1.) Using the Internet research and find descriptions for the roles of the following newspaper personnel:
- Editor
- Reporter
- Journalist
- Designer
Editor- to select which articles will be presented in a newspaper
Reporter- someone who presents information about a situation and who try to find information about a situation
Journalist- someone who takes all the information given and puts it in an article
Designer- someone who designs the format of an article
1.) Explain the difference between ’secular’ and ‘non-secular’. Secular is a term which is non-reliougious for example the nrl.
Non -secular is to do with religious things for example the catholic church and the world youth day cross.
2.) Provide FIVE links to media organisaions who provide media to the public.
3.) Select ONE event current in the news media and provide a summary.
One event is a child killing his father and trying to kill his mother all because he was bullied at school.
1.) Describe the Australian Governments NetAlert program?
The net alert program is something the government installed to help keep children safe from the internet and if installed can block all unappropriate websites.
2.) Discuss the reasons why they have implemented such a program?
They have put this program to:
-keep people safe
-block all inappropriate sites
-keep viruses away from the computer
-also keep illegal sites blocked
1.) Define the term ‘wired generation’.
Wired generation is like the new technology for example: tvs, computers, cars, cameras, mobile phones etc.
2.) Provide examples of FIVE different social community sites. (Create hyperlinks).
www.chatroom.com 3.) Choose ONE of the list above a describe why it is used and how it could be misused.
I have chose www.hotmail.com. People use this site to communicate with other people online. You can chat online, play games online and share information online. People misuse this sight by cyber bullying other people which means teasing and harrasing other people online. Strangers and petefiles also use this to get hold of little children by using a fake identity.
1. How is the research going?
The research is going well as every person in the group is contributing to the group and is researching different things and in the end it will become convenient as we can put it in the encyclopedia.
2. What do you know about imovie? What other multimedia possibilities have you considered for your presentation?
Imovie is a format where you can take clips, audio, pictures and different files and transfer it into a movie. We have also considered microsoft powerpoint and movie maker but most possibly will use imovie as it is the best resource.
1. How will you organise your multimedia sales pitch? List ideas, think about how the entry document was presented.
I will advertise it on the radio so people can be aware of this encyclopedia and I will also write a script for when it is to be presented and I will also edit an advertisement on the computer to also try and advertise it on the tv.
Random acts of kindness- to show random acts of kindness means to be humble and care for others not only yourself, to try and live the way Jesus and Saint Marcellin did and be able to be patient and forgiving. Some ways of showing random acts of kindness can be
- to help clean up the community by doing community service
- donate money to the people in need
- help the elderly on the streets for example: crossing them the roads
- start a donation group
- show a reaching hand to all people in need
- try to persuade people to have faith
- try also to make the world a better place by starting organisations everywhere by giving every one a chance to help
- visit children in hospital who are lonely and visit the retirement homes
These are some of the ways to show random acts of kindness. If you think this may not sound alot it can make a huge difference to everyones lives for example: if visiting the hospital children will be inspired and not forget, or if you help the community it will gradually become a bettere place. This can happen if you try and follow your faith just like saint marcellin and Jesus did.
REPRESENTATIONAL- The participants in DPS 5 is the rabbits as the rabbits symbolise white men. In the bottom corner of the page there is a rat eating a lizard. This symbolises that the white people are bringing in animals from over seas and that they are taking over as the rat a foreign animal is eating the lizard an australian animal. There is also rabbits on the top of the white towers who are the convicts that were brang in from over seas and they are building all the technology. The first thing the reader usually sees when he looks at the picture is the white path and then the path makes the readers eyes move up to the photo in the middle and then spread their gazes across the DPS. The illustrations also shows the conflict between the rabbits and the numbats as the rabbits wearing red and black symbolising evilness are ruining the country and numbats are on the top of the where two of the numbats are looking at each other and signalling to each other that they are confused. Some of the symbols on the page is that the rabbits are numbered which means there are heaps of them. Another one of the symbols is the rabbits flag which symbolises that they are spreadin everywhere. One of the rabbits also has arrows on its uniform to show that they are taking over and that they are the powerful ones. The aboriginals are losing there culture in this page and there is also a dead lizard on the page.
Interactive: In the double page spread 5 the rabbits are offering us there plans as they are on an angle and are using there hands to act as if they are showing us there plans of what they are going to do to the land. The numbats have their backs to the reader as they are confused and look so small as the rabbits have already started building a new society and the numbats are sitting on one the trees unable to do anything. The rabbits are obviously demanding the land as they have already started to build and they are offering us (the readers) their plans. The book uses high modality as it is trying to be as authentic as possible and the colours in the page are bright like the blue sky and then against the rabbits which are in dark colours make them stick out. The page is also specific as it shows a lot of details with meanings from the convicts building the towers to the lizard eating the rat.
Compositional: In the double page spread of the rabbits the informational value in the rabbits is the fact of how powerful the rabbits look and how in control they are compared to the numbats isolated in the trees. The rabbits look in control because there are luetianants on the page about five times bigger than the numbats who have fancy equipment and wheels on their legs planning and bossing around the convicts. The salient feature in this double page spread is the large frame of the rabbits plans as it is in the middle of the double page spread and is completely a different colour than the rest of the background and the colour is also in a dull yellow which is a bright colour also attracting the eyes to the frame first. When the reader looks at the frame their eyes will then follow onto the white footpath under the frame and slowly move around the page. It also shows the rabbits plans and how it should turn and that they are on their way of building what they want as their plans link to the white tower. The framing in this double page spread around the text is in the white footpath where after the reader reads the text their eyes will go from the framed plans and see how organised it looks and then when peering out of the frames seeing how many items, symbols there are and how busy and lively it is outside of the photo frame to produce the plans. After the reader sees this they will notice the poor numbats sitting in the trees lonley and confused. As you can see the framing was important in this page as it traced all the illustrations attracting the reader to read more.
1. In groups (or as a class) read The Rabbits
2. Discuss what the meaning of the book is
- What is the message
In the story the rabbits the author symbolises the white people as rabbits because rabbits breed fast and spread and also destroy things just like the white people have did in the story. The aboriginals are symbolised as numbats as they are a small animal who are helpless when coming up against huge ruthless rabbits. The story is about basically the whole story of how the aboriginals took over the land when the aboriginals were living there and killed all the aboriginals even though the aboriginals did nothing. The message in the story is that not to trust anyone and the author is showing us the story in deeper visual text making it more understandable as he wants to show us how the white people took over the aboriginals. He is also saying once again not to trust anyone like the aboriginals trusted the white where the story says ‘ they came many grandparents ago’ and it is also good to listen to your elder as it says ‘ But our old people warned us. Be careful. They wont understand the right ways. They only know their own country.’
3. Make a list of some visual techniques that you think help creat these meanings.
Eg: Colour, participants, setting
-shapes
-sizes
-colour
-font
-outlines
-texture
-smoothness
-line
-shadow
4. Discuss what you think colours represent in this book.
The colours in the book represent
red- action, confidence
pink- love, beauty
brown- earth, order, convention
orange- vitality with endurance
gold- Wealth, prosperity, wisdom
yellow- wisdom, joy, happiness
green- life, nature, fertility
blue- youth, spirituality, truth, peace
purple- Royalty, magic, mystery
indigo- intuition, meditation
white- Purity, Cleanliness
black- Death, earth, stability
grey- Sorrow, security, maturity
