Questions Answered - Task 2 Shannon Ally Danny and Dave

1.
The film industry consists of the technological and commercial institutions of filmmaking: i.e. film production companies, film studios, cinematography, film production, screenwriting, pre-production, post production, film festivals, distribution; and actors, film directors and other film personnel.

2.
most films (independant) are made in Los Angeles - Hollywood or in the movie sets of Canada

3.
the biggest film distributer is Pixar

4.
in terms of production the idustry giants are Warner Brothers / New Line Cinema

5.
on average 1500 films are made each year

6.

Film4 Productions

Lions Gate Films

Summit Entertainment

Overture Films

IFC Films

Samuel Goldwyn Films

The Weinstein Company/Dimension Films

Magnolia Pictures

Palm Pictures

Tartan Films

Newmarket Films

ThinkFilm

Troma Entertainment

First Look Studios

Image Entertainment

Yari Film Group

7. 
major films on average spend about 220 million on everything

8.
the main ways that films are advertised, adverts before other films at the cinema, television, magezines

9.


10,
they are classified by what they have in them, e.g violence, sex, language and these are classified by CBBFC

11.


12.
link for unions in the UK

13.
alot more advertising, because as technology improves it increases the number of people that can see the advertisment

14.
selling films - dvds
selling ticketes
making games for things such as xbox, ps3 eg. harry potter
t-shirts
lunchboxes for small kids

teachers analysis

camera angles;
there was a three shot of the men leering at jenny, this shows that they are sexist, and represents men as all being all the same, and also represents that the three of them all have the same levels of maturity.
another camera angle that they use, is whilst the teacher (simon) and the school kid are out having a cigerette, they zoom in on the cigerette to show that again simon is trying to be just like the child. and that his maturity and responsibiltity levels are no different to the students.

the audience - teachers

audience - macro
can be aimed at from people of 25 up towards 35
- due to sex
- due to humour
can relate to real people - who are like "teachers" can see real things to relate to
audience to identify
- the more you work, the more difficult it becomes                       
- the more serious that you take it, the less of a life that you have
- dont have to have a job as a teacher, but have been to uni and now have to grow up

mise-en-scene - micro
outside - with anoter student - smoking
- loose tie - scruffy
- one kid only wearing a blazer - shows that he is the nerdy kid
hallway - with another teacher - argueing/aplogogising
- student playing/running around in the corridor, sense of uncontrolability
susan and simon speaking
staff room - all speaking about woman
- another member of staff biscuit falls into there tea - suprise
jam from donut dropping on simons shoe - shock - due to smoking canabis
radio - drug related
susan holding books - looking formal - the most formal teacher
parents evening - teachers hid behind the curtain - sense of childishness

Research into a variety of local radio stations

BBC Radio 1 "Greg James"   2.05pm - 2.25pm  22/11/10
Witchcraft - Pendulum
*radio 1 beat*
"its 2.10 and you are listening to radio 1"
"lets take a look back at what was a hit from fridays show"
plays clip from fridays show with another member of the show doing the weather in a rap
Plan B - love goes down
*radio 1 beat*
"you can listen to radio 1's live lounge tonight with ferne cotton"
interview with the Take That on their upcoming tour
*radio 1 beat*
Live Lounge play of Take Thats new song SOS
"you can see more Live Lounge plays at www.bbc.co.uk/radio1
DJ Fresh - Lassitude
"and that is my biggest hit for the week - what a song that is"

a wide variety of music from drum and base to more soulful music.
alot of promotion and remember who you are actually listening to "BBC Radio 1" and the Live Lounge

Slang and Catchphrases:
- "and that is my biggest hit of the week"
- "what a song that is"
- alot of catchphrases/slang about the music that is playing played#

About The Tracks:
- and that is my biggest hit for the week - what a song that is"

Digression To Another Subject:
- complementing Take That and their new song, and then going on about the Live Lounge and what else you can hear and see if you go to the website (promotion"

Promoting Other Shows:
- "you can listen to the Live Lounge tonight with Ferne Cotton."

