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Explain how the political context in which newspapers are produced, influences their ownership and regulation. Refer to The Guardian and The Daily Mail newspapers you have studied to support your answer. [10 marks] The press in the UK is free and it is generally accepted that this is fundamental to a democratic society. That means that newsmakers should seek out and circulate news, information, ideas, comment and opinion to hold those in authority to account. The press provides the platform for a multiplicity of voices to be heard. This also means that newspapers are allowed to express opinions, as well as political views. In both newspapers' cases, as any press out there, they have a political bias, which of course affects the news they put out as well as their stand on social and ethical issues. After the 2011 phone hacking scandals involving a range of newspapers a major report was published, by Lord Leveson. As a result, a new press regulator, IPSO, was set up. The aim w...

With reference to Emeli Sande's 'Heaven', how realistic are the representations offered by the video? In your answer, you should consider the social and cultural context. This essay will be looking over the representations provided by Emeli Sande's Heaven Music Video, full of references to religion, culture and gender. The video focuses on men and women equally and there is no male gaze directed towards women represented in this video. A shot of a woman in a red dress is featured in the beginning of the video and she walks away from the camera refusing to be sexualised. The shot was also repeated at the end of the video. It also focuses on the experiences of men and women by also including lots of close up shots of them. Street life is represented in a montage of people within the people, places and events shot in traditionally working-class district of East London, its shot in Bethnal Green. There is a extreme-close up shot of a middle aged male who is ...

How are media language and intertextuality used in “Burn the Witch” to construct representations of groups, messages and values? Burn the Witch is a song written by the English rock band Radiohead, and the music video is created via stop-motion animation, which pays homage to the British series Trumptonshire and the Wicker Man. The music video gets released the same month as Brexit was announced in June 2016. It seems to be critiquing some of the propaganda put out from the Brexit supporters, while Europe was in the middle of a migrant crisis the moral panic created by the Brexit supporters continuously fueled the hatred towards the minorities. In an article the producer claims that the music video and the song are both an answer to the Brexit deal and increasing hate towards minority groups from the Middle East.   As mentioned earlier the music video pays homage to the series Trumptonshire, which could be a reference to the notorious president of the United Stat...

I will be analysing the music video for the song Somebody I Used To Know by the Australian songwriter and artist Gotye and the New Zealand singer Kimbra. The video was produced by the Australian artists and cinematographers Natasha Pincus and Warwick Field. Concept music videos are characterised by them being based on an idea or a concept. They combine all the characteristic of the song. They can sometimes be very confusing, rand and usually don't have a story. They are quite unpredictable and could fall under the large umbrella of the movement post-modernism. This specific video could also be labelled as a performance one as well, because of the amount of singing there is. The video features the two artists Gotye and Kimbra naked in the video, and as they sing their bodies are gradually painted into the backdrop through stop motion animation, a technique used in animation to bring static objects to life on screen. This is done by moving the object in increments while filming a ...

The show’s plot takes place in post-World War 2 Germany, 1983, during the Cold War, after the country’s war loss has been divided into 4 zones, each controlled by super powers and Berlin specifically was divided into two zones, East Berlin controlled by communist Russia and West Berlin controlled by the United States. Our protagonist Martin Rauch a 24 year old German soldier living in East Berlin is blackmailed and forced to go undercover as a military soldier in West Berlin and spy on the opposing side of the conflict, by gathering information and sending it back to its allies. The show was created by the couple and team of American novelist Anna Winger and German TV producer Joerg Winger, who himself did military service in West Germany   during the Cold War. Mrs Winger said that they did deep research with experts from both sides of Germany in order to be able to produce an accurate piece of film. Additionally, Historian Klaas Voss was very important in providing historical ...

How is media language used in the Shelter advert? Refer to the social, political and cultural contexts in your response [15 marks] Shelter is a non-profit organisation that helps millions of people every year who struggle who struggle with bad housing or homelessness, through advice, support and legal services. On their website they claim, that they campaign to make sure that, one day, no one will have to turn to them for help. All Shelter ads follow a certain theme and are quite similar to each other in terms of composition,shot types, fonts and ideologies communicated. Every ad contains a close up shot of what appears to be a middle-aged person from an unknown ethnic background(could be British white, Middle-eastern,etc.). The use of the close up shots is supposed to emphasize the facial expression, and in this case the facial expression of the models is sad, desperate and hopeless, which is generally how homeless people feel when they've got nothing left and are living on ...

