4/20/2015

Watched the ITV leaders debate for some primary research since there were a lot of young people in the audience that have a large influence and war asking questions to some of the leadrs. This was to get an idea of what mattered to the young people and also to see what kind if things mattered to them.

Unit 57: Applications of Photograph

Photography can be used for different for different things in the media and in everyday life. In 2015 it is that more common and part of our everyday life that we forget we are doing it by using our cameras on our smartphones to capture moments in our days from selfies with our friends to taking pictures of beach to put on Instagram and Facebook. There are still the professional types of photograph that we could not do without in our day to day lives because they assist us and even some of us taking on the responsibility of making these forms of photography our job.

• Fashion- Taking pictures of clothes and people wearing the clothes for examples on a runway at fashion week for for a new season styles to go into a catalog. They are used to show off and advertise the clothes and to show people what is available, new, and up and coming trends and clothes.
• Music Covers and Album Covers – For music use to take pictures of the band mostly or any other type of art picture that can be used on an album cover. The album cover will be something that can get seen everywhere when promoting the album. For the music part you can use pictures from gigs of the bank playing on stage,any pictures taken like that for photo’s and those that are taken on stage will mean that they can be used for band merchandise which will mean all of that can be used for promotion.
• Education- Pictures are used all the time in education to help teach people using step by step pictures that can be used for step by step guides to help people learn things though pictures. As well as that you can also study photography which will also help with the education side of photography. Images are meant to be good and useful tools to help people learn and increase visual aid.
• Advertising- Photography is used for advertising to help promote companies or business by taking pictures to attract them to the workplace . These pictures can then be used on a website and on posters to help people attract them to the business or company. It is very hard to advertise a product for sale without any pictures or images of the product otherwise people would not know what they were buying.
• Forensic Photography – Taking pictures of crime scenes to help the police with their investigations even though you are not an official member of the forensics team you will still need a special licence to be able to thane pictures of the crimes and it will help assist in all of the investigations. Forensic Photography is important to help people solve crimes because it is a from of evidence that can help with convictions and also to document the crime in detail.
• Medical Photography – This is taking pictures of anything medical such as wquitment, operations or even parts of the body that can help and document things for medical journals or textbooks to help medical students or even just to record a part of a paisents recovery. Taking pictures of medical problems will help ensure that people will get a clear picture of what things look like and what different medical problems are because they have seen picture proof and examples of the condition before thanks to medical photography.
• Scientific Photography- This involves taking pictures of any science experiments and also of any underwater activity and also of space and any other activity that comes under physics, chemistry, and biology. Like medical science this can also be used for textbooks and for education purposes like in high school textbooks or for important research. We need this type of photography o explore what we know and to capture things in space that we cannot see with our own eyes.
• Travel Photography – Taking pictures from around the world capturing the landscapes or monuments that you see as you go. This could be for personal reasons or for a job. Many photographers will travel and then sell the pictures they take for more money to travel again to take even more pictures. Those who do take the pictures for themselves will take them and then look back on them or uploaded them to social media for their own personal pleasure.

The development of the new age camera photography and all the new reason to take pictures of our everyday lives tom the food we have, our pets, our work, our friends. People use casual photography for everything these days and all of what we take are saved on our phones for as long as we want them. Even those who have gone into a whole photography profession have found a use for the selfie stick while still being able to report to crime scences or to fashion shows.

Social Action & Community Media Production

Asking the three questions to a group of seven people we discovered that more people than what we thought seemed to know about government and politics. We did this as an example of social action to find out a bit more about the upcoming general election in May.

The three set question that we asked were:

1. Who is the prime minister?
2. What are the three main parties?
3. How old do you have to be to vote.

For the first question 5/7 people knew who the current prime minister is. 3/7 knew who the three main parties were (labour, conservative and lib dem) and 4/7 knew the correct age to be abel to vote in England. We also asked the questions on if the people knew which day the election was always held on (thursday) and now that many people seemed to know. It is in fact held on a Thursday due to some psychological reason that is close to the weekend and people will be happier and more aware of what is going on. The last question that we asked was how often is the general election held and there wad an equal divide between people thinking that it was every 4/5 years.

