2012年12月23日 星期日

The bias of news.

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/12/23/world/asia/india-rape-protests/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

There was one gang rape happened in India a few days ago. And this event make a lot of people protest that they want to justice of the law to protect the safety of women in India while the police and the protested people have a big conflict which caused many people get hurt. And the oppsite of the party criticized that the New Deli already became the raping city in India because the rate of raping has grown up more than 17 percent. Last year (2011) there are 480 rape case and this year there are 580 cases happened in New Deli that means in average there is at least one raping case happen every day in New Deli.The government started to consider that to put the death penalty to those who had rapped others.
what I thought toward the news is that I think the problem is quite serious but the government in India seemed not as effective and efficient to deal with this kind of things and that's why there would have so many people to go on the street to protest. I feel sorry to those girls who are rapped by others.

And about the bias I think the news in Taiwan is that different channel may have different statement toward the different parties then the reporting way or the words and even the news statement they may choose the way they want to do the brain-washed to the audiences. For example: the channel for green party may choose the news which is good for them and vice versa. What's mroe , the news in Taiwan are all talking about the local news which is trivial and not important or the news all about the celebrities' gossips. I can't learn things from our news but only gossips.

2012年12月22日 星期六

The recording of news on 12.21

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfsY6qxKI-s

This time is my first time to do the news recording, and I think it is pretty difficult to read your script loud and at the same time look at your audiences.  What's more, to say the words correctly is difficult too, because I may feel nervous when I am recording and some of the words of the name are quite tricky to pronunce, for example: the Russia President Vladimir Putin. Though I think the news recording is not as easy as I think before, I still think this experience is quite fresh and fun for me. It makes me feel curious about what if a professional reporter do when he/she faces the same situation like if he/she meets the words he/she doesn't even know the meaning or the pronunciation of the word what he/she would do. This exprenciences arise my interests toward the news reporter. And there is one more thing which is difficult is that the reporter can't show their own affections or to express their opinions while do the reporting because the person who is doing the report should be fair without any bias during the recording.

2012年12月17日 星期一

radio recording.

In news from the U-K ...

The pregnant Duchess of Cambridge made her first public appearance Sunday
night since her hospitalization for acute morning sickness.

She presented awards at the BBC Sports Personality of the Year event -- which
was broadcast live across Britain.

She had not been seen in public since leaving a London hospital on December
6-th.
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Looking at this morning's main stories from here in Taiwan ....

One person was killed and 23 others injured yesterday after a tour bus
crashed into a highway barrier on the National Sun Yat Sen Freeway.

The accident occurred at the 68-kilometer mark near the Yang-mei Interchange
in Taoyuan County at 6AM.

The tour bus was carrying Daoist worshippers and members of a civilian
vigilance team from Nantou County.

Police say the bus driver was trying to avoid rear-ending a crane when he
crashed into the highway divider.

The accident is the third tour bus crash in two weeks.

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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs says ties with Japan will continue to grow.

The statement follows the victory yesterday of Japan's opposition Liberal
Democratic Party in the general election.

According to foreign office officials .... Taiwan and Japan have long
maintained good ties - and these ties are expected to grow even more solid
after the L-D-P's election victory.

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President Ma Ying-jeou sent a letter of condolence to U-S President Barack
Obama Sunday -- expressing shock and grief over Friday's deadly school
shooting in Connecticut that left 20 children and six adults dead.

In the letter, Ma extended condolences to the families of the victims and
said Taiwan stands with the American people in this time of sorrow.

Ma also pledged Taiwan's support for President Obama to take swift and
meaningful action to prevent the recurrence of similar tragedies.

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The D-P-P held its second and third anti-Ma administration rallies yesterday.

The two rallied are part of the party's 10-rally campaign.

Yesterday's rallies took place in Chong-li City in Taoyuan County and Greater
Taichong.

The D-P-P launched it one-month long campaign Saturday in Taipei - with a
rally at the city's Long-shan Temple.


New words:
 curl up:
ph. 片語
  1. 【口】(使)蜷曲
  2. 【俗】崩潰, 沮喪
 irascible
a. 形容詞
  1. 易怒的; 暴躁的
winsome
  1. 引人注目的; 迷人的; 可愛的
  2. 快活的
vigilance
n.[U]
  1. 警戒; 警覺; 警惕(性)[(+against)]
    In spite of vigilance a polar bear escaped from the zoo. 儘管警戒很嚴, 北極熊還是逃出了動物園。
    Do not relax your vigilance. 不要放鬆警惕。
  2. 【醫】失眠症; 驚醒症
Interchange
vt.[(+with)]
  1. 交換, 互換
    interchange ideas 交換意見
  2. 使互相易位
    The thief interchanged the diamonds with some pieces of glass. 小偷把幾小片玻璃擺在原來放鑽石的地方。
  3. 使交替發生, 輪流進行
    interchange work with play 工作與娛樂交替進行
vi. 不及物動詞
  1. 交換位置; 交替發生[(+with)]
crane
n. 名詞 [C]
  1. 【動】鶴
    A grey crane flew onto the tree. 一隻灰鶴飛到樹上。
  2. 【天】(大寫)天鶴座[the S]
  3. 起重機, 吊車
    They will have to be moved by crane. 它們得用起重機吊運。
    They used cranes to lift the containers from the ship. 他們用起重機從船上把貨櫃吊起來。
vt. 及物動詞
  1. 伸(頸)
    The audience at the back craned their necks to see the puppet show. 後面的觀眾伸長了脖子看木偶戲。
    He craned his neck to get a glimpse of the parade. 他伸長脖子看了看遊行的隊伍。
  2. 用起重機起吊(或搬運)
    crane up building material 吊起建築材料
vi. 不及物動詞
  1. 伸著脖子看
    From every window heads were craning for a view of it. 每一個窗口都有人探出頭來看。
  2. (行動前)躊躇[(+at)]
rallied
KK [ˋrælɪ] DJ [ˋræli]
1. (重新)集合, 重整
變化形 動變rallied rallied rallying 
變化形 名複rallies 

