Monday, 21 May 2012
Thursday, 10 May 2012
Legal and Ethical constraints
Legal
Copyright : Is alegal concept that gives the creator of something the exclusive rights to it, this usually lasts for a limited amount of time.
Performing rights: They are the rights to perform music in public.
Royalties: Are payments based on how much something is used, for example a TV licence.
Libel: Is a statement that is constructed with the aim to show a broadcaster, person or specific group in a negative light.
Equal opportunites: Is when everyone has the same chances as each other in terms of broadcasting.
Broadcasting act: Is an act that allows a country to set up a new Television channel, such as Channel 4.
Ethical
Accuracy: the amount of realism shown in a television programme in terms of different cultures.
Offensive material: such as violence, swearing and sex must be shown after the watershed.
Seasationalism: Is when a news story is over-exagerated in order to increase sales and publicity.
Chequebook journalism: Is when the journalist pays money to have the rights to publish a story.
Privacy: Is when something or someone requests to be left alone.
Represention: How someone or something is represented in a television programme.
Censorship: Is when something is considered offensive or inconvenient, therefore meaning it is not allowed to be viewed on a television programme.
Public right to know: When the press feel that the public has the right to know about something.
Copyright : Is alegal concept that gives the creator of something the exclusive rights to it, this usually lasts for a limited amount of time.
Performing rights: They are the rights to perform music in public.
Royalties: Are payments based on how much something is used, for example a TV licence.
Libel: Is a statement that is constructed with the aim to show a broadcaster, person or specific group in a negative light.
Equal opportunites: Is when everyone has the same chances as each other in terms of broadcasting.
Broadcasting act: Is an act that allows a country to set up a new Television channel, such as Channel 4.
Ethical
Accuracy: the amount of realism shown in a television programme in terms of different cultures.
Offensive material: such as violence, swearing and sex must be shown after the watershed.
Seasationalism: Is when a news story is over-exagerated in order to increase sales and publicity.
Chequebook journalism: Is when the journalist pays money to have the rights to publish a story.
Privacy: Is when something or someone requests to be left alone.
Represention: How someone or something is represented in a television programme.
Censorship: Is when something is considered offensive or inconvenient, therefore meaning it is not allowed to be viewed on a television programme.
Public right to know: When the press feel that the public has the right to know about something.
Tuesday, 24 April 2012
180 Degree Rule
In filmmaking, the 180° rule is a basic guideline regarding the on-screen spatial relationship between a character and another character or object within a scene. An imaginary line, called the axisconnects the characters and by keeping the camera on one side of this axis for every shot in the scene, the first character will always be frame right of the second character, who is then always frame left of the first. If the camera passes over the axis, it is called crossing the line or jumping the line.
Ownership channels in Print
Public ownership channel means it is owned by the people. (BBC television would be an example
of this).
Private ownership means they own many titles (Virgin).Independant ownership means that the owner only owns one business (Corner Shop).
One example of a newspaper that is internationally publicised and privately owned is, Trinity Mirror is the owner of the Daily Mirror. It is a PLC (Public Limited Company) and is an international company. This is because they also own a paper in australia. It is available online and so this would make it mulitnational. It is free to all customers and they fund it through advertising.
Print Regulations
THE PCC - Press complaints commission.
Are the company that deals with newspapers, magazines and newspaper websites. However they don't cover things on advertisements, books, blogs, in order to make an official complaint you have to be connected to the story.
Are the company that deals with newspapers, magazines and newspaper websites. However they don't cover things on advertisements, books, blogs, in order to make an official complaint you have to be connected to the story.
Examples of each
Sensationalism - London Riots.
Libel - The News of the World's hacking scandal is revealed.
Inaccurate reporting - David Beckham had an affair.
Offensive material - Picture of Colonel Gaddaffi shot dead.
Privacy and Paparazzi - Michael Jackson hides his children's faces form the cameras.
Negative Representation - Footballer Sol Campbell terminates his contract at Notts County after playing only one game for the club.
Public right to know - The Sun names and shames britain's most wanted pedophiles.
