Cem's Media Portfolio

istanbulfreepress: Antalya - Civil protests turned into chaos...

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 10:05:33 +0100

Antalya - Civil protests turned into chaos after violent police intervention in Calli province of Antalya few hours ago. Photos require no comment, the chaos is unbelievable.

sirmitchell: There are massive protests happening in Turkey...

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 10:05:20 +0100

sirmitchell:

There are massive protests happening in Turkey right now to overthrow the Islamist government, and this is the front page of CNN.

For updates, you can follow: http://istanbulfreepress.com/ (Some images are quite graphic)

In my opinion the multimedia conglomerates are very controlling because they own over 90% of the...

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 10:47:54 +0000

In my opinion the multimedia conglomerates are very controlling because they own over 90% of the media industry where as other independent companies own 10%. The smaller companies do not make it very far because there shows usually just get bought by one of the 7 corporations but there are benefits to the corporation in which they supply loads of jobs for people, because they can earn big money from synergy. This could be a benefit for the small companies they can create shows and sell them and from this they could get access to more money and this can be repeated by them and this would be I good way to build your company.

News Corporation

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 23:51:00 +0000

The News Corporation holds various company’s including Fox News, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) and Twentieth century Fox. The News Corporations Is a multimedia corporation which is competing with 7 massive media conglomerate. A media conglomerate, media group or media institution is a company that owns large numbers of sub-companies and various types of medias this is called synergy in which it sell and publishes lots of media products through one campaign or idea such as TV Shows, Radio, Movies and games and they control there facilitation across the globe It is the world’s second-largest media group in the world at the moment. The company is controlled by Rupert Murdoch and his family members. Rupert Murdoch also owns the Guardian and the Times which is a newspaper.

Women in Black (BBFC)

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 21:20:59 +0000

The head of policy at the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) has explained the cuts given to The Woman in Black . Daniel Radcliffe’s first post-Harry Potter movie was cut by six seconds in order to secure a 12A rating on release, as well as having its sound level reduced and colours darkened in some scenes. Speaking to Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo’s film review show on BBC Radio 5 Live, BBFC head of policy David Austin explained that the film was “too scary” for that certificate in its first-submitted form. “We felt that it was just too intense, too scary for 12A and we gave it a 15,” Austin said. “That was disappointing to the distributor, having got a PG-13 in the United States… they asked us to look at possible cuts. “We had a look to see if we could cut the film for a 12A audience and in which this didn’t happened and they hat to implement the age rating of 15.

Hunger Games (BBFC)

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 21:18:41 +0000

The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) has clarified that it made no mandatory cuts to The Hunger Games. Distributor Lionsgate UK decided to cut seven seconds from the film and digitally remove blood splashes from one scene in order to secure a 12A rating for its British release. Speaking to Kermode and Mayo’s Film Review on BBC Radio 5 Live, the BBFC’s head of policy David Austin said: “We didn’t cut any of this film. We offered a 15 uncut to the distributor. “The distributor said, ‘We want a 12. We will cut the film ourselves to get a 12 to meet the BBFC’s guidelines’.

A Hybrid-Genre is where to specific genres are merged...

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 21:08:00 +0000

A Hybrid-Genre is where to specific genres are merged together:

Horror Comedy (Shaun of the Dead)

Action comedy

Comedy-drama

Comedy-horror

Romantic comedy

Romantic fantasy

Shaun of the dead is alot like this, “Shaun of the Dead” is classed as a “Comedy, Horror”. With cargel I would base this in the ranks of:

D2: Labourers, Drivers, fast food chains, unskilled.

E:Unemployed students (Teenagers)

I couldn’t imagine people with a skilled full time job having the time to watch and enjoy this movie as a student or unemployed you have spare time to watch movies. This movie hasn’t got any satire comedy or the jokes in this that are witty so I think this appeals to a younger aged audience with some one getting hit or just loads of swearing and this seems to interest a teenager (Weird)

Watershed divides the day into the period where family oriented...

