Media Regulation

1.     Who regulates the media?

Media Regulation is the process of control and guidance in order for Media to be shown in a suitable way. Society as a whole regulate media but most importantly TV and the newspaper press do as they persuade us to think in a way through what is printed on the newspapers and what kind of programmes are shown on TV influencing our heads

2.     Why does the media needs regulating?

·         To protect the public order

·         So that underage children are not shown certain programmes that are not suitable for them

·         The promotion of access, freedom to communicate, diversity and universal provision as well as securing communicative and cultural ends chosen by the people for themselves.

3.     Should media texts be subject to censorship?

Censorship is the suppression of speech or other public communication which may be considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or inconvenient as determined by a government, media outlet. Censorship could be done by the government and private organizations. It usually occurs in speech, books, music, film or nay other kind of media context. This is done to hold order and control, to protect children which may be even illegal in some cases.  Many countries provide strong protections against censorship by law and so I personally agree and believe that some media texts should be subject to censorship just simply for our protection.

4.     Is the public protected or hindered by media regulation?

Yes the public are protected or hindered by media regulation in a way as media contexts such as social networks block you from seeing unsuitable parts of that website if they believe you are not categorised to be able to and think you are under aged protecting you. Sites such as YouTube delete your video automatically if they believe that we are in harm or danger which shows that the media is regulated.

Documentries

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Louis Theroux: Documentary

The religious 'cult' that is shown in the documentary show clear signs of extremism when carrying out all of the events. In the beginning of the documentary, Shirley Phelps is introduced as a character that seems to be acknowledged as one of those that has firm belief in all of what she takes part in. All of which is portrayed through, her general view of the larger world around her. Around 3minutes into the documentary, Shirly Phelps is questioned on why she believes Barrack Obama is the Anti-christ, all of what she says seems fairly Linear to what she thinks about her beliefs, none of what she says branches out in depth. She doesn't come to acknowledge and explain any of her beliefs with deeper meaning, this makes it all the more offensive when she and her group talks about certain groups of people or individuals.

The Westboro baptist church genuinely do not take a blind eye to anyone who seems to be against or even neutral against of their odds. They do their absolute best to make sure that the society or world that they live in, knows all of what they do. Throughout the documentary, we are told that they keep in touch with small media groups as the group has it's own sense of interest, when in touch with the outside world, they hope that those that do not follow their 'cult' will soon come to follow after witnessing what is so apparently 'predetermined' for each and every single individual that divides themselves from the WBC's beliefs.

Some of what the church does seems very contradictory in a sense as members had tend to leave even with beliefs that seem so strong. For example, one of the daughters named, 'Lauren', had been in the group before Louis had visited last, and her belief in the WBC seemed very firm and fixed. When talking about the idea of boyfriends and marriage, she seemed like she knew exactly what she was referring to when she mentioned, sin and hell. The idealism of it all makes it seems so extreme that it is almost exaggerated with what they do. Some group members seem to empathize with those that do not consist within the 'Cult', as shown at 47:00 minutes. Megan consistently talks about how 'Sorry' she felt for the guy that stayed in contact with. When with Steve, at 52:00 minutes and further, we are shown that the whole idea of making feel distraught and unworthy makes them feel somewhat replenished, as all of what he wants is for all to be set with those that love the 'king' and nothing more, however, we see a lack in empathy from this certain Character. Throughout the documentary we are given hints in where there may be doubt, when Louis interviews families after certain people had left, they seem to find it difficult to discuss any of which they feel, and answers seemed to be kept very brief.

Main Task- Inspirations

'THE CHATROOM' Opening Sequence

7.LOOKING BACK AT YOUR PRELIMINARY TASK (THECONTINUITY EDITING TASK), WHAT DO YOU FEELYOU HAVE LEARNT IN THE PROGRESSION FROM ITTO FULL PRODUCT?

I personally feel that the preliminary task as itself, was somewhat unorganized. Most of what was done in the preliminary task, didn't have a general flow to it all, as it was all about continuity and just getting use to the the equipment. Even so, the preliminary task wasn't that bad, the way in which we used the camera, and we edited was fairly rushed as it was meant to be that build up upon a brief that was assigned to us. This made it seem like, the preliminary task had it's limits in terms of it's creativity.

Even so, I also feel that with the preliminary task, we never had as much time to plan ahead and back up from what we may of missed out mad errors on. The final AS film that we shot, seemed to have more of a flow through it all, as well as it being consistent. It allowed us to take the time we had seriously and make finish on the final film. Even so, the preliminary task allowed us to develop the skills that we were told of, which were the match on action, 180 degree rule, and the shot/reverse shot. With our preliminary task, there were more problems with the general quality of filming and how we had gone about filming the task. This brought forward problems that made the image quality of the video poor, however, with the final project, we had more time, and we had time to do further research into how to use the equipment we were provided with. It allowed us to be more efficient in what we were doing by finding time to practice and learn how to use each piece of equipment properly.

In the preliminary task, we were never given much time to research. Upon the brief, we had little time to plan how things were going to be laid out during the scene and how we would shoot them. The AS film tends to make  the project seem somewhat more professional as we learnt how to use the tripod, and how to manage the handheld shots with care. With practice and research, it allowed us to generate a better image quality too. The preliminary task's focus clearly seems to be blurred out most of the and not all details are visible. The project had far more adjustments to it and was finished to greater detail.

As for time management when it came to the project, we planned efficiently and made sure that if we had a problem, we would have that second plan, if the first one didn't go as hoped for. The group also done more research into genres for the film and we then decided upon what it would be. We tried to find professional advice on how to make this more apparent in filming. As you can see, the more time and effort, along with research we put into our work, the better our results came out with urge and caution. All of what we had done made the experience more enjoyable. We developed our skills further and we also worked as a team more. It made all the filming easier as we all cooperated with one another.

To conclude, I feel that the as a whole, without the preliminary task, we probably wouldn't of felt that urge to improve upon our situation for the final AS film. I feel as if that the time we had to put the AS film together, also allowed to feel the urge and passion to perfect things upon our preliminary tasks, in other words. Our preliminary task motivated us to do that much more research into how to use equipment, software, and etc.

6. WHAT HAVE YOU LEARNT ABOUT TECHNOLOGIES FROM THE PROCESS OF CONSTRUCTING THIS PRODUCT?

IMac
I'd say that I was generally new to using this piece of hardware, however, as we continued to work in our group, we slowly, but surely adapted to using the software on the Mac. We used this to finalize our project and work on our blogs.


E05 CANNON CAMERA
The camera was somewhat dilemma for my whole group, because this seemed somewhat different to a standard digital camera. To apprehend this problem, we did some checking online, and taught ourselves how to use it.

Lights

The lights were new props to us. We hadn't used them in the video before preceding to the opening scene. We found some online tutorials on how to use this piece of equipment.

SOFTWARE

EXCEL
When we had our questionnaires sent out, we used this to gather all results and implement them into a pie charts and this allowed us to make final decisions on what to do.


ADOBE AFTER EFFECTS CS5

I had learned that this program could be used to change and manipulate key frames in clips of videos. This program seemed very difficult to adjust to. Everything was had to be exact and precise. This program was very effective in our use.

Sony Vegas 11
This program was used to direct and appoint each clip for our project. The software could also be used to add audio and make some adjustment to the audio options of them.


Adobe Photoshop
We had used this to make edits to images and we also used this to make our poster for the project.