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REGULATION
Slave:
(especially in the past) A person who is the legal property of another and is forced to obey them.
Free:
Able to act or be done as one wishes; not under the control of another.
Authoritarian:
Favouring or enforcing strict obedience to authority at the expense of personal freedom.
Libertarians:
Seek to maximize autonomy and political freedom, and minimize the state’s violation of individual liberties; emphasizing free association, freedom of choice, individualism and voluntary association.
| Key Questions | Focus | Specifics |
| Why Regulate? | – Truth – Protect children – Political bias – Privacy | |
| Who Regulates what? | – The Government – Specialist bodies e.g., OFCOM – Individuals – Internal company/ structural regulations (code of ethics or practice) – Self regulation – Key individuals: Celebrities | |
| How will regulation be put in place? | ||
| What gets regulated? | – Newspapers – Films – TV – Games – Books – Radio |
Libertarianism – Libertarians seek freedom away from regulation and the government. Libertarians seek to maximize autonomy and political freedom, and minimize the state’s violation of individual liberties; emphasizing free association, freedom of choice, individualism and voluntary association – Wikipedia
cross-media production nea
Statement of Intent for Film
It’s about a poor family and the teen sons parents are struggling to get by, they have one son who wants to become a professional football player but can’t afford to pay for football training so he spends all his time playing street football and playing with his best friend, but his parents want him to get a job to help provide.
In this movie I will have the main character, the hero, being the teen who wants to become a football player. He will have a best friend at the start but then becomes the false hero, he then joins a rival team to his friend after the hero manages to get into a team through very hard work and training and being able to get free training due to his large skill and ability. The false hero will purposefully injure the hero out of spite that the hero is a greater player than him. So the hero has to go back home and start working for his family for a while. After being injured for a while we have a dispatcher (a coach) who convinces him to play again and carry on his training. To where he then gets scouted by a premier league team and this will be the anagnorisis where he earns enough money to provide for him self and his family.
The film will be funded and produced by Warner Brothers. It should have a least a mid level budget due to the simple nature of the story not needing many high level filming attributes or techniques. The poster will have the main hero at the front holding the football in his hands or at his feet, with his friend next to him but slightly behind to indicate his insignificance compared to the main hero and as also a slight foreshadow of his false hero intentions.
The genre of the film will be a feel-good type idea that focuses on a classic and conventional base story line following ideas of the Tripartite narrative structure. The genre would loosely be based on the films techniques and genre of “Blinded By the Light” where he young teenager faces antagonists and hardships to make his dream come true of becoming a professional football player, making his parents proud and taking them out of poverty.
Statement of intent for the website
For the website I wanted to keep it simple and effective in a way. It features the main title and a banner at the top giving easy access to other pages of the website: “Front Page”, “About” and “Updates”. It has promotion for the film creators and where it will be featured easily seen throughout the website. The updates page features an email chain where users can receive updates on the movie as a marketing strategy. I made the website on “Square Space” and I will have to take screenshots of the website due to the fact I have to pay for a membership to make the website active.
Notes for essay
- Cultural industries
- Production
- Distribution
- Exhibition / Consumption
- Media concentration
- Conglomerates
- Globalisation (in terms of media ownership)
- Cultural imperialism
- Vertical Integration
- Horizontal Integration
- Mergers
- Monopolies
- Gatekeepers – A PSB can gatekeep what information and news get’s filtered through. Meaning they decide what media get’s consumed meaning they are able to control public ideas. BBC for example get to decide what info passes through and they have control over info and decide what the public get to know.
- Regulation
- Deregulation
- Free market
- Commodification
- Convergence
- Diversity
- Innovation
- No offence is on All 4 meaning it is provided publicly through PSB meaning it is easily accessed, freely, by the public.