Review Of 2014

On first glance not a lot seemed to happen in 2014 but all it takes is a quick google to see that there was a lot of events that did effect our year and has helped to shape new parts in our world. The years seem to be passing quicker but maybe that’s all to do with the fact that I’m getting older. I could take you month by month though what moments have “iconic” and have changed the way we think of 2014 but I would be here for ages because that much has gone on. So I will just take you though my own highlights on 2014, moments that i look back on and think how great it was from the laughs to the criticism.

One thing that we do like in Britain is our sports people, our musicians (but mainly out musicians)so lets look back on another great year for British Music…

Starting with the February of 2014, (since nothing that eye catching seemed to happen in January.) When we had out annual Brit awards, the one time of the year when we get so mask in all sings that have a British accent. We see the likes of One Direction and the Arctic Monkeys in action once again when Harry Styles missed an award for a bathroom break, and the iconic moment that Alex Turner dropped his microphone to prove that rock and roll is still real.The Brits is the one music events that we get to award all the artists, even if it may not be very AMA’s, we still mange to get a lot of the country tuning in and tweeting. It was a true display of the times that music is still one of the most impotent things in the world. We still have this love for music from our own turf even though we still seem to praise all the American artists, we don’t ever worry about turning out back on our own.2014 was a big enough year for British Music, the only thing we seem to be good at for now. One thing that Britain has always been good at is producing successful British artists. Ed Sheeran had this years biggest selling album of the year and British/Irish band One Direction managed to set some more world records with another #1 album.

Britons do care allot about our music. You will only have to look at the reaction to yet another member of Take That leaving the bad setting the original 5 down to just three. People took tp twitter to express their feelings in the set of crying face emojis while tweeting the band. The only way to get a reaction to media these days that doesn’t involve reporters going down onto the streets on the cities to ask questions, all you need now is a few screenshots from a hashtag. Take That will be up there with some of the greatest bands such as The Beatles, One Direction, Queen, The Rolling Stones (although some may argue that case than none of these are the greats). The typical reaction to second member of Take That to leave was the same as any boyband’s reaction to a member leaving. If you woke up tomorrow to see that Zayn Malik had left One Direction it would be the same. There were people saying Take That is over again, “it won’t be the same!”, and yet they have archived another sell out tour…

Tours, festivals, just general gigs have always been a big thing. You may not only have t pay £20 to see your favourite band any more but there have been may things that have changed since the times when tickets only cost £10. You will be lucky to be getting a drink at a stadium for that these days. One of the favourites around the world is Glastonbury festival. People travel all over the world to come to this festival and wave their countries flag in view of the cameras. Although many artists from different continents of the planet will get invited to perform on their stage, the British music will always be a favourite. There is nothing like standing in a muddy field singing along with your favourite home nation icon.

Dolly Parton may have done her won iconic performance on the Pyramid stage but there were also artists such as The 1975, Ellie Goulding, Sam Smith and many other that ave just as good as a performance as those that don’t have British stamped on their passports. Many just say that it is an honour to perform their songs on such a stage, just as much as it is to go and watch the artists themselves. A wild weekend of music, beer, and rain- is there anything more British than that?

Back to the talk of albums, for the first time this year all the “Top 10 Albums” and more than half of the “Top 10 Most Talented Artists” were also all British. Even in the American Charts we seem to be more dominate when usually it is all the American artists being the ones to be on our radios and number 1 in our iTunes stores, even still in the windows of HMV. British music and artists seem to be improving, following in the footsteps of The Beatles on taking America by storm. Sam Smith and Ed Sherran, (both on the list), sold out the biggest arena in the world in New York in just a matter of hours.

It is by no question that the Brits are making their stamp on the music world. Even from minor speeches to world hit albums, people will know the name of a lot of our artists, even when we sometimes forget they are British. The otherside of the Pond should watch there backs.

The British are coming.

Sources: Jason Orange Leaving Take That
Ed Sheeran Biggest Album
                Clip of Alex Turner Brits Speech
                Glastonbury (Sunday)

2015 Targets

1. Work Exsperiance/ volunteer
2. Pass the class or get a distinction
3. Come to class more
4. Get assesments done on time
5. Look into current news events

Giving Up Our Own Right To Privacy

The rights to privacy is not only a human right but also a general law in many countries. Take the recent phone hacking scandal and how many people have been though the courts in order to get some sort of prosecution for those involved, as well as the newspaper shut down from this illegal activity. Yet in 2014 are we giving up our own rights to privacy with the way that we reveal our lives on the internet and other people, not even to mention the world of the celebrity where their everyday lives are plastered over the over’s of Heat and OK! everyday while its normal folk are reliving out lives on twitter as if it was a page from OK!.