Critisisms
Positive Comments


BBC Radio 1Extra

women

camera angles
- can show where the power is
- can show women to be naggy bossy

editing
- speed - can show if they are efficient or lazy

sound
- can indecate power

mise en scene (props, costume, lighting, how the scene is put together)
- props - how they are - what they carry ect

representation

- gender
- age
- ethnicity
- disability
- sexuality

Exam Criteria

there are 3 levels that you are assessed on,
LEVEL 1
1. explanation/ analysis / argument
- minimal understanding of the task
- minimal understanding of the way that tech aspects are used to construct the extracts representations
- minimal relevance to set question
2. use of examples
- offers minimal textual evidance
- limited range of examples
- minimal relevance
3. use of terminology
- bad spelling
- barely used

LEVEL 2
1. explanation/ analysis / argument
- basic understanding
- basic understanding of tech aspects
- some relevance
2. use of examples
- some evidance
- some range
- examples with some relevance
2. use of terminology
- some terminology used
- some simple ideas

LEVEL 3
1. explanation/ analysis / argument
- really good understanding
-  really good understanding of tech aspects
- mostley relevant to the question
2. use of examples
- consistent textual evidance
- range of examples
- examples that are relevant
3. use of terminology
- is accurate

LEVEL 4
1. explanation/ analysis / argument
- excellent understanding
- excellent knowledge
- clearly relevent
2. use of examples
- frequent textual analysis of the extract
- full range of examples
- examples clearly relevant
3. use of terminology
- terminolgy is relevant and accurate

Research, Planning and Evaluation of Preliminary

Research and Planning

for your research and planning you must include information on the following:

• Research into a variety of local radio stations
• Conventions of local radio news
• Example of local radio news
• An analysis of how these clips fit into theory of your choice
• A detailed timeline of your radio news
• Notes about how you contributed to the task

Evaluation Questions

• How does your media product represent particular social groups?
• What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
• Who would be the audience for your media product?
• How did you attract/ address your audience?
• What have you learn about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
• Looking back at your Preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progerssion from it to the full product?

hollyoaks 8-11-10 0mins - 7mins

I have watched an episode of Hollyoaks, in this part of the drama, there are three main different scenes, this consists of; one a male speaking to a female in a cafe desperately trying to grab her attention, while she then drops the bombshell on him that she knows that he is getting married. The second main scene is of again two people stood in the females kitchen speaking about the man living in a bed and breakfast, they then go on to speak about themselves as a two before the male getting angry and annoyed and wanting to leave, but when he hears the females baby daughter crying upstairs he only feels it is right to go and check on the baby as the women said "she doesn't know how to deal with kids". And in the final scene of the time frame again a male and a female are sat on a table outside of the cafe, speaking out the women's ex husband going under and getting himself into a lot of debt, she begins to feel sorry for him as us as the audience find out she is speaking to his brother.

In the first main scene, it is taken mostly as a two shot, being able to see the both of them moving across screen shot from right to left. It then goes on to use a lot of over the shoulder shots in a row then also showing the reaction shots, this shows us that there is alot of emotion between the two still there in the way that they are looking at each other. Sound in the background is music from the radio or such playing in the cafe and also the faintness of other people present speaking.

Secondly, the scene of the male and female speaking about there relationship is done on a lot of different levels, this creates a sense of uncertainty i feel, also in this scene there is alot of over the shoulder shots, again linking with the reaction shots to show the more and more angry he is getting. the only extra sounds that come in this scene is the crying of the baby which comes through on the baby monitor. At the end of this scene the man storms off in a huff, in a moody sort of arrogant way, this would confirm the stereo type of a male, while the woman again confirms the stereo type of a woman by being alot more quite and petite.

In the final main scene, pretty much the whole of this is preformed as a two shot, so you can see exactly what they are saying to each other and the reactions that they are getting, the only time that this changes is when there is close ups of each when they are saying something important, this is then followed by more over the shoulder shots for the reactions of these close ups. Again the only sound that are in this part are the background noises of people and vehicles from the street.

Over all this part of the programme i feel that you are supposed to get to know what the main problems are in these people lives and get to understand what they are going to do about it.

representations of the males and females in bodies

the males and said that they noticed the fame that they were operating on by her lady bits. this is stereo-typical of the male the think about and remembering a lady by her bits instead of her face.

also on the race representations, the only black male was the only one pushing the trollys around the hospital, this is a representation of what jobs go on and happen in the reality of todays world.

what is a representation

a representation is your own take on reality. in media all texts are re-representations. this done for how they want the audiencee to react and then make their own views on whats going on, this can then go on to stereo-types for example, take the youths of today, they can be represented as being in tracksuits, wearing hats and hanging out on street corners dricking cheap beer, but this is not true for all teenagers.

general representations of gender
male               female
tough             fragile
hard               soft
sweaty           fragrant


general representations of age
too old, too young, too immature

Conventions Of Local Radio News

Preliminary Task
DJ talks about him/herself
DJ talks about the record
DJ talks about the listener - phone conversations
DJ  goes on about another subject - digresses
DJ promotes another show
Jingles
Vox-pop
Outside Broadcasts

Analysis Of Inbetweeners first 7 minutes

Over the shoulder shots - to show the facial expressions on both of the characters faces

two shots - two actors,

reaction shots - from when they are kissing on the bed, and the parents walked in

Establishing shots - over the school to show where the next scenes will be taking place

cross cutting from scene in the bedroom, the the scenes at school

What To Name My Radio Station

In my group, Annalise, Chloe and I, we have decided to name our radio station "Switch Radio". The reason that we have chosen to name our radio this, is because it is an easy name to remember, it is also very catchy, and it also has a techniqual meaning to it, which can be brought into the techniqual side of the radio stations.

