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Monday, 29 April 2013
Monday, 28 January 2013
Young people - Presentation
Ill manor
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Ill Manors (stylised as ill Manors) is a British crime drama film written and directed by Ben Drew, also known as Plan B. The film, which is set in Forest Gate, London, revolves around the lives of eight main characters, and features six original songs by Plan B, which act as a narration for the film. Ill Manors is a multi-character story, set over the course of seven days, a scene where everyone is fighting for respect. The film focuses on eight core characters, and their circles of violence, as they struggle to survive on the streets. Each story weaves into one another, painting an ultra-realistic gritty picture of the world which is on the brink of self-destruction. Each story is also represented by a different rap song.
- Gritty lifestyle of working class people in London - verisimilitude (realism) - Uses Gratification
- Shows what the teenagers get up which is selling drugs, violence and parties while at the same time showing the older lifestyle aswell - the youths don't get the only bad representation - Moral panic for middle class
- youths seen to just be on the streets - link to plan b's lecture - no opportunities for them - London riots
- It shows how working class can be perceived as such a negative thing - living in estates, parents are careless about their children
- While in the 80's working class was something to be proud of as people were working hard to get good amounts of money - less working class jobs - working class considered now as people with benefits etc - hegemony
- It's subverting also this way of 'black behaviour, appearance and dialogue' - due to different races
- Review by Marlene Freema - explained the films realism was perfect (verisimilitude) - as the film is two shaded instead of one. (Plan b - writer - experienced)
- The film does show that these people that are negatively stereotyped do show love - when baby is left with the guy - growing up in estates - parents struggling
- Humor - entertain - Uses gratification - common tradition
- Different from most urban drama's due to the complexity and detail the film goes through as it's telling a story not stereotyping anyone from the working class.
- Gritty lifestyle of working class people in London - verisimilitude (realism) - Uses Gratification
- Shows what the teenagers get up which is selling drugs, violence and parties while at the same time showing the older lifestyle aswell - the youths don't get the only bad representation - Moral panic for middle class
- youths seen to just be on the streets - link to plan b's lecture - no opportunities for them - London riots
- It shows how working class can be perceived as such a negative thing - living in estates, parents are careless about their children
- While in the 80's working class was something to be proud of as people were working hard to get good amounts of money - less working class jobs - working class considered now as people with benefits etc - hegemony
- It's subverting also this way of 'black behaviour, appearance and dialogue' - due to different races
- Review by Marlene Freema - explained the films realism was perfect (verisimilitude) - as the film is two shaded instead of one. (Plan b - writer - experienced)
- The film does show that these people that are negatively stereotyped do show love - when baby is left with the guy - growing up in estates - parents struggling
- Humor - entertain - Uses gratification - common tradition
- Different from most urban drama's due to the complexity and detail the film goes through as it's telling a story not stereotyping anyone from the working class.
Monday, 7 January 2013
Learning reponse
Young people essay
Feedback -
www - You make plenty of good points here and at times develop a strong, convincing argument
ebi - You are lacking detailed specific examples in places
- In general, your argument lacks depth/analysis. Twice you mention hegemony - a brilliant, relevant point - but do not go on to discuss it in detail.
- Time mangement - The essay stops abruptly
- Develop one of your paragraphs/ points on hegemony and re-write in detail
Learning response - Develop one of your paragraph/points on hegemony and re-write in detail
The newspapers even through their sales have declined through the years, they still have a massive impact on the the views of the UK residents. The riots were not all passed by negative stereotypes as for some left wing newspapers. This was the perfect way to show the audicnce the damage David Cameron has caused. The right wing newspaper the daily mail has always taken the side of the goverment, and dispises the actions in which the young people of London has taken. In one of their article 'it was just like a supermarket sweep', shows the seriousness of the theft in which the youths have caused. Also the imagines contrast to this negative representation of young black people as it shows white officers with black youths in every picture, which gives the negative representation and that white people have the huge authority.
Feedback -
www - You make plenty of good points here and at times develop a strong, convincing argument
ebi - You are lacking detailed specific examples in places
- In general, your argument lacks depth/analysis. Twice you mention hegemony - a brilliant, relevant point - but do not go on to discuss it in detail.
- Time mangement - The essay stops abruptly
- Develop one of your paragraphs/ points on hegemony and re-write in detail
Learning response - Develop one of your paragraph/points on hegemony and re-write in detail
The newspapers even through their sales have declined through the years, they still have a massive impact on the the views of the UK residents. The riots were not all passed by negative stereotypes as for some left wing newspapers. This was the perfect way to show the audicnce the damage David Cameron has caused. The right wing newspaper the daily mail has always taken the side of the goverment, and dispises the actions in which the young people of London has taken. In one of their article 'it was just like a supermarket sweep', shows the seriousness of the theft in which the youths have caused. Also the imagines contrast to this negative representation of young black people as it shows white officers with black youths in every picture, which gives the negative representation and that white people have the huge authority.
