Summer Research Project

Sky News, November 2011

                         
Sky News is one of many British TV news programmes. It is broadcast on its own channel 'Sky News' and is on air 24 Hours a day 7 days a week.

Main Presenters:

Dermot Murnaghan - Sky News Murnaghan                              

Lorna Dunkley - Sky News       

Jeremy Thompson - Sky News at 5 and 6
Andrew Wilson - Sky News at 5 and 6
Colin Brazier - Sky News                                      

Kay Burley - Sky News                                                    

Anna Botting - Sky News at 9, 10 and 11, Press Preview
Mark Longhurst - Sky News at 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11, Press Preview

Lukwesta Burak - Sky News, Sky World News
Eamonn Holmes - Sunrise

Isabel Webster - Sunrise
Stephen Dixon - Sunrise
Gillian Joseph - Sunrise Newsreader, Sky News
Adam Boulton - Boulton &Co
Sarah Hewston - Boulton & Co
Dharshini David - Business Live
Martin Stanford - Jeff Randall Live Newsreader, News, Sport & Weather
Scott Pelley - CBS Evening News

Awards:

Several awards from the Royal Television Society the latest being 'News Channel of the Year' which was awarded in 2011

BAFTA award for their coverage on the attacks on 11 September 2001 (commonly known as 9/11)

and also for their coverage of the Soham Murders.


They won the 2006 Internationsl Emmy Breaking News award, rewarding them for their 'fast and accurate' coverage of the London Bombings on the 7 July 2005 ( commonly known as 7/7)

In June 2007 the Broadcast Digital Channel awards named Sky News UK the "Best News Channel."

History:

Rupert Murdoch announced, on the 8 June 1998 to the British Academy of Film and Television Arts  that he was to provide a new television  news service.#

The television news service 'Sky News' was first broadcasted at 6pm on the 5th February 1989.  

In the early days the channel operated on a £40 million budget, plus £10 million share of overheads.  

By March 1992 Sky had started to see a profit when Murdoch said Sky News, has quietly, if expensively, become the first building block of what we envision will become the premier worldwide electronic news-gathering network anywhere. Ask anyone in Europe, and particularly the BBC and you will be told that Sky News has added a new and better dimension to television journalism.

                                                   

                                                       

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Other Facts:

The title music, which was composed by David Arnold, was recorded with a 60-piece Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in Angel Studios, London and used more than 132 audio channels for the 18 seconds of audio.

The channel regularly focuses on some current affairs, some carry on for several days which allows for a more in-depth analysis and debate of the topic.

Sky have increased interactivity with their audience by launching a growing selection of news blogs which are written by their staff and guests.


Watching Sky News for at least twenty minutes over three days.


DAY 1:  1st September 2014

News Headlines: New CCTV Footage of Plebgate Affair Emerges
                             Lorry Driver Jailed for Killing Two Cyclists
                             Apple iPhone 6 Could Work as A Mobile Wallet
                             Opera Singer Domingo to Close Itunes Festival
                             Major Tesco Shareholder Warns on Strategy.



DAY 2:  2nd September 2014

News Headlines:  Rotherham Abuse Scandal Twelve New Victims
                              How Scottish 'Yes' May impact 'Invisible Border'
                              Scottish Referendum: No Vote's Lead Narrows
                              Bieber Faces New Assault Charges in Canada
                              McGinley to Reveal Ryder Cup Wildcard Picks



DAY 3: 3rd September 2014

News Headlines: Russia and Ukraine Agree 'Permanent Ceasefire'
                             IS Beheading Militants Threaten Brit Hostage.
                             Sotloff Family Grieving After Hostage Killed.
                             Nato Summit Ukraine Crisis to Top the Agenda.
 


The headlines are put in the order because they want to cover the more important news first, most of which are where there is a direct threat to someone's life or where a situation Involves a large number people in a country or around the globe.

HSBC Adverts on Photoshop: Love is Love

Love is Love advert (4 Picture, 1 Phrase)

To begin this, I did similar to the YouTube advert, (Previous Post). I used the same original picture (Source)
The first picture I used was of the band 5SOS (5 Seconds of Summer) and It represents the love for men and music. The second picture is of Shailene Woodley which represents love for Women and films. The third picture is of the novel 'The Fault in our Stars' which represents the love for books and perhaps even the sick or terminally ill. The final picture is of the stars/galaxy which represents the love for the stereotypically more 'geeky' things such as astronomy and science, or even the paranormal. So the whole idea of this is that Love is Love regardless of the recipient and the fact that it doesn't matter what they love or whether it means that they have a different sexuality compared to you or they spend hours doing or researching something that you think is boring.

Overall I am also pretty pleased with this advert but I think (again) that I could have chosen better pictures or tried to crop the other photos that weren't squared and I could have chosen a different colour for the writing to make it stand out more.

HSBC Adverts on Photoshop: YouTube

YouTube HSBC advert. (1 picture, 4 words)

To create this HSBC advert I took an image of an existing HSBC advert (Source), I Personally liked the quote in this one 'A different point of view is simply the view from a place where you're not.' I then found the YouTube logo and copied and pasted them into each individual square. Next, I though of 4 different words that I believed represented YouTube well, therefore came up with, Career, Community, Adventure and Creativity. However there are many more words that I could use to describe this media sharing platform. I had also wanted to try and show the other aspects of YouTube that is often overlooked or disregarded. For Instance, a lot of people don't see YouTube as a community due to the rare occurrences of 'trolling' in the comment section.

I am pretty pleased with how this came out however, to improve this I could have used another image, something less plain perhaps a collective collage of the You Tuber's similar to what Facebook has done with the profile pictures of their consumers.