INTERVIEW TO PAUL

Paul is a journalist who works for a newspaper called The Observer. He's been a journalist for 20 years.
He's also a sub-editor (that is someone who writes articles and make them sound interesting), and he writes a monthly article about celebrities, or people like Robert Maxwell.
He studied at a college called Printing College. Since he finished college he has worked for a music paper called Sound, for a paper called Echoes, and for the current Observer.
Paul likes his job because he is interested in music, films, books and much more and most a times he gets himself involved in such things.
He talked about some of the terminology in journalism, such as "copy", "pool grade" and "stand first".
'Copy' is the text in articles, newspapers, magazines, an so on.
'Pool grade' is the part of the article that catches attention; it might be colored, with bigger characters, or different styles.
'Stand first' is the little part of an article that works as introduction.
Paul told us that they always have deadlines at work and if they don't do the work within that time they might risk to be sacked. Deadlines are very important.
I think this introductory is really interesting because it gives us a opportunity of indirect contact with journalism. I also think if someone was interested in this industry sector, somehow he might have found some help in his final decision.

CREATING A RECORD 11/2/2010

TH GRAMOPHONE

by Emile Berliner

Emile Beliner was the first inventor to start recording on flat disks or records instead of the cylinder. The first records were made of glass, later zinc, or plastic. The Gramophone had a needle that read the grooves in the record by vibrations an transmitted the informations to the gramophone speaker. His disks were the first sound recordings that could be mass-produced from molds.

Berliner founded 'The Gramophone Company' for the mass production of his discs and the gramophones that played them back.

To help promote his gramophone Berliner persuaded popular artists to record their music using his system and later he used Francis Barraud's painting of 'His Masters voice' as hiscompany's official trademark.

Emile Berliner founded many other companies for the production of the gramophone in many other countries.

CREATING A RECORD 11/2/2010

HOME PHONOGRAPH

It's got four suitcase clamps that enable the phonograph to be carried around by its lid handles, and for this reason it wa called 'Suitcase' Home Model.

SOME CREATIVE AND MEDIA JOBS

System engineer
Job's essential skills: CCNA or CCNP, MCSE, HND or HNC, qualifications in electronics or similar discipline, knowledge and experience of Satellite systems including Satcom, VSAT and DVB. Salary: £350-£440 daily.

Designer
Location: Durhm, County Durham
Salary: Negotiable
Company:Sophea Scott
Permanent job.
Our client is looking to invest in the Sales Team. As a designer your work is to design activities across a number of technologies. You should be a great designer with core Photoshop experience and a good understanding of range of web based technologies would be an additional benefit.
Requirements:

• previous commercial experience
• expert HTML, XHTML, XML, CSS, and FLASH skills
• excellent working knowledge of Photoshop
• excellent attention to detail
• knowledge of website design
• good working with other group members
• a portfolio of work s required

Client relationship executive Location: New Castle Upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear.

Salary: £18-22k pa plus bonus

Your work is to report to the Managing Director an to work closely with the Client Relationship Manager. You will responsible for customer retention and you will build and maintain strong relationships with client.

Photographer-menswear

Location: London

Salary; £24,000 pa

You should be experienced in mens fashion photographing. You should also be able to demonstrate a good understanding of lighting in order to achieve product and fashion shots. You must have a proven track record shooting editorial work ad some of your own contacts within that field.

Journalism/PR Officer

Location:Cheltenham, Gloucestershire

Salary: £24,000 pa

In need of an experienced PR Officer with journalism skills. The applicant must have excellent attention to detail, good organisational skill, strong IT skills, presenting experience, writing and researching skills, management skills and the ability to work on their own initiative. Qualification in media or a relevant experience is needed and applicant should be competent in video producing.

Product Manager

Location: Manchester, Lancashire

Salary: £21k-£24k pa

The work is about market-leading multimedia products and services in the prospects portfolio. Applicant must have a degree in business or marketing ad should possess excellent communication skills

E Leaning-Instructional Designer

Locality: Nottingham, Nottinghamshire

Salary: £20,000-£25,000 pa

Experience in designing e-learning resources is needed. You will use Rapid Content Tools- Adobe E Learning Suite; you must have the ability to make them visually attractive and functionally simple.

Deputy Head Teacher

Locality: South East London (SE9)

Salary: £28,000 to £35,000 p.a dependent on experience

The dependent has to be a qualified teacher with significant experience with working with high risk, vulnerable, SEN and/or SEBD young people and has to lead our team of teachers, design and deliver our teacher CPD programme, support our first OFSTED inspection, design, deliver and support our functional skills courses and support the ongoing design and roll out of other courses and qualifications.

Post production Producer-TV

Locality: London

Salary: unspecified

We are looking for a post production producer o manager some of our clients with multiple TVC's. Requirements: understanding of international adaptation and the processes involved with reversioning adverts and working with the voice-over artists overseas.

