Week 49

Christmas shopping

`As we rush out to the shops to take advantage of continuing Black Friday discounts, or go online for Cyber Monday deals, UK shoppers are expected to have spent around £2bn - up 30% on last year.´ was the opener for the BBC news report. The article is about the fact that we all panic because Christmas is knocking on the door. But it gets more comment to do online shopping. We are spending more than ever online. It saves us the trip to the busy shops to find the perfect present.

The article is written in the `we´ form what connects the reader with the happening. You can identify yourself to the article and the BBC also added a few statistics and numbers.

The main point of the report is that the online shopping cause less busy shops but all the delivery vans change the traffic situation to the worst. We never had so many parcel vans on the streets. This a typical event. You can compare it to the general principle of evolution. If you solve one problem you will cause a new one with the solution.

I think online shopping is a easy way to shop presents but I also never thought about the fact what that for the traffic situation means. I prefer to buy my presents in real shops and spare the delivery van traffic.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-34926430

Gone Girl

Gone Girl – Film Analyse

Nick in from of the missing poster for Amy

The American psychological thriller gone Girl was produce in 2014 and is directed by David Fincher. He also directed the production of the movie Fight club 1999.

The main story of the film gone girl is the search after the disappeared Amy. 
You have to protagonists, Nick Dunne who is Amy’s husband and Amy Elliott Dunne herself.
The narrative is nonlinear and and you get many different points of view.
The film also visualize how much pressure the media practice and how they show you different versions of the truth.

The plot is typical for a thriller extraordinary events happen to ordinary people. The marriage of Amy and Nick seem perfect but she isn’t. They both try to be perfect and try to control respectively the other. Amy disappeared at the 06.07.2012 and the movie starts with Nick’s point of view. He, the police and many volunteer helpers are searching for her. She is a famous lady because her parents wrote children’s books based on her life called “Amazing Amy”. The Police follow Amy’s leads. After and after it look like Nick killed his own wife. Al the media is reporting about the proses and change the truth. Around the half of the move changes to Amy’s view. You start understand really happened and that Amy made it look like Nick killed her. She prepared everything to make the murder look real even without a dead body. Nick has to fight for the trust of his twin sister and try to convince the police and the media about his innocent.

 I really like the movie because it’s a bit like a puzzle and you get one after another peace and ate the end all your thoughts match together like a puzzle. The film show how much the media changes the truth and I like it that you get different points of view.

Technical/visual/audio codes that were used to make the movie thrilling:

-       Mysterious music
-       Unexpected twist
-       Ordinary people
-       Unordinary event
-       Reliable locations, problems, insecurities, feelings
-       Heartbeat as background sound to boost the paste
-       Different points of view
-       Buffing event
-       Unexpected ending

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Homwort to the 24/11/2015

Christmas adverts

Christmas is coming. The shops sorts selling Christmas articles, Christmas lights get switches on, its getting colder, the radio starts to play Christmas songs but above all you can see all the new Christmas adverts in the telly programs.

Here you can see the Waitrose Christmas advert 2015…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70zjxza3Jqs

It starts with a direct question to us the audience and then happy music about eating starts. You can see a family getting ready for Christmas. Everybody is happy and you can see a lot of food because Waitrose tries to sell you this food. So they used the personal identity audience theory.

The Sainsbury´s advert is more build up like a fairy story…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuRn2S7iPNU

You can see how easy your Christmas could be a disaster just because of your cat. This cat is destroying everything because of a nightmare and her unskilfulness. But the horrible story has a happy end because all the neighbour come together to clean up the mess and to enjoy Christmas all together. The moral of the story is that we all have to help echo other. For me this advert used the forming friendship audience theory. They show you that you should louse the hope and that there will always be a fiend that will help you. It’s also entertaining because of the fairy style. You can imagine this scene also happen to you.

The House of Fraser Christmas advert seems more like a music video…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wwWEzwJ6Ps

You can see a lot of different outfits and also people in every age group. This stands for all the age grope they are selling they products for. The song is a bit rebellion and the refrain is about `don’t tell me what to do´ it shows that every one’s own Christmas has his own rules. For me it the personal identity audience theory.

At least the LidlChristmas advert...

It starts with *welcome tot he Lidl school of Christmas´. Christmas is every year again a big drama. So much to do, so many unusual people around,… This advert tries to make Christmas not to look easy but possible. In The advert they try to prevent all the typical Christmas problems. One example is the part where the teacher tell the students `sometimes you get a good present, sometimes you get a bad present, but the thing is reaction´, Everyone knows the feeling when you are disappoint with your present. Again this advert is for me a example for the personal identity and also a bit entertainment audience theory.

Week 48

First snow - Chaos across the country as commuters battle the big freeze

This week the most soled daily tabloid newspaper `The Sun´ was reporting about the chaos that the first snow this winter for all the commuters caused. Roads were closed, drivers had to pay more attention to prevent accidents and some commuters wasn’t able to get to work. Many took advantage of the winter weather like enjoy some weekend sledging.

