Mission 3: Methodology

Digital Journalism

For the last mission of the semester, Wiktoria, Lívia and I formed a group - however we were stuck choosing between the topic of Image Visualization and Digital Journalism.Personally, I was hoping to do Image Visualization, mainly because there was idea already written on paper that I was eager to try out. However I understood that it was somewhat of a difficult topic to get your head around when looking at the resources section of the website. We spent the rest of the day reading over both pages of the website in order get a better understanding of both topics. The three of us met up the next day and after a bit of discussion we decided to settle our project on the topic of Digital Journalism as we all felt we had a better understanding of digital journalism the most. 

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We brainstormed some potential avenues that we could explore with digital journalism, such as the Vaping related death toll in America, Interviewing the life of a senior and exploring related topics such as ageism. Infoplease is a good online source to gather bite-sized information of events that occurred this year that we could potentially explore for our project. 

Video of the accident posted on Facebook by the City of Phoenix Police Department.

Eventually, we discovered the following article: Woman Crashes Into Drunk Driver’s Car, Preventing A Couple With Baby From Being Hit

Inspired by what took place we decided to create an adaption of the real event and follow a sort of investigative route. 

The Main Reasons for this is:

To  exercise caution and make others aware of the dangers of drunk driving and road incidents in general. 

Our original idea was to replicate a similar incident using our phone's camera and editing the video using special effects on Adobe Premier Pro. We were inspired by the Youtube video below (see 00:00 - 01:39 for car crash).



It can be something comical but still have journalism aspects to it. Then we can also set up an interview. Unfortunately, we realized that replicating a similar incident will not only take up a lot of time but it would also take away time for our 5 minutes where we would need to showcase more important aspects of the project e.g showcasing our end product.

In the end, our group settled on the following:

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Plan For Adaption:

• There will be 3 roles - the driver, the victim, the witness. Through an unbiased spin of the  Wheel of Names the roles where selected are as follows:
• The Driver: Wiktoria , The Victim: Lívia and The Witness ( aka the hero): yours truly
• Props and costumes will be selected accordingly
• Using our phones we will video a set of questions and answers for the interview. 
• Each character will relay their point of view of the incident 

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Plan For End Product

• Create an info-graphic using either Adobe Spark or  a free graphic-design tool known as Canva. In the infographic we want to show general statistics and facts about road incidents over the years. 
• Create a story map using Storymap JS detailing facts about the real road incident we took inspiration from and comparing it with our adaption of the story. 

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Plan For Video

• Introduction: Project Title, Our Names and Student Numbers
• Research: Less than a minute of research related to Digital Journalism
• Interview 1 Clip: Teenager - Livia (The Victim)
• Interview 2 Clip:  Adult - Julia ( The Witness) 
• Interview 3 Clip: Adult - Wiktoria (Drunk Driver)
• After the interview we'll relay a short summary of the consequences of the incident
• End Product: A series of screenshots of the story map with a narration running through 
• End Product: Clip showing process of creating the info-graphic (using QuickTime on Mac) with the final outcome at the end.
• Footage of the true event caught on traffic camera  
• CDM & TUD Logo
• Bibliography