Monday, 3 December 2012
13A homework - 26/11/12
Representation in Kidulthood
In Kidulthood, the film follows three teenagers through their everyday life, mostly it's representing the negative activities which follows these teens in London which makes the film intriguing to others. One of the representations i saw is the playground everyone has their own 'gang' or group of friends; which is typical of every school. This shows that you can be friends with only the ones you can relate to, e.g. Geeks wouldn't associate with the boys which come from the rough estates in London which is Trevor and his friends. The next representation of youth in London is that coming to school isn't something which they put number. As one group would be seen smoking marijuana in the school premises, while the other would be kissing his girl. The other group would be busy bullying the other kids in the school, this might be due to the social class difference in the school. As the one bullying from the way he speaks you can tell he's from the gritty council houses in London. 'While the blonde middle-class' i probably from the a nice middle-class home which they might envy. The aggressive tone and violence in which the females show in the class, represent that gender isn't a issue when it comes to the fights and bullying. As they were naturally beating her up till she started bleeding and said these words ''I'm a virgin''. This just shows the self respect of girls are at it's lowest, because now being a virgin is something which a girl can be mocked about.
I think the representation shown in the film has it's truth about teens in London to an extend, as this could relate to the uses and gratification as most teenagers around London could identify one or two things from the film. Most youths have said that the representation has been exaggerated as it's like putting a london teens high school life into one whole scene. Maybe this is due to it being a film, but the perception is a little too much for the teenagers. On the other hand this could be representing how the main media would be showing the youths of London to the rest. The film could be backing up all the representation of the news, which is related mostly to sex, drugs and violence.
To an extend there is a example of verisimilitude, due to the high school environment being perfect as it shows how it is being in high school in London. It has the infamous uniform being worn, kids playing football even in the mud; as their representation when young wasn't important. Then you got the 'cool' groups which are the ones just 'posting' as they get on with what their doing before school. This could either be talking, making out with a girl or smoking; which can be identified with by many teenagers.
In Kidulthood, the film follows three teenagers through their everyday life, mostly it's representing the negative activities which follows these teens in London which makes the film intriguing to others. One of the representations i saw is the playground everyone has their own 'gang' or group of friends; which is typical of every school. This shows that you can be friends with only the ones you can relate to, e.g. Geeks wouldn't associate with the boys which come from the rough estates in London which is Trevor and his friends. The next representation of youth in London is that coming to school isn't something which they put number. As one group would be seen smoking marijuana in the school premises, while the other would be kissing his girl. The other group would be busy bullying the other kids in the school, this might be due to the social class difference in the school. As the one bullying from the way he speaks you can tell he's from the gritty council houses in London. 'While the blonde middle-class' i probably from the a nice middle-class home which they might envy. The aggressive tone and violence in which the females show in the class, represent that gender isn't a issue when it comes to the fights and bullying. As they were naturally beating her up till she started bleeding and said these words ''I'm a virgin''. This just shows the self respect of girls are at it's lowest, because now being a virgin is something which a girl can be mocked about.
I think the representation shown in the film has it's truth about teens in London to an extend, as this could relate to the uses and gratification as most teenagers around London could identify one or two things from the film. Most youths have said that the representation has been exaggerated as it's like putting a london teens high school life into one whole scene. Maybe this is due to it being a film, but the perception is a little too much for the teenagers. On the other hand this could be representing how the main media would be showing the youths of London to the rest. The film could be backing up all the representation of the news, which is related mostly to sex, drugs and violence.
To an extend there is a example of verisimilitude, due to the high school environment being perfect as it shows how it is being in high school in London. It has the infamous uniform being worn, kids playing football even in the mud; as their representation when young wasn't important. Then you got the 'cool' groups which are the ones just 'posting' as they get on with what their doing before school. This could either be talking, making out with a girl or smoking; which can be identified with by many teenagers.
Friday, 23 November 2012
The guardian story - 23/11/2012
Magazine publisher Future is banking on a huge sales surge of e-editions of its titles thanks to an expected "tablet Christmas", as digital sales of titles such as T3 and Metal Hammer broke through the £6m mark this year.
Mark Wood, the chief executive of Future Publishing, said the company is already shifting $1m in gross revenues a month from sales of its 100 digital titles, and expects a huge surge this festive season as tablets are expected to sell in record numbers this Christmas. He said the growing market of tablet-style products from makers including Apple, Amazon, which has the Kindle Fire range, and the new Microsoft's Surface will make this a record Christmas for sales.
In my opinion it shows that publishers are now relying their targets to be more digital, and that newspapers are being taken over by technology. The sale rate for these tables are predicted to be high this christmas, as it's something everyone wants - it means the whole internet, social and news are in one tablet, which would interest anyone.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/nov/23/future-tablet-christmas-eeditions
Lord McAlpine - BBC & ITV scandel
Lord McAlpine - BBC & ITV scandal
The former Conservative politician who was wrongly linked to a child sex abuse scandal as a result of a both 'newsnight' and ITV 'This morning'. Newsnight aled to the peer being mistakenly implicated in a paedophile ring that targeted children at a care home in Wrexham in north Wales. On twitter he also was subjected to lurid online claims falsely linking him to sexual abuse at a north Wales care home which Schofield attempted to bring to the Prime Minister's attention live on This Morning earlier this month. After a couple of days the allegations made were completely false, as it was found out that the report BBC done was all in accurate. Now his solicitors are helping him sue This morning and the BBC over the false information in which was published by these industries. Including all the tweeters which circulated these rumors to the public.
