Communcation Skills Media Presentation

On Monday 28/11/11 we had to spilt up into groups, I was working with George and Georgie. We did our 5 minute presentation on Youtube

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Finding Interviews Example and Discuss

DISCUSS - Both Good and Bad.....


First Interview

Andrew Dice Clay Live Interview with CNN

The first thing you see is that the interviewee is annoyed, the presenter is talking in a monotone like voice asking questions that are personal to the interviewee. The presenters is continuously asking question one right after another and all the while he's asking them, the interviewee Andrew is getting more and more irritated and when it becomes all too much, he starts to swear and it isn't long before he leaves. What the presenter should have done was not to keep going about Andrew's past jobs like it's all big news. Showing footage of his past doesn't make it any better and what's amazing the most is that the presenter doesn't seem all that offended at all or even notice the star and just carried on to embarrass him like he holds a grudge or something. This is not how interview someone who doesn't like to be ask personal questions and not leave it at that.

Overall even though the clip is very short, the presenter has no clue when to stop or how to ask questions carefully to a "touchy" guest and is either very rude or very stupid.

You can watch the clip here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdUzffvaz94

Second interview

T4 interview with Johnathan Rhys Meyers

The T4 presenter first starts the interview with a fact about the star she begins. It is the star of a very well-known drama The Tutors - just more about how King Henry the VIII ruled Britain, more history lessons without school and maybe more drama to get the audience. The presenter seems to be enthusiastic about the guest she is interviewing, keeping good eye contact as she talks to him.

She seems that she already done the main questions about the film Paris with Love becomes she says "I'm still joined by..." which meant the interview had been spilt up to two or three parts. This part is about to asking more questions like a game show with a cut-out hand as a prop. What is good is that the presenter warned the guest that there might be questions that are intense or inappropriate questions and that he is allowed to not answer them.

Overall a good interview since the presenter has good interview skills, she know when to stop when the guest doesn't want to answer and is able to use humour with her opinions but not offend the guest star.

You can watch the clip here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiRoDBAY1Tk

Interview Techniques & Do's and Don't of Interviewing People

- How important is it to have a good interview technique - why?

• Will be doing some during the college year
• Will want to get a job/new job
• First impression counts

DO'S

- Speak Clearly
- Be Interested in what your interviewee is saying
- Have good posture
- Keep eye contact
- Keep on topic/keep questions relevant
- Background research
- Be Confident

DON'TS

- Look at the camera
- Be aggressive/use bad language
- Make assumptions about your interviewee
- Have a hidden agenda
- Mumble
- Fidget

Review of a Review

I am going to a review of a review for Empire magazine for the film Thor.



DVD REVIEW



Thor

Star Rating: *****

Thor (Chris Hemsworth) is the would-be king of all of Asgard, one of the nine worlds of the universe. Problem was is that when his enemy the Frost Giants invaded his home while interrupted an important ceremony and decided to got his own back. Sadly his father who is the King of the Gods Odin banishes him for his arrogance and now Thor is stuck on Earth....

Here is another Marvel Comic made into movie only this time it's not remake like the Hulk with different actors with Chris Hemsworth as Thor, Anthony Hopkins as Odin, Natalie Portman as Jane Foster as well as Tom Hiddleston as Loki (Wallander) and Idris Elba as Heimdall (BBC's Luther)

Before I start this isn't you typical action movie, as well as being part of the famous comics. the characters themselves are heavily based in Norse Mythology which makes them more real to believe plus unlike the Hulk, Iron Man and Captain Amercia - Thor is an actual God, one of thunder at that.

It's pretty cool how the scenes keep changing from old times to the modern day and when near at the end, both worlds collide and the fight scenes that comes with it are amazing. Today work with special effects and CGI are worth the work otherwise the film would have looked rubbish and the costumes would have been made fun of.

Overall the film was worth watching and as a fun of Mythology itself it was pretty cool how they made the best of both worlds. Also this film makes the next coming movie The Avengers (2012) all the more worth to wait for all of the Marvel heroes to get together and kick some evil guy butt!