- It is an original made through the UK, made and produced in London and features female protagonists, it has something for everyone
- David Hesmondhalgh – Who are they?
is among a range of academics who critically analyse the relationship between media work and the media industry. In his seminal book, The Culture Industries (Sage, 2019) he suggest that:
the distinctive organisational form of the cultural industries has considerable implications for the conditions under which symbolic creativity is carried out’
The Culture Industries (Sage, 2019, p.99)
2. Curran and Seaton. – Who are they?
3. Livingstone & Lunt – Who are they?
THREE TYPES OF MEDIA OWNERSHIP (PSB)
THREE TYPES OF MEDIA OWNERSHIP
- Capitalist Media
corporations content that addresses humans in various social roles and results in meaning-making. - Public service media
state-related institutions
Content that addresses humans in various social roles and results in meaning-making. - Civil society media
Citizen-control
Commercial Media – ITV, Sky TV
Transnational Media – Netflix, Amazon Prime – Global
Public Service Media – Companies such as BBC who relies on tax for funding, which comes from viewers paying for Tv licenses
Public Service Broadcasting
- What is it? — It is includes all electronic media outlets and its only function is public service. In many countries of the world, funding comes from governments, especially via annual fees charged on receivers (TV licence UK)
BBC – Delivering impartial and trusted news, UK-originated programmes and distinctive content.
- Inform, entertain and educate – A PSB has standards it has to live up to.
2. Are The BBC and C4 unique examples of PSB?
Both of these are unique as it has a full focus on public service.
3. What’s good about it?
- No advertisements
- Diverse, many different types of free consumable media; shows, news, music, etc
- A part of a culture and national identity of UK
- Critical of the government
4. Criticism for it
- You have to pay for it through taxations (TV licence)
- Doesn’t always have something for everyone at all times, not always appealing to everyone
- Is it really fully truthful and unbiased — Involvement by the government?
5. Extra Info
- No offence is on All 4 meaning it is provided publicly through PSB meaning it is easily accessed, freely, by the public.
- It is an original made through the UK, made and produced in London and features female protagonists, it has something for everyone
exam prep
Key Thinkers
- David Hesmondhalgh – “The media industry is a risky business”
2. Curran and Seaton. <—— Need to mention in essay coming up
- The difference between the culture industries and other industries is the fact they run off/ adapt towards the majority/dominant culture to appeal to them more. They also have a creative impact on the culture- organisations that are making cultural creativity. Cultural creative industries have a symbolic significance to which they can protest or carry meaning towards the audience while any other industry can’t.
3. Livingstone & Lunt
The Culture Industries
What is the difference between the culture industries and other industries (creative industries)?
Both industries have many things in common such as a need of a place to work, a staff, both need structure and plans, at the end of the day industry is needed simply and solely for jobs, jobs that give money which is the pillar of society.
But, what is the difference?
One is a necessity and the other is purely for entertainment. We as a culture need food and we need water but in creative industry having the same thing all the time no longer makes it desirable.
If we didn’t have these industries how would we know about anything? About war, who was fighting. What the weather would be or about crime rates. The culture industry decides who we are, without it we are nothing. We need it to make sense of the world.
“…Pivotal role in organizing the images and discourses through which people make sense of the world” – Peter Golding & Graham Murdock
Culture industries are more creative than other typical industries.
- Capitalist Media
corporations content that addresses humans in various social roles and results in meaning-making.
- Public service media
state-related institutions
Content that addresses humans in various social roles and results in meaning-making.
- Civil society media
Citizen-control
THREE TYPES OF MEDIA OWNERSHIP
4 key contextual ideas
television csp: No Offence and The Killing
No Offence
No Offence scored 8 out of 10 on IMDb.
83% liked this TV show
“A group of police officers try their best to keep the streets of Manchester free of crime. When all else fails, they decide to use unconventional methods to teach the perpetrators a lesson.”
