Ancillary product

In preparation for my product, i will research into movie reviews and hoe to write them and how they're  laid out. With the photoshoot i have done, i will use the images to make a draft copy of a poster cover. in order to do that, i will look into how posters are laid out and what they contain

Collective Identity: teenagers - PRINT.

Question: How do the dominant representations of Teenagers reflect their collective identity?

- What we hear most about teens that make society summarise  their identity.

Newspapers such as The Mirror portrayed the riots as very damaging and brutal. In one artical there was an image with a flaming van and a youth in front of it. The van may not have been set alight by the but they still used the image where one was standing by the defaced van. The picture also clearly states 'a hooded youth walked past a burning vehical' but did the tabloid have to use that specific image?

One clip was of a business owner being interviewed on the family business that was demolished by the riots. The link I've shared below shows what the man said. He specifically mentioned 'gangs of youths'. The media publishing that in the first place shows that they agree with what he says. He only points out the youths but he doesn't actually know for sure if only youths participated in the riots therefore the tabloid could also be seen as biased and stereotypical for publishing such strong point.
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http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/london-riots-is-rap-music-to-blame-146671

As well as tabloids, broadsheets also publish articles about the youth. In this article, The Guardian admits that the media 'casts youth in a constant bad light' this means that the media doesn't really show the positive sides to youths unless it was special events like results day or getting involved with a charity run.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2004/oct/12/pressandpublishing.broadcasting
According to this article:

Newspaper articles about youths, by newspaper type and tone

Tabloid - Broadsheet - Local

Negative 82 - 50 - 71

Neutral 8 - 36 - 9

Positive 11 - 15 - 20

This concludes that the media portrays young people negatively majority of the time. Sometimes, the media almost finds reasons to blame things on youths such as 'rap music' whereas some people  may see music as an art or a freedom of speech. Referring back to The Mirror, the article questioned if rap music influenced the commence of the riots.

                                                                                                          

Representation of disability

Discuss how disabled people are represented through the media.

Disability is shown everywhere in the media, from TV to News Papers to the radio. Disability is mainly conveyed positively in the media. The Paralympics for example, shows how people with a disability can still compete and fight for their medals and titles. The Paralympics is a good example of positive portrayal of them. It also shows equality between the disabled and non disabled people.

In my opinion, i think Family Guy, a cartoon 'for grown ups', gives Joe, a handicapped man an authoritative role because he's a police officer. Because it's a comedy, they also almost mock him by showing him that he cant swim, sleep with his wife or keep control of his body like the time he fell off the train and his friends laughed. He still gets treated fairly and equally by his friends though. Family Guy conveys Joe as how any other disabled person should/would be treated (to an extent).

In this picture, we can see that even though Peter (left) is Joes friend, Joe's still taking his job seriously. We also realise that Joe is a police officer on a wheelchair. Thats not something we'd see everyday but i think it's a good portrayal of equality.

Disability has been spoken about in the media more than it would've been 20 years ago. I think now media shows that disabled people are getting treated equally. In 2010, Disability and Equality act was introduced to in-force equality with employment, education and many more.

Treatment - Short Story - unfinished.

I dont think this is exactly what i want to do but i thought of having maybe about a male that's well known as a thug in the streets but behind closed doors he gets physically abused by his wife. He self harms and lies and says that he got into a fight with other men. 

His wife and him have a strange relationship where at one minute it's loving and caring but if he makes one little mistake she starts to throw things at him then beat him.

With the editing i want to show flashbacks of her as a child being abused by her father. i want her to wear a necklace that symbolises that shes the same person when she grows up so the audience know.

i want the present scenes to be in a rich luxurious living room where theyre sitting on the sofa.

Contraband vs Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - unfinished

CONTRABAND:

Used Facebook and Twitter to promote their film. Also made a webpage. This is effective because their target audience would 

New media technology

Pre Production

• used internet on IMBd to research on thriller films
• used our blog to plan out our ideas such as our story boards
• used phones to contact our actors 

Production

• we used a HD video camera
• music playing in the background via computer

Post Production

• We uploaded it on Youtube
• We edited it on iMovie
• downloaded sounds from the internet

Contraband research - Working Films

What is the genre of Contraband? 

Action, crime, drama

Who stars in Contraband?

Mark Wahlberg, Giovanni Ribisi, Kate Beckinsale

Who directed Contraband?

Baltasar Kormakur

What is the estimated budget for the film?

$25,000,000

What is the estimated Box Office Takings for the opening weekend?

$24,349,815

How many screens was it shown on in the US?

2863 screens

Which other production companies did Working Title work with to produce the film? (You should also know and say what this type of production is called)
Co-production -
Universal Pictures (presents)
Relativity Media (in association with)
Working Title Films (as Working Title)
Blueeyes Productions (in association with)
Leverage Management (as Leverage)
Closest to the Hole Productions
Farraday Films
Leverage Entertainment
Studio Canal

News Corp assets

BSkyB: advertisements on the channels.

The Sun: it's a stereotyped news paper that contains everyday affairs so advertising a film in it would be better than doing it in another newspaper such as The Times.

Mass Audience

I use Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Hotmail and Youtube on my laptop. I use them to communicate with my friends, family and work linked people.

The media has influenced me to buy a blackberry smartphone because it was easier to communicate with my friends that have the same phone. I've also bought Rimmel Renew and Lift foundation that i've seen on an advert.

http://www.skillset.org/film/business/

City Lights alley way test shoot

When we shot our alley way scene it was light outside, however when it comes to filming the real thing we will be doing it at night time using lights. It was difficult to edit the outside lighting on iMovie. We used lots of long shots in this scene, but when it comes to the actual thing we will use more close ups, medium close ups and extreme long shots as the character is walking by. During the fight scene we might film parts of it from the point of view of one of the characters. We muted the natural sounds as it did not fit with the clip, therefore we will add music at different volume levels whilst the character walks further away from the club, this will fit the scene more. The main character walking drunk will not walk as unstable as she did because it looked to staged and not real.