Sunday, 3 November 2013

Chapter 2 The legal and Ethical constraints of the creative media sector

Ethical And Legal

Ethical:
Social Issue's and Sensitivities: ethics are the social opinion of people, which is usually what is right and what isn't. such as on forms of comedy like south park, some people may like it and want more episodes when some think it is inappropriate and think it should be canceled.
  • Representation Of Gender: Gender is a system we use for sorting the types of humans and is usually a troubling issue when discussing both representation in media. Many things, not just people are represented in the media industry by masculine or feminine (mainly in advertising) and over time people have become more aware of what is appropriate characteristics. such as in after shave adverts or perfume adverts.
  • Representation Of Religious Beliefs: in media, religion is one of many things that is not brought up in the wrong way unless your south park. when making anything in media you have to make sure it is tolerable for people of a different religious belief. such as when south park made an episode featuring a religious prophet and mocked said prophet. thus the episode was banned from airing again.
  • Linguistic usages: in some countries the use of their native tong is used much in media such as news or their shows in their countries. but internationally if an English show is shown in Germany it will be voiced over with another language.
Professional body codes of practice:

  • BBC producers' guidelines: All audiences expect the best Ethical and Editorial from the BBC's broadcast. These are the guidelines for the BBC producers.
  1. Accuracy
  2. Impartiality
  3. Harm and Offence
  4. Fairness, Contributors and Consent
  5. Privacy
  6. Reporting Crime and Anti-Social Behavior
  7. Children and Young People As Contributors
  8. Politics, Public Policy and Polls
  9. War, Terror and Emergencies
  10. Religion
  11. Re-Use and Reversioning
  12. Editorial Integrity and Independence From External Interests
  13. Conflicts of Interest
  14. External Relationships and Funding
  15. Interacting With Our Audiences
  16. The Law
  17. Accountability
  18. Appendix 1: The Ofcom Broadcasting Code
  19. Appendix 2: Code of conduct for competitions and votes
  20. Appendix 3: Statement of policy on alternative finance
  21. Appendix 4: Framework for funding prizes and awards
  22. Appendix 5: Guidelines for BBC commercial services on editorial integrity and independence from external interests
  23. Appendix 6: Guidelines for BBC global news services on external relationships and funding.
  • Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C) accessibility Standards:

  1. Role Attribute 1.0
  2. Web content accessibility guidelines (WCAG) 2.0
  3. User Agent accessibility guidelines 1.0
  4. Authoring tool accessibility guidelines 1.0
  5. Web content accessibility guidelines 1.0
  6. Understanding WCAG 2.0
  7. Techniques for WCAG 2.0
  8. Guidance on Applying WCAG 2.0 to Non-Web Information and Communications Technologies (WCAG2ICT)
  9. XHTML role attribute module
  10. XHTML access module
  11. Relationship between mobile web best  practices (MWBP) and web content accessibility guidelines (WCAG)
  12. Requirements for WCAG 2.0
  13. Inaccessibility of CAPTCHA
  14. techniques for user agent accessibility guidelines 1.0
  15. techniques for authoring tool accessibility guidelines 1.0
  16. core techniques for web content accessibility guidelines 1.0
  17. CSS techniques for web content accessibility guidelines 1.0
  18. HTML techniques for web content accessibility guidelines 1.0
  19. Techniques for web content accessibility guidelines 1.0 

Legal:
Content, interpretation and application: Legal issues are completely different from ethical, ethical is where you follow rules that are right by your own morals, but legal is where you follow rules that apply to the laws which in turn apply to all people.
  • Broadcasting Act 1990 (and later Amendments): The broadcasting act is reformation broadcasting on the UK's TV's. The independent broadcasting authority was replaced by the independent television commission and the radio authority which was later replaced with a new commission called Ofcom. The broadcasting act came after the Peacock committee which was a review on the financing for the BBC which as also started by Margret Thatcher (one of the prime ministers).
  • The recommendations of the its report were:
  1. All TV receiver or dishes should all be built with encryption decoders.
  2. BBC 1 and BBC 2 radio's should be privatized.
  3. License fee should also be extended to car radio's.
  4. Channel 4 should be aloud to sell its own advertising.
  5. Censorship should be phased out.
  6. 40% of ITV and BBC's output should be be sourced from independent producers.
  7. The over night transmission space should be sold.
On the 14th of December 1999 in London, a radio station called XFM was fined £50,000 because it breached the British broadcasting act.
in 1996 a new act was made for new provision on broadcasting in digital form on television and sound programmes.
  • Official Secrets Act 1989: it is an act that was made by the British Parliament in 1989 that repeals and replaces 2 sections in the original act which is removing the public's defense in the original act's section. this law was breached by a NATO forces translator who was sending emails with info on the British forces to the military forces in Iran.
  • Obscene Publications Act 1959 (And later amendments): The obscene act is when the law goes offensive when material is published and deemed to obscene and repealing the law offence known as libel law. this law gives the police a warrant that allows them to be able to seize any any obscene material. this very act was used when a book was published in 1972 called lady Chatterley's lover due to it containing sexual scenes and later was banned in England and wales after the trial.

