BBC News at Six 11/12/2014

Presenter: Fiona Bruce

No attempt to prevent illegal immigrants getting passports.

 There are different shots in this article, which makes it easier for the audience to keep watching without getting bored. It also has an interview with Yvette Cooper.

 Ed Miliband has pledged Labour would reduce the deficit in each and every year of the next parliament if it wins the general election.

 This includes different shots of protests to keep the audience interested. It also has footage of when Ed Miliband is making a speech about the General Election Campaign. Another thing it shows is George Osborne's point of view about what Ed Miliband is really showing, this is something that the audience would be interested to hear.

 Nearly 60 people came forward, claiming that they have been sexually abused while in the Scouts.

 Interviews and TV packages to show the different points of view about what had happened, also a victim who was abused at the age of nine in the year 1960,  this will make the audience want to keep watching.

 Runa Khan, a mother of six has been jailed for promoting violence and terrorism on facebook.

For this article, it shows the mother herself walking  to court and a lot of detail about what had happened to keep the audience interested. It also has a TV package of the interviewee showing an interview about 9/11.

 Unless we do anything about it now, drug-resistant infections will kill ten million people per year by 2050.

 A TV package, inside a hospital it shows a group of doctors working and voice over by medical correspondent Fergus Walsh. It also has a short interview with a victim of a drug-resistant infection who is being treated. This will keep the audience watching so that they know that they will be safe by 2050.

BBC News at Six 08/12/2014

A British businessman, Shrien Diwani, is cleared of ordering the murder of his wife, Annie, in South Africa. 

Video package, used to show what is happening in court, and the families of the husband and the wife against each other. Interview with Annie's sister and brother, and with John Kay. The bit outside of the court with the sister crying is something that encourages the audience to keep watching.

An unprecedented rise in the use of food banks across the UK is largely down to delays in people receiving their benefits.

 Interview used to show different people's opinions about the fact that there are four million hungry people who eat what other people throw away in the UK. It also shows inappropriate responses, which makes the audience want to keep watching.

 In the Philippines, people are beginning to head home after more than a million people were evacuated before Typhoon Hagupit struck on Saturday.

 TV package, interview and conversation between the presenter and Clive Myria. It shows the family of victims of the typhoon and they are being interviewed, this makes it easy for the audience to keep watching. 

Ruvik Film Promotion

 Ruvik is a horror story about a group of four friends around the age of 25-30, who go to investigate reports on an abandoned mansion. Ruvik, the main character; is a professional detective and so are his other friends. But they're not ready after one of them wake up and explore the mansion alone, oblivious of the fact that it contained dark secrets.

 Ruvik is a complete horror movie related with The Conjuring, it is a film made for 12 year olds and older due to the parts which may be disturbing. The friends that go to the abandoned mansion are called Ruvik, Anna, Daniel and Julia; who will all be receiving a nasty shock.

The Wolf of Wall Street Film Trailer and Poster Analysis

The Wolf of Wall Street:

Title: The Wolf Of Wall Street

Central Image: Leonardo DiCaprio and his workers partying in the background, but he is the easiest to spot in the central image because of the focus on him. 

Text,Tagline: Leonardo DiCaprio is on top of the title (The Wolf of Wall Street.), and near the bottom of this film poster have the names of Jordan Belfort; the film producer, Terence Winter; the film writer and Martin Scorsese; the film director, if anyone in the audience liked previous movies made by any of these people they will easily be attracted to this movie.

Release date: It shows that the release date of The Wolf of Wall Street is December; just under Terence Winter.

Institutional details: It shows that the Institution of this movie is Paramount, and Red Granite Pictures.

Short clips: It shows the key moments in this trailer, it shows when Leonardo DiCaprio meets Jonah Hill, and when he starts his company and how it gets better until he becomes so spoilt with money that he didn't know what to do with it.

