ways we record information

How do we record things

Written

Diaries - Information can be recorded in a diary. A diary is usually when a person writes about his/her life. Diaries can be written on paper like a book, on a pod cast or as a blog on the internet. These are not the only ways they can be written but are a few.

Books - Another way information can be recorded is in a book. A book is like a diary except it is not always about a person’s life for example a book written about a conflict could be written about one persons experiences in a conflict or about the conflict in general.

Visual

Films - A film is different to photos because with a photo you can only get a limited amount of information but with a film it is alot easier to capture a scene because you can hear what is happening instead of just looking at it. Using films to record information is a relatively new thing because today film cameras are smaller eg. Today it is easier to take a camera into a conflict because when it comes to using it is easier and more compact. This means that as well as photos film will become more popular as a way of recording information.

Photos - Photos can be used to record information because unlike a book or a diary it can capture the specific moment that you want. Taking photos is becoming more popular today because like with film cameras they are becoming smaller so you can go any where with them. Another thing about them that will make them more popular is that the quality of images that you can take is increasing.

Audio

Audio recorder - An audio recorder is a way of recording information without taking pictures. They are used to get the sound of thing and can be used for interviews and they are also another way people can record diaries because they can talk to it and record the information like they would with a diary. Audio recorders are slowly becoming more unpopular because of film.

Questions we have to ask

During this unit we will be interviewing alot of different people for the library. The library have asked us to as the people we have interviewed about spectif topic in their live eg.what they studied at school and into sections in their lives eg. service details. The things that the library want us to ask are

Family:-name
-date of birth
-adress in swindon
-parents details
-where they are from
-early memories
-other family (brothers, sisters)

School
-subjects studied
-favourite subject
-friends
-was it your choise to go to war

Service details
-battalion/regiment/ship/squadren
-rank
-date/place of enlistment
-comrades
-dates/places of service
-equipment/clothing/camp
-conditions
-duties/responsibilities
-training
-emotions
-communications
-dangers of job

Entertainment/Free time
-significant memories/events
-leave (when you come home for a bit of time)
-coming home
-any free time you got
-anybody come from england to visit the place you were serving


The things that we find out fo the library will all be recorded in the central library and after that they will be put in the public records office.

Interview with Mr.Ings

We had to interview Mr. Ings. Mr. Ings is a British solider who was a railway engineer who was called into the army. He was already in the Territorial Army so he went straight into the army as an engineer. He was put on an island off the coat of Britain. It was his job to fix the antiaircraft funs when the broke. After he finished on the island he was involved in d-day. During d-day he was asked to watch a young solider but he was killed. Later in the war he was working in Germany and a German sergeant surrendered to him. His unit was also tasked with capturing a German rocket factory. When he and his unit went into the rocket factory all of the workers and the scientists surrendered to him and the German scientists agreed to help them learn about the rockets. By the end of the war he was a sergeant. At the start of the interview I asked him to tell everybody a bit of information about him and what he did during the war. I think that we could have controlled the interview a bit better because after I asked him the first question he kept talking for the majority of the interview so we could have tried to intervene so that other people could ask some questions. To improve on this we could try to learn how to cut in if somebody talks for to long without being too rude.

LO2 Record Plan

For my LO3 (take part in or complete the creation of a record in a chosen medium) I will write an extract of a book. It will be set during world war two and will be based on information about life in Britain at the time that I got during an interview that our class has with Mrs. Selwood. I will write it in the style of Robert Graves who was one of the authors that I have been researching. When he wrote books he was very critical so to emulate his style I will focus on the negative side of things.

Conflicts we have been envloved in

Here is a list of some conflicts and a

little bit about them:

World war one (1914-1918) Britain

went in to this war because Germany

, Russia, Austro-Hungary and

Ottoman empire attack some of its

neighbouring countries. The war ended because of a series of

successful allied offences.

World war two (1939-1945) Britain

went into this war because

Germany attacked Poland. The

war ended after Germany attacked

Russia and allied and Russian

armies slowly progressed into

Germany and eventually winning

the war.

Korean War (1950-1953) Britain went

into this war because North Korea

attacked South Korea. The United

Nations, witch we are in, supported

the south and defended them from

the north. The war ended when an

armistice was signed because of a

border stalemate.(neither side was

advancing)

Falkland’s war (April 1982-june 1982) Britain went into this

war because Argentina occupied

the Falk lands island and one of

the only recent wars that Britain

fought without any allies. The

war ended after a British naval

task force was sent and after a

number of operations Britain won.

Gulf war (1990-1991) Britain

went into this war because

Iraqi troops invaded Kuwait

and the UN imposed

international sanctions on

Iraq. Then the US sent a

battalion of troops and urged

other countries to do the same.