  • Films Act 1985: This law dissolved the film funding agency in Britain and ended the eady levy system which was established in 1951. this act is a for film finance and defining British films. this act abolished the cinematography film council and national film finance corporation by transferring all of its assets towards the British screen finance limited. the previous acts from 1960 to 1980 were repealed and other provision of finance acts from 1982 and 1984.
  • Video Recordings Act 1984: This law does not allow people to sell or hire video recordings without a classification that allows them to do such and it has to be signed by the home office.
  • Race Relation Act 1976 (and later amendments): this act covers race, nationality, color, ethnic and national origins in all fields of employment such as provisions of goods, education and service to the public. this law promotes race equality and makes sure that there is no discrimination against people by their race, their culture, their religion or the color of their skin.This law has been violated many times such as when people make racist comments on TV or the radio or anywhere really.
  • Human Rights Act 1998: This act came more into force on October 2000. This act imposed many new laws as listed below.
  1. The right to life
  2. Right to security
  3. Right to liberty
  4. The right to a fair trial
  5. Freedom of religion
  6. No form of punishment without Law.
  7. Freedom of thought and Belief
  8. Right an education
  9. Right to peaceful enjoyment of your property
  • Licensing Act 2003 (and later amendments): That a secretary must issue and revise a guidance in order to license.
  • Privacy law: This law is about the right to protection of a persons privacy and the misuse of information. This law was violated when news of the world hacked the phones of many people including (the deceased) Milly Dowler and victims of the 7/7 bombings in London, in the end by violating this law News of the world was shut down.
  • Copyright Law: This law does not allow people to copy idea's that have been placed under copyright or pat and pending, unless they have the creator's permission. such as the many spoof movies that copy film idea's which are listed below. and it is not just films it is any kind of form of media such as books, music or TV series. The only thing that can't be under copyright is a drink.
  1. Spoof: Space balls - Original: Star wars 
  2. Superhero movie - all Marvel work
  3. Power rangers - the Japanese show Super Sentai (super sentai is the show power rangers got the costumes and fight scenes from).
  4. Austin powers - James bond
  5. Epic movie- a wide range of movies

  • Copyright and intellectual Property Law: Creative work is treated as an asset or a form of property and can fall into the area of copyright, trademarks, rights or patents.
  • Libel Law: Libel law is the protection of a persons reputation against an unjustified attack or slander, whether it is from the Television, the Internet or the Newspapers. The law states that the only way to build a libel case is when a publisher can prove if anything they put in a statement is true or not.

Legal Constraints In The Creative Media Sector
Law:
Libel law:
Description: I person can be sued if they use the media to damage someone's reputation, if the accusations are untrue. This law was created in order to protect people or organizations from mistaken, untruthful or unwarranted attacks on said people's or organizations reputations.
Examples: Keira knightly was blamed for a girl dying of anorexia due to her having a slimmer figure.

Obscene Publications Act:
Description: This law does not allow content that is to deprave and corrupt its audience with its content.
Examples: This very act was used when a book was published in 1972 called lady Chatterley's lover due to it containing sexual scenes and later was banned in England and wales after the trial.

Official secrets act:
Description: It is a criminal offence to publish or obtain information a active or former member of secruity and intelligence services.
Examples: This law was breached by a NATO forces translator who was sending emails with info on the British forces to the military forces in Iran.

Copyright and Intellectual property act:
Description: This law is used to protect creative endeavors so that they can take the property benefit.
Examples: This when Samsung and apple had numerous lawsuits regarding the designs of their electronics.

Privacy law and Human rights Act:
Descriptions: If a media company has published information on someone and said information should be private or information that had a reasonable expectation of privacy.
Examples: News of the world had gotten various information on max Mosley and exposed him for being part of Nazi themed sex act in which several prostitutes were involved. when the news of the world published these stories and the details with the help of a video recording from one of the girls, Max Mosley took it to court and filed a suit which ended with him receiving £60,000.
    Ethical:


    Reality shows: Geordie shore: The alcoholic content and unstable behavior provides a bad example for younger viewers which is why it is shown on a later time such as 9 pm, so younger viewers don't watch it.
    On the show the actors are not aloud to drink to much for filming and drinking is not encouraged and in the case of hiring people are checked in case of criminal backgrounds, problems with alcohol or unstable behavior.