Spooks - what shots did they use

Wide Angle Shots - this was used so that whilst the gun was being fired around

Eye-Level Shots -

Defenitions

Denotation - what you can detect from a shot - eg two children playing can suggest innocence

Connotation - how the scene has been put together to influence your response - eg an over the shoulder shot of the children from the perspective of a man hiding in the trees, for example gives a different impression

Angle - high and low

Shot - mid/close up ect..

Essay On Corination Street

Examine the two openings of Corination Street. how have the programme-makers aimed to represent the lives of the people on "the street" and manchester in general through their selection of images.

Firstly there is a huge difference between the titles in the 1960 ones and the 2010 version. The 1960 version is in black and white, and goes on for around 2 minutes, and the newer version in 2010 is in colour and goes on for around 30/40secs.

One of the things that the two opening titles have in common, is that through out the forty years worth of titles, they have both always included the pub the has been in cornination street from the begining, "the rovers return" it shows people standing outside in both and shows that it is a welcoming pub, i also think that it shows that this is a very working class area, as in very upmarket areas, i dont think that there would be a local pub in the middle of the street with people stood outside. Also another thing that the two opening titles have it common, is that all the way through both of them have always had a cat, i feel that this shows that it is a family area, because most areas that have pets are seen to be more family orientated.

One of the main difference in the titles is that in the newer titles, they dont actually focus just on "corination street" in now has scenes from actual manchester, rather than keeping it all about the actual street.

Analysis of Heart FM Breakfast show 9 - 10

from my analysis of heart fm's radio breakfast show (9am - 10am), the high majority of adverts advertised are for cars, eg saab and alot more are for new singles coming out. there is also advertisments for for wedding fares, this suggests that alot of these advertisments are aimed at the more middle aged female type. also the type of music that was being played would suggest that again this is more for the middle aged females, listening to, justin timberlake, beyonce, jamelia and daniel beddingfield.

Camera Angles

establishing shot  - setting the moment/scene for the scene ahead                       
                          - gives you an idea of wealth of people/area           
                          - show the setting

close up - show emotions of characters
             -  shows things that need to be noticed for later on in the scene
             - can influence the audience

Mid Shots - relationships between people
                 - spercific parts on the body

zooming in can - take you to the important parts of the scence
                       - can allow the audience to take in a number of details

panning shots can - establish more of the scene, allows them to see things that may come importat later on in the scene

extreme close ups - shows key and important highlights

two shots - establish relationships

Introduction To Media - Coursework - Local Radio

My initial research involved investigating the types of local radio stations. The major difference is between Independant (ILR) and public funded BBC radio stations. ILR stations rely on local business for adversitments and funding.

TV Drama - Sub - Genres

Soap Operas or Continuing Dramas - eastenders, corination street

Crime and Police Dramas - the bill, csi

Medical/Emergency Dramas - ER casualty

Sci-Fi/Fantasy - dr who

Literary Adaptions - Oliver twist, pride and prejudice

Contemporary Melodramas - skins waterloo road

Comedy's - shameless, desperate housewives

Conventions Of TV Drama

Characters - genuintly in a TV drama you will always come across a villan, the person who you are supposed to feel alot of sympathy for, familys, the person who everybody just automatically hates, promiscuity.

Storylines - birth, death, marridge, affairs, love.

Dialogue - people tend to speak using a regional accent, slang.

Setting - more run down areas, so that they dont come across as being very upmarket ect.

Themes - (see storylines)

Music - opening and closing credits, real everyday music that you would are most likely to get in a pub/shop ect.

Eastenders and The Inbetweeners

Eastenders - Sam Mitchell has her new baby boy, but the family are still undecided on who the father is, is it Ricky or is it Jack? Peggy walks into Phil'shouse and finds out how much trouble he is actually in through his drug problems.

The Inbetweeners - Will is supposed to be going on a date with a girl and taking out on a boat for a trip around the harbour. But instead the gang jumps into the boat and go for a ride instead. They then end up with a hole in the boat and also Simon falls in leaving everyone to see him naked as they come back into shore.