Evaluation!

Final production Brief 7 -Documentary 'The Way They See It'

This is my final documentary production. This is my final edit after the feedback i have gotten from my class, people who are in it and other people in the target audience.

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Ancillary 1 - Listed magazine - Final edit of the magazine article.

This is my magazine article final edit after the audience feedback i have gotten.

Ancillary 2 - Newspaper Advertisement - Final edit of my Newspaper advertisement

 This is my final Ancillary for my Newspaper advertisement. This is after all the edits from my audience feedback.

Feedback for my Newspaper Advertisement

I showed my four edits to 5 skiers and got them to pick the one they liked the most. It came back with a 5 nil win from edit number 4. This is because i have been doing focus groups with my class that one has been the most edited one. So here is the 4 edits from 1-4.

My favourite is number 4 and i think i am going to go with that one for my Final design.

1.

Feedback - Hard to read the title and the information is too bright.
 2.

Feedback - The information is good tint however the font for the title is quite dull.
 3.

Feedback - The title case is better but it looks squashed, make it easier to see but not over the skier.
4.

Ancillary magazine article research

In these pictures I have commented about the choice of pictures, type, placement of everything and size. I have chosen all different types of magazines. I choose 2 articles that relate to what I'm doing about skiing, I choose the other two because one is a existing film review and the other one was about a Person which linked in to the documentary brief I have.

Class feedback for my production.

I finished my first draft and decided to show my Teacher and a student in the class to get some feedback from them so i can make my production better. I filmed the focus group we did and here it is.

From this focus group we did i am going to amend my production to what they have said and hopefully create a better product.

Anchilaries Task: Newspaper advertisement.

i have taken photos for my newspaper advert as the quality will be loads better. Also with this i can edit them on photoshop and make a better product. Here is the steps i have taken to edit my advert also adapted with the feedback i got.

I have cropped the image to take out any distracting parts and to keep your eye focused on the subject.

 Here i have reduced the exposure so it is really dark. this is to set me up for my last effect. It will give it the contrast in the background that is needed.

I have added in a lighting effects so it has a direct light. This is to make the subject stand out more and o give it that egde. I had to do it this way as i have no lighting of my own. Now you can see why i have darkend the background for the light.

Student lead lesson

So today i lead a lesson on any Grassroots media topic of my Choice. I decided to choose YouTube, this is because its coming up to it's 8th year anniversary. I started off the lesson with a introduction about what Youtube was and what it does. I then gave them a hand out and got them to answer questions on Youtube.

I'll answer my own questions to show my own knowledge on this.
1. What other video sharing site can you think of?

• Liveleak
• Vimeo
• Dailymotion
• BBC Learning zone
• Facebook
• Tumblr

 2. Who are the top 10 most subscribed You tubers

1. William Ray Johnson
2. NigaHiga
3. Smosh
4. Machinima
5. Freddiew
6. Jenna Marbles
7. Shane Dawson
8. College Humor
9. Real annoying orange 
10. Epic Meal Time

3. Why do you think people are subscribed to there channels?
In my opinion i think that these people are the top as they have been around since the start, with the exception of Epic Meal Time. This would of brought a huge fan base in and they were the only people that the audience could watch. The majority of these channels are comedy channels so it makes people laugh, it will keep them coming back as its making them happy. College Humor and Machinima are more companies then people, however this is how they got there fame so i would still class them as made from the grassroots media.

4. How do people make a living of this?
People make a living of this by using advertisement. They get a Youtube partnership, which is where the Youtuber links up with the advertisements and they have adverts before and after there video. They also can earn more money by linking up with certain companies and putting product placement in there videos.

5. What are your views on Youtube being banned in schools?
I think youtube shouldn't be banned in schools. This is because it can help students find tutorials and revision for there lessons. Also teachers will find it helpful to use it to make lessons more fun. They also could include it in the lesson by getting the kids to make videos which would make it fun and something different.

Poster Research

What books to read?

So I was trying the find some books to read for media on grassroots journalism. This was very hard to find a book for this so I tweeted the head of the exam board for OCR Media Studies and he tweeted me back as you can see in the pictures below.

These two books are Dan Gilmore's 'We the Media' and 'Misunderstanding the internet' by James Curran. I already have 'We the media' so that was a good start and in the February half term I will purchase the 'Misunderstanding the internet' in preparation for the exams.

Leveson inquiry

It’s very hard not to come across the Leveson Inquiry in the news with the past couple of months. It’s one of the biggest news stories this year in the UK

. What surprises me is not everyone actually knows what it’s about.
The Inquiry is looking at the culture, practices and ethics of the Press. There are four modules running in this inquiry; the first module is ‘The relationship between the press and the public and looks at phone hacking and other potential illegal behavior’. The second module is, ‘The relationship between the press and the police and the extent to which that has operated in the public interest’. Module 3 is ‘The relationship between the press and politicians’ this focuses on the news and the newspapers which where involved with the phone hacking case. The final module is ‘Recommendations for a more effective policy and regulation that supports the integrity and freedom of the press while encouraging the highest ethical standards’. The prime minster set up and announced that the inquiry was going ahead following all the exposure of the alleged phone hacking at ‘The News of the World’. The Phone hacking cases where awful, they hacked people’s phones just to get stories. They even tampered with peoples phones so they could get more information, which also affected some police matters. The inquiry started taking evidence on August of 2011 so this case has had a long time to build up a big report which recently has been published. The report was published on November the 29^th; it is a 2000 page final report. So you would hope they have taken all the concepts into consideration. The websites talks about their aim and it says, “The Inquiry aims to draw recommendations, if any, for the future, with particular regards to press regulation, governance and other systems of oversight”. So there may be a recommendation for regulation to be put in place so it will affect the module one behavior and others depending on the outcome.