    Drama: In some drama's where they show scenes that might effect people people who are watching , they send out a message at the end if you have been effected by what you have seen in this program please call..." In order for some people to talk about what was on and complain if somethings that were shown were wrong, both by the legal and ethical violations.

    Comedy shows: Many show such as South park poke fun at issues such as racism and many other things. It is a comedy show meaning it pushes the boundaries, but that doesn't mean that what they do does not offend some viewers.

    Current Affairs Shows: Current affair shows that go undercover require the people who work for them to be protected, they also blur some of the people's faces in order to protect them in the case of danger from some viewers.

    Talk shows: Jeremy Kyle: People have to sign an agreement in order to be on the show and have to keep unstable behavior in check, the terms and conditions are usually breached by the people who go on the show mainly with their in ability to cope with the end results.

Sunday, 29 September 2013

level 3 media


Creative Media Sector L3




Radio:
The radio was created in the 19th century and invented by David E. Hughes.


What does the Industry do?
The radio industry broadcast’s a range of things to people such as music, news, comedy and in some cases competitions for people who call in.

Advertisers: In the radio industry one of the main sources of income is advertising because many people listen to the radio so through this companies can advertise their products with just audio.

How many people are employed in the industry?
The radio industry has been growing over the years more than terrestrial TV and with that growth many employees are needed towards maintaining systems, operating equipment and talk during broadcast. Up to now the radio industry employs more than 22,000 people, but it all depends on what radio station you are on such as BBC, Radio 1 or Smooth.
Sponsership: In all parts of media sponsership is very important becuase sponsership is just another form of advertisement, but through sponsership the brands of products are being adverised more which means people will by more of said brands products. such as when you sponser a drink brand on a football team.
Name of the companies that make up the industry.
<!--[if !supportLists]-->·         <!--[endif]-->BBC: entertainment radio
<!--[if !supportLists]-->·         <!--[endif]-->SMOOTH: commercial radio
  • ·         CFM: Is community radio 

  • Television Industry:
      A Short History: In the 1920's the television was made in america and used for commercial proposes to begin with. The television has become the common place of business in most rooms. as the years progressed televisions were bought in England and cartoons, films and animations were made to keep people interested.
      The Nine Major companies are BBC, ITV, FIVE, CHANNEL 4, S4C, UTV and SMG.
      Key facts:

Others

w/e 15 Sep 2013

Millions
1CELEBRITY JUICE (THU 2204)ITV21.30
2FAMILY GUY (SUN 2201)BBC 31.18
3LIVE FORD SUPER SUNDAY/#SOUTHAMPTON V WE (SUN 1530Sky Sports 11.12
4FORD SATURDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL-LIVE/#EVERT (SAT 1701Sky Sports 11.12
5BAD EDUCATION (TUE 2202)BBC 31.10
6MIDSOMER MURDERS (SAT 2104)ITV31.05
7THE YOUNG MONTALBANO (SAT 2100)BBC 40.96
8FAMILY GUY (SUN 2223)BBC 30.95
9DON'T TELL THE BRIDE (TUE 2102)BBC 30.91
10FOYLE'S WAR (SAT 1901)ITV30.91
11NEW GIRL (TUE 2101)E40.88
12XTRA FACTOR (SUN 2059)ITV20.88
13FAMILY GUY (TUE 2303)BBC 30.87
14FILM: SHREK (2001) (SUN 2038)BBC 30.86
15FAMILY GUY (TUE 2326)BBC 30.83
      Overview of the sector: Today Television is changing and becoming more challenging. The industry is dominated by the nine major broadcasting station and many less known broadcasting companies.
      The Size Of The Sector: there are 850 production companies that work independently.
      How many people it has employed: 55,800



      Film: 

A Short Story: The film industry has existed since the early 19th century and has evolved from moving pictures on wind up camera to making its way on the big screen in places like Hollywood or on your TV.
Key Facts: The film industry is comprised of multiple fields of work such as production, pre-production, casting and camera operating.Film: The film industry is mainly known for many genres such as Drama, Sci-fi, horror, comedy, action or thriller. Mainly comedy and dramas are the some of the most popular kinds of films in the industry because they make the people laugh and maybe cry such as most drams like James Cameron’s The Titanic. There are at least 400 permanent film companies but this depends on things being worked on at any time. 
Overview of the sector: The film sector contains many industry, such as film directors, writers, animators and producers, and the film industry contains more than 400 million film companies.
Producers: They are the one who provide the money in order to make films and make sure it is made into a budget so that the money is spent efficiently.
Directors: The director is the one who organizes the film and its entirety.
Writers: They write out the scripts and storyboards towards the film.
People employed: 27,800

Downloads: In the film industry many people download movies and episodes of television series so they can watch them for free instead of legally buying the, but in the case of iTunes people pay and download songs and movies legally.
The Cinema box office: the cinema box office allows the film industry to find out how many people have watched their films and then they add up the amount to tell how much the film has made based on ticket sales.



