to the person who gave the information.
Thursday, 10 November 2011
Wednesday, 9 November 2011
Winol 02/11/11
WINOL a good show once again with some very interesting stories.
The pick of the bunch being the Steve Brine interview by Julie, my personal opinion anyway. The Brine interview made the show look very professional with a MP talking about his 'rebellion,' great stuff! One criticism I would have is the headline strap said ' he's a rebel' and in the clip of Brine talking he says ' I don't see myself as a rebel '. Brine gives his opinion on Europe; saying it's bad and the facts are in Julie's voice; talking about the MP's voting on Europe. Good work Julie on getting the interview in the first place outside parliament, It can't have been easy.
The Farage interview is good, the story of question time coming to winchester is not package worthy but it's good that we have followed the story and spoke to Farage linking it with the European referendum. He says some interesting things 'it's a disaster for the north and south of Europe' very good!
The occupy Bournemouth story is good as it's a global issue on a local scale. The shots of the sign with lots of writing on it was a bit confusing however the shots of the protestors painting the signs were good as we actually see people doing things. The interviewee's were good and added a personal feel to it. Also the update is a good idea and worked well, however I think that although it is obvious Ali is reading it would look better if the paper was actually in the shot to make it really obvious for the battery chickens as chris would put it.
The Rubbish story lacks a variety of shots for me. There are only a few bins outside a house and some big red ones. I think that if the rubbish situation is so bad we need to see laods of bins over flowing and if possible more than one house on a street with uncollected rubbish. However the base of the story is good, the facts in Lee's voice and the resident saying how bad it is. George Beckett apolagising is priceless! to get a councillor saying sorry is great and it doesn't happen every day!
The Laser story is interesting, and explained well without being too technical so that everyone can understand it. Would have been good to see Tom suited and booted but the story is good and the interview, however I think that the interviewee is facing too far away from the camera. It looks good when the person your interviwing is at a slight angle but I think he is facing too far away.
Well presented by keegan and Champion very natural and calm.
SPORTS good stuff once again; a lot of footage and some interesting cup ties! The non league teams progressing that far is great for their fans and draw in much more viewers than our normal league matches (or at least it should do). I think that the sport is possibly a bit too long for the bulletin, and believe me from an aspiring sports journalist this pains me to say it! But realistically I can see how people tuning in for news would get bored of watching premiership football let alone blue square south football and Ice Hockey! As mentioned in the de-brief the winol woodwork is probably too long. A short clip and a advertisement to sportsweek would have been better.
BASINGSTOKE BISON. A decent game with seven goals making it much easier to make interesting that the 1-0 fiasco I had the week before! I Was happy with the over all package and am continuing to try and improve my voice however I feel that it was maybe lacking a little bit. I want to get the variation in my voice that is interesting for the viewer to listen to. I also left slightly more in the build up play to show the viewers more of the game. Also I think this would make it less confusing to what is going on and what the score is! I had toyed with the idea of using a goal counter in the corner so that the viewer doesn't get confused. The reason I haven't is that I think it could look a bit tacky but may experiment with it in the future! I had a slight problem with the sound leading up to the last goal as I tried to blend it in with the last clip but it didn't work as well as I had hoped and there was a slight jump in the volume. I don't think it was that obvious but I noticed and I was not happy with it.
The pick of the bunch being the Steve Brine interview by Julie, my personal opinion anyway. The Brine interview made the show look very professional with a MP talking about his 'rebellion,' great stuff! One criticism I would have is the headline strap said ' he's a rebel' and in the clip of Brine talking he says ' I don't see myself as a rebel '. Brine gives his opinion on Europe; saying it's bad and the facts are in Julie's voice; talking about the MP's voting on Europe. Good work Julie on getting the interview in the first place outside parliament, It can't have been easy.
The Farage interview is good, the story of question time coming to winchester is not package worthy but it's good that we have followed the story and spoke to Farage linking it with the European referendum. He says some interesting things 'it's a disaster for the north and south of Europe' very good!