Fast pace editing: In the end of this trailer there is fast pace editing to keep the reader watching so that they can get the most important bit of information that they can; the actors, the directors and the producers, and when it will be coming out.

On screen text: There is a lot of on screen text in this trailer, the first two slides of on screen text are used to show the audience the director and the main character, Leonardo DiCaprio. It also has "MORE" and "IS NEVER ENOUGH" 

Stars: It shows the stars in the on screen text, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill and Martin Scorsese.

Time and Release Date: It says that The Wolf of Wall Street is coming soon.

Sound: The music in this creates a feeling that this is an exciting American film. The full trailer tells us that it is a Black American comedy.

The music is Non-Diegetic, so the actors cannot hear it, only the audience can.

The Wolf of Wall Street

I have chosen The Wolf of Wall Street for my case study, I chose it because I think that there is a lot you can write about this.

 The institution of The Wolf of Wall Street is Red Granite Pictures.

 The UK distributor for this movie is Universal Pictures International.

 The genre of The Wolf of Wall Street is an American Black comedy; which means it is a comedy which contains illegal activity.

 It illustrates in the trailer of this movie that this an American Black comedy because of all the crime and illegal activity it contains; like murder and fraud.

 The Wolf of Wall Street is not a sequel.

 In the trailer, none of the previous movies directed by the directors or performed by the actors are not mentioned in the trailer; I think that the reason for this is that they might want the audience to focus on this movie not any other one.

 This movie was released in the 7 January 2014, the first trailer was released November 2013 by Paramount Pictures.

 The Wolf of Wall Street has made a teaser trailer and a main trailer.

 The public like The Wolf of Wall Street because 82% of viewers liked it on Rotten Tomatoes and say that it is funny and infectious.

 Here are some reviews on Rotten Tomatoes for The Wolf of Wall Street:

 Terence Winter's script is a natural and well-oiled machine that produces the words of a demigod. You couldn't make these things up.

This is a fantastic exploration of greed, money, and a truly flawed character that spent much of the nineties on a jaw-dropping but pernicious thrill-ride.

Though it's not a bad movie (it is Scorsese, after all), The Wolf of Wall Street is surprisingly off-putting, overlong and morally skewed.

The original budget for this movie was £63,097,000; which is equal to $100 million. In the opening weekend, The Wolf of Wall Street made £11569354.87, in total; the film made £116,900,694.

 The last movie that the director of The Wolf of Wall Street(Martin Sorsese) directed was Shutter Island, in 2010, and The Departed, in 2006. The genre they both have is Thriller. But The Departed involves crime, similar to The Wolf of Wall Street. The main stars in all three movies are Leonardo DiCaprio. Leonardo DiCaprio is mentioned in the trailers.

Trailer Analysis

Furious 7

Genre:

Action, Adventure, Thriller.

Narrator:

This trailer shows Vin Diesel and his three other friends in the cars, in a plane; getting ready to jump out at the right time to save the woman in the coach. It also shows the man who kills Sung Kang, and that he is hunting the rest of them.

Character:
All the main characters are shown in this Furious 7 trailer; except for Sung Kang who was killed in Furious 6. It also shows Owen Shaw's "big bad brother,". This engages any Fast and Furious fans, they probably want him to be killed. It also shows that Vin Diesel and his gang want to fight whoever killed Sung Kang.

Iconography:
There are different things we see in this trailer, such as guns, car chases, explosions, crashes, crime and fighting crime. These are all elements of an exciting action movie. They make the whole movie thrilling and hard to look away from; it also makes the movie look a lot more intense.

Setting:
The first half of the trailer of Furious 7 is in a road near a cliff; where Lenny saves Paul Walker from falling off the cliff with the coach. The other place looks like it is set in Dubai, because the people in it look rich, there are luxury and prestigious cars and there shows a desert.

Annabelle

Genre:
Horror, Suspense.

Narrator:
This trailer shows a demon possessed by a doll that is placed in a house with a family in it. It shows the demon in the house and the trouble that the family is going through trying to get rid of it.