  • Fox
  • Dream works
  • MGM
  • Disney and Pixar
  • Universal Studios
  • Paramount
  • Warner Bros  

  • The Size Of The Sector: The film industry has a large sector that stretches from filming to equipment and camera operating.


    Publishing:
    A Short History: The publishing industry as a business was made in 1911 when the 1911 encyclopedia came out and gave more knowledge to the public.
    Key Facts: Magazines are another form of publishing as well and may have a bigger market range as it holds news on current events like newspapers, but also have local gossip on most people (mainly celebrities) and there social lives. Or some magazines hold activities for young kids or adults such as crossword puzzles or some might contain self-tests that can be done at home through a series of questions like a home personality test or a match making test but through the interactive media age most people can now look up such things online. Also people can get magazines with political interests such as the next election on who is winning in there election campaigns or how far ahead they are in business or these magazines can even include most updates on recent updates in technology or scientific work.  
    Overview Of The Sector: The publishing industry has many industries involved with it such as TV's choice (magazine), The Times and various other published work.
    The Size Of The Sector: The publishing Industry spreads to many corners from the written word to the internet. It has many forms such as Newspapers, magazines, books, directories, mailing lists, journals, news agencies and all sorts of other services that concern public information. Magazines and book companies like listed below.

    1.     news of the world (now shut down)
    2.     The daily mirror
    3.     DC comics
    4.      Marvel comics
    5.      Evening Gazette
    6.     Northern echo
    7.      The Times
    8.      The sun
    9.     Daily star
    10.      Daily telegraph
         


    How Many People It Employs: 195,000 people. Newspaper sector employs 51,000, 50,500 are employed in magazines and journals, 12,000 in other services and 33,000 in the book publishing industry.

    Photography/photo imaging:
    A Short Story: The photography industry 
    Key Facts: The photography industry has 8,7000 companies and 68% are freelance.
    Overview Of The Sector: photos can be placed in many parts of media such as websites, magazines, photo retail, picture libraries, picture agencies and manufacturers.
    The Size Of the Sector: The photo's are usually taken for magazines, catalogs and websites mainly used for forms of advertisement.
    Argos catalog
    The Times
    And various other brand.
    How Many People They Employ: The total workforce for photography is about 43,100 employees.

    Games:
    Short Story: The game industry started in the 1960's and in the 1970's the games industry expanded to putting games in video arcades like the PAC man games and Donkey Kong.
    Key Facts: In the 1980's the game industry exploded with the releases of sonic the hedgehog and various Mario games.
    Overview Of The Sectors:With the massive growth in its audience and incredible advances in technology and creative possibilities, the games industry offer a wide range of interesting career opportunities. But as with the other sectors, there is competition for jobs at all levels and candidates who have a good knowledge of how the industry works have a much better chance of getting in and getting on. 
    definition of it risks quickly becoming out of date.
    There are many game companies such as NintendoSega, EA games, square enix and many others in the image below.

    Franchise/formats: As a series grows more popular the people who made it expand on the franchise such as DC comics or Marvel.

    Merchandise:Many companies even game companies make merchandise based around the characters of games so they can sell them for more profit. they are usually like figures, cards, or even music.The Size Of The Sector: The game industry sector are in many such as concept design, editing and the many focus groups that are called in to test it.

    The game industry has many brands and companies such as Nintendo has produced any games such as the Pokemon series that is still going on with its recent releases Pokemon x and y on the Nintendo 3DS.

    Sega has had sonic the hedgehog that has rivaled Nintendo Mario for a long time now. EA sports has created many sport games and has even created the harry potter pc games. Square Enix and Disney have combined their characters and various story lines to create Kingdom Hearts that has gone on for nearly 11 years now.
    How many people it employs: 10,000.









    Animation:

    Key Facts: The animation industry in the UK stretches across many sectors around the UK. Animated content is found on television, films, adverts, website and games.
    Overview of the sector: the UK's animation industry is made up of a workforce that stretches across the creative media industry.
    The size of the sector: The animation sector has many companies that make many animated shows and commercials such as listed below. 

