Coursework: Film pitch

 1) What will be the title of your own original NEW horror film? If you're not sure, write down two or three possible titles and you can choose later.

 The sculpture, The living sculpture, Sculptured, Containment breach 

2) Write a tagline for your film – it's effectively a slogan for the movie:

"maintain eye contact"

3) Write a logline – this is like a longer version of the tagline. It's one sentence that sums up the film and hooks the audience in under 25 words: 

Sentient and violent, when not in view, disturbingly normal when seen

4) Write down any existing horror films that are similar to yours ("My film idea is like a cross between Scream and Contagion"): 

Based on the SCP foundation

5) What is your narrative/storyline? Write a short paragraph that explains what happens in your film:

When a mysterious sculpture is capable of anomalous behaviour, it is unknown how it had obtained them, but has been caught and put into a research chamber by an unknown government facility, one fateful day a containment breach is imminent, where it goes to massacre anyone who does not maintain eye contact.   

6) What is your main character’s name and what happens to them? You can also mention other characters if your wish. The character does not have a name due to them not being able to remember who they are 

7) Who or what will be the villain or threat in your horror movie?  

The sculpture and some other anomalous creatures 

8) What is the name of your film's director? You can use your own name here if you wish.

Arkin Rana

9) What costume/make-up/props will you need for your photographs for your website?

fake blood, clothes, and photoshop

10) What font/typography/colour you will use to create a brand for your film’s title and branding?  

colours: red, white, black  

typography: Bauhaus 93 and or a crayon font or some sort of pen

By completing these tasks, you will have the basic structure to create your photography, website, and interview with the director or member of the production team.

Coursework: Film website research

 Research: horror film websites

Visit the Come Play horror movie website.

1) How do you know that the film is from the horror genre?

This can be seen from when the trailer that they linked for when you go on the website and the font, color, sounds, and props seen in the poster and the trailer for the movie.

2) How does the website make the audience want to watch the film?

The website makes the audience want to watch the film by cleverly arranging the trailer in a way so that you can tell what it's about yet still not know the true meaning or intention, another thing that they do is add a certain bit that takes you to other parts of the website which talks about the characters and the director and the crew that was involved.

3) Scroll down to see the whole homepage. What other content does the website offer?

The website has a trailer, an about section about the actors involved like the children and the parents and how they are shown and played in the movie, they even have some pictures of the movie that show what the movie is somewhat about, there is also a description about the movie director 

Next, visit the Mothers Of Monsters horror movie website.

1) What font/typography and color is used for the title of the film?

The font used is a crayon font and the color used is red which is usually associated with violence and blood which is used a lot in horror movies.

2) Scroll down to see the whole homepage. How is the film described in the 'About' section?

In two sentences it is described as :

"A found footage psychological thriller & real-life horror!                          
   

A distraught mother suspects her teenage son is a psychopath who may shoot up his high school, but when he outsmarts the system she is forced to take matters into her own hands..."

3) Keep scrolling down. What other content does the website offer?

There a section talking about the cast, the behind the scenes and who they are, they also have an interview section with a youtube channel with them

Finally, visit this website for the horror movie The Invisible Man. 

1) What is the main image on The Invisible Man film poster (on the left of the website homepage)?

The image is a woman who is looking back as if she can see something  and the words "The invisible man" in sans serif font and the tag line "What you can't see can hurt you"

2) What is the tagline for the film? (Clue: it starts 'What You Can't See...')

The tagline is "What you can't see can hurt you "

3) How is the story of The Invisible Man described on the site?

It is described to be that the woman (Moss) is in a violent and controlling relationship with a rich and brilliant scientist, she then escapes him during the night time, later to find out a few days later he has "committed suicide" then later some paranormal activities start to happen, Moss then believes that her ex has created a way to become invisible and try and kill her.