The article is very short and the balance between text and pictures is mismatched. You can compare the article to a diary entry. `The sun´ told us about a more or less unimportant happiness that everybody anyway noticed. The sorry has no manful content aside that we had snow and the temperature was obviously under zero. In my opinion this article is not educating and needless. I think they picked this story because a lot of their reader ship can identify their own problems with the problems that happened because of the first snow. They try to relate the reader to the story.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/6758889/Chaos-hits-Britain-as-roads-close-after-big-freeze-weekend.html

Week 47

France flies air attack to IS in Syrian

I found this article when I opened my internet explorer. The `mns´ news are my homed desktop and this headliner caught my attention.

Is says this is France response to the awful terroristic attack on Paris at Friday. France threw 20

Bombs onto the IS-stronghold Rakka. The target of this attack was the IS-trainings camp, camp, command centre and weapons stash.

This sound a bit like the beginning of a war. On attacks the other one and then the attacked one has to attack back. Every fight, argumentation, conflict or war grows on this simple principal. The children act the same `If you robber me my chocolate I will do the same to you! ´ I think it doesn’t helps to slap back. And I hope that this is not the beginning of an awful conflict. It will cost more innocent human lives.

http://www.msn.com/de-de/nachrichten/politik/frankreich-fliegt-luftangriffe-auf-is-in-syrien/ar-BBn24mS?ocid=spartandhp

Week 46

Bonfire Night 2015 – How to keep your kids and pets safe this Guy Fawkes Night

This was the headliner in the online newspaper mirror. Mirror was originally pitched to the middle class reader, it was transformed into a working-class newspaper after 1934, in order to reach a large new audience. This article was publishes at the 5^th November.

The article is about the dangerous to use fireworks and how to protect you self. To make the whole article more demonstrative they added four pictures and linked one YouTube video. The video is about the bonfire night 2014. It shows how the bonfire night went wrong. You can see a lot of fire, an explosion and the video is edited with background music and text. The text face facts about the numbers of injures in the weeks surrounding 5th November 2014 because of the irresponsible handling of fireworks and bonfires.

With this video mirror tries to scare the reader and to open their eyes about the dangerous. The publishing date was at Thursday directly before the bonfire main weekend to remind all those readers who were going to celebrate ate the weekend.

I think it not wrong to warn everybody about the dangerous that are connected with bonfire night but in my opinion mirror pushed a bit too hard.  

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/bonfire-night-2015-how-keep-6767214

Homework from the 4th november

Censorship

Everywhere in the media you can find censorships in different forms and with different reasons. The purpose of censorships is easy to explain. They are made to protect the audience. A good example of censorships is the age-restricted for movies. This is a way to protect the younger audience for seeing content that might be not made for this age group. When you have a movie that shows a lot of violence, vulgarity, sexually explicit or physical afflicting content you will have an age television rating. This rating will order that you won’t be able to buy this movie, ore see this movie in the cinema if you are too young. But we all know that there are enough ways to see those movies if you are too young. You can ask older friend to buy you the film, you can see it online,… .

Also many parents allow their kids to watch movies that aren’t suggest to be seen by too young audience.

The censorships are made for a god reason. But it’s hard to control if the audience is in the border of the age ratings. In the official television program you have watershed times. That means that the television senders are allowed to sow stronger content after 21:00. You have different watershed times for different limits. The Content gets from limit to limit stronger.

You don’t just find censorships in movies. Also in the music business censorships are a big point. For many songs you have to versions. You have the real version and the `clean version of a song´. That means that is the content of a song is for example too rude you might find a `clean version´ od this song. All the songs that you hear in the official radio senders are censored, so they are the clean version of the song.

If the real version is `Body like the summer, fucking like no other…´ you will find ` Body like the summer, freaking like no other…´ in the censored version.

Another form of censorships that shows that censorships are made to protect the audience are the epileptic warnings in the television before flashing scenes.

As I already said it’s nearly impossible to control if the censorships in for of age ratings, warnings or watersheds get considered. But you have to understand that they aren’t made without a reason. They are made for us the audience and maybe some of us should pay a bit more attention to this censorships. There are no reasons why a little kid has to see a scary horror movie. The kid will get nightmares and that’s not the purpose of those horror movies. They are not censored but the age rating already shoes you that this movie is not made for your kid. Also you can’t control if kids turning the television of after 21:00.

All in all the censorships are to show made to protect us the audience and they show you for which age group a products was made for.

Courswork

Coursework as media studies Coulsdon College

My thriller: Move away

Move away because it’s a double sense. On the one side you have the move away from home to a new house and on the other side you have the move away between Joe and Maggie.

