Reaction to the budget cuts

For the Digital Newsroom Video Skills Test I was required to shoot a short MCU video interview which was to be 30 seconds in length.For this video I used Windows Movie Maker. I spoke with Carole Hardy, who works for the Lancashire Constabulary, to find her opinion of the Government's announcement that upto 500,000 public sector jobs could be lost by 2015.

An interview with Mark Payton, Editorial Editor of Haymarket Consumer Media

Mark Payton is the Editorial Editor of Haymarket Consumer Media. In the video featured below he discusses the impact digital journalism has had on the company. Our task was to edit the video down to a length of no more of 35 seconds.

Lancashire County Council - image skills test

For the Digital Newsroom Image Skills Test I was asked to take an image of a location, I chose Lancashire County Council. After taking the image I then had to use Photoshop Elements to crop the images to certain specifications in jpeg format.

The original image of Lancashire County Council - County Hall in jpeg format.

This is an image of Lancashire County Council - County Hall 400 x 300 pixels in jpeg format.

This is an image of Lancashire County Council - County Hall 100 x 100 pixels in jpeg format.

This is an image of Lancashire County Council - County Hall 200 x 500 pixels in jpeg format.

Lancashire Evening Post news locations from Wednesday 13th October

For a Digital Newsroom Exercise I was asked to find four news stories from one edition of the Lancashire Evening Post. Each story had to be suitable to be placed on a map. I then had to create a Custom Google Map with all four locations displayed on the map along with links to the LEP site and a related site. I found the process quite staightforward and easy to complete. The most difficult part of the exercise was learning to put the map onto a blog but even that was fairly simple.

Below is my Custom Google Map with 4 News Story Locations from the Lancashire Evening Post clearly marked.



View LEP News Story Locations from Wednesday October 13th 2010 in a larger map

The Original Photograph of UCLAN.

I cropped the image down to 100 x 100 .

I the re-cropped the original to 400 x 300.