Ofcom
Ofcom is the government-approved regulatory authority for the broadcasting, telecommunications and postal industries of the United Kingdom. This is a link to their official website : www.ofcom.org.uk/
Letter of Complaint to Ofcom
Dear Sir/Madam,
I am writing this letter to express my concerns regarding the episode of Coronation Street that was shown on 16th January 2012. I was very concerned about the way the incident between the characters Owen and Faye was conveyed, it shows a lack of understanding of child abuse by the shows writers and producers. It shows the character Owen in a very negative light, and the scene in focus is shown before the watershed, it would have been more appropriate if the incident had been censored because it may have caused some viewers distress. Thank you for your time, i hope that you take my advice on board.
yours sincerely
Chris Thorpe
Key Components of Newspapers
Hard News
The idea of hard news involves to initial concepts, seriousness and timeliness. Seriousness includes many different categories such as politics, economics, crime, war, and disasters are considered serious topics, as are certain aspects of law, business, science, and technology. Where as timeliness include stories that cover current events such as the progress of a war, the results of a vote, the breaking out of a fire, a significant statement, the freeing of a prisoner, an economic report of note.
Features
A feature is a story or article that has special human intrest that is not closely tied to a recent news event.It goes into great detail regarding concepts and ideas of specific market interest and in particular an independent target demographic, for example a story on a kids TV show could have its target demographic (audience) as parents because they need to know what content their offspring are viewing.While the distinction between published features and news is often clear, when approached conceptually there are few hard boundaries between the two. It is quite possible to write a feature in the style of a news story, for instance. Nevertheless features do tend to take a more narrative approach, perhaps using opening paragraphs as scene-setting narrative hooks instead of the delivery of the most important facts.
Masthead
The masthead is one of the main components for any front cover of any physical media text, it tends to be written as a list, that gives the names of the staff that contributed to the creation of the media text. Some mastheads also include information such as the publication's founding date, slogan, logo and contact information. For example on every Nike poster, the slogan 'Just Do It' is displayed clearly so that it gives the company it's own unique identity.
By-liners
The byline is a strip that gives the reader a brief outline of the writer of the story's position in the company, for example Piers Morgan - Editor.
Gutters
A gutter in media terms is the space between printed texts, this can be used to signal a change of subject.
Justified Text
Is the name given too typographic alignment setting of text or images within a column or "measure" to align along both the left and right margin.
The idea of hard news involves to initial concepts, seriousness and timeliness. Seriousness includes many different categories such as politics, economics, crime, war, and disasters are considered serious topics, as are certain aspects of law, business, science, and technology. Where as timeliness include stories that cover current events such as the progress of a war, the results of a vote, the breaking out of a fire, a significant statement, the freeing of a prisoner, an economic report of note.
Features
A feature is a story or article that has special human intrest that is not closely tied to a recent news event.It goes into great detail regarding concepts and ideas of specific market interest and in particular an independent target demographic, for example a story on a kids TV show could have its target demographic (audience) as parents because they need to know what content their offspring are viewing.While the distinction between published features and news is often clear, when approached conceptually there are few hard boundaries between the two. It is quite possible to write a feature in the style of a news story, for instance. Nevertheless features do tend to take a more narrative approach, perhaps using opening paragraphs as scene-setting narrative hooks instead of the delivery of the most important facts.
Masthead
The masthead is one of the main components for any front cover of any physical media text, it tends to be written as a list, that gives the names of the staff that contributed to the creation of the media text. Some mastheads also include information such as the publication's founding date, slogan, logo and contact information. For example on every Nike poster, the slogan 'Just Do It' is displayed clearly so that it gives the company it's own unique identity.
By-liners
The byline is a strip that gives the reader a brief outline of the writer of the story's position in the company, for example Piers Morgan - Editor.
Gutters
A gutter in media terms is the space between printed texts, this can be used to signal a change of subject.
Justified Text
Is the name given too typographic alignment setting of text or images within a column or "measure" to align along both the left and right margin.
Printing
Print Press
A printing press is a device that revolutionised the way that people conceive and describe the world they live in, therefore leading to a new era of modernity. The way that the device works is as follows, applying pressure to an inked surface resting upon a print medium (such as paper or cloth), thereby transferring the ink.
Rolling Print Press
A rolling print press in which the images to be printed are curved around a cylinder, this new device allowed printers to print a larger amount of copies in a shorter amount of time, therefore cutting costs and increasing revenue.
Electronic Print
The current and most modern of the printing methods is electronic print, used mainly in computing, a printer is a peripheral which produces a text or graphics of documents stored in electronic form, usually on physical print media such as paper or transparencies. There are many varietes of electronic printing, with thee most modern and advanced being 3D printing.