The occupy Bournemouth story is good as it's a global issue on a local scale. The shots of the sign with lots of writing on it was a bit confusing however the shots of the protestors painting the signs were good as we actually see people doing things. The interviewee's were good and added a personal feel to it. Also the update is a good idea and worked well, however I think that although it is obvious Ali is reading it would look better if the paper was actually in the shot to make it really obvious for the battery chickens as chris would put it.
The Rubbish story lacks a variety of shots for me. There are only a few bins outside a house and some big red ones. I think that if the rubbish situation is so bad we need to see laods of bins over flowing and if possible more than one house on a street with uncollected rubbish. However the base of the story is good, the facts in Lee's voice and the resident saying how bad it is. George Beckett apolagising is priceless! to get a councillor saying sorry is great and it doesn't happen every day!
The Laser story is interesting, and explained well without being too technical so that everyone can understand it. Would have been good to see Tom suited and booted but the story is good and the interview, however I think that the interviewee is facing too far away from the camera. It looks good when the person your interviwing is at a slight angle but I think he is facing too far away.
Well presented by keegan and Champion very natural and calm.
SPORTS good stuff once again; a lot of footage and some interesting cup ties! The non league teams progressing that far is great for their fans and draw in much more viewers than our normal league matches (or at least it should do). I think that the sport is possibly a bit too long for the bulletin, and believe me from an aspiring sports journalist this pains me to say it! But realistically I can see how people tuning in for news would get bored of watching premiership football let alone blue square south football and Ice Hockey! As mentioned in the de-brief the winol woodwork is probably too long. A short clip and a advertisement to sportsweek would have been better.
BASINGSTOKE BISON. A decent game with seven goals making it much easier to make interesting that the 1-0 fiasco I had the week before! I Was happy with the over all package and am continuing to try and improve my voice however I feel that it was maybe lacking a little bit. I want to get the variation in my voice that is interesting for the viewer to listen to. I also left slightly more in the build up play to show the viewers more of the game. Also I think this would make it less confusing to what is going on and what the score is! I had toyed with the idea of using a goal counter in the corner so that the viewer doesn't get confused. The reason I haven't is that I think it could look a bit tacky but may experiment with it in the future! I had a slight problem with the sound leading up to the last goal as I tried to blend it in with the last clip but it didn't work as well as I had hoped and there was a slight jump in the volume. I don't think it was that obvious but I noticed and I was not happy with it.
Wednesday, 2 November 2011
Winol week four
A one nil thriller was my exciting game for this week action packed and full of chances......or not.
For the first time we had two cameras at the Planet ice arena to see the Bison take on the Milton Keynes Lightning. I was accompanied by the beautiful and talented Henry 'the hoover' Lewin-Titt.
OF COURSE, this would be the only game I have been to so far that ended in at the least with five goals on the board. The extra angle provided us with a shot from behind the goal which I think improves the coverage very much giving it a much more professional feel. Once again I had a problem with my auto focus, it s
eemed to be focusing itself and when I moved sharply it was taking to long to re focus and I couldn't seem to get it off. This is something I'm sure I will have figured out when I am fully HD trained for next week. FORTUNATELY the only goal of the game was at the end that Henry was set up with his camera which I used for a slowed down replay. I feel this gave a much more professional feel, and it gives the viewer much more visual stimulation. It was hard to make in to an interesting package, through the lack of goals, but there were a few decent chances and I picked my best looking pictures only for the highlight reel. Again I didn't use shots of the teams warming up as I thought that this looked too much like a feature intro, instead I just extended my first highlight; showing more of the build up to the chance and putting my introduction voice over on that. On the whole I feel I made it pretty interesting considering there was only one goal I managed to stretch it out over a minute!
