Newsround:

Newsround  is a BBC children's News programme, which has run continuously since 4 April 1972, and was one of the world's first television news magazines aimed specifically at children. Initially commissioned as a short series by BBC Children's Department, who held editorial control, its facilities are provided by BBC News. The programme is aimed at 6 to 12 year-olds.

• Title, date and time of bulletin: 

Newsround has a running of 5 to 15 minutes.

• Presenters:

The presenters are the following:  Ricky Boleto (2008-present), Hayley Cutts (2009-present), Martin Dougan (2013-present),  Ayshah Tull (2013-present), Jenny Lawrence (2013-present)

• News stories covered:  

Prince William meets the President of the United States and space special. 

• Use of graphics, animation, video packages, interviews and live links (key conventions of TV News): There is a clear presenter in the news cast. different camera shot is exploited throughout the news cast.
• Use of modern or digital technology (cameraphone footage, audience tweets, hashtags, website links etc.):
• Anything that encourages the audience to keep watching (dramatic video, animated graphics, previews of news or features later in the programme etc.):

Film Pitch

Film Name: The Contract

Tagline:  From A* to Class A

Log line: A young student makes an unforeseen U turn into villainies multiple crimes, when he realizes betrayal is upon him, he decides to take matters into his own hands...

Story Line: ‘The Contract’ is a Crime/Thriller/Drama. It’s about a young student, Trevor Walts who makes an unexpected U turn into the dark side acting under the alias of ‘Hagen’. Otherwise, known as ‘The king of cocaine’ due to his weapon of choice, he ventures in to the devastating world of drugs and violence. When he realizes he faces exposure from a trusted friend he has two choices, get in to the underworld even more or face the facts and work towards a brighter future.  He is an intelligent mindful young man and won’t let anything destroy his empire. When he does his business, he intends to keep it discreet. When he agrees a deal, he makes certain  his contracts are signed on blood! There's no going back! Is this going to be a positive or negative one? When he decides to take matters in to his own hands will be smart enough to cope with the fallback?

Film Posters & Trailers

The Key Conventions:

- Central Image- Its a well known celebrity endorsement 'Leonardo DiCaprio' 

-Title-  The title is on top of the central image. This is because it is easy to spot so people know the what the film poster referring to or what it is . Also it is in a large font, this is because it is easy to read and so it stands out.

-Stars/Actors/Directors- The audience will be familiar with the main actor   

-Secondary Image- The audience will notice the party behind the central image then will be intrigued  and would want to know more.

-Release Date(December 25)-This film poster does have the release date at the bottom of the poster as it is not as much important towards the other key conventions on this poster

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Film Institutions: Case Study

                                                          

   The Wolf Of Wall Street:

• The film that I have chosen is 'The Wolf Of Wall Street'

•  I have chosen this film because its something I am interested in and also there's a lot to absorb and write about. 

  Institutional Background 

• The production companies of The Wolf Of Wall Street are: Universal Home , Red Granite Pictures

   No Brand Loyalty:

• The category of genre that this film fits into is comedy/crime

• I know that this film fits into this genre as in the trailer there's some one liners which suggests its funny to the viewers. Also the main character has some legal troubles which also suggest that its a crime film.

• The Wolf Of Wall Street is not a squeal 

• The film does mention the directer in the trailer as he is popular to attract viewers.

Film Genre

Genre:

Comedy/ Action

Narrative:

This movie is about two regular men going to part dressed as cops but later realise they are being seen differently while walking in the main street. Then later decide to carry on being cops.

Characters:

They characters are typical of a Hollywood comedy- the main characters are casual quite, funny and layed back but as the movie progress become brave and willing to stop the villains.Proving to be a comedy/action. The villains are typical stereotypical eastern European villains.

Iconography:

There's plenty of iconography typical of a comedy/action genre: one liners, explosions, funny scenes, guns.All of these are typical of the action or comedy genres - in connection with the narrative, we can confidently say this is a action/comedy.

Setting: 

Although the trailer is 2 mins long, it is safe to say that the film is based in LA in the USA. Within the city their is clearly action stunts set in LA.

Genre:

Action

Narrative: 

The movie is about marvel super heros saving the world.When Tony Stark tries to jumpstart a dormant peacekeeping program, things go awry and it is up to The Avengers to stop the villainous Ultron from enacting his terrible plans.

