ABC 6 Interview

On Monday March, 8, while Amanda Domsitz and I were leaving are class we spotted a news van in the parking lot. Amanda had said that it would be cool if we got interviewed and then we noticed that they had seen us coming. As we were walking to the bus stop they cut us off. The reporter was rather abrupt about it, saying she was from ABC 6 and she wanted to ask a few questions about the crime alerts on campus. We said we didn't know much about them but that's what the point of the story was about. She shoved the microphone at each of us and asked questions about what we knew about the sexual assaults that happened and if we would sign up to receive crime alert messages. When the interview was over we were both excited that we might get to see ourselves on the news. In the end we were both disappointed to find that they didn't air our clip.

Final Project 2-minute Broadcast

(There are a few technical difficulties I could not fix within this broadcast. The watermark that appears for the first half of the broadcast was put on  when I was finalizing my video, by the software I used because I used a trial version. The camera I used didn’t always have the beast audio so, some clips are a little harder to hear than others.)

Hello everyone I’m Catie Noyes bringing you your latest news update.

Facebook has made its way to the top in the social media world. A study done by The Neilson Company shows that Facebook topped MySpace and Twitter in the amount of time users are spending on social media sites.

This chart, courtesy of The Neilson Company, compares the amount of time spent on some of the top social media sites. Based on these studies MySpace was in the lead with over 7 million total minutes in April 2008 while Facebook followed in second with almost 2 million minutes. Since then Facebook has soared to the top with a total reaching over 13 million minutes in April and still growing.

I took a walk around The Ohio State University campus in order to see how much time students are spending on Facebook and what it is they are doing on the site.

(Interviews)

Me: “How much time would you say you spend on Facebook?”

Annie DeWitt, 18: “A day?”

Me: “Yeah”

DeWitt: “Half hour.”

Danny Adams, 21: “Somewhere between an hour or two a day.”

Tom Smigel, 19: “Hour and a half. Hour a day.”

Tressa Casey, 18: “I think his answer actually means 3 hours and probably like 30 minutes.”

Stephanie Moormann, 20: “Depends on how much I procrastinate. Anywhere from maybe 2 to 5 hours a day, 5 hours being if I have more homework.”

How they spend their time:

Casey: “Just checking up on friends that aren’t, like, here.”

DeWitt: “On Facebook?”

Me: “Yeah.”

DeWitt: “Talking to people.”

Moormann: “My high school friends, checking up on them or stalking them.”

Adams: “Checking up on friends’ statuses, once in a while I’ll get into a conversation with somebody and I’ve got a couple stalkers so I try to avoid them while I’m on too.”

(Closing)

Facebook has come a long way in the social media world and is a major part of student lives.

That’s all there is today, thanks for tuning in for this special news update.

Critiquing Dan Cat

Dan wrote this article on gasoline prices on May 25, 2008.  The headline “Gasoline isn’t only rising cost for drivers,” is good headline that lets you know what the article will be talking about. However, I feel it might read better if it said Gasoline isn’t “the” only rising cost for drivers.

To me the opening graph seems a little corny (spirit sputtering). The second line where it talks about sticker shock seems a little cliché by saying “sticker shock will make the summer even stickier.”

In the third graph the word “bemoaning” is used. I don’t think I would have known what that meant without looking it up. These were the main things that I noticed about this article. This article had no multimedia aspects.

It’s baby lamb season!

It’s that time of year again and new life fills the Noyes family barn. Baby lambs are being born and taking there first curious steps in this new world. Some of them even enjoy a good cuddle now and then!

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