Alex Johnson Media Studies Blog

WHAT IS THE RESPONSIBILITY OF LARGE MEDIA INSTITUTIONS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE? With the ever-growing use of social and visual media around the globe, there are bound to be problems that come from this. From the second that we are exposed to media, we take in a lot of information that could be potentially harmful or influential to us. There’s a load of ways in which the media are responsible for the safety of its users as it needs to make sure it filters out inappropriate content which could lead to abuse, body shaming and even radicalisation. One of the increasing issues for teenagers in modern society is cyber bullying whilst using social media. This is becoming more of a problem due to the larger usage of it around teenagers, scarily starting from single digit ages. Media institutions are now obliged to censor their sites or apps as people are using them as a platform for sending abuse or hateful messages from one to another. They can do this by adding specific features such as ...

The Daily Mail Comparison Headline: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5043083/Teenage-sweethearts-died-driveway.html What is it about? Who is the target audience? The Article is about an elderly couple who fell on their driveway and died in the heat. The target audience of this would be for an older age group as the story may be more poignant to them as they could be of a similar age. Can you easily find the article online? Trying to find the article on the Daily Mail website was a struggle as the search bar provided did not direct me to the article so I had to scroll through the pages to find it. What section is it under online? When researching the article I found the page under the main news section of the Daily Mail online. It was hard to find due to it not being a very popular story. Which article is more detailed – online/offline/same? There is more detail on the online as there is unlimited space to put as much information as ...

Guardian National Section Section Content: The National Guardian has only got UK based news on it, mostly about politics and the economy. For example, on the 1/11/17 paper the front page is about Michael Fallon quits as harassment scandal grows. Also, it mentions Uk business and other important news to do with the economy. How easy is it to navigate? With comparing the two different forms of media, we can see a clear difference in navigation as it evidently easier to navigate using the online form. The online form is much easier navigated as it features a section of all the news stories that will open up to the page in just one click, whereas in the paper form, you have to flip through multiple pages just to get to one article. With the option to include as much content as they would like online, they can create tabs in which the user can easily find the page they would like to read.   Online or Paper version which one has more detail? The online version has more...

RED  - Final Movie

RED  - Post Production This week, we edited the footage we took last week. We used 'iMovie', as it was the only software we had access to out of school. One of the largest tasks we that we had to do was to add audio and sound effects. For the video we separately recorded the spoken audio and added it over the clips as we wanted crisp sound. We also added sound effects of different diegetic sounds such as; a door opening, footsteps, and text tones.  For one of our scenes we used Final Cut Pro as we created a clip that looked as if the protagonist received a text message from her mother. We took a  a screenshot an iPhone message, removed the background making this a PNG, and then flip the direction of the speech bubble (so that it was facing the girl). For t his we used Photoshop. We then imported it  into Final Cut Pro and laid it over the footage.

Guardian Rebrand When did the rebrand happen?: The Guardian newspaper held a complete rebranding of itself and look on the 15 January 2018  Why has the rebrand happened? What is the print media fighting agai nst? : The Guardian has signed a contract for Trinity Mirror, an external company that is the publisher of the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and Sunday People.  The merge with the publishing company has been influenced by various reasons including continuing falls in the print advertising market and the rising cost of publishing newspapers, this is due to consumers move towards digital media. How long is the transformation plan and what do they want to continue with?: According to David Pemsel, the chief executive of GMG,  “This is an important step in our three-year transformation plan,”. They plan to continue with the ever evolving print media as well as digital media. What are the main differences in styles?   One of the most prominent chan...