Week Nine

Press freedom remains the main important  base of any democratic country sadly though other journalists have lost their lives in the quest to achieve this freedom. I have included a video of  US president Barack Obama signing the press freedom act which is honour of Daniel Pearl who was brutally murdered in the name of investigative journalism which lead him to his tragic death.This week fortunately there were no lectures, you would think that after a vacation one would return rejuvenated but sadly that is not always the case. This week I decided to catch up on work that I had missed and to start brainstorming ideas for our final assignment and to add gadgets on my blog. I can't wait for the weekend to start I'm finished already :((

Protecting Press Freedoms Worldwide

WEEK EIGHT

My week began with taking my Grandmother to hospital but fortunately she is not that ill because it was for her usuall checkup. Our tutorial task for this week was to practice making a movie using a programme called openshot we had the opportunity to explore all the fuctions that it had like the razor blade which allows you to be a real movie director and cut out whatever you do not want. We also had to have a song that goes along with your chosen photographs and we had to create another track to accomodate the song. Unfortunately though I thought I had saved my work but I didn't and when I got back It was gone so now I'm going to have to do t again and this time i'll save it on my my USB but there is no stress because I really enjoyed playing a movie director.

WEEk SEVEN

This week made me realise how much work I needed to catch up on. I mainly did research about our articles focusing on our group title of pros and cons of the media appeals tribunal and the protection of information bill and I found some interesting arguments between political parties. apparently the protection of information bill is not aimed at covering up wrong doings but to protect information that might pose a threat to national security.  Therefore for example if this bill is approved a ministers whereabouts would not be enclosed, not just general whereabouts but details of accommodation in hotels and travel even though it is detected that they might be travelling more or using excessive amounts of tax payers monies. There if that minister is misusing the funds the public will not now about it because disclosing such information may pose a threat to their personal security. Therefore this protection of information bill will be biased and one sided since the public has the right to know if their money Is being misused. Other things that I had to do this week or that were done was uploading our first draft as a group which was successfully done. We also worked with openshot which was a bit challenging at first but I ended up enjoying it. it kinda made me feel a bit like some movie director or producer but it was a nice fun experience. The sad thing though is that I saved my work in the desktop that I was using since I lost my USB and when I came back to watch it again IT WAS GONE :(( so I'm kinda sad about that but on the bright side without the strikes interference I had a good week.