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This is my overview of the project.

I really think that projects are important for english classes in order to keep us entertained and not working with theory all the time.

I found the project nice, as we really felt as we were in the environment of a news team. It made us think we were working for a team thing, so that made the whole class work as one for the same objective, and that really is fulfilling.

It also had its bad aspects regrettably. It is very hard to make a project, which involves many people, work perfectly. I believe that making a 1 hour news project, even if we have one year for its creation, is a hard task for 2 bachillerato students, as we have no means for making it efficiently, and that makes it hard to complete. I think we tried to do the project as we were professionals (the language used was not appropriate for a school news program) and for me, that was not the objective of the project. If we had done it more simple, all the development of the project would have been better.

I think that this project has its potential, but still has things to be solved.

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During the year I think many of us have had doubts that it was possible to complete this project, due to it's great amount of complexity and the great amount of work we would have to put into it, given the fact that this is a very challenging year for us and English is a subject which is not our number one priority taking into account the great deal of information we have to memorize and how much work we are sent in other subjects. Taking this into account, after finishing the project, I can say that this project has been easier thanks to the fact that everyone worked together, so the overall individual workload was not overwhelming and the only thing we needed was to put in some effort instead of dismissing the idea like we did in the first place.
It is true that some of the jobs, such as filming, correcting the script, or editing the final video, are in my opinion too much work for a year like this one. This is why I think this project would be ideal for students in a different year, such as 1° Bach. or 4th of ESO, who already have an outstanding level of English, and have a little more time on their hands. Under no circumstances do I think that this project should be canceled, because it has been a fun project overall, and it would be great to see it become an annual thing, just like building a car in technology class, something that younger students look forward to when they reach that age because they have heard from siblings or other students that it was a very fun and interesting project.

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When this project was presented to us it seemed like a great idea to make this year more entertaining and less stressful. But soon we hit a wall: people had trouble bringing the computers needed to work on the script and get familiarised with the Touchcast app so we had to go down to the IT room, which we weren’t able to use everyday and little work ended up being done there. That was, admittedly, the students fault, so all that work needed to be done at home, which turned the project into a time-consuming thing for some people. I don’t think to be fair to include myself there because my part didn’t need a lot of research and I had access to an ipad so I finished rather quickly, my problem relied more on having nothing to do after some time and not knowing how to continue.

After all the phases where we needed the computer passed it was time to record and then edit the video. Recording was fairly easy, with two or three people who knew how to use the ipads and controlled the progress, the only thing needed was time, which we had. Everyone got to appear at least once and it didn’t take long to finish each scene, especially since the filming crew was alone when working, which made it easier for people to feel less nervous and create a soundless environment to work with.

But the problem everyone didn’t know how to solve was editing, it seemed like too much for just one person, specially in the verge of the exams and then PAU, and also the video was so long, there were so many parts to include and edit in the middle of other videos that it seemed impossible to leave all that to someone. It worked out in the end, but I think it would’ve been better to cut down the segments so as to make five minute videos that would’ve been easier to record and edit.

Overall I think this project was a really good idea but incompatible with the rhythm of this year, where everyone wants to focus on the subjects needed for PAU and getting good grades and everyone would rather do easy stuff to achieve that.

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The whiteboard has two main uses: to make annotations on the screen while filming and to create diagrams to use as vApps.
The five tools to use in this feature are: Text, Pen, Eraser, Arrow and Rectangle (which is to form shapes), which are all displayed in the instrument picker option. Once you've selected one of those, you can change the color of the tool with the "Color Picker" and also the width, which is right beside the color picker in the screen. Another feature you can use is the surface in which you'll be writing in, the options are: whiteboard, chalkboard, cross line and glass (which is transparent). Instead of the width in the text option, you can select the font and the size of it.
If you want to erase every annotation in the board you can click "Save and Clear Board" in the left corner of the screen, but it will be automatically saved in the "Saved Boards", in case you need to retrieve it or use once again, but you will be able to erase those by clicking in the "Saved Boards" icon and manually deleting them.
In the right corner you will find the "undo" and "redo" button and right beside it you will find the feature "Export as vApp" and once you click on that the board will go to the vApp tab and appear on the vApp tray, then you will be able to use it as a normal vApp.

