• Hi guys now unfortunately i'm not in today due to being struck down with a crazy flu bug yesterday afternoon, which i am blaming on the dodgy peanuts that Diana gave me. Anyway I can't make it in but that doesn't mean that your deadline does not apply. Today you have a double lesson and i will be checking from my sick bed at around 3.30pm today you should have on your blog :

    1 front page
    1 contents page
    1 double page spread

    It's really important that we meet this deadline as we still have a big evaluation to write (details of which i will post up here over the easter break)

    OK good luck and work hard!
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    Right then class, we shoudl be onto our DPS now, so here are a couple of slides on the main conventions of these pages. You all must have some evidence of DPS research on your blogs and a awareness of the conventions. Do that now !!





  • So this is the video we watched in class. The one from 2012 when they thought they were going to use the media to 'change the world'


    This is a look at what actually happened.


    Your job is to write about this whilst making a point that answers the question and applying a media theorist and trendy words like 'Slacktivism'

    Good luck
  • This week's question is: 





    A quick essay plan for the ownership question is below :


    How does ownership effect the film industry?

    Intro:  What is ownership? How is Hollywood structured generally? How is the Uk film industry structured generally ? How successful are these approaches ? Who dominates overall ?

    Case studies: Paragraphs about:
    Hollywood
    1.      Production budgets 
    2.      Vertical integration
    3.      Horizontal integration
    4.      Synergy / Partnerships
    5.      Globalised structures
    6.      Access to technology?
    7.      Marketing differences because of structure:

    British independent:
    1.      Production budgets 
    2.      Vertical integration
    3.      Horizontal integration
    4.      Synergy / Partnerships
    5.      Globalised structures
    6.      Access to technology?
    7.      Marketing differences because of structure:


    CONCLUSION:
    Do you think there is anything smaller uk films can do to combat this domination? What ? GIVE EXAMPLES

  • Here I have added in the best We media resources you need to start preparing for your exam:

    (I cannot possibly print all this stuff out so don't even ask!)


    Theory overview: ALL THEORIES ARE IN HERE:

    A fantastic revision guide  (although slightly out of date, 6 years!)


    An intro to tech:
     


    Fantastic general revision:


     Writing guides:
     



    Now you just need to apply theory and these writing techniques to the question through the case studies you have...

    CASE STUDY 1: The Arab Spring - how people used web 2.0 to bring down their dictatorship governments







     CASE STUDY 2: Wikileaks : How the internet allowed anonymity to whistle blowers to expose the corruption at the heart of the worlds governments 






    Case Study 3: Edward Snowden and the NSA :how one whistleblower used the inetrnet to expose the spying of government on its people

    Trailer for film: Citizen four is below but full film can be found here:
    https://thoughtmaybe.com/by/laura-poitras/







    CASE STUDY 4: you must choose something smaller , local and that attempts to use the media democratically in the same way to the big case studies but just smaller.

    REMEMBER YOU MUST ALSO TALK ABOUT THE DOWNSIDES AND BAD POINTS ABOUT THE WEB 2.0 GENERATION:

     http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/04/unicef-tells-slacktivists-give-money-not-facebook-likes/275429/




    So lots of ...

    Andrew Keen: 
    http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/feb/09/andrew-keen-internet-not-answer-interview

    Morozov: 

    http://www.theguardian.com/profile/evgeny-morozov

     Gladwell 
    http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/10/04/small-change-malcolm-gladwell

    and this retort aimed at him..
    http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/oct/02/malcolm-gladwell-social-networking-kashmir


    Ok if you can get all this down onto a page of A3. Then you will be fine ! good luck
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