    •      Fox
    •     Nickelodeons
    •     Disney
    •     Marvel studios
    •    DC Comics Studios
    •     Studio Ghibli
    •     Warner Bros entertainment
    How many people it employs: 4,700
    Advertising:
    Key Facts: Advertising is an important part of the media industry because without it we would not have anyway of selling products or creating awareness of said product.
    There are many advertising companies such as
    the entire sector makes at least 6.2 billion a year.
    how many people employed: 17,000
    Interactive Media:
    The companies have at least 22% of local media business and have at least 43,000 people working for them.
    How many people employed: 40,000

    Public ownership:
    Is where all people own it and are allowed to use said product towards what they think and therefore are not blocked off from said product.

    Private Ownership:
    Private property is the property of one or few people such as a persons home that is private property.
    Advantages and disadvantages of the BBC license:

    Cons: The BBC cannot justify the license fee for multiple channels, multiple platforms and others things as well. they offer channels that some people don't even want. people download shows and watch them later to avoid paying the fees on BBC.

    Pros: Numerous channels with different variety of shows then the mount your paying.

    TV licenses: The people who pay the bills for a TV license are the people who are over 18. the TV license costs 145.50 and for color it costs 49.90, but there is a reduced fee of 50% for people at age 74 or those who are blind, but if you do not pay the fees you have to pay a 1000 pound fine. if you watch live TV online you still have to get a license for it. the BBC license is shared amongst its services such TV and radio.

    Television Subscriptions: Many people who work for broadband advertise the televisions quality through subscriptions in order to attract new customers to their brand.

    DVD Rental: Some shops such as blockbusters rent DVD's to the public for a limited time to watch them which has lead to a sustainable profit until web streaming.

    Sponsorship: In major sporting events many teams advertise things in the media such as sky which is broadcasted through sky or advertised on the uniform as a symbol of sponsorship.

    Globalization: This is when a company spreads out internationally due to increased trade and culture exchange.

    Conglomerate: This is a company that expands in to mutiple companys in media and other buisness.
    list of conglomerates: Bertelsmann
    SE and Co. KGaA
    CBS corporation
    British Sky Broadcasting Group Plc
    Liberty Media
    News corporation
    Time Warner Inc.

    Merger: This happens when a large corporation absorbs a little corporation or when two big company's merge together.

    Takeover: This occurs when a company is bought out by another company which then controls it.

    Vertical Integration: When a company expands business in other area's and different points in production.

    Horizontal integration: This occurs when a company produces products that are similar to other lines of products.

    companies: I will use Disney as an example. Disney makes at least 39.759 billion a year, it was founded in 1923, it has 166,000 employees and is shown by multiple media channels such as ABC, Disney channel and Hyperion books. the companies chairman and CEO today is Bob Iger and the senior executive VP and CFO is Jay Rasulo.

    Wednesday, 24 April 2013

    my info on family guy

    Family guy

    Show: Family guy

    Creator:  Seth Macfarlane

    Genre: animated sitcom

    Country of origin: USA

    Channel: BBC Three: BBC three is known for showing programs that are more intended for people of 12, 15 or over and sometimes it shows movies that are more for families.
    Fox: Fox is a channel that involves serious shows but at the same time

    Age: teenagers and so on. It also goes towards people who have lived through the 80’s as the show tends to make remarks and reference jokes towards many thing that happened in the 80’s,90’s and so on and sometimes the 60’s and 70’s, so the show can apply to all kind of corners of comedy when a reference is made, so it is more about preference and people who love comedy than people's age.

    Gender: both genders since the series makes jokes that kind of balance a few sexist comments that are made a lot in the show. but the plot also effects life lessons of any kind of sexuality.

    Language: The earlier parts of show involved swearing and the later as well but the later seasons involve more kinds of comedy and jokes that apply to people of 15 or over. 

    Character: The Characters of the show go into a lot into different kinds of beliefs that are put into the show. 