Character:
The main characters in this movie is obviously the doll, Annabelle, the demon, and the family. The less mentioned characters include the man and the woman who help this family understand why there is a demon in their home and investigating it.

Iconography:
We can see the doll; Annabelle, at the end there is a jump-scare of a little girl turning into the possessed demon. In the second half the music growing was adding intensity and made the audience want to block their ears.

Setting:
The trailer shows us that the most of Annabelle will be taking place in the family's house; where Annabelle and the demon are. This makes the audience feel like they are there, too. It also adds a lot of suspense and tension when it goes near night.

The Riot Club

Genre:
Drama.

Narrator:
A male is sent to the oldest ever university; and finds a club there, called the Riot Club. He wants to join, but the girl tell him they aren't his friends; they don't know when to stop. But he joins anyway, and becomes filthy, rich and spoilt.

Character:
The main two characters, a male and a female. The rest of the Riot Club are not put into as much detail as these two are.

Iconography:
We can see all the members partying and causing riots. It shows a normal man turn spoilt and posh.

Setting:
This trailer is taking place in the university, and sometimes outside, when they go to have joyrides, or when they go to have a beer, etc.

Final UT Magazine cover

UT magazine Cover (Draft)

Magazine Cover Feedback

The Feedback:

 - Finish planning doc - need a main flash that links to image
 - Great title + Photo
 - Need to get actual words + i logo on cover
 - Needs main flash + cover lines on Photoshop.

 In the next few lessons, I will be focusing on my headlines and my main flash, and to get an appropriate and good looking font for my headlines. Also, I willl try to get a new background colour because the one that I have at the moment doesn't look professional.

FourFourTwo Demographic Profile.

Minority Report Shot-by-Shot analysis.

Medium Close-Up (MCU)

 In this medium close up it shows the guards and the emotion and expression on the face of the guard at the front, the reason they want to do this is because the guard at the front is a good friend to Tom Cruise, and they want the audience to realise this.





Establishing shot, Wide Shot (ES/WS)

 This is an establishing shot used to set the scene at which Tom Cruise is being chased by the police. There is dark lighting and shadow show that they are in a dark alley where he is trying to escape from the police, it has a tiny bit of lighting near the back though, to show Tom Cruise escaping from the police.






Close-Up (CU)

 This shot is a close up shot, I think that the reasons they made it a close up was to capture the emotion on his face after his own friends trying to get him and arrest him. It also shows that he is failing to cover his emotion by trying to change the subject.

  High Angle:

 This shot shows that the victim is being bullied by the bully. It makes the victim look small and weaker than the bully, it also makes it look as if they are being caught on CCTV.

 High Angle:

 In this picture, it shows the victim trying to get up but she is being threatened by the bully. We can see this by the clenched fist.









High Angle:

In this shot, the bully has left and now the victim is being comforted, the victim looks very small and weak now because she is looking down and covering her face.









Over the shoulder shot:

In this over the shoulder shot it shows the victim being talked to and the camera is focused on her, this shows that she is the most important person in the shot.







Two Shot:

 This is a two shot because there are two actors in the shot. it shows the bully pointing, ( or threatning.)the victim again and that the victim is looking up at the bully. The fact that the bully is looking down at her makes her look scared and vulnerable.

Adidas Predator Instinct Advert.

Media Language

The key conventions that tell us that this is an advert is the Adidas logo in the top right-hand corner. The slogan for these new boots - instinct takes over, makes the people believe that this is currently the best football boot there is, not just in Adidas, but also against their rivals, Nike. The key images on this advert are the football boots, it shows the history of the Adidas predator boots, all blurred, and the new boot in focus. The background is made dark so that the Adidas football boots stand out.

 Institution:

 The major institution behind this advert is Adidas, the way that the new Predator Instincts are focused on, suggests that they are the greatest boots made.