In my opinion i believe that these big industries took a huge risk to publicize such information on their broadcasting network. They probably didn't investigate these allegation enough to find out the real truth about Lord McAlphine, and to do this without the right information could cause these industries a lot of money as it did. It also shows the impact the internet and social networking has on people opinions in this generation, as it's what controls the world now. More and more people rely on the information which is published on the internet, then the cliche quote 'Innocent, till prove and guilty'.
The former Conservative politician who was wrongly linked to a child sex abuse scandal as a result of a both 'newsnight' and ITV 'This morning'. Newsnight aled to the peer being mistakenly implicated in a paedophile ring that targeted children at a care home in Wrexham in north Wales. On twitter he also was subjected to lurid online claims falsely linking him to sexual abuse at a north Wales care home which Schofield attempted to bring to the Prime Minister's attention live on This Morning earlier this month. After a couple of days the allegations made were completely false, as it was found out that the report BBC done was all in accurate. Now his solicitors are helping him sue This morning and the BBC over the false information in which was published by these industries. Including all the tweeters which circulated these rumors to the public.
In my opinion i believe that these big industries took a huge risk to publicize such information on their broadcasting network. They probably didn't investigate these allegation enough to find out the real truth about Lord McAlphine, and to do this without the right information could cause these industries a lot of money as it did. It also shows the impact the internet and social networking has on people opinions in this generation, as it's what controls the world now. More and more people rely on the information which is published on the internet, then the cliche quote 'Innocent, till prove and guilty'.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4645566/lord-mcalpine-anger-bbc-newsnight.html- The sun
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2236867/Phillip-Schofield-ITV-pay-Lord-McAlpine-125k-damages-Tory-paedophile-list-blunder.html - Daily Mail
Monday, 19 November 2012
Case study: Young people in London (19/11/12)
What Kind of representation of young Londoners can you find?
The representation that I can find from these different articles is that most of them have a negative perceptions of young youths in London. The London riot would have certainly caused this, so the newspaper would be showing this through their actions. The pictures which have been published are truly epic as they are pictures taking live from the scene when the riots were happening. Some of these picture could be a moral panic to the audience, and this is the reason why the newspapers chose these pictures as it shows the young people of London in a way no one has seen them before. 'Trouble in the hood' this is slang headline for any newspaper to be using, as hood is something which young teenagers would be calling their territory. Indicating that these 3 days of rioting, London was owned by the youths of London. The pictures which contrasted with this headline was various of pictures which were stereotypical black youth of London. They were all hooded up and their faces were covered, with fire behind them to show the destructions they have caused in London. This would be a terrible representation of the young Londoners as they are being shown to be ruthless, destructive and heartless human beings just by these pictures. Another quote which was said by the cops 'we'll find these thugs who organised the looting', the word 'thug' shows us that the cops are not impressed by the youth of London at all. This implies to the us that the youth of London have a bad reputation already with the youths in the city.
Can you link this to any media theory?
- Uses and gratification theory - identify - The audience know people that were involved in the riots or known someone who went in prison because of this. Inform - It also informs the audience about the riots, as this is the biggest riots in the history of London. So people would be intrigued about the trust about what the youths of London would be doing in the city.
- Alvarado theory - Dangerous - The
The representation that I can find from these different articles is that most of them have a negative perceptions of young youths in London. The London riot would have certainly caused this, so the newspaper would be showing this through their actions. The pictures which have been published are truly epic as they are pictures taking live from the scene when the riots were happening. Some of these picture could be a moral panic to the audience, and this is the reason why the newspapers chose these pictures as it shows the young people of London in a way no one has seen them before. 'Trouble in the hood' this is slang headline for any newspaper to be using, as hood is something which young teenagers would be calling their territory. Indicating that these 3 days of rioting, London was owned by the youths of London. The pictures which contrasted with this headline was various of pictures which were stereotypical black youth of London. They were all hooded up and their faces were covered, with fire behind them to show the destructions they have caused in London. This would be a terrible representation of the young Londoners as they are being shown to be ruthless, destructive and heartless human beings just by these pictures. Another quote which was said by the cops 'we'll find these thugs who organised the looting', the word 'thug' shows us that the cops are not impressed by the youth of London at all. This implies to the us that the youth of London have a bad reputation already with the youths in the city.
Can you link this to any media theory?
- Uses and gratification theory - identify - The audience know people that were involved in the riots or known someone who went in prison because of this. Inform - It also informs the audience about the riots, as this is the biggest riots in the history of London. So people would be intrigued about the trust about what the youths of London would be doing in the city.
- Alvarado theory - Dangerous - The
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