Completed:

- Documentary proposal

- Running sheet

- Got 3 interviews, need 3 – 4 more

What needs to be done:

- Prepare script draft

- Organise interviews for Saturday

Working Title: “Bennettswood Tennis club”

Aim:

To inform and expose the Bennettswood Tennis club out to the local public around the East Burwood area and to show how the club has influence towards local community.

Duration: 10 –12 minutes

Content:

- Profiling Bennettswood Tennis Club

- How the club has effect on the community

- How the club survived over the years

Key questions:

- How the club has effect on the locals

- Vox pop on the players.

- The troubling times

- Ask how the club was close of merging with Blackburn South Tennis Club

- Player’s opinion of the issue

- The club’s recent achievements and their goals/aims in the new summer 2008/09 season

Interview Sources:

- Club players

- Head of the club

- Long life members

Actuality:

- Grunting

- Ball hits tennis racquet (Groundstrokes, serve hits)

- Crowd clapping

- Music

1. The Land of the Mobile Millionares. – BBC

Content:

The documentary is about the rise of current number one mobile phone company giant Nokia. And how the phone giant itself become a global phenomenon

Structure:

The documentary started off with the brief background history of the company as a Finnish Rubber company that produces car/bike tires, footwear, and personal communication items such as capacitors and cables. From here onwards the documentary expands itself on to the current present day of Nokia. The BBC also investigates how the economy in Finland is running with Nokia dominating in the Finnish market.

Production Techniques

The start of this documentary started with excerpts of the interview taken off the documentary and overlaying with the presenter voice over. Other sound effects include the Nokia trademark ringtone. Interviews mostly done with Nokia past board members, with most of them telling the presenter of how the company grows over the years.

Other techniques also used are the vox pops which mainly are done with the Finnish locals living nearby where Nokia and often found ones that lived during the period where Nokia grew its status in the early days.

Web: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/documentary_archive/7030459.stm

2. The Presidential Contenders: Barack Obama. – BBC

Content

A story that revolves around United States Presidential candidate Barack Obama from his early days of childhood to history maker of becoming the first African-American US Presidential candidate.

Structure

The documentary is very chronological beginning with an audio excerpts of one of Obama’s inspirational speech to the public before going in-depth into his life, starting from his early life where he experienced identity crisis from his parents background and living/growing up in Hawaii and Indonesia. From here it goes through on his college life and the beginning of his politic career, which ended up where he is today.

Production Techniques

Audio excerpts from one of Obama’s speech was used to start off the documentary following the presenter voice over to open the documentary account. Interviews were mostly done on the people behind the success on Obama’s campaign. There were also public opinions telling BBC how he inspires everyone around the world and his ambition to change America.

Web: http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/documentaries/2008/08/080820_presidential_contenders_obama.shtml

3. Quiet Please – February 2007 BBC

Web: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/documentary_archive/6431951.stm

Content

A documentary that analyzes about the psychology of crowd noise in sport, and also going into how it can change/affect the team’s performance.

Structure

The structure is out of order starting with audio excerpts taken off a variety of spectactors clapping, boo-ing, cheering, chanting and abusing referees. After that it began with an interview with a famous British Cricket bat maker telling the presenter how Cricket bat noise can have effect on the game and among the supporters watching. After that the story is investigated further by interviews with sport psychology experts and along with supporters of different sports giving their own point of view in this issue.

Production techniques

The production techniques mostly are audio excerpts taken off various sports along with spectators boo-ing, cheering or chanting.

The interviews are very detailed with each part broken up in many parts and each of its segments go for around 30-40 second each.

1. Early in the film one of the characters laughingly talks about putting on a program called ‘The Death Hour.’ Can you give any modern examples of the sort of thing he was talking about?

- Cops

- Police files unlocked

- Border security

- The Force

2. While the station head does not want the Howard Beale incident to interfere with the stockholders meeting he also complains about the cost of the news division. Can you give a recent Australian example of where ‘news’ or ‘current affairs’ has been cut by a network.

Three Shows from the Nine Network:

- Nightline

- Sunday

- The Nation

3. What was the Symbionese Liberation Army mentioned in the film? Who was Patty Hearst?

The Symbionese Liberation Army was mentioned in the film because the group were involved in an infamous April 1974 Hibernia Bank robbery, San Francisco, which shows Patty Hearst, an American news heiress, socialite and occasional actress, was involved in the act with the other members of the Symbionese Liberation Army.