In the past the closet people would get to their lives being displayed in this way was only neighbourhood gossip that made people hate their lives. Now we seem to be able to enjoy putting out lives and problems out for people to read about and offer up their unwanted advice. Personally myself I do not see the obsession with putting every single though onto Facebook when people always end up talking about how people are nosy and always try and find out things that are not to do with them, but really it is an open door. Morden day reality star and youtube vloggers are putting every part of their lives on camera for us all to see, and they are doing it at their own expense. They may be getting something out of it by being able to buy things that make them more glamorous with the hefty amount that they get paid for doing these shows but that doesn’t change that we are ore interested in their lives than our own. Some of these reality stars even take to twitter afterwards taking about how people should stay out if their lives. Hypocritical? Yes.

We all seem to be abusing our own right, although many us won’t be youtube sensation or even have been on a reality show but we still do think of your own lives as a reality show within ourselves. We all tweet like we are famous. With even the prime minister and the queen having set up their own twitter accounts it has become the norm in 2014 that we jut post whatever we are doing or whatever comes int out head for all our followers to see.

With pernats and cyber campaigns at school always using the words “Anything on the internet is never private.” how and why do we even use the internet for daily life since it must be the root of all evil? The internet has changed the working and school environment as well know it, most of us now can’t even go to work without the internet so it would be virtually impossible just to cut it out of our lives like some suggest that we should. The public have become to dependent on things that the internet provide like Netflix, Facebook, online banking etc.

There are plenty of so called conspiracy theories about the government and their hacking but we seem to be the ones letting it happen by having so much personal information online. Most networking sites do have the options to have your profiles on private there are little people that seem to use that option. Most twitter account do not have any security settings on and just by looking at a few profiles you can see that the majority of larger accounts with thousands of followers haven’t got their account on private. Once again a prime example of how much we seem to care more about the following for ourselves rather than how many people can stalk out information. The phone hacking scandal has dominated the news for many months at a time during the trial period, exposing all the hacking that went on to show the very last amounts of privacy that celebrities have in this world There is no “no hack” option on phone like there is on networking sites. It’s just something that happens that you cannot help, no matter the privacy settings. People will always seem to find away in.

The main targets of the hackers does seem to be celebrities and them trying t expose their private life and the general public only seem to be targeted when it comes to needing bank account details. Perhaps it is like I said before and we are just letting people do this by putting ourselves online. People managed to keep in touch and do their banking without the assistance of the internet this time 40 years ago, so what has changed that has now stopped us doing such simple tasks like writing a letter or walking down the street to the bank.

Looking again at the life of reality starts compered to ourselves maybe we should stop trying to be like these people with no personal lives that are not documented by a gossip column or by some stranger on twitter. We all have this desire to be followed by people we don’t even know and people have done some stupid things for the so called “privilege’ of followers. We are happy for everyone to know our personal information that would usually be kept closer to ourselves, meaning we are happily abusing the right to privacy that we have been given for our own good.

Unfortunately the government and other bodies do not have the power to shut down every single profile on every social networking site just because people are putting all there information online, again that is a different right that they have and there is nothing that can we do about it.

 

Video Production 1

Scoots NZ Car AD

• Bad green screen
• bad choice of fount
• Bad transition to different parts of the advert
• Bad acting and showed parts that should have been outtakes
• Bad sound quality
• Bad editing
• Use of clip art

This gives off that people will not take the video serisioly as well as it giving iff that it is bad communication for the views.There is not impact on the view since it isn’t a typical outfit that will WOW anyone and make them want to use the service. it is kind of unprofessional and boring.

