Shaker aamer bay live coverage website for
- 1. Shaker Aamer Bay Live coverage website for: Free Shaker Aamer protest, Wednesday 29th October2014
- 2. • Our event was a protest for the release of the last UK resident left detained in Guantanamo Bay.
- 3. • Protests for Shaker’s release are regular, the one we attended happened Wednesday 29th October.Judging pictures from previous protests for Shaker’s release, we were expecting a lively, well attended peaceful protest. • We planned to speak to a range of different protesters and the organisers, as well as capture opinion from passers by.
- 4. • As a team we agreed to each share the roles, dabbling in leading interviews, recording interviews, filming the protest and reaction from pedestrians. • The protest was of much smaller scale than we had anticipated so we had to make do with ten or so of the core Free Shaker Aamer campaigners rather than collect coverage from a range of different protesters. We all used our phones to capture video and some of us audio.
- 5. • Using our phones we were able to utilise digital tools such as Audioboo, Vine, Instagram, and upload them to social media platforms like Twitter • Camilla and Sunniva photographed the event with DSLRs.
- 6. • We were easily able to identify who to interview as we had a very small selection of candidates, the core ten or so Free Shaker Aamer campaigners. • We interviewed the protest organiser Ray silk, and his wife Penny Leanne-Silk who were the most helpful and informative. • We had to utilize the narrow stretch of pavement in front of Parliament square in our recordings as well as the opposing parliament entrance.
- 7. • We chose to use Wordpress and utilise it’s minimal layout options, allowing the content and multimedia tools to entertain and inform the viewer with visuals and audio. • We used Twitter to link our multimedia tools to social media, and featured embedded tweets as well as Vine and instagram posts throughout our Wordpress site. The main feed on the home page of our wordpress site allowed us to post chronologically as we created posts.
- 8. • Camilla created a section detailing Shaker Aamer’s backstory. • Josh created a Guantanamo Bay page detailing the history of the detention centre, including a Storymap highlighting the important facts. Also covered the event using Vine and Instagram, speaking to organiser, Ray Silk and his wife who were a wealth of information. • Evelina produced a news in brief covering the protest. • Sunniva produced an article about Lush cosmetics and their involvement with Free Shaker Aamer.
- 9. • The event did not go as expected however we worked efficiently to cover the event, capturing a range of opinion and information that allowed us to portray a clear and detailed observation of the protest. • The protesters eye catching orange boiler suits and constant chanting made for excellent audio and visual in video and photographs and tUnfortunately being right next to the road, constant streams of traffic made recording audio difficult at times, and continual drizzly rain distorted video recordings at times.
- 10. • To improve I would invest in a more up todate smart phone, practise interviewing skills and make use of equipment that can capture higher quality audio footage.