4. What does the Faye Dunaway character propose for a series?

She propose a series where someone takes footage of urban-terrorist, the Symbionese Liberation Army, robbing banks and the story goes on from there onwards.

5. ‘The news division produces the lowest return’ according to Robert Duvall’s character. ‘We’re running a news division not a circus,’ says Glen Ford. Explain the two points of view.

6. One of the characters says while laughing at Howard Beale’s rant, ‘I can’t help it, it’s funny.’ How does this encapsulate the dilemma.

7. ‘I think we’ve lucked onto something,’ says Faye Dunaway. What?

it means they’ve hit the target on getting more viewers and increase of ratings by using Howard Beale and people are tuning in to him.

8. Is there anyone NOW on radio and TV like Howard Beale?

Bill O’Reilly – The O’Reilly Factor

9. ‘TV is show business.’ Explain how we see examples of that nowadays.

10. ‘The tube is the gospel,’ says Howard. What does he mean?

Howard Beale mention “The tube is the gospel” because these days many people watch Television everyday and often they believe on what they see and hear on it.

11. ‘Television is not true.’ Is it?

12. Explain how ownership – especially by corporations can affect the news. Can you think of recent examples of this?

The eight of the eight of 2008 is the day where the world comes together in harmony and peace. It is the Games of the 29^th Olympiad in Beijing, China. With the opening ceremony a week away, the Chinese shows their passion & excitement and ready to welcome everyone from around the world.

The preparation leading up to the games has somewhat been sour. Many controversy surround China on whether they should host the Olympics. Issues of Tibet, pollution, and a boycott possibility were mentioned.

And recently there’s a new one that’s just surfaced.

When we witnessed what was told to be one of the best opening ceremonies out of any Olympic games in the history, yet we were fooled, yes we were totally fooled.

In every opening ceremony of any sporting event everything was done right on the spot and shown live on television. In Beijing they do it differently. All the fireworks display were done pre-recorded and the 29 footprints that are shown walking towards the Birds Nest Stadium were computer generated. The biggest bombshell came when it was revealed, Lin Miaoke, the little girl who sang “Ode to the Motherland” was infact lyp-syncing throughout the whole entire song. The reason behind this was because of Miaoke’s cuteness appearance was preferred more rather than it’s actual performer, Yang Peinyi, who’s less attractive.

Though China tries to show the world its compassion yet they have simply gone too far by making the Olympics like running under a dictatorship.

Another reason is the threat of terrorism has really played major part of the games and security is forced to be taken to the next level. Tanks, guns you name it, were provided everywhere around Beijing and many tourist are finding it hard to enjoy the atmosphere and are scared to go out on the city.

I hope this wouldn’t happen in London in 2012 and hoping we can go back to the old tradition Olympics, where everything runs smoothly.

Has channel 9 really lost it? Rather than playing blockbuster films it filled the 8:30 – 10:30pm Sunday night slot with CSI and CSI:Miami, although they show these on either Thursday & Friday nights. Don’t they think people get sick of watching more of CSI on Sunday nights? Surely, many viewers would prefer to see a film or a family show in that time slot. I hope Channel 9 can go back to its old days where films were featured on Sunday nights.

Josh Sadli

a) What is the CBAA? What does the CBAA do?

Community Broadcasting Association of Australia. The CBAA is the national representative organisation for Community Radio and TV stations in Australia. CBAA provides leadership and support to members to provide independent broadcasting services and strengthen local communities.

b) What is ACMA? What does it do?

Australia Communications And Media Authority. ACMA regulates broadcasting of Radio & TV and also regulates contents on Internet in Australia

c) What do the sponsorship guidelines for community stations allow in its key points?

- Ensures that sponsorship will not be a factor in determining access to broadcasting time.

- Ensures that the content and style of individual programs is not influenced by the sponsors of programs.

- Ensures that overall programming of community broadcasting stations is not influenced by sponsors.

d) What constitutes advertising according to ACMA?

- material broadcast a substantial purpose of which is to draw public attention to, or to promote, directly or indirectly, an organisation, a product, service, belief or course of action; and

- consideration has been provided by or on behalf of an organisation or a supplier of the product or service toa licensee, or to a presenter, or an associate of a presenter for the broadcast of that material.

e) What are the key features of a sponsorship announcement?

- Sponsorship announcements can only run up to 5 minutes in any hour of Community Radio and 7 minutes in Community Television.

- Sponsorship promotes events, products, services or programs of the sponsor, provided that it contains acknowledgement of financial support by the sponsor or program licensee

f) Why do community stations have to run sponsorship announcements rather than advertising?