    Such as Brian griffin the dog, who is an atheist and a hard core liberal who usually talks allot on important issues which is one of the parts i love about this character. Though some of his arguments distract a bit from the comedy, the writers balance them in a way so that the messages that they give out have pros and cons. mainly most characters have a lot of comedy to their personalities but at the same time it shows more life lessons and how life can be sometimes. The Characters don't really go through much development but I really don't think they need to because they are pretty much good the way they, but it is good to see a little when they learn a lesson after one of peter's crazy schemes goes wrong.
    Voiced by Seth Macfarlane.
    Peter Griffin is the central character of the show who is described more of a overweight blue color, immature, care free, dim-witted, heavy drinking, impulsive stereo type of Irish Americans. He is usually getting into trouble with the law, he is always being violent to his daughter or his enemy's (especially a giant chicken) of the show and is sometimes ignorant to things happening around him.
    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c2/Peter_Griffin.png/220px-Peter_Griffin.pngVoiced by Seth Macfarlane.
    Lois Griffin is peter griffins wife and on occasion is just as reckless and irresponsible. she is the stereotypical cartoon wife most of the time. the rest of the time she is hypercritical towards most of the other family members. She was brought up in a rich house hold by her parents. later she met peter.
    that is basically the full description on the character.
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    Chris Griffin is the son of Peter and Lois griffin. Chris was designed to be a rebellious teenager but as the show has gone on he has changed to a unhygienic, mentally immature, socially awkward teenager that has still used the same running gag on the series known as the angry monkey, where a monkey jumps out of the closet and scares Chris with its angry face while pointing at him.
    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/df/Chris_Griffin.pngVoiced by Seth Green.
    Stewie Griffin is the youngest child in the griffin family he is obsessed with violence and is an evil genius of sorts. he use build all sorts of inventions in the early series but didn't make them as much as he use to. He also had an obsession on killing his mother but as the show went on he kind of just made threats about it.
    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/02/Stewie_Griffin.pngHe is considered as the shows breakout character and is very popular in the media and he also shares a friendship with the families dog Brian Griffin. Voiced by Seth Macfarlane.
    Meg Griffin is the oldest of the three Griffin children. Mega is is thought of and treated like the black sheep of her family and gets the least attention especially by her father. Meg is mistreated by her whole family and is usually unappreciated. but in one episode Meg finally stands up for herself and finds out in the end that because her family is so dysfunctional they need a person to take out all of their insecurities on, in the end Meg tells the family that it is all her fault for causing their arguments and the family reconciles. but really Meg lied in order to keep her family together discovering that maybe if she feels bad about herself maybe her family doesn't. 
    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c7/Meg_Griffin.png
    Voiced by Lacey Chabert (1999-2000) and Mila Kunis (2000-present)

    Music: The show goes with Boston style sitcom music that tells ya of when a new scene begins or when one end.

    Narrative structure: The show goes opening, mid storyboard and ending. The story plays out like a regular sitcom, it goes from the start , then a situation is involved, then things are resolved just before the ending.
    Culture: American stereotypes.
    Animation: the animation is a little bit like camera work but instead it follows the characters where ever they go and cuts back to them when there's a speaking scene or close up. the show also involves flash backs that involve a very hilarious joke.

    Social class: anyone who likes comedy.
    Audience: The people who like the family guy show are that type that can laugh at

    Lifestyle:
    Location: the show goes to the around the world but in case of some countries taking it offense it is aired out of those countries.

    Reason for liking it: People like the show because it plays on current events and keeps up to speed withits jokes and includes well thought out plots that some peoploe can relate to. The storyboards are some what original and they can play on the events that have occurred in the news or things that are usally being brought up alot as trends. And in some scenes where the charactersw tackle important views such as gay marriage or legalisation of things people can sometimes rally behind that and agree with it.
    But the show is not about political views it is mainly about a dysfuntional family life and how the family gets through the day. In my own oppinon I think that the show great and that it should keep going on with its completely hiloarious storyboard becuase it is absolutly one of the best shows i've ever watched.

    Wednesday, 27 March 2013

    TV’s choice
    Codes and Conventions:
    Advertisement:
    First it is an informed sentenced structure that when you read it outlines the important things. But in this magazine the ads are all aimed at seniors so that might tell me a little bit more on the magazine.
    Front Page:
    The front page outlines all the popular soaps that people watch and outlines the most important story board at the front that everyone wants to know about.
    The Central Image:
    The image at the centre is what mainly draws people’s attention to the magazine and also acts as a form of advertisement for people who have not read the magazine yet.

    The Logo:
    The logo is made to  stand out from the main design of the magazine but still retains some connection to the magazines current design.

    Color Themes:
    The colour theme has big role in the magazines design and goes on in its design throughout the magazine.

    Target Audience:

    Age: The age for this magazine is really for anyone who likes reading this magazine and staying ahead of TV programmes in age of 20's and so on from their.

    Gender:
    The people who mainly read these magazines are woman as it is said on the TV's choice PDF 1,178,000 woman reafd the magazine.

    Sexual Orientation:
    Anyone who likes to watch TV but it depends on what type of TV they like to watch.

    Classification:
    It is aimed at seniors so the price is low for pensioners or people who have little moneyto spend or those who don't want to spend much.