Pitch Presentation For Children's Drama

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Communication Skill Task Review

For this task I picked another Doctor Who Episode from the sixth series only instead of the the "Doctor's Wife" I picked the last one of the series which I think is the best finale so far - "The Wedding of River Song"

Doctor Who: The Wedding of River Song – series 32, episode 13

Doctor Who: The Wedding of River Song Photograph: Adrian Rogers/BBC Worldwide

SPOILER ALERT: This weekly blog is for those who have been watching the new series of Doctor Who. Don't read ahead if you haven't seen episode 13 – The Wedding of River Song   1

"You decided the universe was better off without you. The universe didn't agree."   2

The very best thing about this year's Doctor Who finale? How simple it all was. For all of the red herrings, teasing and the media storms about how complicated the show has become in the end everything played out pretty much as might have expected – if anything things were more simple than they might have been. 3

It was River in the spacesuit, she did kill the Doctor after her brainwashing at the hands of Madame Kovarian. And how did he cheat death? He miniaturised himself and hid inside the Tessalator robot from Let's Kill Hitler. Well of course he did!   

Not only does The Wedding Of River Song tie almost everything up, it moves along the bigger, 50-year story and effectively reboots the show. After seven years of saving the Earth/universe/future of humanity, The Doctor was in danger of becoming ubiquitous. Now, with everybody thinking he's dead, things will be different. Next year we will presumably be back to covert operations under cover of darkness. And that gives us somewhere new to go. 4

I admit that I am endlessly baffled by people who complain that Steven Moffat's version of the show lacks  heart, when Russell T Davies, celebrated for that sort of thing, was incapable of finishing on a happy ending. Like last year, we go out with the most uplifting sentiment you could imagine. 5

The Doctor, wallowing in guilt, had accepted the inevitability of his own death and even begun to believe that it was necessary. It's River, in a direct reverse of her speech at the end of A Good Man Goes to War, who gives him the shake he needs.

It's not quite as simple as being saved by the love of a good woman. Rather it's a a silly man being jolted out of his pit of self-obsession by the wife he needs – whether he realises it or not. It had shades of It's a  Wonderful Life in that sense. 6

But it also provided moments to make you leap off your sofa as the universe called out to The Doctor, snapping him out of his self-centred musings with such force that it triggered solar flares. (The same solar flares as in The Rebel Flesh?)

"The oldest question in the universe, hidden in plain sight." 7

I claim a gold star for calling out the question last week. I had no idea in advance, although in hindsight it was completely obvious. Yet here is another innovation. The title of the programme was originally a weird continuity quirk that has never actually made much sense. Now we learn that the show is now named after the Big Bad itself, which surely has to future-proof it for generations to come.

Other great things about this episode? Cars suspended from hot-air balloons. Pterodactyls in parks. Charles Dickens, Winston Churchill, the leader of the Roman empire, riding back into London on his mammoth.  8

Acresolution that allows Amy, Rory and River to stick around. And in a touching nod to Nicholas Courtney who died this year, news of the death of Brigadier Alastair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart. It is not just a throwaway line either – news of the death of his old friend makes the Doctor realise that all things must pass.

Fear factor

The Silence prove themselves to be more than a one-time threat, despite only doing one thing. When the tally marks appear on the Soothsayer Doctor's arms, we know we're in for trouble. And the sight of a whole gaggle of them on the ceiling of the atrium is splendidly horrifying. 9

Mysteries and questions

We've finished one lot of puzzles. Now it's time to start foreshadowing the events of Tranzalor and "the fall of the Eleventh". The long game leading up to Matt Smith's eventual departure has begun.

Time-space debris 10

• A Dalek! Much as they were beginning to feel tired, a Doctor Who finale without even a cameo would feel wrong.

• The eyepatches are revealed as "eye-drives" that enable the wearer to remember the Silence. "I've encountered them before, always wondered what they look like."

• Amy Pond shows some maternal badassery in not saving the life of Madame Kovarian. Once again, we see that there is nothing in the universe more fearsome than a mother's love. "River Song didn't get it all from you, sweetie."

• River has an off-screen standoff with Cleopatra, but last year we saw that Cleopatra actually was River. Timey wimey much?

• Rory is named by the Silence as "the man who dies and dies again," acknowledging his status as this show's Kenny from South Park.

• "You, me handcuffs – must it always end this way?" said River at the end of Flesh and Stone. And hey ho, in her timestream, this ending, with handcuffs, happened directly before that story.

• Did anyone else notice a nod to Battlefield with the Silence in the water tanks? The sequence where a stunt went wrong and Sylvester McCoy saved Sophie Aldred's life?

