19/07/2014 Click

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Click. We have a great show for you this weekend, including... And, a

look at an amazing... It should be a long shot, unless she manages to...

Welcome to Click. The makers of TV documentaries try to capture real

life on camera. People behaving naturally with honest conversations,

showing true emotion. Even though they have agreed to be filmed, it

can be difficult to act naturally when you have this motley crew in

the same room as you. Give us a wave. In order to not to intrude, we

have used longer lenses, remote microphones, video diaries, we have

built whole houses full of cameras. These days, the conversations we are

trying to capture don't just take place face`to`face. Younger people

especially are texting, tweeting, WhatsApping each other and if

documentary makers can't document that, they are missing half the

story. This is Channel 4's secret life of students which charts the

lives of 12 students over the first tumultuous term at Leicester

University. Alongside the visual action, we see their digital

conversations with friends and family, something billed as giving

us an instant insight into what is going on beneath their fingertips

and in their heads. It really opened my eyes to what a different

generation they are. The quantity, for starters. We had 200,000 bits of

content. They were able to say something on a text message to their

boyfriend, friend, mum, dad, that they would not say in real life. It

was something pretty standard for that generation. Production company

Raw TV, created a d`rig, allowing them to tap into the message streams

in real`time. They ran special software that captured incoming and

outgoing text messages along with those from Facebook, Twitter,

WhatsApp, Instagram and web searches and sent them to a central d`rig

viewer in the office. It is a surprise always. When Facebook came

about, the idea that you were let into other people's lives. That you

might not actually have spent a lot of time talking to or getting to

know, though on Facebook they were very honest and open and not

worrying what they were necessarily saving. Not monitoring themselves

the whole time. This is the first time digital communications have

been monitored and used in a documentary in making sure

everything was above board, legally and morally, was a big priority.

There was a long consenting process, more than you normally would with a

normal documentary. Because we have the added layer of being able to

keep their messages and go back to them and use them in the edit. We

could not keep that information. Not unless we have the consent of the

people they were communicating with. Voice calls were also recorded on

the phones, although again, only from phone numbers that had

previously consented to being recorded. The software on the phones

ensured that calls to and from numbers not on the list were never

recorded in the first place. Consented communications were stored

in the d`rig throughout the course of the filming in case the team

needed to go back to find something that became relevant later on. This

is an immediate insight into the minds of students meant that the

filming team on the ground knew exactly what questions to ask. This

was one of the students featured in the series. There were some people I

text who don't want to read their attacks. By week three, I know they

can read these messages and it gets a bit awkward. Especially when you

know the camera people have seen or heard about what you have been

texting. They might not be the people reading of them but they

might have vaguely heard, so they ask you questions about this and

that and stuff. If I told my friends at home, they would be like, why

would you ever want anyone to see your texts? Well, I don't know. It

is a new experience. Raw's next project with the d`rig focuses on

the lives of school`age teenagers. It is early days for this

technology. As this generation of hyper`connected teenagers become

adults, it could become a necessity for every documentary to capture

communications in this way in order to tell the whole story. I wonder

whether you think it is possible to document reality without tapping

into the online side these days. Why not let us know online of course? We

take another look at how tech is reflecting reality next at this week

's tech news. A leaked online document suggests

GCHQ altered internet polls, looked at private Facebook photos and sent

fake e`mails which appeared to come from BlackBerry users. It is alleged

to have been leaked by former US cyber spook, Edward Snowden. GCHQ

said he did not comment on intelligence matters. Google

partners with Novartis to develop its smart contact lenses for

diabetics. It measures glucose from tear fluid in the eye and sends

readings wirelessly to their mobile. It could make a huge difference for

the many diabetics who get glucose readings from blood tests. Google

has assembled a team of hackers to spot critical bugs and

vulnerabilities of the internet. `` on the internet. The group says they

will make public at database of bugs and fixes. They have employed one of

the most notorious hackers, George Hotz, as an intern. He faced legal

action for hacking PlayStation 3 and iPhone. Finally, Germany comes up

with a solution to stop cyber spying. A return to the trusty

typewriter. In a TV interview, the head of a parliamentary enquiry into

NSA spying in Germany said it is no joke they are considering the

technology. It might not catch on. One politician said she would rather

abolish the secret services than return to typewriters.

The Commonwealth Games begin in Scotland on Wednesday and this time

around it isn't only the athletes going for glory. This time,

spectators can compete against the world was the fastest man, Hussein

Bolt. Virtually, of course. Inside this warehouse in the south of

England, technicians and engineers test out their 16 metre long

widescreen display. This giant LED screen shows a slightly oversized

Hussein Bolt running at his fastest recorded speed, 27.44 mph. Here, the

virtual track is less than half the length it will be when fully

assembled in Glasgow ` a monstrous 40 metres. There, visitors are

invited to race Hussein Bolt over the course of the Commonwealth

Games. To get here has been no easy win. Sensor and camera positioning

is vital for this to work. And because the timing of the video

footage has to reflect precisely the actual speed of the real Bolt within

the physical TV screen, size really is everything. The ratio of the

screen makes it complex. Normally, you expect a screen to be 60:9

ratio, the standard screen you would see at what makes it different is

that where it is a running rows, it is a very long and narrow screen, so

getting the footage to work is one of the challenges `` 60:9. Yes, it

is a gimmick at a chance for the sponsor to acquire on`line

information from visitors so that it can stay in touch with them on

social networks, if you catch my drift. For the technicians, it has

given them a new experience that goes like lightning. Even if you

don't. Now, if all of that running about

sounds a bit too much like hard work, take a look at this. This is

one of the first games we have seen that uses the new version of

Microsoft's motions sensor, Connect two. On something other than an

XBox. There it is at the top of the screen, and behind it is a PC

running Windows 8.1. We are at Disney's HQ in London, because they

are the first to experiment with the new animation and Connect two.

Hence, I am pretending to be a plane and I am dumping water on the

wildfires. It goes on sale for anyone to tinker with and use with

all sorts of different kit like PCs and robots this week. The original

Connect has been used for all kinds of stuff from helping surgeons to

offering new artworks in galleries like those we saw a few weeks ago.

It is tracking 25 joints in my body as opposed to 20 in the previous

model and it can keep track of up to six people at a time, four more than

before. That's partly because the new Connect has a wider field of

vision, hence myself and Dan can stand next to each other, arms

outstretched, and play the game and it copes adequately. It can also

recognise smaller objects than the original Connect and allows you to

stand closer, which is handy if you are short of space in the living

room. Disney has to use all of that to come up with this game. Disney

previously had a job making this active promotional stand work in

cinemas or shopping centres when smaller children tried to play. That

is because the original Connect wasn't sensitive enough to pick up

the movements of small people. There are other gesture recognition

systems around, Leapmotion and DepthSense, for example. But Connect

has been most used and adapted by developers. It is a fraction more

expensive, so we will have to see if its dominance continues in years to

come. Am afraid that is it for the short version of Click. The

full`length is available on iPlayer writer. `` right now. Thank you for

watching. We will see you next time. Hello and welcome to Newswatch, with

me, Samira Ahmed. Coming up: the BBC has announced almost ?50 million of

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