So what did lord justice Leveson recommend? His recommendations where how the press was and is regulations. The recommendations were ‘Newspapers should continue to be self-regulated - and the government should have no power over what they publish’. The current system is PCC which is the press complains commission. This is needed through this ‘transitional phrase’ until a long term replacement can be decided. The chairman of the Press Complaints Commission, Lord Hunt, wants a new ‘Tough, independent regulator with teeth’. However the free speech network opposes this as it defeats the object of what they are, as they run of this and this will put a boundary on what they talk about. They’re made up from a vast range of publishers and editors. The press is scrutinising the people in power in this case as they don’t want a change so they can have free speech without the fear of getting punished.

Another side of this argument comes from the ‘Hacked off’ campaign which stands up for the victims of people whom were affected by this. They think that self regulations don’t work and something needs to be put in place that can protect and work. Hacked off are on Leveson side and are hoping for a secure regulation.

They got the evidence from the people who were affected by this. This helped them build up a case against the papers who was accused of phone hacking. The hearings for this were done at the Inquiry Room at the Royal Courts of Justice, The Strand, London
.  The Inquiry Room is located in what was formerly courtroom 73. They got evidence from many famous people including, Piers Morgan, Hugh Grant and many more. Also the general public could send in information, this information was only for module 4. This was done so they could get a wide range of evidence from everyone and not miss out any key parts.

Rodney King

Rodney Glen King was an African-American construction worker who became well known after being beaten harshly by Los Angeles police officers following a high-speed car chase on March 3, 1991. George Holliday, a resident in the nearby area, witnessed the beating and videotaped much of it from the balcony of his nearby apartment.

This incident was one of the first cases grassroots media. This is because when 'King' was getting beat up there were people filming it. This footage first went to the police but they ignored it then the person who filmed it when to the news and they broadcasted about it. The footage then became an instant media sensation.

This event caused riots in Los Angeles in 1992. This riot happened because of the Rodney King accident. This event was the cause for 53 deaths and over 2000 injuries.

I watched the video of Rodney King and i was quite shocked on how brutial it was. I can now see why so many people upraged from this. It wasn't a fight it was a beating, 10 guys on 1. I think that the riots where justified for this reason, however the killings wern't.

There are many different views of this story, i was watching the film 'American History X' and this scene popped up which i found interesting. They start of talking about the roits. The people in this who are against Rodney King are White supremistists so that changes the view. However some of the points they talk about in this i agree with. This shows in there view, grassroots media can have a negitive effect.

Facebook and Twitter – Law and order

With the increase of people using social media at some point there has to be a law with what you can and cannot do on it. I have looked around on the internet and I cannot seem to find any rules. There have been loads of cases where people have won against ‘Internet trolls’. Internet Trolls seem to be the people who are the criminals on the internet. On the internet people think there is ‘Freedom of speech’, which now there isn’t with laws in place and people being taken to court over it.

I think with the law now doing this they think they will see a decrease in internet trolls. However I disagree. I think with this new law in place it will encourage Internet trolls to try it and get through the new barrier, it gives them a challenge. With social media websites now can identify the people who do this and unmask this people will trust the websites. This doesn’t mean what most people think it does. The websites can only find an IP address then they will go from there. Only the foolish internet trolls will get found this way. This is because most internet trolls are good at what they do and they will most likely have a fake IP address which will show that they live somewhere like Russia when they really live in England.

Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, logician, historian, political critic, and activist. He was born on December 7^th, 1928. He has written on war, politics, and mass media, and he has written over 100 books. From this you can see he is a very active person. In lesson we look at some of quotes and talked about him. These are the quotes that I liked and I’ll explain what they mean to me.

“If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them”

I agree with this quote hugely. There are too many people who sit and watch the world go by and don’t say anything. I think it’s quite strong to say argue with them, however in some cases it is needed. There are so many things in life which go past and no one says anything. I think a great example of people doing what Chomsky says is Penn, from Penn and Teller, in this video, if you watch this you’ll see that he does this well.

He is very opinionated but we need more people like this.

“If you are working 50 hours a week in a factory, you don’t have time to read 10 newspapers a day and go back to declassified government archives. But such people may have far-reaching insights into the way the world works”

This is another quote I agree with. I look at this quote when it comes to voting in elections as these people have no time to look in to the political parties and their policies. This is a huge factor as in the last election more people voted in the X factor final then the election. This shows that people who work 50 hour weeks who know how the way business works, don’t vote due to any interest. Even if they did it would be hard for them to look into it that deep so they usually vote for the same party every time whatever there manifestos are.

How to Exhibit my production

My production will be for a niece market so the exhibition will not be like the norm and in a Big Cinema chain. I will look at releasing mine into an Art house cinema which will be better for this film and hopefully make more money. An Art house cinema that I will ask is a local one in Norwich called ‘Cinema City’.

For the release of my film I will try get it premiered in a Ski and Snowboard Shop called ‘Snowfit’. They have a projector to show it on and it will get more interest and will be the perfect atmosphere for the target market to watch it.