The war ended with an aerial

bombardment on 17 January

1991. This was followed by a ground assault on 23 February.

Iraq war (2003-precent) Britain went into this was because

the British and American

government claimed that Iraq

possessed WMD's (weapons

of mass destruction) That

posed a threat to other nations.

The war is still going on today

as troops are still in Iraq to

train the Iraqi security forces.

26/05/10

Today we were told we had to plan a piece or writing about a bit of either of the people we have interviewed's life and we had to do it in the style of recording that we had chosen. I picked books so I have to write an extract from a book which I have to write in this afternoon’s lesson so at the end of the day i can say to the class what I have done so far. I will do the extract about mrs selwood and how her life would have been during the second world war. I will write about what they had to do and what life was like during the war.

19/05/10 interview with mr. and mrs. selwood

Today we had to interview Mrs. Selwood while the other group interviewed Mr. Selwood. We were put into small groups so that we could ask more questions. I think unlike the other interview with Mr.Harris we asked questions that flowed well and we appropriate without repeating questions like last time. I asked about 5 or 6 questions in the 45 minuet long interview. One was "after the war was it difficult to get back to normal life" and one follow up question witch was "when your father returned from India did he tell you stories of what he did" I think the interview went well.

observing ourselves

Today we went to the red family area and we watched ourselves interview tom Harris so that we could see what we do from another view so that we can evaluate ourselves to see areas that we could improve on. After watching it I thought that at the start I looked everywhere but during the interview I would look at the piece of paper in front of me for long periods of time and when I did ask a question I did not maintain eye contact with him so to improve for the next interview I should ask more questions and generally be more confidant also I should try to maintain eye contact with the interviewee. One think I did well was that I took down alot of notes although the interview was being recorded I can easily get the information to my blog without needing to remember it.

Interview with tom harris

Today we interview Tom Harris. He came in and we all sat in a circle and asked him questions about his life but mostly about his career in the RAF. We recorded the interview so that next week we can watch it and examine ourselves and improve our interviewing skills. I think we asked alot of questions and found out alot of the information that the library wanted to know however the questions we asked were random. I asked him if he kept in contact with his friends in the RAF. He said that because he spent so long with them he easily made friends with them. At the end we took a picture of him with all of us.

17/03/10: Library

Today our class went to the library to look aroud and see if their were any good places where we could do interviews. We lernt that you should not place a camera facing a windowb ecause it will let too much light in the view so the qulity will go down. One good place we found for the interviews was upstairs at the top of the library. We placed the camera away from the window and set it up so we could see if there was too much light or sound from the traffic just outside the window. We found out that it could easily be used for our interviews.

Ways we hear about them

Ways you can hear about conflicts:

Newspapers - newspapers contain information about things that have happened on the previous day. Using newspapers for news might soon be obsolete because you can now get news on the internet and on TV for that day where as news paper is for the day before.

Word of mouth - word of mouth will always be a way of finding out news because people will always talk about what is happening that day or the day before so this way of telling news will properly stay forever.

Radio - News on the radio is for that day. It is spoken to everybody. Radios may become obsolete because not may people use them anymore and so in 20 years time you may not be able to get the news on radios anymore.

TV - Getting the news on TV's is one of the most popular ways of finding out the news today because nearly everybody has one. This means that getting the news on TV will remain for a long time. The news if for that day and it can be accessed at any time of day because there are specialised news channels where the only thing on is news.

Internet - The internet will always be a good way of getting news because the internet is constantly being updated. Companies that make newspapers often have websites where people can go on and look up what news there is. The news id always for that day and unlike reading a newspaper it is free to access so the internet may replace the newspaper as a way of getting the news.

Teletext - Teletext is a older way of getting news for that day. You have to have a TV with teletext and put find the channel with the news on. Although you can get that days news teletext will not be around much longer a few TV's still use it. TVs with teletext are slowly being replaced by digital TVs.

Interviews - You cannot find out much news by doing an interview and only very important news like wars and other big stories. Interviewing people will always be a was of finding out about news but only for major news.

Examples of conflicts

A few examples of copnflicts that have happened recently are:

iraq/afganistan
9/11
london undergroung bombs
friends
family
football firms
Gulf war (1991)
Yugoslavia (1991-1995)
Bosnia war (1992-1995)
The first Chechem war (1994-1996)
Kosovo (1998-1999)
Afganistan (2001-present)
Iraq (2003-present)

Conflict

Conflict: An opposition of needs, interests or peoples values. Political conflicts can refer to wars, revolutions or other struggles.

Brief

To record the memories of swindon residants who recal their own/others memories of conflicts from the first world war onwards