Cinema 4D Modeller / Graphic Designer

Locality:Cheshire

Salary: £25-30 ph / £200 - 250 day

Required techniques: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Cinema4D. Applicant must be highly experienced.

Creative Marketing Executive

Location: Wales

Salary: £20000 to £25000 pa

The job consists in:

• working closely with rest of marketing to take creative briefs and converging into range of media, including print, working with e-mail, online banner and website design
• working closely with IT team members to ensure effectiveness in creative design delivery
• being updated with developments in the creative arena including monitoring trends and technical developments.

Required techniques: Photoshop, CSS and other software packages; experience of web design and a proven creative track record are also required.

Drama and Creative Arts Tutor

Location: Lowdham, Nottingham (NG14)

Salary: £19,000- 22,000 pa

Applicant will have to provide an education curriculum in the field of Drama and Creative Arts. The person concerned will have the opportunity to teach and develop courses in his field of expertise with the emphasis on Drama and the Arts.

Facebook Application Developer

Location: London City

Salary: £30,000- 50,000

The applicant needs to have a passion for interactive and creative games, application and websites. He will be working with clients such as Disney, Xbox, the BBC, and many others.

Required skills: PHP, FBML, Facebook App Development, HTML, CSS and Javascript, knowledge of use of FLASH, Actionscript 3 and Games Development.

Middleweight Designer

Location: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire

Salary: £29,000 - 32,000 pa

It has to be an experienced Middleweight Designer who has ambition and drives. It's essential he has previously worked on blue chip brands and is capable of working within corporate guidelines and pushing them to create new approaches. The candidate must be able to demonstrate skills with a strong portfolio and equally be happy working on print or digital creative.

Technical skills required: InDesign, Illustrators, Photoshop, Flash and/or After Effects an advantage.

Web Designer

Location: New Malden, Surrey

Salary: £30,000 p.a. + excellent

The applicant will be proficient in CSS, HTML, Photoshop, Fireworks and Flash. He will develop new graphics and develop campaign pages, use CMS to maintain web design elements, design and develop e-newsletter templates, design microsite pages, develop page structures in CMS using HTML and develop some graphics/maps using Flash.

Skills and experience required:

• minimum of 2 years work experience in web design
• experience in travel industry
• 1 year experience working with Java code and javascript
• advance level of ability using the Adobe suite

CREATING A RECORD 9-02-10

PHONOGRAPH

The phonograph was the result of two inventions, the telegraph and the telephone, that Thomas Edison was developing. In 1877 he was working on a machine that would write telegraphic messages on paper through speaking vibrations. These vibrations made indentations in the paper. Subsequently he changed the paper to a metal cylinder with tin foil wrapped around it. The machine had two diaphragm-and-needle units so the first one could record a sound and the second could play back the same sound.

Edison took the phonograph to the office of Scientific American in New York City and showed it to the staff.

In January 1878 the machine was already a success, but only experts knew how to use it, and the tin wouldn't last much.

In March 1878 Edison offered many future uses for the phonograph, including letter writing, phonographic books, music boxes, etc.

Some time later other inventors started to develop Edison's phonograph.

In 1880 Alexander Graham Bell was awarded for the invention of the telephone.

Chicheter A. Bell, Alexander's cousin, and Charles Sumner Tainter made some improvements to Edison's invention by using wax instead of the tin foil and a floating stylus instead of a rigid needle.

On 1886 they were awarded and their machine was exhibited to the public as the graphophone.

The Edison Phonograph Company was formed on October 8 1887 and his Machine was in the market. The Improved Phonograph was introduced in May 1888 and later even the Perfected Phonograph.

History of radio play 8-02-10

Radio plays were first performed in the 1927, when networks began adapting short stories for broadcast and larger stations began to develop programs using announcers or narrators.

Before the 1920's most broadcasts were one time events consisting mainly of talk and music.

In the late 1920's many network sponsored programs with the duration of one hour were performed. During this period the most popular radio performances were musical varieties and concert music programs.

Song-and-patter teams, two people talking between songs, became popular during this period; later it became an only-patter comedy act. The Amos 'n' Andy show was one of the first of these comedy sows, and it was presented five nights a week for 15 minutes each.

In the early 1930's national advertisement started buying air-time and sponsor programs for radio advertising and the consequence was the development of many new program forms. Among the new program types were: dramatized news programs, daytime "soap opera" serialized drama, after school juvenile serialized adventure drama, and many others.

In the early 1940's radio programs reflected America's involvement in the war and the number of hours per week devoted to news broadcast nearly doubled.

During the 1944-45 season networks offered 47 hours a week of dramatic programs during the evening and on Sunday and 25 of these hours were offered from thriller drama programs.

In the early years of television it was too expensive to create new programs, so the forms that existed as radio plays were moved to television, so it was possible to see on TV what was heard on radio.