Newspapers: Final index

 1)newspaper: daily mirror introduction

2)newspaper: Daily mirror language and audience 

3)newspaper: Daily mirror Representation and industry

4)newspaper The times introduction

5)newspaper The times language and audience 

6)newspaper The times representation and industry

7)newspaper Essay question

Newspapers: Essay question

 ‘Different newspapers address their audiences differently.’

How far is this true of The Times and the Daily Mirror (Close Study Products)?

[20 marks]

This can be clearly shown by the way that they address and represent them,

in the Daily mirror they have larger images and more images than words than The Times, also the typography used in the daily mirror used is sans serif which is more modern and more friendly to the audience, while The times uses serif which is a more authoritative and more formal font, along with the font The times has a lot of information in it by having a large paragraph of information while the daily mirror has more splash heads and pictures and a little less information in their paragraph, and lastly the Daily Mirror has a ‘red top’ which is more colourful., The Times is more conservative in colour and design.

The daily mirror has more of "soft news" which contains celebrities and gossip of people and other things like the royal family being mentioned a whole lot, whereas The Times has more of a "hard news", things like terror attacks and a lot less gossip another thing is that the tone and way they speak and address their audience is a more formal tone for The Times by calling people by their real names and not giving nicknames to them, and a more colloquial term for the daily mirror by giving the royal family members nicknames to call them by.The Times main story

The times represents private schools (“Fee-paying schools”) very positively as they talk about saving the taxpayer's money, this is shown to the Times readers who may have attended private schools themselves or have their own children go to private school, this reinforces the fact that the Times audience is likely to be wealthy, highly educated and middle to upper-middle class, whereas the mirror focuses on 93% of children going to normal schools and 7% are going to private schools and about the MMR jabs,and the daily mirror's slogan of "fighting for you" which shows that they are targeting mainstream media and working class audience.

So in in conclusion, yes different newspapers address their audience differently

Newspapers: The Times - Representation and Industries

 Representation

1) What representation of private schools can be found on the main front page story of the Times?
The private school is seemed to be some sort of hero that they have saved millions of money for people paying for the school

2) What representation of the Conservative Party can be found in the story at the top of the front page 'Calls for criminal enquiry as top ministers deny security leak'?

It makes them seem like a bad person as the word "criminal" is associated with things that are illegal or bad

3) How are the Royal Family represented in the Times? (See front page 'Fitting tribute' - Duchess of Cambridge picture and the inside page 'Royal Anzac Day on both sides of the world'). 
They are represented as being important but not being the main event by not entirely covering up the paper so that other headlines or stories can actually be seen.

4) How does the coverage of the Royal Family in the Times contrast with the reporting of the same events in the Daily Mirror?

The Times has a more formal tone and representation to it while the daily mirror has a more colloquial tone to it by addressing its audience by saying different things and giving the royal family nicknames 

5) How are British people and Muslims represented in the article and sidebar 'Sri Lanka tourists warned of more terror'?

They make the British people the victims of the situation and the Muslim as a suspect and then makes them seem even worse by just addressing it as "muslims" which is a very offensive towards them

 


Industries

1) Who owns the Times? Write the name of the company AND the billionaire who owns the company.
The owner of the times is Rupert Murdoch
2) What was the The Times's circulation in 2019? How many papers did the Times used to sell back in the 1990s?
They have 417,298 in 2019 and they sold
3) How has the Times reacted to the decline in print sales and the growth of the internet?

4) What does IPSO stand for and what is IPSO's job?
IPSO stands for The Independent Press Standards Organisation and their job is to uphold high standards of of jornalism and maintain freedom of the press expression
5) Why do some people want stronger regulation of British newspapers? 
Instead of just having things like the royal family things being focused they want more on the main events, things like recent events or "proper news" like murder or new rules on the covid situation.

Grade 8/9 extension tasks

Key question: How does the coverage of the Royal Family in the Times reinforce British social and cultural values? 

Because Britain is known for their royalty and royal family, this put them in a more cultural area of the news section as it is part of the country itself

Read this Guardian column on IPSO, the press regulator. Why does Polly Toynbee suggest IPSO has been a "total failure"?