A printing press is a device that revolutionised the way that people conceive and describe the world they live in, therefore leading to a new era of modernity. The way that the device works is as follows, applying pressure to an inked surface resting upon a print medium (such as paper or cloth), thereby transferring the ink.
Rolling Print Press
A rolling print press in which the images to be printed are curved around a cylinder, this new device allowed printers to print a larger amount of copies in a shorter amount of time, therefore cutting costs and increasing revenue.
Electronic Print
The current and most modern of the printing methods is electronic print, used mainly in computing, a printer is a peripheral which produces a text or graphics of documents stored in electronic form, usually on physical print media such as paper or transparencies. There are many varietes of electronic printing, with thee most modern and advanced being 3D printing.
Friday, 20 April 2012
Soap Evaluation
Content
For our Soap Scene, we tried to convey a common storyline in most everyday soaps, and that is school issues. Our storyline focuses mainly on a boy, played by Chris, who is getting bullied at school, the storyline begins in the corridor, the boy (Chris) is on his phone when he walks past the bully (Elliot), the bully asks him 'what are you looking at?', this helps to give the audience the effect that something is about to happen. The bully then takes the boy's phone and then throws it into the girl's toilets, causing the boy to run in and retrive his phone, as he picks up his broken phone, a girl (Lily) see's him and then runs out screaming. We then editited the footage so that it fades into the next day, a scene between the boy and his father (Elliot), having been reported by the girl, they have been called in for a meeting about the incident, they start by disscussing the incident with the father questioning the boy's reasons for being in there, the boy does not say much, this gives the audience the effect that the boy is quite a shy person that likes to keep his feelings and opinions to himself, we then used a bit of comedy to lighten up the scene, the father tells a joke which the boy disapproves of, causing the father to slap him to the ground, this leads us on to the final scene. The head teacher (Rhianna) appears in the waiting room, then leads them into the interviewing room, the boy is asked numerous questions, and the father is shown a statement by the girl, the boy then reveals the real problem, he says that he is homosexual leading to the fathers horrified look, this corresponds with the text 'to be continued ...', to create a cliffhanger that leaves the audience wanting to see more.
For our Soap Scene, we tried to convey a common storyline in most everyday soaps, and that is school issues. Our storyline focuses mainly on a boy, played by Chris, who is getting bullied at school, the storyline begins in the corridor, the boy (Chris) is on his phone when he walks past the bully (Elliot), the bully asks him 'what are you looking at?', this helps to give the audience the effect that something is about to happen. The bully then takes the boy's phone and then throws it into the girl's toilets, causing the boy to run in and retrive his phone, as he picks up his broken phone, a girl (Lily) see's him and then runs out screaming. We then editited the footage so that it fades into the next day, a scene between the boy and his father (Elliot), having been reported by the girl, they have been called in for a meeting about the incident, they start by disscussing the incident with the father questioning the boy's reasons for being in there, the boy does not say much, this gives the audience the effect that the boy is quite a shy person that likes to keep his feelings and opinions to himself, we then used a bit of comedy to lighten up the scene, the father tells a joke which the boy disapproves of, causing the father to slap him to the ground, this leads us on to the final scene. The head teacher (Rhianna) appears in the waiting room, then leads them into the interviewing room, the boy is asked numerous questions, and the father is shown a statement by the girl, the boy then reveals the real problem, he says that he is homosexual leading to the fathers horrified look, this corresponds with the text 'to be continued ...', to create a cliffhanger that leaves the audience wanting to see more.
Generic Codes and Conventions
Codes and Conventions in media:
The media construct reality. The media have their own forms, codes and conventions. The media present ideologies and value messages.
It is important that the target audience regognises the codes and conventions that are trying to be conveyed in the type of media.
Code -
Convention - a custom or tradition, a standard of presentation or conduct.Audiences negotiate meaning in media.
Horror codes and conventions:
The media construct reality. The media have their own forms, codes and conventions. The media present ideologies and value messages.
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The media are business that have commercial interests.• It is important that the target audience regognises the codes and conventions that are trying to be conveyed in the type of media.
Code -
A code is a rule-governed system of signs, whose rules and
conventions are shared amongst members of a culture, and which is
used to generate and circulate meanings in and for that culture.Convention - a custom or tradition, a standard of presentation or conduct.Audiences negotiate meaning in media.
Horror codes and conventions:
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