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 20:41:00 +0000

Watershed divides the day into the period where family oriented programming suitable for children may be aired like adverts and T.V shows and where programming aimed at or suitable for a more adult audience is permitted during late times considered after 12:00PM. It may also mean the period of time during which programmes with adult content may be broadcast. Examples of adult content include, graphic violence, horror, strong language, nudity, sexual intercourse, or references to these themes without necessarily referencing them like most Durex adverts. In most countries, the same set of rules also apply to commercial advertisements both for the content of the commercial and the nature of the product or service being advertised. Much like the Durex adverts they are inappropriate for children to see because people under in-between 17 may know what is going and this is inappropriate and so this is why they may put it on at the middle of the night because they expect that child to be a sleep, these adverts also have references to sex, which will be inappropriate for the day time.

Job Description

Fri, 18 Jan 2013 10:10:24 +0000

Producer & Camera man

A producer will oversee each project from an idea to completion and may also be involved in the marketing and distribution processes. Producers work closely with directors (Jason) and other production roles on the set. Increasingly, they need to have directing skills themselves as the producer may also be the cameraman and may take care of all project photography. Producers arrange funding for each project and are responsible for keeping the production within the budget, but in this case we are funded with equipment from the school. I am also a joint photography. I will be reliable for the shot types and quality of the film. The camera operator is responsible for physically operating the camera and maintaining composition and camera angles throughout a given scene or shot. In narrative filmmaking, the camera operator will collaborate with the director, director of photography, actors and crew to make technical and creative decisions.

Cameraman:

Making sure that the photographs that I take are good for the film.
Making sure I use a wide range of angles and shot types
Need to have the knowledge of choosing specific lenses
To carry out my work I need specific equipment to carry out the tasks given to me

Producer:

pulling together all the strands of creative and practical talent
obtaining the rights to create or co-create a feature-length screenplay
I need to oversee the project work
holding regular meetings with the director (Jason) to discuss what we are featuring in the scenes

British Board of Film Classification

Sun, 13 Jan 2013 10:49:00 +0000

The BBFC is a board where they will esses the different varies of films in different of genres which it gets evaluated and after the have finished they will decide an age rating for that movie. They wanted to protect the audience, as if they seen inappropriate films. They research the films and classified for the right age, by that, they watched the film themselves and highlighted the important parts to combined, then testified if it is the right one. If they wasn’t classified as they was meant to, the risks of teaching the children bad things to learn and could be doing it themselves. Age ratings:

U, All ages admitted.

PG, All ages admitted, but certain scenes may not be unsuitable for young children. May contain bad language.

12A, Films under this category are considered to be unsuitable for people under the age of 12. Those aged under 12 years are only admitted if accompanied by an adult.

12, Nobody younger than 12 can rent or buy games that are labled with 12 rated movies and games.

15, Films under this category can contain adult themes, hard drugs, frequent strong language and limited use of very strong language, strong violence and strong sex references, and nudity without graphic detail. much like the movie TED.

18, Nobody younger than 18 can rent or buy an 18-rated game, or watch a film in the cinema with this rating. Films under this category do not have limitation on the bad language that is used.

R18, Can only be shown at licensed adult cinemas or sold at license sex shops, this is basically classed as pornography…

What we plan to do in our media lesson, Friday 14th 2012

Tue, 18 Dec 2012 09:11:00 +0000

I learnt that I shouldn’t change my notes just before I go up. I learnt that I shouldn’t aswer everyones question and I shold let my partner answer some of them like other groups did on friday. We have to make sure we have a clear understanding on what are project is clearly as we saw from people doing theres on friday. I need to learn why we came up with our logo and what are idea is really about and why we are doing this.