The reason why they were a failure was because they didn't succeed too much on focusing on smaller journalists so they ended up being redacted or not being allowed to spread their news around to the public, meaning that different views on the situation wouldn't be able to be there

Read this short Press Gazette feature on the Times's paywall. Why does the Times head of digital describe the paywall as a success? 

This is because they made a "good move" by moving their platform to digital and paper so that people can use it on their phones, at the same time they can still allow their elder or older audience be able to read their newspaper when ever they can if they can't use their device properly.

Newspapers: The Times - Language and Audience

 Audience

1) What is the main readership demographic for The Times newspaper? Add as much detail as you can.

The main demographic would be adults to more elderly people and some what young adults as the newspaper is both on paper and have an online website for the newspaper they have so that its easier for them to access the news and it would appear more frequently, the print newspaper would fit elderly and adults more as some of them might not be too keen on using technology so it would be easier for them to read.

2) What aspects of the front page of the Times CSP edition suggest that their readers are likely to be more 

educated and interested in hard news rather than entertainment?

The newspaper uses recent things that have happend, e.g political things, this shows the things that they readers to see also they can have the name of being the "news" to a more literal way so that they don't get criticised on their newspaper for only having entertainment but still have entertainment on it.

3) Times readers are mostly over 55 years old. Why is this and how is this reflected by the new stories and kickers in the CSP pages we have studied?  

Their newspapers are mainly focused on things that actually happen but that also includes things like the royal family being mentioned alot so the use of the print newspapers and the news that is inside, they make it more comfortable for the elderly to use, also the stories have things related to the events or things that the elderly are used to.

4) What is the main audience pleasure offered by the Times? Use Blumler & Katz Uses and Gratifications theory.

The main audience pleasure is to inform and educate as The Times newspaper mostly consist of things that are mostly for information purposes but at times there can be more entertainment

5) Why might a reader enjoy this CSP edition of the Times? Use Blumler & Katz Uses and Gratifications theory categories and write as detailed an analysis as you can.

Someone might enjoy the contents of the paper, like all the news about the royal family or the recent events that have happens because of certain people or something happening, so that they can go into more detail of the print paper or just the paper  itself.

Language

1) What is the main story on the front cover of the Times CSP edition (26 April 2019) and why does it appeal to Times readers?
It is about the royal family having a dispute about each other and how they tried to fix it, it may appeal to them because the royal family is something in Britain and is  quite a big subject so it will appeal to them by talking about what they like.

2) List the other news stories and kickers on the front page of the Times CSP edition. Why do you think the Times selected these for the front page?
The news about the royal family is very dominant on the print meaning that the whole newspaper seems to only be on the royal family, but there is one about a person "sri lanka tourist being warned for more terror", The Times may have picked this as it is still news and their newspaper isn't only about entertainment, so they need to include somethings that has happened currently otherwise would be said that they aren't a good news source

3) What are the main stories on the inside pages of the Times CSP edition and how are they constructed to appeal to Times readers?  

The Times' main stories are about the royal family and things that are related to British culture, these appeal to the reader as their news is mainly focused in England and it shows things about the place that they live in.

4) Which of Galtung and Ruge's News Values apply to the Times's front page stories? Write about both the main story on private schools and the government leak enquiry. 
They both talk about things that reflect things that may have major impacts towards the audiences in the future as they may change things to a way that they don't like or they could inform them about the things about how the private schools having some sort of changes to them e.g costing more as of the current coronavirus.

5) What does a close analysis of the news stories in the Times CSP edition suggest about the Times's political beliefs?
The times is a right wing party meaning that they support things like people of the LGBTQ community and are usually capitalists this can be shown from the news that they show and represent to the public like things about the royal family or things that have entertainment on them, they don't usually redact information from people, and usually have a sense of telling the audience for  what they want and still  informing them at the same time


Grade 8/9 extension tasks

Read this Guardian column on the pleasures of print newspapers and the dangers of the digital age. Do you think newspapers will continue to exist in the future? Why? 