    Lifestyle:
    Those who like to keep up to date one things when watching TV or if people who saw a good show and would like to know when its on next becuase the magazine contains all kinds of different show times for each channel. The magazine also applies to normal cfhannels that people have to you can say that it applies to people who haven't got channels fromn sky or other kinds of broadband.

    Geodemographics (Postcode): All over the UK. Because it is aimed for woman in the UK that watch UK soaps.

    Monday, 21 January 2013

    Code And Conventions

    Code And Conventions


    Codes are computer systems of signs, which can create meaning. Most codes can be split into two different categories which is technical and symbolic. Codes are usually accepted in ways of doing things such as use of equipment. 
    Technical Codes: technical codes are all used in the way all equipment is used and shows how it is used and made in media text, such as a camera in a film.
    The range of different types of factual programming:
    Television news:
    Broadcast from television come from a particular structure meaning all broadcasts stick with this structure.
    The structure of television reports consist of all the same elements in films and in their techniques.

    • Set time to be broadcast: a specific time has to be selected before the airing of news broadcast at times when people will expect it to be like the 10:00 pm news.
    • Multiple Camera's are nesscesarey for filming in different parts of a news studio just like when the news anchor shows something on a screen the camera changes to a different so people will be able to see it better.
    • The Studio's set up is one of the most important parts of the broadcast every must be set out so it is in the camera.
    • Background structure is also important in emphysythies how imnportant some parts of the news are and that if the background music was not included there report would sound a little boring.
    • And the News Anchor at the desk is always important when reading the news report and gets the audiences attention.
    • The news reported can come from anywhere worldwide, local or national so it keeps people up to date on the worlds important current events.

    • Sometime Reporters report some of the news in person in order to get some people's story or there interviews in the case of witnesses or experts as you can see from the image of the reporter live.

    • Recorded videos/images are important in many cases on the news and it helps provide an example of what is happening.
    •  When filming the news the angle and caption has to be just right so people pay attention to whats happening in front of them.



    Radio News:
    the symbolic codes in the radio are Rythem,Volume, Pitch and Texture.

    • Rythem: meaning the characters voice and speed that it goes at.
    • Volume: how loud the characters voice or movements are.
    • Pitch: when a voice is high or low depending on mood.
    • Texture: All of these elements together.
    The cultural codes are Language, Dialect and Accent.
    Technical choices are sound effects, music and Silence.

    TV documentary:

    • When doing a documentary the voice needs to match the moment of filming and needs to apply to the setting and that it matches the explanations when the video is showing said explanation.
    • In some documentary's they use stock footage of the events that they film and occasionally use their own footage.
    •  In wild life documentary's they include interviews of experts or of witnesses to make sure the information they acquire for the audience is correct or to give examples or even show what happens around the area the wild life lives in.
    • In documentary's they use specific in the surroundings to emphasize what they are saying or what is happening during the music.
    • Natural lighting and sound also emphasize part of the documentary as well so that the moments are more realistic to the audience.       
    Newspapers:


    • The front page of the newspaper is one of the most crucial elements of a newspaper, book or a magazine because it is always the cover people see first and its what they see on the cover that makes them want to read said magazine.
    • The headline is also what attracts people into reading such as when the headline involves a tax increase or  something even more important in current events.
    • When making a newspaper or a magazine it is important that the images selected match the article perfectly or at least make it match the situation.
    • Also at the beginning to make sure that people can find what they bought the magazine you should put in a menu that shows whats happening and on what page.
    • The average price of a magazine is somewhere on £5 or in the case of a newspaper it is a least more than a £1.
    • A newspaper is usually given out almost every day of the week but in the case of a magazine at least once a month before they make a new issue.
    • And the size of a tabloid or magazine are completely different a magazine is usually a lot thinner and a tabloid is lot bigger because it has more news stories and different sections and ads.         
      

    Wednesday, 9 January 2013

    Jobs in photography


    Jobs in photography


    Technical: camera operator: Working by the camera is not as easy as it looks so it is smart not to take this job lightly. Camera operating requires a steady hand and being quick to react like in many live documentaries or on the news because it is absolutely crucial that the camera man makes sure that nothing gets in the way of the filming. 11,500 - 40,000+ per year.

    Editorial: photo editing: Where the photographer must take a look at the photograph and other work to make sure which photo is the best for the news or any other area’s within this field. And also what parts to edit over so some things don’t get in the way of the photo and so it does not draw attention away from the photo that explains things. The salary of a photo editor is £14,420 - 33,597 per.

