visual references - News unit

Our story for our live news section is the effects of the bursary cuts that have recently happened to student nurses. This happened in early 2017 and we already have a BBC report that we can use as secondary data. As well as this we though because in effect the wound is still fresh as it were, that people would would want to come forth and speak about it. Not only this but because it happened relatively recently it can still be treated as "current affairs" as such.



Now that our story had been confirmed we just needed to construct a website and youtube channel around this story that would fit with the theme and topic of the live section. Originally there were a few ideas thrown around for example a news outlet that concentrates specifically on medical staff etc for example the strike by the junior doctors not too long ago. However we found that that would be too specific and would be hard to find constant current news for. Also the target audience would be job specific which in the real world would jeopardise viewing numbers by excluding anyone who isn't involved in a medical field of work.


That is when we thought of the idea of a student channel which would have several sections in it, but student news being one of them (where the student nurse bursary cut comes in). The next challenge was to decide what to put in the youtube episode that would meet all the criteria. George came up

with the idea of a cheap tech review along the lines of what lots of popular youtubers do however instead of the latest iphones it would be tech and gadgets that students on a budget can afford. There was some debate between which would be better to review, wireless headphones or a bluetooth speaker that you could stick to any surface for the shower. The decision fell on the speaker as we all decided that we could do a lot more with comedic effect and the "cool factor" with the speaker than we could with the headphones. Initial ideas were george in the shower with a shower cap, a rubber duck and graphics being written in the condensation on the shower door.  Next was the other tech section which would be a weekly DIY section. This week it was a home made projector for your smartphone.


George did some research online for fun do it yourself projects that we knew students would like and most likely use, and a projector from a shoe box seemed both quirky and useful. So we made note of the steps needed to make it and decided that it was simple enough to be able to do ourselves as well
as film. We attempted to make one first however that didn't quite work as well as we had hoped, so further on down the line we tried again but this time with a narrower, more compact shoebox, and it worked!