Well I think that print newspapers wont continue to exist in the future as now news can be accessible to pretty much anyone, it can show on TVs, phones, computers even news publishers are getting social media accounts to reach out to the public and try to get used to them or act as a friend towards them.

Newspapers: The Times - Introduction

 

1) What year was The Times founded and when did it start using the Times name?

It was founded in the 1785's and they started to use the name "The times" in 1788

2) What content did John Walter suggest the paper would offer in the first edition?

He said that he wanted something to "suit everyone's pallet" this means that he wanted to put everything and anything that he wanted to get a hold of during the time

3) What does the page say about the political views in The Times? 

They use it to "applaud" or "censure" them

4) Who owns The Times today and how is editorial integrity protected?

It is now being supported by the New labour and coservatives parties

5) What did The Times introduce in 2010 and why?

They introduced a digital version of their newspapers so that people could read it where ever they go

6) What was The Times named in 2018 by the Reuters Institute for Journalism at Oxford University?

It was named, Britains's most trusted national newspaper

7) What does the section on Editorial Standards say about The Times and newspaper regulation?

It says that they take complaints of the people an then they go ahead and abid the independent press standards organisation 

8) What does the section on Ownership say about The Times and who is the current editor? 

They are published and owned by times paper limited and the current editor would be John Witherow

December PPE - Paper 2 Learner response

 1) Type up your feedback in full - WWW & EBI. You do not have to write your mark and grade if you don't want to.

WWW:

Good understanding of narrative theories

made judgement on how successful doctor who was/is

EBI:

Revise Stuart Hall's reception theory

bring in examples from the CSP's more in a extended 20 mark question.

2) Write a definition for a preferred reading to make sure you know this terminology. The original blog post for Reception theory may help with this.

preferred reading is when consumers view the product the way intended by the producers of the product

3) Write a list of any narrative theories that you DIDN'T use for your answer to question 1.2. How could you have used these in the Doctor Who clip in the exam? 

one of the  narrative theories would be binary opposition of the old vs young between the doctor who is an elderly person and the teachers being younger and trying to get past the doctor this is Levi Strouss's thoery 

4) Write three ways in which a modern audience might respond differently to Doctor Who: An Unearthly Child compared to an audience at the time.

One way would be that they might not be able to respond to somethings that the old doctor who was made, another reason would be the editing of the video and how modern audiences are used to fast paced editing techniques, the third reason would be the different things that are said like things that wasn't considered too much of being racist compared to today, and how modern audiences can learn what the 1960's were like at the making of the show, it shows how TV has evolved throughout the years

5) Write a plan for question 2 in the assessment - the 20-mark essay on Doctor Who as a franchise. Use the mark scheme to help you and aim to plan an introduction, conclusion and at least three detailed paragraphs.

Open up with opinion and have a yes or no to show how successful the franchise was to the BBC and how the Class was a spin-off of doctor who and how it was axed after 1 series, and how doctor who was a global iconic TV show, the BBC remit of educate, entertain and inform, the fee that people have to pay for the TV license, talking about how social media is a competitor for class and compare the popularity of the shows at different times, so the representation would be how the doctors would be white dominant males that where the main character and usually seen as the main character to the audience,you could also talk about how things were less racist at the time but is now considered racist, another thing would be industry and how they saw doctor who to be one of their most successful shows, another thing would be the diversity that was represented by the doctor who like how they only made their 13th doctor a female and how in class there was members of the LGBTQ community along with black people and females to show a range of diversity, another thing would be the audience and how they usually have teenage audiences but the difference of the success because of the time they were made at the time.

6) What topics do you need to revise for future Paper 2 exams? List at least three topics, theories or CSPs.