BARB: Broadcast Audience Research Board

Sun, 25 Nov 2012 21:43:00 +0000

BARB are the Broadcast Audience Research Board. BARB compiles audience measurement and television ratings with in the United Kingdom. Participating viewers have a box on top of their TV or behind there TV which tracks the programmes they watch and for how long they watched it. It showshow the programme audience data is calculated is also explained Which would also show a total of the people watching and the Hours and minuets spent watching that program per person this would show after 5 minuits it would record what you watched and so this would not show up if you were flicking through the channels. BARB is responsible for providing estimates of the number of people watching television. This includes which channels and programmes are being watched, when they are watched and the type of people who are viewing at any one time. This is necessary for the media because then they know how many people are viewing their programme, if it isn’t getting many views they know that something isn’t working out and so they would try and do something to change the outcome of the programme & 5100 House holds have this box which records what they are watching.

Photo

Wed, 21 Nov 2012 14:09:57 +0000

Tuesday: Netflix-3 hour 10 minuets TV-2 hour Computer- 1 hour 50 minuets XBOX- 1 hour 25...

Thu, 25 Oct 2012 18:12:37 +0100

Tuesday:

Netflix-3 hour 10 minuets

TV-2 hour

Computer- 1 hour 50 minuets

XBOX- 1 hour 25 minuits

Total: 8 hours 41 minuets

Wednesday:

TV- 1 hour

computer 3 hours

XBOX- 25 minuits

Total: 4 hour 25 minutes

Thursday:

Netflix- 2 hours

Computer- 1 hour

TV- 1 hour

XBOX- 2 hours 20 minuts

Total:6 hours 20 minute

Friday:

Netflix-20 minuets

computer- 4 hours

XBOX- 3 hours

Total 7 hours 20 minuets

Saturday:

TV- 2 hours

Computer- 3 hours and 45 minuits

Total- 5 Hours and 45 minuits

Sunday:

Cinema- 2 hours and 25 minuets

Computer- 4 hours 10 minuits

TV- 3 hours

Total 9 hours 35 minuits

Total hours through a 6 course: 41 hours and something minuets

FML Project Proposal

Thu, 25 Oct 2012 18:04:59 +0100

Our plan as a group is to do our Final Major Project in the school. We will produce a time-lapse documentary of the school and the pupils in the school building. We are going to have a time-lapse about the school life with students of all ages and teachers to show off a wide range of cultures in the school. It will show how teenagers and kids use spaces in the school for example classrooms, corridors, sports hall, playing fields in the school, basketball court, and the concourse. These will be places the that we will be documenting in the school.

In order to carry out our project we will need to get permission to use the following equipment and if we where to rent a camera to our dead the cost would have come to £3,504.00 . We will need:

A DSLR Camera
A Tripod
Camera Lenses

          lens options:
     -Wide angle 10-20mm - Sigma
     -Marco Zoom 70-300mm - Sigma
     -Tamron 11-18mm
     -Canon 18-55mm - Camera we are using.

Control Timer - RS-60E3 for Canon 55OD/ T2I
A Laptop
Computer Editing software:

      -Photoshop
        -Luminance HDR -
        (this is an editing software
           which is free to download)
and if we where to rent a the canon EOS 550D camera from now and to our deadline the cost of the rental would have come to a total £3,654,00, and so if we’re going to get camera we might aswell buy a camera. We could by over 7 cameras with that one price.

The working title of our final major product will “Documenting the Life & Creativity of Thomas Tallis School”. The content that we will be showing in our animation will be spaces in the school documented on how they are used in day to day life in Thomas Tallis. The style of our animation will be a time lapse documentary of the school. With this we will be advertising and encouraging parents to bring their children to the school and the local community who may be interested in seeing and learning about the new school building. We will have a deadline the 5th April 2013.

We will also need to think about the health and safety. We will use the duct tape to mark the spot where the camera will be placed so we can keep the consistency of our photographs so we make sure the lighting is kept the same or to consistent through the lighting of our environment. We need to make sure that we have no out of focus photos or out of place shots and we need our time lapse to run smoothly. The hazard tape will be used for people to not cross the area so students are not at risk of tripping over the equipment as health and safety is paramount to any production.