- First episode date: May 5, 2015
- No. of series: 3
- Production company: AbbottVision
- AbbottVision is a British independent television production company, established in 2008 by the writer, creator and producer Paul Abbott. Founded: 2008
- Abbott Vision Profiles in Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube
- Original network: Channel 4
- Genre: Police procedural; Drama; Black comedy
- Black comedy, also known dark humor, is a style of comedy that makes light of subject matter that is generally considered taboo, particularly subjects that are normally considered serious or painful to discuss
- Executive producers: Paul Abbott; Martin Carr; Paul Coe
Series 1, Episode 1
The first series focuses on the team’s investigation into the serial murders of young girls with Down syndrome. It was renewed for two further runs
In the UK, the first episode of No Offence launched with 2.5 million viewers, Channel 4’s biggest midweek drama launch for more than three years. Although subsequent episodes lost overnight viewers, dropping as low as 1.2 million, the weekly consolidated series average remained at 2.5 million and finished 47% up on Channel 4’s slot average
- In France, the first episode of No Offence aired on 29 February 2016 on France 2 and was watched by 5.46 million viewers, 20.4% of the TV audience
- France 2: is a French public national television channel. It is part of the state-owned France Télévisions group, along with France 3, France 4, and France 5.
letter to the free
Youth Culture as Political Protest (Jodie’s Presentation)
Key Concepts:
● Cultural resistance
● Cultural hegemony
● Subcultural theory
The Idea of Resistance and Political Protest –
- Culture is what influences people’s hearts, minds and opinions. This is the site of popular change
Key idea: the political, personal and cultural are always intertwined
Cultural Hegemony:
Key words:
● Hegemonic: dominant, ruling-class, power-holders
● Hegemonic culture: the dominant culture
● Cultural hegemony: power, rule, or domination maintained by ideological and cultural means.
– Cultural hegemony functions by framing the ideologies of the dominant social group as the only legitimate
ideology
“Letter To The Free”
(feat. Bilal)
(from “13th” soundtrack)
Common is an Oscar and Grammy award winning hip/hop rap artist who wrote Letter to the Free as a soundtrack to The 13th – a documentary by Ava DuVernay named after the American 13th amendment (the abolition of slavery).
COMMON
Born: March 13, 1972 (age 49 years), South Side, Chicago, Illinois, United States
Net Worth: £45Million
First rapper to win an academy award
Common was formerly known by common sense
Commons genre of music he records is Hip Hop, Neo Soul and Progressive Rap.
Quotes from “Letter To The Free”
“Slavery’s still alive, check Amendment 13”
“We ain’t seen as human beings with feelings”
“Black bodies being lost in the American dream”
“Prison is a business, America’s the company
Investing in injustice, fear and long suffering”
film poster analysis
Sing 2: When looking at the poster we can see a anchorage related to the title “Sing 2” contrasting with the musical instruments and how a few of the dominant signifiers that clearly dominate the screen are wearing performers clothes such as tuxedos. The title contains a “2” in it which is an indicator that it is a sequel meaning it is the second instalment of the franchise. Looking at “Redshore” we can perceive that it is a fictional location that the movie will take place in and is based solely on fantasy.
Over the Hedge: When looking at this poster we can see the dominant signifier in it is the man in the orange jumpsuit with some sort of capture device which can be assumed to be used against the animals that are flying over his hedge. Looking at the facial expressions on the animals it is easy to tell the movie is based on fantasy and is animated also. The title “Over the Hedge” is ironic due to indexical sign that the animals have broken through the hedge rather than getting over it.
Breaking bad: When looking at the title of the poster we see the letters “Br” and “Ba” being highlighted in a certain way, upon closer inspection we also see there are periodic table numbers above the letters meaning that the title contains elements at the start of each word. These elements are Bromine and Barium which is information that most likely the average viewer will not know, and when suppling context from the show we know one of the dominant signifiers are a chemist which would explain the title and it’s anchorage to the poster which also includes chemical labelled barrels in the background. The bold yellow shown for their suits creates a reactionary idea that they’re wearing hazmat suits that may relate to the chemical barrels. The gun being held is a symbol for danger which also helps create an ideology to a viewer.
John Wick 3: In this poster we can see the dominant signifier and main character John Wick taking up most of the poster and then some sub signifiers in the background which are also characters in the movie. There is a paradigm of characters related to the movie.
Jumanji: The dominant signifiers of the poster are in heroic poses in front of a hectic background and if you look closely you can elements of the movie and foreshadowing of what may happen. There is an anchorage of the sub-title “Welcome to the Jungle” where we can see a clear jungle-like setting with wild animals and also by how the main signifiers are specifically dressed in a safari like clothing and gear.