 Audience:

 The target audience for this advert is primarily football fans and people who play football. The gender percentage could be 80% male, and 20% female. Adidas will also be targeting people who are already wearing Nike football boots.  The age targeted by Adidas would be from 10-40. This product is quite cheap, from £20-£60, unlike Nike football boots, this factor can help the Adidas business.


 Representation:

 The representation on this advert is adidas predator. Because all the boots in the picture are Adidas Predators, this is no surprise, because even though Adidas Predators aren't the only Adidas football boots, they are by far the most famous. In my opinion, the reason that they made a new football boot was because it would look more appealing, more professional, and it would definitely be more successful.

Media Debates

Celebrities have too much influence in society.

I do agree with this statement because there are a lot of people who look up to celebrities and want to be like them. Social networks, such as Instagram and facebook, which provide people with information about celebrities. Some celebrities are good role models, but others are not, these include celebrities like Miley Cyrus, ho twerks in front of little kids, Justin Bieber, for smoking and drunk driving, and John Terry, for being racist.

 Fans of celebrities like these, are taught things that they shouldn't be. These are be reasons why some people commit crimes.

BBC News 4)

BBC News

BBC News at one
03/09/2014

Beheading of a second US Journalist by Islamic state.
British hostage is threatened by jihadist.
The parents of Ashya King released from prison.
European plans to protect wildflower meadows have had the opposite effect.

 The reason why the US Journalist article was read before the British hostage, was because the US journalist had been killed, but the British hostage has been threatened, he hasn't been killed yet, and could be released.

 The next article, about Ashya King's family, was also very important, just like the reason that news on Ashya King is always on the front page, he is a five year old with a brain tumour which means that news on his parents are very important, which means that it's important that his parents are free and can see him, now. 

 The last article, about the European plan to protect wildflower meadows backfiring, was a big thing. But not big enough to be read out first, or early. This article was read at the end.

BBC News 4)

BBC News 4)

BBC News

BBC News at one
01/09/2014

The parents of a five year old boy with a brain tumour are in court, in Spain.

5 year olds are going to learn about coding.

Ukraine forces withdraw from a key airport after heavy fighting.

Man Utd buy the columbian striker, Radamel Falcao.

Clubs try to find the player that will make the difference between success, and failure before 11pm tonight.

NASA has released footage of sun flares that could reach us here on earth.

The first article was read because it was the more important than anything else that was read out. But  a new change in curriculum was also very important because it was a quick change and a very big one, too. 

I think, that the NASA headline,( which was read out last.) should have been read before the Radamel Falcao headline. 

 The Man Utd buying Radamel Falcao was read before the other clubs trying to find an important player, because Falcao is one of the best footballers that still plays.

BBC News 4)

BBC News

BBC News at one
27/08/2014

The Royal bank of Scotland has been fined 14.5 million for failing to insure that customers were given proper advice about their mortgages.
 Jihadists have performed frequent public executions forcing adults and children to watch.
 Celebrations in Gaza after a long-term ceasefire between israel and the palestinian groups.
 A nine year old has accidentally killed her shooting instructor.
 California has been hit by its worst drought in a decade, taps have run dry.
 Robots could be used to do the job of sheepdogs.
 Old couple celebrate their 80th anniversary, both over 100 years old.

 I think that the order that these were read in were reasonable. The first three have had a great effect on many people. The fourth one effected only a few people, but taught many people a lesson, the fifth one read ( The California drought) has obviously effected many people in California and with families that live in California. The last two definitely do not effect many people, they're just news. They should be given less attention.

BBC News 3)

I think that the target audience for BBC News is 13-50. I think this because BBC News isn't very formal, like Channel 4 News, but it also isn't to informal, there aren't too many jokes and so it isn't like newsround, so I think that children wouldn't watch it, but 13 year olds and higher would. I also think that people older than the age of 50 wouldn't like to watch BBC News, but would prefer to watch something more like Channel 4 news, which I think is very formal and suits an older age.