2012年12月9日 星期日

PSA feedback.

This time, at the beginning, when we were discussing the topic, we would like to do the PSA about homosexual, but in the end, we thought that is too difficult for us to talk about, we decided to change our topic into the growing population of old people who live alone in Taiwan. Moreover, we thought there are a lot of old people who live alone in the society, they need us to pay more attention and care toward them. When I went back to my grandparents' home, I saw the inconvinience of my grandparents that they can't take care of themselves well or to move by their own that make them have people to stay with them to take care of them, and I was wondering that if the old people who are not as fortunate as my grandparents who have family members beside them but live alone by themselves, what kind of life would that be?  Also, I had seen many news which are about the young people who treat old people badly or impolitely, for instance, The grandson didn't get the money he wanted, he just kicked and hit his own grandparents or the old people who was sick and his son only gave him 100 dollar to go to see a doctor by his own... I think we not only need to stay with old people but also need to pay love,care and patience toward them. These are the origins of the idea.
videos for instance:


A 78 years old person who live alone in a wood house without electricity and water for ten years.


This is the original example of our idea... but... we met some difficulties during the PSA project.
When you were young....


The difficulties we had met.
1.Time management.
Our script which is too long can't fit the time in one minutes, and we chose the way to solve the problem is to narrate it quickly, however, in this way we ignore the most important part is that we can't make our audience hear it very clearly and we can't convey the feeling that we want to express ,because the tones were not very obvious to bring the resonance from the audiences.

2.Technical problem.
Because we don't know how to use movie maker, we chose to use the power director to instead. While we were using the power director, we can't make the special effect which we want to do. For instance, the beginning of the first scene, we prefer to use a lot of different old people's avatar which appear one by one and then the amount of the avatars may fill the whole screen that is the effect which similar to the TV commercial wall. We want to do this is because we hope to convey the message that the amount of old people is getting higher and higher in the future. However, we can't make it, then we chose another way to find a photo which shows many old people on it to fit our demand. And also our background music is louder than our recording voice. we don't know how to change it, because the power director seems only can change both of the volume together but not change it seperately. The way we tried to fix it was to record another version which is louder than the original one but the result still is not as good as we expect.

3.The material is difficult for us to get.
We would like to take the photos of old people by ourselves, but we were to busy to do it , then we chose to use the photos from the internet. And the photos which can express our message strongly are all from China.(I don't know why, I often see news talks about the similar events, but when you really need those statistics or the information, you always can't find the right one that you are looking for.)
And teacher told us one thing which is very important that we can't use the photos to say a story. For example: We use an old man's photo when he is eating an watermelon and we present that the man is poor he lives alone by himself, there is no one to take care of him.... etc. Instead, we should use the fact, the truth to present our PSA , this is an essential part of our PSA and we didn't notice that. I hope next time if there were similar projects I can make it better than this time. I learned a lot from this project.

4. Learn to cooperate with others
Every group memebers are all very busy in part time job or exams.... These things make us more difficult to arrage time to get together to have a discussion or divide our work well. And also during the time of making this project, we learn to have more empathy to think more for others to show our understanding. I am glad to work with my group members, because everyone in the group are all considrable for others. Though we didn't do it well this time, we can do it much better next time. Cheer up !!!

The last part is our script of recording of PSA.

According to the statistics of Administration, today there are 250.1 million people who are older than 65 years old, and there are more than 4 million people who live alone by themselves. What’s more, the amount of old people may grow up rapidly, till the year of 114, the population of old people in Taiwan will up to 20.1 , which means in year 114, every five people would have one old person among them. So the situation shows us there will have more and more old people who live alone need us to pay more attention toward them.

Because of your and my indifference, selfishness and impatience, they are alone, helpless and have no one to rely on.

Don’t think that you can’t do anything for them. What they need is only your care, companionship and love. So indifference, cut it out, selfishness, cut it out, impatience cut it out. We care what they care. They need you!!

Our PSA video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylhCBQ7G6u4&feature=youtu.be#