eemed to be focusing itself and when I moved sharply it was taking to long to re focus and I couldn't seem to get it off. This is something I'm sure I will have figured out when I am fully HD trained for next week. FORTUNATELY the only goal of the game was at the end that Henry was set up with his camera which I used for a slowed down replay. I feel this gave a much more professional feel, and it gives the viewer much more visual stimulation. It was hard to make in to an interesting package, through the lack of goals, but there were a few decent chances and I picked my best looking pictures only for the highlight reel. Again I didn't use shots of the teams warming up as I thought that this looked too much like a feature intro, instead I just extended my first highlight; showing more of the build up to the chance and putting my introduction voice over on that. On the whole I feel I made it pretty interesting considering there was only one goal I managed to stretch it out over a minute! Michael Connolly, Winchester News Online
Wednesday, 26 October 2011
Media Law 3
Libel defences
To be found guily of Libel you must have done these three things;
.Defamation
.Identification
.Publication.
To defame someone what you said must have done one of the following:
. exposed him to hatred, ridicule, or contempt
.caused him to be shunned or avoided
.lower him in the estimation of right thinking members of society generally
.disparage him in his business, trade, office or profession.
Identifying is simply naming someone. This can be done accidently however, you must be careful not to name some facts that could lead to the identification of some body.
Publication is to one or more person. So a blog can be classed as publcation, it isn't just professionals that can get in trouble!
The defences against Libel are as follows;
Justification - basically to avoid any legal action you must simply prove that it is true such as calling someone a murderer if they have been convicted of it, and you are sorted!
Comment - Your personal opinion. It can be used as a defence as long as there is no malice and it has to be an opinion based on fact. For example you can say that John Terry is not that good at football, but you can't say he is rubbish at making pizza, because you probably haven't tried any of his pizza...I would of thought.
Qualified Privilege - The two types are; Common law Q.P. and Statutory Q.P.
Qualified;
Means you are above the law; a judge has absolute privilege in court. Also anything said in parliament is covered by Q.P.
As a journalist has Q.P. but it is limited. You can report what is said in court but it must be fast accurate and fair. This means it must be published as soon as possible and not sat on for weeks, it must be accurate to every detail and fair, not bias or anything of that sort.
You must include their plea and that the case is continuing.
Common law Q.P.
Some people should be allowed to say defamatory things for the common convenience of society.
For example a case of a soldier who shot and killed youths in Northern Ireland and got convicted of murder. Campaign groups to free him called the prosecuting IRA terrorists, they were allowed to say this for the common convenience of society.
The 10 point test was set out to give journalists a guideline when reporting cases.
1. The serious of the allegation
2. The nature of the information
3. The source of informtion
4. The steps taken to verify the information
5. The status of the information
6. Urgency of matter
7. Whether comment was sought from the claimant
8. Whether the article contained the fist of the claimants side of the story
9. The tone of the article
10. The circumstances of the publication.
Tuesday, 25 October 2011
Winol 19/10/11
Another Successful bulletin from the Winol team, and I would like to extend my most sincerest gratitude to every one who put the hard work in to make it happen... that didn't sound sincere but I assure you it was!
Julies Story on Hampshire police officers is first and foremost a great find and goes to show that you can uncover great stories simply by putting in an FOI request, well done Juilie! The graphic that Julie is standing in front of is very good and well put together. However I would criticise that the story does drag on a little bit too long and there are a lot of facts to take it. The script could be slightly shorter so that the facts can be absorbed easier.
Toms story has a good range of opening GV's that are engaging to watch. There is a change in the sound of the voice over though, I assume they were recorded separately, I know it's a bit nit picky but hey that's how a Don thinks! The interview is good and gets a good opinion out however it would be good to get he woman saying how unfair it is and how no one will be able to cope. A very good range of shots which is impressive!
The library oov is again another good local story that I think is suitable for an oov rather than a package.