Characters:

The characters are different towards each other they all have their own agenda. Theirs iron man, Thor, captain america and hulk. these are the classic marvel characters.

Iconography:

There's plenty of iconography typical of a action genre:explosions, fire, guns and weapons.All of these are typical of the action  genre - in connection with the narrative, we can confidently say this is a action.

Setting:

The film is manly based in the USA. Although the trailer is 2 mins long, it is safe to say that the film is based in the USA. Within the country  their is clearly action stunts set in USA.

Genre: Comedy/Christmas

Narrative:

The pupils of St Bernadette's and the madcap Mr Poppy (MARC WOOTTON) are back! When their new teacher Mr Shepherd (MARTIN CLUNES) loses his memory as well as Archie the Donkey, it's up to them to save the day and reunite him with his fiancée Sophie (CATHERINE TATE) in New York. Prepare for a race against time, fantastic flashmobs and plenty of Christmas fun on their greatest adventure yet.

Character:

The movie is of two British stars, Marc Wootton and Martin Clunes. Marc Wootton acts to be a primary school teacher, who goes by the name of Mr Poppy. Marin Clunes acts as being a new school teacher, going by the name of Mr Shepherd. These characters fit into this movie as they're well-known for many Christmas movies such Nativity 1 and Nativity 2.

Iconography:

There are many iconography of comedy and Christmas genre:one liners, Christmas songs, funny scenes, snow. All of these are typical of the Christmas or comedy genres- in connection with the narrative, we can confidently say this is a Christmas comedy.

Setting:

The move Nativity is based in Britain,London. Because, although the movie is 2 minutes to 3 minutes it's safe to say that is set in Britain, London

DRAFT

FourFourTwo Audience Profile

Typography

Camera Shots

Medium Close Up (MCU)

This shot shows the reactions of all of the flying police. This is reactions of the villains when they find out that he will try to run. they showed this medium close to show how many flying policeman they are to show how intimidating they all look.



Close up (CU)

This is a close up of the main character. They choose this particular camera shot to show that the character has no fear and is not afraid to run. They also chose this camera shot to show the characters facial expression

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Long Shot (LS)

This is a Long Shot they chose this particular camera to show the scene and also to show where the character will be running to. The long shot was the best camera shot to use because its the only one which can show the whole car.

Different Camera Shots

This is a medium close-up we as a group chose this to show the characters emotion and also we want the audience to be intrigued  but also think of the situation.

This is a wide shot/establishing shot,we chose this shot  to show the scene and also to shot that something unpleasant is going to happen because this hot allows the viewers see the that character is creeping up on the victim showing that something bd is going to happen.

this is a medium shot we choose this to show all the action that happening in that particular moment. we thought it would be appropriate to show how the victim is being abused and also to show how vicious the character is being towards the victim.

We also chose this tilt up how dangerous the situation is such as how the victim is in a live or die situation. We thought that is shot was the best one to show how dangerous it is.

We chose this tilt down to show the damage that's been inflicted on the victim and also we thought it would be more effective and powerful to use this  camera shot. 

Summer Homework

Summer project

      Sky News 

Q1. The key information about the programme:

A. The channel is broadcast on:
The channel is broadcast on TV, tablets, computers and phone. The channel even has a application.

B.  The days and time of broadcast:
This channel is on everyday and the time is 24 hours.

C. The presenter or presenters:
The  sky news has many presenters of different days and different times.  They have about 600 staff and about 50 of them work on screen. These are the some of the presenters; Eamonn Holmes, Isabel Webster, Stephen Dixon and more.

D. Average viewing figures:

The figures are 11.5 million.

E. Any awards the programme has won:

It has won the royal television society  2011.
BAFTA awards  for the coverage 11 September 2001 attack and soham murders 2003.
International Emmy breaking news award 2005.

F. The logo/brand identity of the programme.

The slogan of the company is first for breaking news. The logo has the name "sky news" but sky written in black an news written in white and it has white and red background.

G.  A video from YouTube.

Q2. The institution behind the programme.

A. What year the channel was launched?
The channel was launched on 5 February 1989.

B. Who owns or runs the channel?
The  channel is owned by BSkyB. The chairman is Nicholas ferguson and CEO is Jeremy Darroch.

C. What the channel is famous for or associated with?
The channel is famous because it doesn't only have a news channel it also has  a sports and many other types of channels. It also has a router and landline.

