Final Project Promo: "Do you know how long it used to take?"

This is the promo to my final project



Script:

Uploading this photo is taking forever!

Do you know how long it used to take?

"You either sent the film out to a photo lab off campus or if you were a good enough photographer you'd develop the film on campus, so the whole process could take about 2 to 3 hours"

Attend the listening session at AUC's New Cairo campus on Sunday December 12^th and Wednesday December 15^th at 10 am each day in the BEC building.

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This is the raw interview that I got the quote in the promo from

Script:

My name is Firas Alatraqchi I've been a journalist for 18 years, I've worked as a journalist in the Middle East and North America, most recently I've worked at Al Jazeera English, as the online senior editor in charge of convergence, and I'm an AUC alumnus.

I went to AUC in 1989, graduated from physics in February 94, I was editor in chief of the caravan at that time so I did my masters in journalism and I graduated in 1997.

Fortunately by the time that I got into the caravan, a few years prior to that they had stopped using actual, I don’t even know what its called, using printing press technology where they actually get letters and line them up and you know the old way of printing newspapers that was radically changed with computing. 

The way that the layout was done was pretty much the same as it is now although with a lot more limitations, we were using a program at the time called ready set go 123, something like that, I think it was a precursor to excel, not really sure, of course In Design is a lot easier to use now.

One thing that stands out as a huge difference is obviously the time it took  to take a picture and get it into the newspaper, right now you can take a picture and within 5 minutes have it uploaded…sorry downloaded onto your computer and ready to be uploaded to a website or to be used as a part of the graphic design of your newspaper, whereas before you either sent the film off to a photo lab off campus or if you were a good enough photographer you would develop the film on campus, so the whole process could take *cough* two to three hours, obviously that’s 175 minutes longer than it does take now, so computers weren’t as advanced, weren’t as fast, of course there was word processing and all that, some of the professors in 1992-1993 were still using typewriters, so you know I think a few students don’t even know what a type writer is right now.

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Attend the Listening Session, at AUC's New Cairo campus on Sunday, December 12 and Wednesday, December 15 at 10 a.m. each day in the BEC building, room 1060.

Public Service Announcement for the Corporate Governance Club

APPLY ONLINE : cgc.auc.@gmail.com
FOR MORE DETAILS CALL : 0107107117


SCRIPT:

Tired of corrupt organizations?

Do you know if they're being monitored?

Want to know what's being done?

Visit the corporate governance club booth in front of the BEC building and sign yourself up for lectures and learn about the policies of corporate governance, who they apply to and how the policies will change the corporate world!

Sign up for a 2 day training session and take a corporate governance exam for the chance to win up to 6000 pounds.

Public Service Announcement for the Corporate Governance Club

APPLY ONLINE : cgc.auc.@gmail.com
FOR MORE DETAILS CALL : 0107107117


SCRIPT:

-Tired of corrupt organizations?

-Do you know if they're being monitored?

-Want to know what's being done?

Visit the corporate governance club booth in front of the BEC building and sign yourself up for lectures and learn about the policies of corporate governance, who they apply to and how the policies will change the corporate world!

Sign up for a 2 day training session and take a corporate governance exam for the chance to win up to 6000 pounds.

Technology Podcast

We were asked to record a broadcast with a topic related to technology, I had to rant about my phone.



Script:

Hi Everyone,

When I was told I had to record a podcast about technology, I could only think of one thing that’s been driving me insane lately, my phone.

My name is Gaser El Safty, and I'm going to rant about Blackberries.

I never liked this phone to begin with, I never even knew what It could do, but I was first introduced to it as more of a trend than a piece of hardware, they were everywhere, the red LED  light, that annoying *Ring*, it drove me insane.  I even took up an article to compare it to an iPhone.

Eventually that same newspaper I wrote the article for drove me to buying a Blackberry.  After I did my research turns out the phone had internet access, emails come to you as if text messages, facebook, twitter, and of course since everyone else has it; BBM.

So to be fair I'll first say what's good about this phone,

Having internet access all the time is very convenient, I'd check the news through Google or BBC on the way to school, there's an application for AP that’s also very useful, I've even come across other apps like 'CircleTie' that locates all restaurants, cafes, and cinemas around  you, and gives you their address and phone number.

Since blackberry messenger is free once you subscribe to the blackberry service, you can endlessly chat to anyone on your list, anywhere in the world provided they have their blackberry service operating as well.

Sounds convenient right?

Wrong

It's how you willingly open the door to hoards and hoards of spam, just continuously overflowing you're email inbox, pointless broadcasts about things you couldn’t care less about, and facebook with all its application requests.  Honestly, twitters, getting constant updates from people is exactly what I DON’T want from technology.

So you would say if the phone ringing so much is so annoying, why not put the phone on silent?

Out of 20 times your phone rings, only once or twice does it actually concern you, and if you got this phone for work purposes, needing to send emails back and forth between your boss and peers, it defeats the damn purpose if you don’t get it instantly.

And some things just weren’t meant to be instant, how am I supposed to read through 27 emails sent between yesterday and today?  For the very first time when I look through my emails on my laptop, my inbox looks worse than my junk mail.

In conclusion I'll have to admit this phone has been useful at times, but think of it like bugs in software, it still needs some fining tuning and tweaking, in this case, for causing severe irritation.

Listening Journal #2

NPR hourly newscast

Anchor: Lak Shmee Sing

Reporters:  Yuki Niguchi, Tom Bowman, Dwahili Sao Kao Tao,

Length: 4:46

The newscast had really good quality sound, I didn’t find it hard understanding anything that was said, the pace was fair, if it was any slower it would get monotonous and boring.
It contained American news concerning unemployment, a sound bite that contained an excerpt of Obama's speech, and it's worth mentioning that the excerpt was mastered as to not sound disorienting when shifting between the anchor and the speech.
Each story is first set up by the anchor and then you get a reporter from the corresponding country going into more depth about the story.
The news cast also included reports from china about the Nobel peace prize, economic news and a report from Seoul about the leader's son.
There were no Nat sounds at all in the newscast; maybe if there were more it could've been a little bit more interesting.

BBC newscast

Anchor: Nick Kelly

Reporters: Nick Thorp, Nicholas Whitchel, James Copnell

Length: 5 minutes

Stories: Hungarian toxic sludge, rescue shaft in Chili (health minister in Spanish translation in English), British aid worker captured in Afghanistan Dies, insurgents ambush group of Italian soldiers from NATO, Pakistani government, United Nations talks on climate change, clash in Khartoum, update from Chili, Indonesia former playboy editor taken into custody

This newscast felt more official than NPR; there was more news in there even though there were 3 reporters and an anchor in both newscasts.
It involved news from Hungary about the toxic sludge, news from Chili about a rescue shaft being dug for the miners who've been trapped in a collapsed mine and Afghanistan where a captured British aid worker dies and insurgents ambushing Italian NATO soldiers, among others.
It was impressive seeing an update come in later during the newscast about Chili, but there was no mention of any sports or business news.