Lucozade is a soft drink company founded in 1927,originally named Glucozade by Thomas Beecham and was mainly used for medical purposes. Nowadays Lucozade produces energy and sport drinks for athletes. Lucozade is a major sponsor of events, teams and very popular and generally liked athletes in the UK and Ireland. Many of these athletes are featured in their ads and website for branding purposes such as the heavyweight boxing champion Anthony Joshua. An example of such an ad is this one where we have got a mid-close up (MCU) shot of Gareth Bale, who is a football player for Real Madrid and an ex player for Tottenham Hotspur. He could be considered an influential athlete and a role model due to his ''clean reputation'' (some football players have got backgrounds full of law cases and are not very liked by the general population) and also due to him being the ex-leader of Totteneham Hotspur. The masthead ''In a Different League'' is a reference to Gareth...

How are viewpoints and ideologies communicated? Draw on a range of examples to illustrate your analysis: Old Spice is an American brand of male grooming products such as deodorants, shampoos, body washes, soaps etc. Initially, first targeted to women with men's products being released only before Christmas at the end of the year. However, over time as the men's products found more success it began to focus exclusively on those. The model used in this ad is Isaiah Mustafa, same model used in the extremely popular video advertisement of old spice called ''The Man You Can Smell Like''. The reference to that video is the ideological message it carries,which is essentially that if you use this body wash you become more masculine and therefore become more appealing to women. The Old Spice Man promotes this unrealistic idea by depicting the ''ideal man''. A lot of postmodern and non-traditional elements have been used in the ad as well. The surr...

*Who are the Duffer Brothers ? Matt and Ross Duffer  (born February 15, 1984), known professionally as  the Duffer Brothers , are American film and television writers, directors, and producers. They created the  science fiction - horror  series  Stranger things , wrote and directed the 2015 horror film  Hidden , and have written episodes for Wayward Pines  They are twin brothers and have had a close relationship since childhood.  They work on all of their projects as a duo. *Analysis of the previous poster: The main focus of the poster is the child in the centre. It is looking directly at the audience and it gives out feelings of hostility due to its facial expression. Its hand is reaching forwards and the palm is facing down so it also asserts some level of dominance and power. The story must be set during the 20th century based of the sheriff's uniform. The sky full of stars and the mysterious figure in the bottom right corner may be r...

The Big Issue sticks to its conventional layout of its front cover by having its logo at the top left corner. The front cover itself is a child-like drawing. The focal point is the house being erased with a rubber. The rubber itself has council tax written on it and the house being erased imply that the government charging people extra for every bedroom leads to people having less money. It’s proven that poverty is one of the major causes for homelessness and we can also assume that the magazine is emphasising its homelessness-fighting agenda.                The Big Issue is actively trying to demonise the council tax by adding the heading ‘’The tax debt scandal forcing people from their homes’’ right next to the image of the house being erased, which once again pushes their ‘’poverty-fighting machine’’ agenda. The wipe out headline, with the erased background, does refer back to the council tax wiping out homes,...

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For my music video I plan to use media language to create a performance based music video which will be dynamic and fast the same way the song I used is. The video will be directed towards 16-25 class AB demographic to reflect the industry context desired by Universal Music- which is a music video which has ‘artistry’ and ‘innovation’. The location I have chosen is the Sea Garden in Burgas. Its right next to the Black Sea and additionally it is full of greenlife, fountains and young people. . I will use actors who are experienced in the field of acrobatics, tumbling and dancing to accompany the track chosen.  The way I am going to tackle the performance, mise en scene and editing will be reflecting the song chosen. The same way in the song in which Rich Brian describes how he has been dealing with his new environment which is the music industry and how he has stayed true to his roots, I will have one of the actors performing in the Sea Garden. It is almost as if he is in his prim...

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Anotated lyrics: Actors: Both actors are experienced in the field of stunts which will help me portray visually the dynamic of the track I've chosen.The first Actor's name is Nick, And the second one is Stoyan. There aren't going to be any costumes. I'm going to combine post modern shots with dynamic moves in good loking locations. Locations:   When: It is going to be filmed somewhere between the 21st and 27th of May.

Script                 Are YOU represented in TV drama ? Is your gender represented in TV drama? How about your ethnicity? Is   your age or even your sexuality represented in TV drama? If yes ,then are you represented correctly? Nowadays , from what I’ve seen everything such as TV shows, films, games even ads should represent something. It should carry a certain message and meaning. To be honest, I strongly disagree with that. Creators try and release their content in the most politically correct way possible, but somehow someone gets offended and that specific content gets demonized and banned. However, I think things hold loads of meanings. Something can be deciphered and understood in numerous ways. That’s why movements such as Dadaism and Post-Modernism exist. They literally hold no meaning at all and still manage to challenge certain established beliefs about representation. On the other hand ch...