The target audience for our film will be quite broad but our main target audience will be parents who are deciding what secondary school their child should go to as we wish to use the film to advertise the school. Our secondary target audience will be parents who have children that already attend the school, the staff and pupils of the school, the local community who may be interested in seeing what the new school building is like, but also a target audience may be the Greenwich Council who have a say in what happens at the school. We will exhibit our time lapse on the school website. We will ask Mr. Nicholls if we have permission to upload it on to the school website we think that our video will suit best on the the page About>School Vision page which shows our creativity and shows the school community http://www.thomastallisschool.com/school-vision.html. It hasn’t been commissioned yet but it would be a great advertising tool for the school and will certainly generate interest for these audiences.

We will create the audio for our tutorial using the application ‘Garageband’ on the macs because if we wanted to use someone else’s music we would need permission, which is quite difficult to get. I would need to consider copyright in order to use a piece of music written by someone else, which is difficult, time consuming and expensive to do.

We will add audio to our time lapse because we want the audience to be interested in the timelapse. We will download audio which will be from a secondary source, this is because to make our own audio (primary source) it will be far more time consuming. We will need to ask for permission to use this music so we don’t get sued for copyright which is using someone’s content without permission to use.

Before we create the animation we will need to follow and agree the legal restrictions. We will you need to bear in mind e.g. copyright, privacy laws, data protection, equal opportunities laws.

Duration Rights & Copyright Laws
Sound Recordings and broadcasts:
2. 50 years from the end of the calendar year in which the last remaining author of the work dies, or the work is made available to the public, by authorised release, performance, broadcast, etc - we will need to get permission to use someone’s soundtrack for our time lapse. To avoid going against any laws we will pay for the soundtrack that we will be using or we will make our own soundtrack.

Privacy Laws:

When filming underage children i.e under 16 children you need parental permission in order to film the students and keep the footage however as we already have permission to photograph on the school grounds. We will be able to film but we might have to blur faces out as we need to abide by the privacy laws.

Responsibilities & Obligations To Data Protection:

If you handle personal information about individuals, you have a number of legal obligations to protect that information under the Data Protection Act 1998. To prevent this we will blur out any branded bottles, bags or food products.

Equal Opportunities Law:

We solemnly swear not to discriminate against workers by reason of their:

age
disability
gender reassignment
marriage or civil partnership
pregnancy or maternity
race (including colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin)
religion or belief
gender
sexual orientation

We will abide by laws and promise not to discriminate people.

The guidelines that we will be following will be Ofcom because this seems suitable for what we are doing as they deal with the communication industry. An Ofcom Law:

• Rule 8.20 of the Code states: “Broadcasters should pay particular attention to
the privacy of people under sixteen. They do not lose their rights to privacy
because, for example, of the fame or notoriety of their parents or because of
events in their schools”. This rule relates not simply to contributors but to
any under 16 who may feature or be referred to within programmes, including
news programmes.

• If a programme contributor is under 16, in addition to obtaining their consent
to take part, you should also obtain consent from his/her parents or
guardians, or other person aged 18 or over with legal responsibility for the
under 16. Ideally, both parents’ consents should be sought for the under
16’s contribution, or from those who have ‘parental responsibility’ for the
under 16. However, this may not always be possible or practicable. If an
under 16’s parents are divorced or separated, parental consent should, in the
first instance, be sought from the parent the child resides with and who has
‘parental responsibility’. As to whether or not consent should be sought from
the other parent as well (or if you have any other doubts), seek advice from
the programme lawyer.

• Rule 1.26. Due care must be taken over the physical and emotional
welfare and the dignity of people under 18 who take part or are otherwise
involved in programmes. This is irrespective of any consent given by the
participant or by a parent, guardian or other person over the age of 18 in
loco parentis.
• Rule 1.27. People under 18 must not be caused unnecessary distress or
anxiety by their involvement in programmers or by the broadcast of those
programmes.