 Revise Stuart Hall's reception theory,  Blumber and Katz theory and the 3 v's (Visceral pleasures Vicarious pleasures Voyeuristic pleasures)

Newspapers: Daily Mirror - Representation and Industry

 Representation

1) What political party does the Daily Mirror support?
The daily mirror supports Right wing party (Capitalism)

2) How does the Daily Mirror usually represent rich and powerful people?
They usually represent them as being powerful as they have money to do things and what ever they have done shows their success and how it has helped them

3) How are celebrities usually presented in tabloid newspapers like the Daily Mirror? Look at the 'New Bond stars are revealed' story on the front page of the Daily Mirror.

Celebrities are shown to be praised for being in a movie that has a well known series of their films

4) How are the royal family presented in the double-page spread 'Kate told Harry to make peace... then they all met up for tea'? 
The royal family are shown to have the most superior and most important role as they take up two whole pages in the paper, and anything that happens seems to be dramatised is shown and is made up in a way where they make it seem like a slogan

5) Why do you think the Daily Mirror represents the royal family as a 'normal' family? Why might this appeal to Daily Mirror readers?
Yes as if you read their paper them then they show that they use some sort of colloquial language and how make the name William "wills" so it shows some sort of casual life style some where in the family. 

Industries

1) What company owns the Daily Mirror?
The Daily mirror is owned by Reach PLC which used to known as trinity which also owns many other newspaper brands.

2) What is the Daily Mirror's circulation in 2020? How many papers did the Daily Mirror used to sell back in the 1990s?
in 1990 newspapers were more commonly used because phones and technology was less used at the time and then later in 2000's, technology was used more and with social media having the ability to show news then the newspaper slowly started to be used less.

3) Why has the newspaper industry struggled in the last 20 years?
The introduction of new advanced technology has allowed phones and social media being competitors of newspapers

4) How has the Daily Mirror reacted to the decline in print sales and the growth of the internet?

The daily mirror have moved their newspaper to online and they even have some sort of social media accounts that they post it on to have some sort of reliability and something to bond with their consumers

5) List five of Galtung & Ruge's News Values and explain how they link to the stories in our CSP edition of the Daily Mirror.

Frequency- royal family being talked about a lot

Familiarity-royal family being a part of British lives

Negativity-family having a row

Predictability- predicting how a fight would occur with the royal family

Balance  - how the two brothers were fighting and how Kate tried to reunite them in a dinner.

Grade 8/9 extension task

The Daily Mirror's owner, Reach (then Trinity Mirror) bought control of the Express and Daily Star newspapers in 2018. Read this Guardian feature on the deal. Why did Trinity Mirror buy the papers?

So that they can turn away from newspaper into digital media of being online and on social media, its more of a company buying a well know company and then making choices that they wouldn't have and made it more flexible for people who use social media and technology, another thing would be that their contribution to social media would be make them more well known and then they would slowly take over other companies that have not yet migrated their companies to social media which would give them the advantage,they bought their company to simply expand on their company, but buying the paper would allow them to promote more of their products as they have already bought something that is already well known so if they advertise it then they would have their messages and things spread around to everyone

TV assessment - Learner response

 1) Type up your feedback in full - WWW & EBI. You do not have to write your mark and grade if you don't want to.

WWW: Q2 was a decent attempt at the extended question, you managed to discuss some issues as to why Doctor who was more successful then Class e.g diversity across series e.g 13th female doctor.

EBI: You need to prepare better for Q1.2 and !1.3 questions, your responses need to analyse the clips is much more detail, make sure you are highlighting keywords in the question.

Revise key terminology e.g intertextuality.

2) Write a definition for intertextuality to make sure you know this terminology.

When a media text or product references another text to engage an audience further.

3) Write a list of narrative theories that you could have used for question 1.2. How do these relate to Class? You can refer to the extract or any other moment in episode 4 of Class.

Todorov's, Propp's, Barthes, theories and mise en scene to link theories towards it.

4) How do the four aspects of Blumler and Katz's Uses and Gratifications theory apply to Class? Give specific examples from episode 4 of Class.