•Once again, a huge thank you to everybody who's come on each week and helped make blogging this series so much fun. Until we meet again, off you go…

Posted by Dan Martin Saturday 1 October 2011 19.50 BST guardian.co.uk

1. This part is where the writer tells the reader a warning that what they are about to read are spoilers and they are not good if anyone hasn’t seen the episode yet – not good at all!

2. A quote from the episode saying nobody would be happy if the Doctor dies – that goes for both the universe in the show and for the audience in general. Even since the re-launch of the whole programme in 2005, it has been a great success after 15 years of stopping making new episodes and I think the fans old and new would be sad if the programme stopped now.

  

3. The part where it says “how complicated the show has become” remains me of a news article about wherever or not the show should be dumbed down. The answer to that would be no because the show is meant to be full or words we don’t understand – it’s part of the Doctor’s character and if the producers make him dumber then he will be Doctor Who?

4. With the universe apart from a few people will know that the Doctor is dead, if we see a brand new series next year, it will be a new setting since the Doctor will now work in the dark, keeping the fake death a secret.

5. Here is something new that I learnt when I read this review, people complaining about the writer and about how the show lacks heart. This might be from older fans of the show as everyone is allowed an opinion however the writer Russell T. Davis is also praised for his work and that is good for any review: to point out the good and the bad.

6. This shows where a lot of people need their loved ones to help them snap out of either depression or rage – just like River Song did at the end of the first half of Series 6.

7. This quote is the “tagline” of the whole plot to the second side of Series 6 – the oldest question that the Doctor must never answer.

8. This is referred to when all history comes together – past, present and future. It gives us a look of "what if" all history came altogether at once and how life might have been if  it was real.

9. The Silence are the next Daleks or Cybermen and even though they only come for one series –when it comes villainous creatures, there nothing better than that especially hanging by the ceiling like vampires!

10. This remains me of outtakes or things that people might notice the most when it comes to errors. This section shows you what you might miss and what you won’t want to miss.

MY REVIEW OF THE REVIEW

This review is full of spoilers, for any fan they either love or hate instead of watching it beforehand. The writer is obviously a big fan of the show so the review is reviewed in a lot of good terms and quotes which is a good feature to as it makes me smile because I think back on that episode on other quotes that made me laugh. There is an error to this review that isn’t very important but I will say – the show has been around since 2005 so it has going on for 6 years not 7. It’ll only be 7 if it sticks around for another series next year 2012. This review is good but only for those who have seen the episode which in some ways isn’t good to read, there’s spoilers everywhere! Not good for those who never seen any episode in their life!

COMMUNICATION SKILLS

- Discuss the do's and don't's of presentation and communication skills
- To describe the different types of questioning
- To present a debate or discussion
- To type up notes on your blog and continue research on Children's Drama

DO'S

- SPEAK CLEARLY
- SIGN POST WHERE YOU ARE GOING WITH YOUR TOPIC
- GIVE EYE CONTACT
- KEEP IT INTERESTING
- SPEAK LOUDLY
- MOVE ABOUT WHEN IT'S APPROPRAITE
- KEEP IT SIMPLE
- DO SMILE
- KNOW WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT
- BE PERPARED
- PROOF READ BEFORE HAND
- GET THE AUDIENCE INVOLVED
- HAVE APPROPARTE CLOTES
- DO A PRACTISE RUN


DON'T'S

USE LOTS OF ANIMATION
USE UNECSSARY COLOURS/IMAGES
HIDE BEHIND SHEETS
SWEAR/INNAPPROPRIATE LANGUAGE
BE DRUNK/ILL PREPARED
DON'T TRIVIALISE - KEEP IT SIMPLE
DON'T DO A MONOTONE
DON'T OVERDRAMATISE OR OVER-EMPHASISE
DON'T FIDGET
DON'T HAVE AN AWKWARD SITUATION/SILENCE
DON'T HAVE YOUR BACK TO THE AUDIENCE

QUESTION TYPES

DESCRIPTON	“Tell me about……”
DEFINITION	“What do you understand by……?”
EXPLANATION	“Why do you find “X” interesting?”
EXEMPLIFICATION	“Can you give me an example of…..?”
COMPARISON	“What differences do you see between “X” and “Y”?”
OPINIONS	“What do you think about……?”
MERITS/PITFALLS	“What are the advantages/disadvantages of……?”