To-Do List:

Tue, 16 Oct 2012 22:03:45 +0100

1: Have you Researched existing time-lapse work?

2:Have you looked up what equipment we will need?

3:Have you found how much the animation will cost to make?

4:Have you looked up what software’s we will need to use?

5:Have you searched up were you will be filming?

6: Have you researched into the schools history on time-lapse?

Web Authoring, Friday 13th, July 2012

Fri, 13 Jul 2012 09:24:04 +0100

For my web authoring unit, I decided to use Weebly for my media course because it is easy to use and I can upload all my work quickly up onto the internet in a flash, which is an free widget-based website creator. There were many benefits for me to make my eportfolio on Weebly:

Weebly is free, you can use certain tools available to you if you are a non-member, you can go “Pro” which allows you to have all the tools given to you which is really helpful for making a more advanced website.
Weebly is easily accessible on the internet, enabling you to get it up on your PC and laptop.
Weebly’s editing interface allows me to easily click, drag and drop content into the currently open Web page quickly.
Weebly is consistent with its web-design, the blog editor, a simple method of customizing your library of themes. allowing you to make an easy layout and design.
The widget tools on Weebly make it easy for me/you to build a perfect and detailed website efficiently. Weebly gives you a variety of themes allowing you to turn a plain page into a creative personalised page. The builds up my knowledge and understanding of web-authoring to a higher content. I can put RSS on my weebly allowing people on my website to keep track of my work on blogs or social networks like twitter and tumblr, people can also contact me from the contact option on the top right hand corner letting people follow me/you on social networking websites like facebook and twitter, this is a form of social media, advertising your site.

I chose to plan my site using a free online tool called Mindmeister. The main reason for using this tool was to plan and present my ideas in one clear mindmap for me. This helped me show my work that I have been creating while I have been in my BTEC Media course. I have been updating my mindmeister with information about my work while I have been progressing through my Media course. I could plan with confidence putting a heading at the start of a new category making it easier for me to put my site together when creating it.

My weebly website’s URL is: cemjsportfolio.weebly.com. The reason I specifically chose this URL is because it is easy to remember and not an entirely long web address. I double checked on the internet to make sure no one had the same kind of web address as me. This enables future visitors to access my page easily. Weebly.com is my domain name, this is good because you get this domain name free when you publish your site, Its basically a URL to my website. I could get my own domain name by going to various websites and paying for a domain name of my choice e.g cemjsportfolio.com if I bought a domaine name it would most probably be this. you can get it from certain websites such as http://www.123-reg.co.uk/domain-names/ & http://www.godaddy.com/?isc=gfnf4uka02&ci=13333 these are two website you can go to get your own selected domain. I used Meta Keywords for searching up my weebly site so when someone searches it up it would be in a certain category e.g Photography and media webpages. meta keywords tag contribute to your search engine ranking the more views you get the higher ranking your page will be. What I put in my meta keywords was a serious of words that relate to what’s on my site and what my site is for e.g if my site had alot of views people might find my site come up when they have searched up a site that I have put in my meta keywords like thomas tallis.

The colour scheme to my Web page has different shades and tones of blue, because I personally think that blue is a creative colour and quite chilled so this colour scheme makes the theme of the page look unique and creative, symbolising my media web page. I have kept the colour scheme the same on every page to make it basic and not confusing, and consistent. I have used one main font throughout my website to keep it consistent. I do think that the reader may get bored of the layout after reading it for about 10 minutes so I think that I should add different drop down menu colours, this would make the audience more interested in the page.