Genre:

Thriller

Subgenre:

Romance

Drama

Topics:

Relationship

Love

Move

Changes

Loss

Location:

London (Suburb Riddlesdown) – winter/end of the autumn – could and early dark

Home – to make the story real and that the audience is able to think that all that could happened to himself in his own house

Colours:

Dark night time, cold winter

Narrative:

Non-linear

Audience:

Teenager

Actor:

Teenager (the audience should be able to identify himself with the actor)

Background:

Maggie and Joe are a couple since ages but everybody knows about their relationship. They bought are have problems with their families and their decided to move together in the left house of Maggie´s stepfather who died a few years ago. Maggie’s Mom is alcoholic since she lost her new husband and she don’t care anymore about her daughter. Joe is the sone of a rich strict baker and his mom lives under the pressure of the perfect and successful live of her husband. Joe’s dad is allows the move because he is disappointed of his son. Joe’s older brother is the opposed of Joe. He is successful, writs good marks and does everything the dad wants him to do. Joe comes more after his mother. A bit bad in his time management but very good social skills. He is a lovely boy, polite, funny and adventurous. He loves risk and he likes to break the rules. He is very alive and has a lot of friends. His brother don’t has any friend at all. He studies all the time and he says that fiends would stop him and he don’t want to waste his time for socializing.

Maggie is a beautiful girl that’s from a bad childhood. She don’t knows her father and her mom don’t know as well. She was `produced´ during of a drunked on nightstand. Her mom is young and she never gets anything right. She is one of those moms that aren’t attended at any parents evening or at her Maggie’s price awards. Maggie is very good in taking pictures and it’s her passion. 
The story of Maggies and Joes story together beganns at the 26.04.2011. Joe was kicked out of his upper class elite high school and enroled to Maggies public high school. They became fiends and fell in love. The Prom was a beautiful experiences for them both and Maggie had one evening wehre she life her childhood dream of being a prices. 

Story:

The story gone begin in the new house. They bought are tired of the work they did and happy about what they achieved. Filially away from home. New begin in the hope they life will be better together away from their old life’s. Joe opens one box and takes a bordered picture of Joe and Maggie out of the box (you see this happening through the window to show that there is somebody alas that’s staring at them the camera will move to make it look like the view of someone). Than they start talk about how they met each other and how they whole relationship developed. You see flash backs of the passed so the audience gets an idea how their life looks like and how they personalities are. The story goes back to the present were they are sitting in the new room between their moving boxes. They diced that they want to put the picture up to the wall. Maggie ask Joe where the hammer is and Joe says outside. Its dark outside and Maggie open the window door.  You can see her walk out of the house and how the door shuts magic (In the moment when the door shuts the music will be faded to signal the separate space). When she comes back the door is locked and Joe lies fighting and bloody on the cold floor. You can see Maggie hammering against the window (So you will here the music stronger again because the view is from inside). She tries to call the police but you can see that she has no service with her phone. She starts to go crazy. She cries, scrams and kicks into the mess around her. Than you can see a shadow behind her but you can’t see who the shadow is. You see how Maggie realize the shadow and the shock in her face. Than you just see her running away. She gone slip but gets up and runs on.

(...)

The story will go on but the trailer won’t show more. This should just awake the attention of the teenaged audience.

Maggie Smith (protagonist):

16 years old

White, short, brown hair, brown eyes, not too much makeup, long hair

Poor and messy childhood with many problems, no real father, lost her stepfather a few years ago

Shy, clever, calm, afraid of being alone, friendly, tried of her old life

Joe McTyre (aragonits (?) ):

17 years old

White, Tall, blue eyes, thin, well dressed  

Good and rich childhood

Funny, lovely, polite, bad time management, adventurous, confidence, open minded

(he is the classic hot guy to catch al the girls that watchs the movies just becaus the actoes are good looking)

Inspiration bowl: http://prezi.com/tiaatxckbjix/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy

Week 45

Rugby world cup

On the official web page from the rugby world cup 2015 you can find obviously many rugby connected reports. I wrote a report about the top New Zeeland all blacks play Daniel Cater who is named as the World Rugby Player of the Year 2015. New Zealand were named the World Rugby Team of the Year after the successfully 34-17 against Australia in the final on Saturday.

Carter said after his award: "It's a dream come true. It's not why you play the game, for personal accolades, but at the same time it's very pleasing and a very proud moment because I've had to work extremely hard, especially these last two to three years with the injuries that I've had. To come out fighting on the other side and achieve what I've achieved personally, but also what the team has achieved, it has been a very special moment of my career."

But the most interesting part about the whole article for me was the adverbs under this report. The producers of the page try to catch the attention of the reader to the women rugby world cup. `World Rugby Women’s Player of the Year – Kendra Cocksedge, New Zealand´ is the slogan that you can read under the article of Daniel Cartes archives. This is an example for gender stereotypes nobody is interest in the women’s rugby world cup.

For me this is a very sad fact because it shouldn’t be a different is you see mans or women’s rugby.

http://www.rugbyworldcup.com/news/119877