Production of the News Report

I decided earlier on that I was going to use Youtube clips as the main base of my news report as in the future, footage will be less polished, faster to view and can be discarded just as easily. Also as the video will be less sophisticated due to the clips, it will give the impression this report can be on the watch itself and that is the way our society is going these days.
First I planned out exactly what I wanted to say in the report, so I wrote a script for it, which can be seen below:

“It has been 10 years since the invention of the world’s first teleportation watch. It invented by a Norwegian company called TeLep in their labs in Oslo. The watch has changed the way we travel and interact in the world. When the watch was first shown, many people thought this technology would not take off, but the critics were proved wrong.

The way in which the watch works is that the user shall select a location by either typing in the co-ordinates or through the user interface, which will show a map of the world that you zoom into and pick your destination, (A bit like Google Earth). Once the location has been confirmed, the user shall press the button on the side and its will active the scan. The watch shall digitally scan your DNA and atomic structure, along with your emotions and memories and store them. Like the wireless technology, the data shall be sent by a digital signal to the required location. There, the watch shall rebuild the atoms back together and download the memories back into the brain, as the brain is made up of electrical messages anyway. Once the download is complete, the user is able to explore their present location.

And to think 10 years ago this is idea was revolutionary, but this is how people travel in today’s society. When the first watches came out it was retailing at around 50,000 pounds a watch. These days they came be purchase for as little as 100 pound. They began to become mainstream about 3 years after the invention, and now have made cars and airplanes, almost obsolete. Though with any new inventions there was some major problems:

The business of monitoring the movement of people as they came in and out of the country was an issue? There would be so coming and going from each country, no one would have a nationality and the population would rapidly change every hour rather than over a decade or so. In order to monitor to the control of people, there could be certain locations i.e. travelports, which are like airports. You would have to be check before travel and only allowed to travel to a location that you would have pre-booked. It would help the environment as there would be less fuel emissions made by transportation. National travel would not require monitoring, as like driving a car, you don’t need anyone’s permission to do that.

When the watches became more mainstream, the increase the crime rates and terrorist actions occurred. This technology made it virtually impossible to catch criminals, as they would constantly move if they felt threaten. Also terrorists were being able to enter a location, plant an explosive and teleport away before they would even be detected in the building. With the crime aspect, the police now are properly have weapons that can trap the criminal in a force field that has be laid for them when they arrive. The travelports have stop people illegally travelling internationally, but houses and buildings were at risk. As well as burglary alarms, people have a focus field that stops unauthorised people teleporting in. In order to do so, you must have the correct ID, which is like a key. Guests would teleport outside the building then personally be invited in. If you were to lose your watch, it would stop working, as each one is program to your genetic make-up of your skin. If you took it off to shower it would not work until you placed it back on your wrist. That would stop people stealing your identity.

One main problem was that some of the watches malfunctioned during teleport. What would happen if the watch malfunctioned? What would people do if they turned up with half their memories missing, or vital atoms that are needed for life? There were different reactions built in to stop this action. If the battery was below the required amount, it would not teleport. If the signal were to become broken, it would be sent to a special area, like a hospital, where all your records are kept. They are update every time you teleport, so you wouldn’t lose any memory nor limb. Once they restored you, the user would be able to move on to their required location.
Telep have become one of the biggest companies in the world, and today they are constantly invention new product for the market and tweaking the original telep watch that made them famous. And who knows what new technology will they invent that might change our society and lives forever.”

Once I had written this, I was able to record me speaking the script. When I first recorded the audio, it was scratchy and un-polished, yet when I recorded a video my voice became clearer. I also kept messing up the script and have to many takes. This part told a lot longer than I anticipated as I thought I could just improvise, but this wasn’t the case.

After the plan and voice were finished, I set about searching the web for the perfect images and pictures that would fit perfectly to the report. It was hard as the really good ones were either copy write on them or you had to pay. Though eventually I managed to find some clips that could be edited and twisted so it relates to my report. There was a really good one for the travelport shot as it was a computer simulation of an airport, which fitted perfectly with the voiceover

I decided to also do a little advert to show how their marketing scheme looked like. I took an existing Nike advert and cut it up so the woman looks like she is teleporting across the screen whilst on the move. I liked the white background too as it had the same visually look as the poster I had created. The advert can be seen from below:



The hardest part for me was getting the sync between the clips and the voiceover just right. In some place it is a bit slow and not fast pace enough. But I believe I had done my best to display this technology in the best light. If I had more time, I would have re-recorded the voiceover and had a greater majority of clips to choose from in the beginning. I have enjoyed this project as it has allowed me to think about how technology could affect our lives and change the way we live. My final outcome can be viewed here:

http://www.megavideo.com/?v=0IR0O1W0