On the selection bar I have made a page about my blog. When I post work on my Tumblr it keeps the audience up to date on my work through my blog. I have cleverly done this by using the RSS, a standardized format file allowing the information to be published once and viewed by many different programs. This benefits the readers who want to keep up to date on my work with timely updates, for example I got a feed from my tumblr to my weebly. I have a survey on my page with a series of questions such as; out of 5 what would you rate my tumblr, where people can leave comment to say what improvements I can make and then in the future and can edit those mistake and get it right. I would read through all the comments to get my website to its best potential but if there is a thing that I personally don’t think that I need to change I will keep it because then its not my page its the public’s. I created my survey on Google docs. Google docs let me choose how many questions I wanted and what questions I wanted to put on my survey, after I finished that I embedded the survey on to my Weebly. I made a drop down menu to the survey with a heading (Survey). I posted my survey up on social networking sites such as twitter and face this mean all the people that follow me people that are friends with me can view my survey and website and answer the questions.

A page on my website that I thought was most successful was my media page because has a majority of my work, evaluations and my research on this one big media drop down menu. Really it sums up most of the work that I have been doing throughout my Media course. It show my work from the past and also the present keeping people up to date on what I have done throughout this course. I am kept the font consistent on all pages so it doesn’t get too confusing. I have left it simple in the order I started the project down to the most recent project in the drop down menu. I have got pictures of my work and the practicals I have been taking part in so it let people know what I am doing. I feel confident that every thing is to it best standard. What I feel is not so good is how Everything is crammed together in one dropped down bar so this frustrating and confusing.

I page I find to be not as good was my interests page. It was plain and not that much information on stuff I like I feel Like it could do with some more information letting people know more about my interests And I should add more interest and my the layout more unique and organised. The layout of the movie page is good. I got a decent amount of information about the film I like this Is good.

My main target audience is mainly for present day photographers who are using modern day technology (something to do with media). My work can be projected to future audiences and what I did/do. photographers would be a ideal target audience because they can get a good look at my webpage and what I am doing in photography or media and this is good for future jobs like; working for a photography business and so this is mainly like a CV this will give them a good understanding of my talents and skills. I don’t really have one specific target audience apart from photographers.

I feel confident with the work I have produced confident knowing that its detailed and for people around the world to understand it. I have built up my knowledge on web authoring and I still think I have a lot more to learn about web authoring. Feedback also helps me to build my sight to a higher level, once I learn web authoring fluently I would hope to get a D1 in my media because of my web page. Mindmeister also helped me letting me plan the page that I will be putting in on my webpage making it easy for me to create the web page. it also made me learn how to plan pages before hand so when it came to web authoring I knew what to do. this made it easy for me to know what I should put in my drop down menus. I find that you can get the hang of weebly very quickly allowing you to make a web site in a matter of minutes (if you know what you’re going to put on it) so weebly is a great online web authoring tool. I felt overall my website is up to a good standard website with a lot of information on it. giving away loads of detail.

The weaknesses of my website is that there is not enough information on some of the pages leaving pages with a tiny bit of information on it (Interests>Music) so I think that I should add a bit more information onto the certain pages that haven’t got a lot of information.

Friday 4th May 2012, What I have done today

Fri, 04 May 2012 13:03:19 +0100

Today I have extended my experience on Photoshop by learning how to make a Vignette effect on to my photos and I have also learnt how to make a Diffusion effect, wich is usually used for fashion photography. We also went out and took some photos with a DSLR but we waisted time because the lens of the camera was blurry and and scratched.

This is my presentation on Margaret Bourke-White. I needed to...

Fri, 23 Mar 2012 11:27:00 +0000

This is my presentation on Margaret Bourke-White. I needed to show my presentation in front of my media class. At the start of my presentation I began to tell the class about Margaret’s ambitions, and then i went onto a video about her add some more information, I was very nervous about my presentation, but then when I went a bit further into my presentation I thelt more confident. I would say I might of got a D or an M.

This is my comparison image of Margret whites photo!

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 18:40:00 +0000

This is my comparison image of Margret whites photo!