Identity: It is aimed at young adults and it tries to relate to them by using phones, cars and other objects to show the similar things that the audience has.

5) Write a plan for question 2 in the assessment - the 20-mark essay on social and cultural contexts. Use the mark scheme to help you and aim to plan an introduction, conclusion and at least three detailed paragraphs.

Viewpoints, whether you agree or disagree, commenting on The entire CSP episodes, applying LIAR, comparing the modern vs the older version compare issues show how diversity is used throughout, 

6) What topics do you need to revise for next week's PPE? List at least three topics, theories or CSPs.

Planning on TV possibly Doctor who or class, terminology based on the episodes/series, mise en scene, LIAR, Revise CSP's, theories.

Newspapers: Daily Mirror - Language and Audience

 Language

1) Write the definition of the following key language for newspaper front pages:

Masthead: The title of the newspaper
Pug:A sentence of line that will catch the reader's eye
Splash Head: A dominant line that is big in order to be read clearly along with it to show what it is 
Slogan:Sums up the ethos/purpose of the newspaper
Dateline:Shows the date that the newspaper was published
Kicker:The story at the top of the paper to catch the reader's eye

Byline:Gives the name of the article publisher
Standfirst: introductory  paragraph that is usually in bold

2) How much does a copy of the Daily Mirror cost?
80p
3) What are the main stories on the CSP edition of the Daily Mirror (see above)?
They are mostly about the royal family and some things about celebrities and some information about the world health problems
4) Why is the choice of news stories on the Mirror CSP front page typical of a tabloid newspaper?
To catch the eye of readers, because of the red top and tabloids don't usually contain lots of information at the bottom.
5) What is the balance on the Daily Mirror front page between images, headlines and text?
The Daily mirror is overflown by images and large titles in bold, they don't usually contain much but usually its used to catch the eye of the reader so they think that it is interesting for them to read.

Audience

1) What is the target audience for the Daily Mirror?
Their target audience is people in a working class as they make the newspaper 80 p also it could be for younger adults as there is a website for them to go to so that they can go and then they can go to the website to find the latest news that the daily mirror puts out for them.
2) Why does the Mirror front page story appeal to the Daily Mirror audience?
The daily mirror audience of working class people as they usually enjoy forms of gossip or something to do with other people or things that they aspire to be, do or get.
3) Why might a reader enjoy the Daily Mirror? Use Blumler & Katz Uses and Gratifications theory to add detail to your answer. Because they include some sort of information to the reader and then they use mostly some sort of entertainment, some of the gossip stories could cause some sort of relationship or being the same with the reader.

4) Why are print newspapers generally read by older audiences?
Because it is something that they are used to and then it's more convenient for them to use as newer technology may be more confusing towards them and then
5) How is the 'Wills and Harry royal rift' story on the double page spread constructed to appeal to Daily Mirror readers? 
Because of the title that covers most of the paper and the giant paparazzi shot of the royal family members, the size shows the importance of the picture/title also its news on the royal family so it has a better reason for it to take up the page.

Grade 8/9 extension tasks

Read this Guardian column on the Mirror's struggles with covering Brexit. How did the Mirror suggest people vote in the EU referendum and how did many of its working class audience actually vote?
They used creative jokes/ puns to show the public that they should chose a certain a side, they created pledges and reason on why they should, they tried to prove a point on how brexit is broken. They also use other stories and link them to a certain areas/ things.

Guardian Media critic Roy Greenslade writes about why tabloid newspapers like the Mirror are struggling to attract younger readers in this column. Make a note of some of the key statistics in this article and also what Greenslade thinks tabloids should do to stay relevant in the digital age. This column also has an excellent discussion of the Mirror's political stance which is ideal to grade 9 answers.

In order for the newspaper to stay relevant they must move their paper to digital, they need to add more intriguing news and not make it seem too much like fake news, relate more to their audience, they should have a social media accounts so that their ease of access for their audience would make them much more relevant.