Because they get profits out of it and presenters get some pay out of it off their shows by the sponsor that sponsors their shows. Another reason of why Community Radio run sponorship is also to raise their revenue.

g) What material does not amount to broadcasting of advertising and what other items are community licensees permitted to broadcast?

h) What sort of complaints about community broadcasters have been investigated by ACMA?

i) What are the following:

a. DDN – Digital Delivery Network works with the CRN satellite feed and can do quite a few exciting things for your station.

b. Community Broadcasting Foundation – An independent non-profit agency that distributes funds to development & maintenance of Broacasting Community Radio in Australia.

c. C Pod – A podcasting content from the CBAA that allows members of CBAA to broadcast wide range variety of Australian Community Broadcasters online.

Name: Joshua Sadli

Who will you interview?

Jonathan Menner

Tell me something about the interview and why you have chosen them?

I chose him because my interviewee is from England and he has a great knowledge of the issue. He is also a passionate supporter of Newcastle United & Melbourne victory.

What issue will you tackle?

Football Hooliganism (football as in soccer)

Why? Football hooliganism has basically taken over the world by storm. Where supporters cause fights mostly towards oppositions fans.

What question will you ask:

1. Intro: Define the meaning of Football hooliganism.

2. With this problem growing. How do you think it can be ended?

3. Often the violence starts with the fans of either side. But why does this happen a lot. Is it because of the game itself a boring blank scoreboard, or can it be the referee giving bad decision or is there something else in it?

4. Should Football clubs do something about this? In terms of protecting its supporters from getting into trouble?

5. Do you reckon this sort of violence has really changed the reputation of the game in the eyes of the public?

6. In the Italian league the competition had games played behind closed doors do you think this sort of punishment should also be placed here also in Australia with the Hyundai A-league if the violence goes over the top?

Supplementary questions.

1. In the recent A- league season during the Melbourne Victory vs Sydney FC game last year, and you were there I belive, was there actually fights taking place and police were forced to use capsicum spray to control the crowd?

2. Has the media really treated football here in Australia unequally and are more in favour towards AFL football?

What other research do you need to do? this may determine whether you change your questions.

I need to know more about it on reading articles relating to this issue thorugh newspapers, internet,and books. And study the film Green Street Hooligans

examples:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/7456386.stm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Catania_football_violence

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/6326513.stm

Name of the program: BBC Radio – The Interview.

Presenter: Owen Bennett-Jones.

Interviewee: Richard Branson, multi billionare entrepreneur and founder of the Virgin group.

Subject of the Interview: The reason why this interview was conducted because the interviewer wants to find out the recipe success that made what Richard Branson is today, a self-made multi billionare. And he also likes to know his interviewee, Branson, more in depth in terms of his life, from childhood to present day, and also to give us of his future development project of space flight.

Style of the Interview: The style itself overall is very chronologically done. Everything is done in order. Starting from talking about his childhood life right through to who he is today and concluding with Branson mentioning his future plans & projects. The Interviewer, Owen Bennett-Jones, was very relaxing and engaging well with the Interviewee. To sum this up overall the interview isn’t anything like confrontational or combative but I can describe it as like a very enjoyable, easy listen and relaxing interview.

What do you think of the Interview?

It was kind of hard to tell about whether the interview itself it’s a “hard” based. Though it’s very informatively based personality type. And overall the interview is good and both the interviewer, Bennett-Jones, and interviewee, Branson, spoke very clearly and good commmunication link up.

Sporting Scandals

I recently tuned into the BBC radio world services documentary and I listened to a two-part documentary series of top 10 sporting scandals that rock the world from the Tour De France doping scandal, Italian Seri A football match fixing scandal, Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson 1988 Seoul Olympic scandal and many more.

The documentary overall is enjoyable to listen to. The presenter tone is very clear and informative to each of the 10 scandals he reads to its listeners. The counting down of the scandals reminds me of the 20 to 1 style except in this one on each of the scandals it goes more in-depth with interviews, audio highlights, and

news reading audio archives that relates to the individual scandal. Though at times they can tend to go too long which in my case is the disadvantage such as the Chicago White Sox Baseball team scandal rated no 2 in the list was somehow too long and can make audience feel tired of listening to it while on the other scandals they are  informative but on this one is very informative.

To sum this up its a good documentary to have a listen to, mostly towards sports fan, and the program itself is very chronologically done.