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Once you have the project created with some elements you want to keep, you need to save the project, for that you click "Save Project" in the upper right corner of the screen an d click on "Save As New Project". Then you will have to change the name of the project from the default name the app has given it and click on "Save" again. Once that's done a new screen will pop-up that will be called "My Projects",  there you will be able to open your already made projects in order to change them, improve them or use them for another project.
If you want to save a project that has already been saved once before you click on the upper right corner in "Save Project" and click in "Save Changes".

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This feature allows you to use Dropbox content in the touch cast app. Opening "Add a vApp" will show all the possibilities you have for vApps. Scrolling down the menu the Dropbox icon will appear and by touching it a screen with all the items you have in Dropbox will be shown, then you just click on the item you want and load it to the main screen.

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The whiteboard has 5 main elements, the pen, the text arrow , the eraser and the rectangle... Use the color picker to choose the color of the instruments you want. There are many options for the surface such as , whiteboard, chalkboard... You are sluppied wih diferent tipes of text and sizes. Drag anything where ever you want to use the arrow. The eraser tool is used to handerase anything you want the way you want. When you are finished your whiteboard will de saved. To see this just click the "save boards" folders.

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The whiteboard has 5 main elements (Pen, eraser, text, arrow and rectangle). Then you can use the color pickle to choose the color you want to use, with the pen, for example. (You can aslo choose the width). There is also a possibility of choosing different types of surface (Chalkboard, glass...). For the text ypu can select different types of fonts and sizes.
To use the arrow, you must tap in any place and drag to the place you want it to be. The same procedure is used for the rectangle.
You can use de eraser to manually erease anything you want in the whiteboard. You can also press "Clear board" and everything will disappear.
When you have finished, tou can save the board and all the save boards will appear in a folder on the down-left corner.
You also have the option of exporting your whiteboard as a Vapp on the down-right corner.

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This allows you to put on any scenery on the background. For best results you have to make sure the green screen in flat. You can use anything green, blanket, the wall… even blue background are useful and valid for the app. To access the green screen tap “effects” and later on the green screen button. This will cover everything green captured and changes it into the background chosen. Then, click the icon with the image or video and choose the one you want to use. Make sure you are not wearing anything green because it will also disappear. If a more realistic environment is wanted, you have to press the background stabilization button.

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For the use of the green screen, you can use a profesional green screen, green pieces of paper put together or even you can paint a wall with green screen paint! Blue is also a valid color.
To go into the green screen, you must press "Effects" then tap "Green screen", and it will turn green when it is on. You can also tap color to make other colors removal.
After this, you can introduce your image by pressing the icons on the right of the app. You can rather add image or video depending on the icon. It is important not to wear any green clothes or they will disappear!
If you are recording with the ipad in your hand, make sure you press backround stablitation, but, if the ipad is stable in a position, make sure it is turned off.

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(ELENA) TouchCast Tutorial - How Do I Use The Teleprompter In My TouchCast

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(ELENA) TouchCast Tutorial - How Do I Use The Teleprompter In My TouchCast

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The first thing we need to do is open the teleprompter by taping the camera app in the home screen. This will open a default text that will need to be changed for the script that we need.
It's important to mention that the script should have the pauses for breath the presentors will need when presenting the news.
It's recommended to position the camera to the left and keep the eyes over the white line, so the person gives the appearance of looking as directly to the camera as possible.
The teleprompter screen also gives the possibility of going back five lines, starting over and changing the speed of the teleprompter.

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Today in class we have voted for our TV Program logo called BNC. It was designed by Daniel B and it will be developed in 3D.

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Both reporters will appear on screen inside a studio, at a certain distance from each other to allow for enough space for the inclusion of pictures, videos of text in between both of them.

