I have been thinking long and hard about how to present my factual story - it's much more difficult than I thought!
I finally found my story. I knew I wanted something that was very interesting and emotional at the same time. Both my father and grandmother almost died during my dad's birth due to a condition that is very preventable nowadays. When I was discussing the project with my family, my dad gave me the idea and I'm glad that I chose it. Having a great story to tell has made me much more motivated to do the best I can possibly do, but as a result, this assignment is all I can think about. Eeek!
After listening to the sound lecture, I'm really interested in using a voice recording to present my story. The sound lecture gave me some really great ideas about how to be personal and curious and educational. I listen to quite a bit of radio from time to time and I think it's a great way to tell a story but I wouldn't know whether to do it in an interview style or just have the person who's story it is tell the story or tell the story myself. It's tricky to decide which would be the most appropriate format.
I gave some thought to presenting it in a photo gallery accompanied by voice recordings but there are not enough photos from that time to present it properly. We are also able to do a video recording but since my father lives in a different country, I wouldn't be able to film it myself, so that is no longer an option.
I would love to be able to sound since I haven't worked much with sound in the past - I've mainly focused on text and video based media so I think it would be a great opportunity to try something new. I'm in the brainstorming process right now and I hope to have a plan ASAP :)
In other news, I have also been using my twitter account a bit more so I'm happy with myself for that since it was one of my aims after doing the media usage/production diary. It's actually been a lot of fun and I'm happy with the people who I'm following at the moment - I've got a great mix between obviously my JOUR1111 classmates, comedians, actors, news presenters, news sources, etc. So there's always something interesting to read.
I've also been having a great time over the holidays because I'm finally able to catch up on what's going on around the world. I love having the time to read more than one news story a day.
One story that caught my eye was the story about how many miners are quitting their jobs due to the brutal conditions they face whilst working. The link to the story was "Miners: We fly in, we fly out... We quit." I think since mining is becoming such a huge industry in Australia at the moment, we really need to be taking care of our miners and making sure their mental health is well looked after. According to the story, written by Anthony Deceglie, six figure salaries are not enough to stop one in three miners from quitting within a year. Problems such as binge drinking and drug usage have also been affecting workers at the mines. I think this statistic is very worrying. I have friends who are doing mining in university and whilst they may be doing more of the office work they are still on site and thus susceptible to these problems also. I hope the mining companies find a way to balance work and play for these miners in a healthy manner. I think it's good for the public to have awareness about this issue because then the mining companies will be questioned and forced to review the situation and find a solution.
Read more of the story here: http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/fly-in-fly-out-workers-quitting-hard-life/story-e6frg12c-1226326651683
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