JOUR602 Reflective Blog

  This week in class we continued the audio component of the course. We discussed mobile journalism, otherwise known as Mojo. Mojo is an innovative form of reporting where people only use a cell phone to create and file stories (Burum & Quinn, 2015). This week we were given two pre-recorded interviews and asked to choose one to edit into an audio news piece. I chose an interview with someone who found an orca whale washed up on Mission Bay Beach. After editing the interview, we were asked to write an intro to the interview. I found this task pretty straightforward, as it was quite a simple writing task. Burum, I. & Quinn, S. (2015). MOJO: The Mobile Journalism Handbook: How to Make Broadcast Videos with an iPhone or iPad  

This week in class we started the audio component of the course. Audio is a very valuable form of media communication. Many people get their news from radio and it is a platform that allows for more creative forms of storytelling than print news. Our class task was to record and edit an interview of one of our classmates. The interviewee was asked to share a moment when they thought they were really "done for". Me and Matt interviewed each other, then we edited down each other's interviews and wrote a small intro to the edited audio clip. 

  This week I was not in class as I was working on an assignment, but the focus of the tutorial was continuing the previous week’s module on photojournalism. This week was about captions. There are two types of captions - atelic captions, which describe an ongoing process in a general way, without invoking its possible goal, end point or culmination; and stative captions which evoke conditions rather than activities for example, “Names are etched on a wall” or “the building towers over the skyline”. 

Pictured above is a Kiwirail locomotive. Trains in Auckland have been running at a highly reduced frequency due to a major $330 million rebuild project going along with Kiwirail's Carbon Zero programme. The work is expected to be completed by the end of 2025. Kiwirail Communications Manager, Jo Reeves, says that the work is being done to ensure that the City Rail Link is able to run at “maximum efficiency” by “ upgrading and constructing a number of lines ”. Some members of the public, like Shamsul Shah, are asking for more frequent replacement buses in the case of future rail closures. Kiwirail is aiming to reduce carbon emissions from trains by electrifying Auckland's rail network. This is part of a major rebuild project which is estimated to be completed by the end of 2025 and expected to cost $330 million. This is to go along with Kiwirail’s Carbon Zero Programme, designed to reduce carbon emissions by 30 percent by 2030, and then to zero percent by 2050. Kiwirail Communica...