Clothes (As reporters)

Blanca, Juan y Elena: Formal clothes
Pablo: Suit and tie

TECHNOLOGY
MOVIES
TV
In the first piece of news regarding tv series the trailer for the first episode of the season and a picture of the actor will be displayed. In the second one the same thing will be portrayed, with the trailer of the season and a picture of the main character, which could be the show cover. And lastly, in the third piece of news only the trailer of the season will be shown in the background
BOOKS
MUSIC
THEATRE
During both parts of the segment, when the plays will be presented, the background will consist of both the trailers for the plays, respectively. Without sounds, so as just to have the images play for the audience

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Today the team leaders continued their work on the final document and the rest of the researches in the group finished the details of the  Script, so as to make the leaders' work as easy as possible.

Today has also been decided who will create the logos for our nes programme, Magüi and Dani. When they're ready the class will choose and that's the one that will be used.

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Today all the team leaders have put in common all of the work, and creating a document called "Final Script", where the entire BNC script will reside:

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Final Script  Script Structure:  Sections Content National Politics (National) Politics (Catalonia) Corruption Economic News Murder in Pioz Ciudad Lineal sexual abuse Society (Education: LOMCE) Society (Flu) Society (Phones) Traffic (Deaths) Environment ( Urbanistic Project ) Traffic ( Ac...

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Once the researcher in charge of TV Series and Theatre measured the time and realised the theatre segment would be too long she decided to shorten it up.

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To measure the time our segment would cover the used the following web tool.  http://readtime.eu/

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Today we have completed the layout and the planning of our script and we wrote the bases of each segment for the future writing of the entire script.

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We have started to create the script and have chosen the time distribution of of the news segment, as well as choosing our team members Blanca and Pablo as news reporters. The link to our script is the following:

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Our researcher in charge of movies (Blanca) has recorded herself to measure the time it takes to cover all the information. it takes 2 minutes which balances out with the 3 minutes of Juan.

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Our researcher in charge of music and concerts mantained the original articles and is still thinking about including some about music awards.
The researcher timed his intervention a few times and the average is 2:50 so he doesn´t have to change the content of the pieces of news.

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Our researcher in charge of technology and books recorded the time it took for him to cover the news in his segments and the time was 3:04 minutes, exceeding the 2:30 minutes limit. He decided to not cover an additional article as he previously intended, as that way each article would not be covered properly due to the time restrictions.

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Our researcher in charge of Technology news is thinking about adding a new article in order to cover more news instead of covering less articles in more detail.
The researcher in charge of TV Series news has also added a new article with the same intention, to cover more news
The researches in charge of Movies is going to add the Oscars and the researcher in charge of Music is debating whether to add an article covering the Emmy's or not.

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Phase 3 has started. The team has started researching further and adding or eliminating information to adjust to the time limit of 2.5 minutes per person, adding up to 10 minutes for the segment.

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We presented our project in class, this way we acquired feedback by our classmates on ways we could improve, like adding music and movies awards, as well as talk about social media trends.

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We have stated our intensive research between different news outlets that can be observed in our google doc.

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Every member of the group has been researching news articles to make a final selection further on. These news articles have been summarized.
Each one of us are looking for good sources of information to add up all of them and write a extense and objective script.

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We are a team of four students from Colegio Base and we will be researching new ways to bring information to teenagers in our class. Our topic relates to entertainment, covering the topics mentioned in the latter post. Our news outlet's name will be: Entertainment International.

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We started by researching possible websites for information. The links will appear in our google document. These will be our primary sources of information throughout the project, and we will adapt these news stories to our age group.

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In this document you will find our primary sources of information as well as our script:
https://goo.gl/5Bht0S

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Our segment will cover the following topics:
Music, Concerts, TV Series, Movies, Books and Technology.

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We have assigned each team member a role inside the project:
Team Leader: Juan S.
Organiser: Blanca P.
Lead Researcher: Elena D.
Team Reporter: Pablo R.

Each team member will take care of some of the different topics inside entertainment. These are the following:

Blanca P: Movies
Pablo R: Music & Concerts
Elena D: TV Series and Theatre
Juan B: Technology and Books