 

Gadget Gureus

Anyi- Advert for the anriod and apple

The Role Of The Writer

The writer holds a very highly important role in the commissioning process when their script is coming alive though TV, movie or theatre. Once a writer has produced his or her script and has had someone to proof read it, (you don’t want any mistakes when taking it to a company) they can then take it so a production company either though email or even a arranged meeting to present your script. Some examples of companies, agencies, and corporations that can help people take new scripts; BBC (England, Competitions), Outwise PR, SEO agencies.

When a writer takes their script to a company they will most likely to do a pitch in fount of a bored of people, they will have to present their ideas clearly and be confident- if you don’t believe in your idea then the company won’t. When a writer is presenting to such places they will need to have professional standards, anything from they way they dress to the vocabulary that they use to present themselves and their script, the more professional the company the more they will have to impress but by just going to a website like BBC writers room they can simply submit the script and it maybe considered for free where as some may charge.Not every writer get’s commissioned with some sort of representation, some do it on their own with money off their own back but it can be much harder to get a production company to take on your idea. May like to see some sort of agency to have representation because then they know you have a professional behind you.One way to get some commission to get some sort of advertising and sponsorship even through submitting scripts to the writers room.

Other roles in the commissioning process other than the writer are an agent, script editor, commissioning editor, director, and producer. The script editor as I said before will edit though the script to point out, correct and re-wrod some part of the script to make the improvements. This is essential in the commissioning progress since to don’t want to submit scripts with mistakes every few words, they work this close with the script editor though the whole writing process to keep track of the progress and to ensure there is a good flow and a good plot throughout. Once the script has been edited thourly it can be sent off though an agent or an agency which will help the writer find work/jobs, it is a pretty simple task but itself is a very hard job that will require a lot of work and time on the agents half. Getting an agent can also be hard but once you have found one they will have excellent communication with you throughout the process of finding jobs and also promoting yourself as a writer and getting your script submitted to companies. Commissioning editors are sort of like agents apart from they wok on the behalf of a publisher or publishing company to find authors that could write to a specification that has been set out by the editor or to find other up and coming writers that have already wrote and developed their script. They will do a lot of work on behalf of the publisher and play one of the key roles in the commissioning process.

The final key roles in the commissioning process belong to the director and the producer. the dirctor will be the one with the vision for the script, he will read it and imagine it to be a cirtin way and will make sure this is directed into the screen play. The director also has the power to change parts of the script if they wish to, including the way that things are spoken and showen, writers will have to be willing and prepared for the director to make the changes to a script that they may find very personal to them. The producer is the person who will pay fir the movie to be made, they will work on their own money or money from a production company. Producers will also have  large role in the fact they will be there from start to finish also making sure that the screen play is up to scratch since they have invested all their money into making the movie or TV series happen.

Despite all these other important roles in the process the writer is still one of the most important. Even if the script is being produced by a company or an independent body. They will be on the set most days to make sure that the movie is flowing well and is also to what they imagined it to be when they were writing the script Just because they have since sold the screen writer to the script doesn’t mean that they have sold away their idea, they will still have a very important influence in the way that the screen play is performed and how everyone is acting out the script. Even when writers are still in talks with the commissioning editor they will have a good say as well as an agent in the negotiations with the commissioning editor on prices for the script, what will be done with the script. The writer will have to work closely with all the other people in roles in the process since it is their script that is being made, they can’t just abandon the idea once it is sold.

To anyone else who is considering a carer in script writing I would recommend to make sure you do your research before you begin to write. A good resource to use is the BBC’s writers room (http://www.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/) where they have a large list of videos and articles that you can watch and read to build up your industry knowledge, they also have a section for submitting your script that could help writer get developed. The other ways that I have already described are more harder ways to be noticed by a company. I would also advise anyone thinking of getting into the business to practice a lot and to build up a good portfolio o their scripts and also to get themselves some sort of representation though an agent as it will make the job a lot easier and also give you a good reputation with anywhere that you decide to send your script to. To find yourself an agent may also be another tricky job but as long s you have a built up portfolio then you will be highly considered for an agency.

