Thursday, March 29, 2007
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Why Big Brother Is Ideal For Virgin Media
However, Virgin Media have decided to sponsor Big Brother after Carphone Warehouse dropped them. The decision to sponsor the reality TV show was because of the race row and therefore thought that they could venture into a big project like Big Brother to gain their popularity again.
The big debate is that would ponder many of the peoples minds at Channel 4 and possibly viewers is that:
"The question is whether Channel 4 and Endemol will allow Virgin Media to use Big Brother as a showcase or just pocket Branson's cash while they continue to work on their own digital plans for the show"
My own opinion:
I personally feel Richard Branson is looking to gain popularity and knowing that Big Brother will get his company noticed is a clever way of gaining profit within his business. The man is smart!!!
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
...Blue Peter phone- in recieved 14,000 calls...
During a fone in competiton a grand total of 14,000 people called in but due to technical faults the show had faked a winner!!! Whomever called in was not part of the competition 'guess whos shoes'. A young girl who was just visiting the show was asked to call with the right answer and was proclaimed the winner.
Figures to show Blue Peters gainings in money...
- 3.5p of the 10p call going to Unicef, it raised £450.52 for the children's charity.
- £727.75 went to Cable & Wireless for the use of the phone-lines
-£207.93 to Telecom Express, which ran the competition and has donated its share to the appeal.
BBC explained that the technical difficulty was due to the fact that calls were flooding in and thereby everything just froze, the tv show carried on saying that the stand in was a mistake and did not think at the time if it was the best thing it was the spare of the moment.
My opinion:
I think that Blue Peter did not want to intentionally hurt anyone that called in - it was a technical difficulty and it was just meant to be the girl in the studio who was visiting. As long as Blue Peter have accepted they made a mistake, there is no problem.
Thursday, March 08, 2007
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
News Values
- Primarily editors who are responsible for selecting and ordering news broadcasts.
- Only particular items into the news text and this selection will depend on the factors such as the application of news, audience expectations and institutional requirements
BiAs:
- When a news story is influenced by the attitudes and background of its interviewers, writers, photographers and editors: even before the gate keeping process.
- Some forms of bias which may affect the news text:-
- bias through selection and omission
- placement
-photos, captions and camera angles
- names and titles
- statistics and crowd counts
- source control
- word choice and tone.
How would you priortise these news values?
FreqUenCy: Midterms American elections 2006 covers most of the newspaper
ThReshold: The even was very big because we saw a new representation of women in Congress because of the head Democrat speaker Nancy Polsci.
Unambiguity: Pretty clear over the front page and the most of the newspaper - over 4 sides
Meaningfulness: Well the American elections were quite meaningful because it was a tight race between the Democrats and Republicans.
ConSonanCe: The audience expectations would to see who is winning out of the two parties and who will actually win. Within the newspaper there is alot of visual diagrams showing the geographical coverage of America and were the votes are more.
UnexpEctedneSs: A story on Police raid seizes wild bird eggs
Continuity: American general elections
Personalisation: Shown within the the National aspect of the newspaper.
Negativity: Who do they think they are? Website traces British roots of Us Celebrities. Mocking celebrities who deny their british background.
Cult Of The Celebrity
Music cds
Dvds especially films based on dancing
Clothing Lines
Magazines especially ones specfic to RnB and Hip Hop
The reason why I consume these texts is because of the celebrity because if it is an artist that I really like I will purchase everything they have. But, also if I enjoy their work like in a film I would watch the film many times and possibly buy it on dvd. Knowing about celebrities is what makes people purchase any text.
Looking at an edition of a national tabloid, in what ways are celebrity related stories presented in this edition? Account for these representations
In tabloids such as the Sun celebrity gossip seems to be the main feature for example, if David Beckham buys something from a local shop it will be posted all over the newspaper, the reason for this is because they know that people are eager to know what their favourite celebrities are doing and what they are buying.
For example on The Suns website, the homepage features a lot of celebrity gossip for example there is a feature of Posh's new haircut and you can actually watch pictures of her with this new haircut. The Sun newpaper know this will cause a freenzy within society because many teengae girls and women would be interested to see how she has changed her hair and possibly decide to copy her exact hair style.
Also, there is a feature about celebritoes and their sex life. There is an article based on Gordan and Peter's sex life she says ' we've been at it like rabbits'. The audiences response would be read this article because they like to know the nitty gritty about the celebrities personal life, even if it is knowing whom they are getting initimate with.
Thursday, February 15, 2007
Gunners blast the Brits
- Match of the Day Live drew an average of 5.7 million viewers or 24% of the audience in the two hours it was up against the Brits on ITV1, which averaged 5.3 million viewers or 22%.
- While at the Brits the viewers peaked at 6.3 million at 8pm, as the Scissor Sisters opened the show.
- Then the game got 5.9 million when the half time started
- Since 1989, the Brits ranged the highest audience viewing possible peaked at 6.3 million at 8pm, as the Scissor Sisters opened the music industry shindig.
The different battles bewteen the two programmes of the game and the Brits showed a problem towards audiences viewers for people were seein to watch the Brits more. More audiences were aniticipated over the Brits because of all the hype but still, the Gunners were not impressed by the turnout and the people that were viewing the game, live.
In my opinion: The brits has showed to be a very popular progrmme and from this we can see the ratings 5.3 million people watched. Also, the water cooler effect acn be linked to this because people will talk about the show and the host Russel the host of Big Brother various programmes shows a famous person adding to the hype of the programme.
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Self Evaluation
I think from the last term i have been working quite hard, i have been getting on with my work and feel that when I put my mind to it, i can actually do some really good pieces of work. But, still i wouldn't give myself an one, for attainment because I haven't produced consistant excellent work.
Effort...2
I still my effort is the same, but I think it maybe increasing because we are studying interesting topics. The whole discussion on Asians and now looking at genre will definitly allow me to do more and improve on my effort levels.
Punctuality...1
I can never be late or even miss a lesson because Mr Munro is my form tutor. But I am always in lessona and on time.
Submission and quality of homework ... 2
The homework we recieve is to mainly do with blogs, it seems quite good and my quality of homework is very good.
Ability to work independently.... 1
I feel comfortable working by myself and doing my work independently. The independent study is done all by myself! sooo i can work very well on my own.
Quality of writing ...2
My writing is starting to improve because I am actually proof reading and thinking of what to write. My structure is also starting to come out well.
Organisation of Media folder ...2
My media folder is not in shambles but I have to organise it again. I have title pages for different sections of the modules I just have to organise my work one more time.
Oral contributions in class ... 2
My oral contribution is okay in class. At times i don't participate but I will start to.
Targets
- More oral discussion on lesson
- Practise writing essays to improve my structure and timing for the exam
- Bring my attainment to a one by being consistant throughout the term .