The strike story is good to follow up on as it firstly gives a good story with not much work needed to revisit. Also it shows our viewer that we are keeping up to date with the story and that
The sports team excelled once again with a big and diverse range of sport to offer for both he bulletin and sports week. It is good to know that if needs be the news team can come to us to fill up the bulletin if stories have been dropped for any reason.
Sam and Henry did really well with their Boxing and Dodgeball features that were fun and interesting to watch and it shows they weren't afraid to experiment with and enjoy making their features.
I was once again on Ice Hockey once again at the home of the mighty Bison, who are still experiencing some unsteady form. I managed to overcome my problem of getting my white balance right for this game. The problem being the lighting changes from the warm up to the start of the game, and the camera takes a while to adjust to the change of light, this time I left it alone and I think it paid off. The game was exciting once again, and as the weeks go on I am getting more confident with my filming, and am attempting to get closer when I think there is a chance. There is always the possibility of loosing the puck when going in close, but I feel I am beginning to read the game better and am able anticipate when I need to zoom in on the action. With nine goals in the game it was going to be again full of action, I left the goals a little bit longer by including more of the build up play as I think the previous week it was a bit too fast paced. This also meant that the goals don't look too similar as they can do on a small playing ice rink. The pitch and tone of my voice was good again I think, but it still needs improvement possibly getting more animated when recording the voice over could help. I had a problem with the focus, I think it must have been set on auto focus as when I moved the camera quickly it would go out of focus and sometimes focus in on the railings when they got in shot. I need to check the settings more carefully to make sure this doesn't happen again. The sound recording was better also as I turned down the sound on the recording so it wasn't too loud. For next week I will try to improve my voice over to make it more enthusiastic and I think that will improve my package.
Wednesday, 19 October 2011
winol 12/10/11
The Bulletin was overall very much improved on the calamity that was last week with everyone in the news room and production generally working much harder and as a team.
Julies council cuts story is very good. However the first interview we hear about facts about jobs being cut rather than his opinion. At the end he says something like the council could do more I would like to hear more about him complaining. Julie has done well to get balance from the southampton councillor.
Tom's story is a good national story scaled down locally well by Tom. The sequence leading to the first interview is a bit too long I think this could have been mixed up with some different shots. The interview is good, However it could be framed tighter as it has his whole upper body in shot which isn't necessary. Also the cut away to him talking whilst he was still talking was a bit confusing. The second interview is very good the interviewee is clear and gets his point across well.
Louis, very hard to get GV's for this story I think maybe some more shots of people doing things inside. The first voice over is very good it gives us a clear idea of what is going on. The interviewee is is sitting down and looking up which looks a bit strange. I think that the woman working at the shelter should have given her view rather than just straight facts. The councillor says that the lib dems failed, this is a great thing to hear him say so well done for getting that out of him.
There was a few too many oov's, they could have been broken up as it could lead to the viewer getting a bit,well, bored!
Sport wise everyone managed to deliver again, and it is good to see that everyone is pulling their weight, because if one of us starts slacking it can have repercussions for the whole team.
My Ice Hockey piece included 13 goals which admittedly was a bit of a nightmare to pack into a maximum time slot of one minute thirty! It meant that I wouldn't be able to fit all the goals into my package. I took out two goals and used my voice over to explain that goals had been scored. Once again I think that my voice has improved along with my scripting, I tried harder this week to improve the tone on my voice, and as Ice Hockey is a fast intense sport I had to make the enthusiasm in my voice match that or it just wouldn't sound right.
I think that a few of the goals were a bit similar to each other which may have looked like I used the same shot but I can put everyone to rest and say that they were just almost identical goals! Angus mentioned that I could have had a bit more fun with it, which I agree with. I thought about making the voice over a bit exciting and being playful but as it was going in the bulletin I didn't want it to be too silly. Next time that two teams score that many goals I think I will try and be a bit more playful with the script rather than ' goal, goal, goal'. As I can now see that it was maybe a bit confusing to see that many goals and action within such a short space and time and really take it in! Also for my next piece I think I will use some natural sound at the start of the piece as it seems a waste not to use the natural sound that is really pleasing to the ear.