Interview Techniques: Jeremy Paxman and Jonathan Ross

Jeremy Paxman Interviews Conrad Black (October 2012)  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBI35DMHjy4 Jeremy Paxman opens the interview with a closed question (although it can be interpreted as an open question) simply asking Conrad Black if prison has made him a better person. Paxman goes straight into further questions where he says; “When you read the remarks…” regarding one of the trails around 5:00, this can be considered a leading question and he also uses at lot of statements around 5:20 and 5:28 he says statemens like “you are a criminal.” and “you have been convicted.” Paxman also will put emphasis on you are and also on you have. Paxman clearly used a whole range of question types but yet they seem to be clean and straight to the point with his questions in making sure that he gets the answers that he is out for. We can see just by the question answers that from the beginning Paxman doesn’t have a good rapour with Conrad Black and that also shapes the interview and the interview questions. While we watch Paxman expressing these statements we can see in the body language he uses that he is being suggestive in trying to get across to the man that he is a criminal, he does this by hand gestures making himself seem bigger than a powerful man. Another way that he displays body language is in his slight leaning forward, the whole structure of this past of the interview is almost provocative. From this we get the further question “What may astonish our views…” He is almost reminding the Conrad black the true reasons of this interview and that it will be televised at some point. Despite this Conrad Black goes onto say in his answer to Paxman’s question with the words “smashing your face in” then says only seconds later “I don’t believe in violence.” Paxman has now exposed the aggression of Conrad Black to everyone, his provocative behaviour has now lead to this. Paxman is a professional interviewer, and has built up his techniques over his many years and also has learned ways of dowsing peoples true emotions like this by building up the questions. Paxman only really tends to use open and closed questions although he does tend to use follow up questions which will play off of what the previous answer in the previous questions. If the interviewee says something that could lead to a follow up question and Paxman will use his answer to make another question. For example, they talk about if a convicted criminal should be allowed in the house of lords. Cornad Black says in some cases it should be allowed so Paxmen then comes back with a question that relays off his answer saying “should child offenders be able to make laws on child protection.” The interviewer challenges the interviewee on everything that he is saying to try and catch him out at some point. The last quote I would like to point out is; “Why did you start spending so much money?” Paxman askes questions that normally couldn’t come up in general conversation with someone when questioning them about their life. Paxman again likes to get very personal with the questions when it comes to the interview, but not personal in the same way someone for MTV would be asking a musician about their personal life. Where as a celebrity would expect questions about their love life and friends Paxman challenges what this man is known for amongst everyone. In summery, Jeremy Paxman is a very intimating man in himself, but he tends to use a lot of body language when he is doing his interviews. We can see from the video that when he lets the interviewee answer the question he leans back in his chair and crosses his arms, almost in a defence way while interviewing an equally powerful man before he leans forward again to utter his next question to the Conrad. Jonathan Ross Interviews One Direction (Novemeber 2013) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esH8OQqE3fE Already you can see the differences in the interview styles between Paxman and Ross’s interview styles, part of this is because they are interviewing for different purposes. Paxman is interviewing Black in order to expose him in someway to the public and also get some type of confession where as Ross in interviewing a boyband so it is more casual and although he is the same in asking personal questions although they are on a very different level. Ross has to have good repour with his guests unlike Paxman since he has to make a connection with his guests otherwise it would be difficult to conduct a casual interview. Ross’s opening question brings on an another question that is open to interpretation of it being an opening or closed question. You know from the type of question that there will be a yes or no answer followed by “because…”. Ross says “Does it ever get boring? Does it ever surprise you?”. You just know that to make to interview seem good there will be a developed answer rather than a simple yes or no. This is still as casual interview and not defensive one. We can also see this in the body language of Ross and the group that he is interviewing, although Ross is sitting at a desk we can see he is very layed back in his chair at point and then when he asks the questions, like Paxman, he will lean forward intrigued by what the answer will be, we can see this around 4:15 when he leans back and then forward again to ask his follow up question.The whole deduction on the interview seems to consist of forwarding questions where Ross just will make up questions off the last answers. In the gaps where he couldn’t fit in these other type of questions there seems to be a good balance of open and closed questions but they do include some leading questions saying “Let me ask you,” around 7:00. Where as Paxman got into the personal area of money for the Conrad and what he spent it on, Ross also gets quite personal but on  different level by asking One Direction near the beginning of the interview saying “Some of you are in relationships…” It is almost not a question in the way he handles it and words it. He leaves the emphasis on the end as if he wants the boys that he is interviewing to elaborate on the question themselves. He relies on that fact  a lot during the deduction of his interview also using the same techniques. Overall we can see that there is a big difference between the interview styles of Paxman and Ross. Anything from the repour to the questions. Both these interviewers are very professional and are good at what they do, hence the success they have had so it is refreshing to see such good and different interview styles in a modern journalistic world. —– words: 1155

Population Growth: Should Britain Obtain the One Child Policy?