    Creative: fashion photographer and freelance: Fashion photographer can work in any creative field such as magazines, news, events on the red carpet or even for social news. A freelance is a photographer who sells the photos he/she takes to a newspaper or a magazine and is in charge of paying their own expenses such as camera, equipment and food but is allowed to go anywhere to take their photos if they have access to that place. A freelance makes £10,000 - £100,000 depending on the worth of the pictures sold over time and added up into total profit. A fashion photgraphers salary £10,500 - £21,250. 

    Managerial:  The manager is responsible for the actions of an entire group because the manager decides what is best to be done with photographs or videos, to edit or to not be included. Or to decide what members of a group should do. Managers in there field make up to £125,000 per year.

    Sales and marketing: freelance photographers market their own work sell it themselves online or newspapers for a profit. Or send people on paper routes to send new papers or magazines to people who have subscribed to them or at the news agent’s people subscribe to a magazine and receive things like books from said magazine.
    Admin: the administrator is in charge and in control and organises all the groups. the administrator can occasionally change to the role of general manger or company secretary. An administrator makes at least £12,081 - £22,457  

    Salaries and Contracts: salaries is the amount of payment you recieve on a weekly or monthly basis depending on the agreement of your contract or job status. Salaries are usally determined in the contract but can also be negotiated by the employee or employer especialy if said pwerson needs to be hired and in some cases the highest paid job is that of a manager.  

    Wednesday, 5 December 2012

    Skills And Attributes
     
    This blog will show you examples and give the tools in the creative world of media production.

    Team Skills: Where you work well with others or any other people towards the jobs that have been set by the employers. And make sure to get along with said people in order to get the work done on time. such as if you were in a focus group you would need to work togather with other prople in order to complete your objective.

    Punctuality: To make sure that jobs have been planned out and finished by the appointed time with no delays and to make sure to turn up to work and plan work on time. So maybe you could construct a time table or set alarms for when you need to do such things.

    Iniative: To show leadership among a group and to solve problems around the work place by taking control of the situation before others do. Maybe when leading a group you should ask them first what they do in order to get to know them.

    Computer Skills: Apply skills to use of the computer in media which is mainly required in the field of media and opens more doors to different jobs as well.

    Communication Skills: by listening and giving good idea's to another person but also give good reasons on why idea's may not work. such as when presenting a new idea.

    knowledge of equipment: in order to fulfill job requirements you must have knowledge of the equipment you will be using such as computers and the software on it.

    Time Management: In work timing is everything and being late is not usually tolerated so timing must be carefully planned such as how to use spare time such as breaks.

    Trust Worthy: In the work place trust must be acquired from other workers or your word on some matters may not be considered.

    Work Experience: For a short period of time mostly a week or 2 weeks you will in an estableshment which means youy will be unpaid but it allows you to gain the work experience required in some places that would require said skills.

    Under Graduate Degree: Where someone works towards there degree after graduation for 3-4 years in order to complete work. such as animation where someone can work towards a degree in that field.

    Post Graduate Degree: To research on something more higher up and ad it to qualifications and the final grade on work.

    Traineeship/Internship: trainee is where a stage of trainindg in a kind of course such as computer work or manual work. Internship is where you are employed for a short amount of time mostly a few weeks and sometimes is unpaid.

    Voluntarey work: Voluntarey work is people voluntere for work in different feilds as extra help with no pay. But it is mainly done to help people such as when people voluntere down at a soup kitchen, at hostpital wards to help or talk to people who need it or down at old people homes to assist people in their work through the day.

    Casual Employment: Casual employment is where an emloyee is paid at an hourly rate of 20% but does not include regular emloyment benefits such as sick leave and working time is arranged by your employers. but the employees are allowed to turn down any work oppertunity.

    Runner Job: A runner job ressembles that of an internship where you are not given a higher up job but like the job of an assistant. meaning you run around giving people forms they would need or handing out coffee. the job is paid but it is very low £7-£8 an hour and even then it will take a least a year or two to get into a junior assistance job.

    Paid Internship: is ussally in private buissness or large organisations that can employ young students to work and learn around offices at the same time and the hours are a maxium of 40 hours a week but the pay is good up to 23,000.

    Recruitment: These days most forms of recruitm,ent are through adverts or newspaper adds. the Internet sends out job recruitments through out any part of the world and gives its requirments and Benefits if you become an employee or an intern such as when people apply for a job BBC it gives out all kinds of weork in media. The Newspaper provides alot more jobs to choose from in many different fields and provides the same such as where job interview will take place and what kind of job you will recieve. Word of mouth is a small part of buissness but is also one of the most important parts because through spoken words people can convince anyone who needs a job into their buissnesses and can make their offers sound good and they can provide jobs through word of mouth in any field of bussiness.