 In my opinion, 65% Male would watch BBC News, and 35% female.

BBC News 2)

BBC News

BBC News was launched in November 14, 1922.

John Reith was the founder of BBC News.

BBC News is famous for giving you recent news from different topics, like England, World, Technology, Sport, etc.

Here is a link for the picture of the BBC News logo - url

Here is the winter olympics 2014 trailer by
BBC.

BBC News

 BBC News

BBC News is broadcast on BBC One and BBC News HD.

BBC News comes on 13:00, 18:00, AND 22:00.

The presenters of BBC News are Darren Jordon and Anna Ford.

 On average 7,641 people watch BBC News per second.

BBC News had won the BAFTA Interactive Entertainment Award.

This is a link to show the logo of BBC News - press.this.coz.ahmad.said.so. 

Here is a link to a video clip from BBC News - Barcelona.close.plane.crash. 

Blog Questions.

Greenford news story: GHS Rounders team win the league.
National news story: Nigeria's Boko Haram deadly bomb kills 18 people.
London news story: 23 year old man dies after taking part in an online punching game.
Sports news story: Belgium hang on to beat USA 2-1.
Funny news story: Woman gives birth outside Primark.

Greenford news story: We chose this story because it means that they had success.
National news story: We chose this story because it was serious and that Boko Haram are terrorists.
London news story: We chose this story because it was mysterious and confusing.
Sports news story: We chose this story because Belgium are through to the quarter finals against Argentina at 05/07/2014.
Funny news story: We chose this story because the woman told everyone to film her and to clap for her and people threw money at her and she received £300-£400.


Our Greenford story was read first, then our national story, then our London news story, then our sports story, and finally our funny story.

We made sure that she was able to read it quickly enough.

We made it so that there weren't so many words and so the listener could understand what she was saying.

It was profesional because I wasn't reading it.

My role, writing the script was the most important.

4, because we did it quickly.

If the girl wouldn't say that she wasn't going to read it.

Our's was almost perfect, but I'd tell her that she wasn't meant to laugh.

      

          I chose GCSE Media because I got told that it was fun and challenging.

        

           I am looking forward to making my music video.

  

           I hope to learn how to comment on different pictures and videos that I see in more detail

           than I normally would.

          Realistically, I hope to achieve an A or an A* in GCSE Media.

           The last thing I watched on TV, was the World Cup, Brazil vs Chile.

          The World cup match appealed to the audience, because the world cup is very major, and 

          Brazil and Chile are two very good teams.

          The last technology I used to access media in the last 24 hours was phone.

         The technology I use most often to access media are laptop and phone.

         Chicago's Sears Tower hit by lightning three times.

         Argentina 1-0 Switzerland. I think this might have been the main news story because 

        Di Maria scored in the last minute and so they are through to the quarter finals against 

         the winner between Belgium and USA.

Titanfall Expedition.

TITANFALL EXPEDITION

Genre:

The genre of this game is Action, adventure and violence.

Audience:

This game is for people from the age of 14 - 30, I believe this because people under the age of 16 play it anyways, so I think that 14 should be the age rating for this game.

Platform:

I think that this trailer will be shown in the cinema, on TV, and you could see it on your phone, laptop, computer or tablet.

GCSE Media: Textual analysis

DIVING PRANKS

Genre:

This genre of this clip is comedy.

Audience:

I think that the audience of this video is 7-45. I think this because usually anyone younger than 7 wouldn't get it, neither would anyone older.

Platform:

This would be shown on YouTube and definitely not in a place like the cinema or on Television.

FIFA 15 advert

FIFA 15

Genre:

The genre of this game is sport advertisement, tension, and action.

Audience:

This game is for people from the age of 7-40, I think this because there is some violence in it and because it is a game of which you need to use your brain a lot, anyone older than 40 will not have much left in their brain.

Platform:

This advert will probably be made to be shown in the cinema, on the TV, and on phones, computers, laptops and tablets.