The current number of the population as I write is 7,264,443,828, but my the time I took typing out that number it would have gone up much higher which around 5 babies being born every second. The birth rate compared to the death rate in a day is almost double, more people are being born than are dying, partly dude to the reasons that people are living longer and in the last century there has been a “baby boom” across the globe. Some say that the higher death age is to do with how people are becoming more and more aware of how to look after themselves with other newspapers and new channels telling us what is good for us and how we should live our lives in order to live longer. The human race has always looked for some sort of way of eternal life whether it is in a science way so they can come alive in the future or not. Either way if people are riding way’s to live longer, or forever, then this will highly affect the way that the population grows and how much room is left for all this human to habit on.

There are very few bits of land on the earth that are not taken up currently by humans because our bodies are not adapted for the places like Arctic and the Sahara Desert where as in countries like China there is the struggle of over population. China currently takes up 1/7 of that 7 billion of the population, India also taking up just over a billion people. Both are very large parts and take up a lot of the continent of Asia. Even in other larger countries like the USA there is a long way to go before they will be ale to get to 1 billion people in the country. China imposing laws about how many children one couple can have seems to have done nothing for the population of the country itself, despite the small decreased over the years. The UK is till a growing entry which the population raising 20.20% from 2000-2012. (http://os-connect.com/pop/p2n.asp)

While many people in the world seem to suffer with many different and easily curable illnesses struggle to find clean water and edible food, we are all adding to the population in the more developed countries where there is plenty of food and other necessities. We all do out best to try and donate one a year when a charity show is on and that is set to makes us feel better, but when most of the habitual earth is now populated with small or large amounts of humans is it really going to help?

It doesn’t always work like this though. India is the second most populated country in the world, only slightly behind China, but India still has one of the highest poverty rates in the world with many of the population still living in slum type areas that could only be a type of of picture that you could have seen in Slumdog Millionaire apart from it is truly a reality.People come up with all sorts of reasons why poverty is so large in countries like India but that doesn’t seen to stop the population growing there even when a large number of people don’t even live in a real house to protect them during storms. Yet considering the small difference between China and India in their population China is a much more well developed country. Granted, some parts of India are very developed but there will always poorer halves of the country that are easier to find and are more known. When you see pictures of China there are always large glass buildings that resemble those of our own capital, London.

So should our country adapt some sort of policy like China? The UK has one of the fastest growing populations, not just in the amount of birth to deaths, but because of the amount of people heading to the UK. So should parliament make some sort of law like China has for it’s current and future residents?

Some current policy in China stands as the imagine attached.

There are still many issues with the One- Child Policy, people think that women are having less equality and rights in the country. Women are being forced to have abortions if they become pregnant, many of them being backstreet abortions that are not even performed correctly and can be really dangerous for women after the abortion has taken place. Like many back street abortions women can suffer for weeks in pain afterwards and depending how bad the abortion was the woman may need to be sent to hospital. Women will not be able to have a fair say on their own bodies.

Two other issues with the one-child policy are the infant death rate and the trouble with multiple births. In the Chinese culture having twins or even triplets is considered to be lucky. Now whereas Britain is known for making it’s tights laws where everything would be more restricted and controlled, there still could be problems with death rates. Many people prefer to have male children so they would be able to carry on the family name and many still believe for boys to be the superior sex. Girls are left to die or are sent away to orphanages and that could take place in here if the policy was to be put in place. Complex issues are still raised with policy’s like this. Many say it is unfair or that it even breaches human rights in some ways. Although China’s population has slow dcressed here is no saying that it would work in any other part of the world or in other countries, the way to control the population may not be to control the birth rate but to control the death rate.

The subject of world population will always continue to be a hard topic, but with many politions indirectly choosing to ignore it who knows if there will ever be a way to help the world. Different figures from different studies make complex and sometimes unalike predictions about what will happen as the earth adds more years to it’s life span and just how the population will grow.