D. The channel logo:


E. A YouTube trailer advertising a show on the channel.

Q3. The target audience.

The target audience is 10 age plus because it is appropriate for kids as it does not have any type of swearing or inappropriate things to show. However it does have bloody images. It could also say bad things about a group.

Q4. The running order for three separate editions of the programme.

A. The stories which appeared.

The stories which appeared was that: Charles bronson  jailed for attack on governor, hunt for missing Isaac Nash enters fourth day and the first Islamic state bomber caught in Iraq.

B. In order in which the stories were broadcast.

The stories were broadcasted bye a lady talking about the incident and the passing it to another reporter who is in the area where the incidents happened then they showed a images or videos of that incident and then they would interview a person who is there  where the incident took place.

C. Why you think the editors of the news programme chose those stories and put them in that order.

I think they putted it in that order because it is easy to understand and they did not wanted the audience to get confused  on what's going on.

Fifa 15 advert

 

Language:

The title and the consoles logo are key conventions of a videogame advert. The effect created here is to immediately inform the audience of the genre of the advert - the strong FIFA branding will be instantly recognisable to the target audience. The opportunity of the get 40 FUT pacts and new features encourages the audience to take action and therefore creates a strong desire to own the game.

institution:

This game is produced by EA and is available on multiple platforms. EA is known for producing great games but many sports related games.

Audience:

The target audience are many football loving fans aged 6 to 35 its mainly 75% male 25%. EA doesn’t really have an age limit as it’s about football and football is open to all ages. So it a wide age limits.

Representation:

The cover of the advert is very clear on the eye and also very simple as it the FIFA logo and the release date. The background is back to make the FIFA logo clear and eye catching and in order to show the new features. 

The five stories that my group have chose is sports day being postponed, antibiotics,
 and the ugly dog contests.

Sports day postponed: We chose this because we thought it was interesting. We started with sports being postponed because its school news and they would want to be informed.

Antibiotics:We chose this because this kinda story would be in the news so we wanted it to be realistic. i choice this second because

Classic books:We chose this because we wanted to have a varied news broadcast so its appealing to certain people in the school

Belgium vs USA chose this because majority of people in the school would have watched this.

Ugly dog contest:We chose this because we wanted to end the broadcast on a funny note.

We made sure that the script was the right length by not putting too much information in so we can record it in 60 seconds.

We made sure each story was clear to understand but giving brief summery and not making I too complicated.

We made sure the broadcast was professional by speckling formally.

I was the director of the group so I made the final decision.

I would rate my group contribution a 4 as they were pretty good and worked as a group

We could of spoke as group more.
I would have wanted to change roles because i wanted to be in the interview

Textual analysis

Genre: The genre is sport I know this because this advert is associated with football which is a sport. This advert has elements of comedy


Audience
The target audience for this Nike advert would be a large, mass-market global audience. This would appeal mainly to football fans due to the famous players involved but there are other clues regarding a more detailed target audience. The 'unknown' players on the park pitch at the start give us an idea about the main target audience - younger males from a variety of ethnic and social class backgrounds.

Platform
Although this is primarily a TV advert, the extended version would mainly be watched online, particularly YouTube. The full four minute advert would not appear on TV (an edited 30 or 60-second version would be used instead) so this extended version would mainly be watched on PCs, laptops, tablets and phones. With a younger target audience in mind, tablets and phones would perhaps be the main devices used to access the advert.

Genre:
The genre of this revenge trailer is drama.

Audience              

The target audience for this revenge trailer will be people from the age of 14 to 50 as this will appeal for those people who love drama series.

Platform        

You can watch this TV series on your TV  and on demand. But this trailer will on be seen on TV .

genre

The genre of this TV series is sports entertainment

Audience

the audience will be from 3 years and over as WWE is a PG programme so its suitable for younger kids to watch.

Platform

You can watch it on sky sports or you can search the recent episode on your laptop and watch it

First blog task

I choice GCSE Media Studies because I feel I will get a good grade in it and it’s the most interesting subject in my opinion. I am looking forward to making the music video. The grade I am realistically aiming for is a grade B. The last TV programme watched was 24 live another day episode 9. TV is appealing to audiences because its entertainment and in some ways amuses them. I accessed my laptop in the last 24 hours. I mostly use my laptop.