Flick's piece again needs to have the interviewee saying that it is amazing that this is happening rather than explaining the facts. The interviews are very well framed and hearing the scientist saying it's 'surreal' and 'awesome' is the kind of comment that is good to hear!
As I said the sports and news team have been great once again. Great to see every body working hard!
Wednesday, 12 October 2011
Winol 05/10/11
This week winol hit the air for the first official show after the dummy run. As far as sport the sports team is concerned I feel we all had very much to be proud of but could also improve in many areas as well.
The sport bulletin was very well delivered by Sam, with a clear and confident voice. Good to see that Sam came across confident as for the first time in front of the live cameras and full gallery can be very daunting.
On to the content. The OOV by mikey was very well shot with some good action shots. Dael's Eastleigh package was again well shot, with some good delivery on the commentary.
Personally I feel my Hockey package came together well for a first time effort. I found it difficult to follow the game at times as it is such a fast paced game. Luckily for me there was only five goals which made it easier to follow. I was particularly proud of one shot in particular in which i managed to follow the puck from the shot all the way to the goal, something I had been trying all game, this time it paid off maybe call it luck or skill I don't know but it looked good! The idea when putting it together was to try and make it as fast paced as possible as it is in real life. The sports gives you a chance to get some really exciting shots into your package and I feel visually I delivered, even managing to include a punch up near the end! I think that I have come a long way from my original sports packages in terms of my voice over. I tried to improve the delivery by changing my pitch and being more enthusiastic to make the intensity of the game. There is a long way to go in terms of perfecting my technique, but the delivery was definitely an improvements on previous work.
An interesting point was made by guest editor was that she felt we could expand our sport to include more of a wider audience. I agree in the sense that we do isolate anyone who doesn't support Eastlleigh, Basingstoke or Winchester. However we do get large viewings from Basingstoke football fans who rely on our service to watch there favourite team in action. That being said I think it would help if we had more sports news stories that will appeal to a wider audience. Expanding our sport coverage to Ice Hockey has prove our intent. If we can keep improving on our current sport coverage and include some more sport news then we should keep the viewing numbers rising!
The sport bulletin was very well delivered by Sam, with a clear and confident voice. Good to see that Sam came across confident as for the first time in front of the live cameras and full gallery can be very daunting.
On to the content. The OOV by mikey was very well shot with some good action shots. Dael's Eastleigh package was again well shot, with some good delivery on the commentary.
Personally I feel my Hockey package came together well for a first time effort. I found it difficult to follow the game at times as it is such a fast paced game. Luckily for me there was only five goals which made it easier to follow. I was particularly proud of one shot in particular in which i managed to follow the puck from the shot all the way to the goal, something I had been trying all game, this time it paid off maybe call it luck or skill I don't know but it looked good! The idea when putting it together was to try and make it as fast paced as possible as it is in real life. The sports gives you a chance to get some really exciting shots into your package and I feel visually I delivered, even managing to include a punch up near the end! I think that I have come a long way from my original sports packages in terms of my voice over. I tried to improve the delivery by changing my pitch and being more enthusiastic to make the intensity of the game. There is a long way to go in terms of perfecting my technique, but the delivery was definitely an improvements on previous work.
An interesting point was made by guest editor was that she felt we could expand our sport to include more of a wider audience. I agree in the sense that we do isolate anyone who doesn't support Eastlleigh, Basingstoke or Winchester. However we do get large viewings from Basingstoke football fans who rely on our service to watch there favourite team in action. That being said I think it would help if we had more sports news stories that will appeal to a wider audience. Expanding our sport coverage to Ice Hockey has prove our intent. If we can keep improving on our current sport coverage and include some more sport news then we should keep the viewing numbers rising!
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