Warren doing some more filming for the technique footage
Friday 11 April 2014
Monday 10 March 2014
Helping Hand
on saturday the 8th of February i spent the day helping out the other group with their project.by that i mean i got strut around in my favourite heels for over 2 1/2 hours which basically means that it was a win-win situation. not only did i get to pretend i was model working it on the catwalk but i also turned into tech management when my turn in the spotlight was over. Getting into the oddest positions in order to hide behind chairs, clothing rack and people so that me and my shadow wouldn't get into the shot was hard work that i would happily do again.
by helping them out i got to spend a saturday with good friends but i also learned how the lighting deck works, how to manage the sound system and how audacity works so all in all i would say that it was a VERY productive way to pend my day.
Plus they now have to edit about 2 hours of footage just containing me!
by helping them out i got to spend a saturday with good friends but i also learned how the lighting deck works, how to manage the sound system and how audacity works so all in all i would say that it was a VERY productive way to pend my day.
Plus they now have to edit about 2 hours of footage just containing me!
Wednesday 15 January 2014
Teacher Comments:
Mr. Baines says:
WWW: You have outlined the show very well and it looks exciting.
EBI: In order to hit AO1 (sound knowledge of critical debates etc.) Think specifically about the REPRESENTATIONS that will be on display in your reality TV show. For instance, in what ways will your programme re-affirm or challenge stereotypes? Think about gender, age, social class, interest groups, demographics and psychographics – how will you shape your chosen representations through: actors/protagonists; make-up; costume; lighting; music; dialogue and cinematography?
Monday 13 January 2014
Mods and Rockers Essay
The mods and rockers were two conflicting British youth subcultures of
the early to mid-1960s. Media coverage of mods and rockers fighting
in 1964 sparked a moral panic about British youths, and the two
groups became labelled as folk devils.
The rocker subculture was centred on motorcycling, and their appearance reflected that. Rockers generally wore protective clothing such as black leather jackets and motorcycle boots (although they sometimes wore brothel creeper shoes). The common rocker hairstyle was a pompadour, which was associated with 1950s rock and roll — the rockers' music genre of choice. The mod subculture was centred on fashion and music, and many mods rode scooters. Mods wore suits and other cleancut outfits, and preferred 1960s music genres such as soul, rhythm and blues, ska and beat music.
The mods and rockers conflict led sociologist Stanley Cohen to develop the term moral panic in his study Folk Devils and Moral Panics, which examined media coverage of the mod and rocker riots in the 1960s. Although Cohen admits that mods and rockers had some fights in the mid-1960s, he argues that they were no different to the evening brawls that occurred between youths throughout the 1950s and early 1960s, both at seaside resorts and after football games. He claims that the UK media turned the mod subculture into a negative symbol of delinquent and deviant status.
Most British Newspapers described the mod and rocker clashes as being of "disastrous proportions", and labelled mods and rockers as "sawdust Caesars", "vermin" and "louts". Newspaper editorials fanned the flames of hysteria, such as a Birmingham Post editorial in May 1964, which warned that mods and rockers were "internal enemies" in the UK who would "bring about disintegration of a nation's character". The magazine Police Review argued that the mods and rockers' purported lack of respect for law and order could cause violence to "surge and flame like a forest fire".
Fast forward a couple years another event similar to the mods and rockers conflict just more destructive the London riots occurred.
Between 6th and 10th August 2011, the riots happened first in Tottenham and later in Tottenham Hale Retail Park, thousands of people rioted in several London boroughs and in cities and towns across England. The chaos implicated generated looting, arson, and mass use of the police. The events were also called "BlackBerry riots" because people used social media and their blackberry’s to broadcast when the events would happen and
The spread of news and rumours about the previous evening's disturbances in Tottenham sparked riots during the night of 7 August in the London districts of Brixton, Enfield, Islington and Wood Green and in Oxford Circus in the centre of London. Disturbances began after a protest in Tottenham following the death of Mark Duggan, a local who was shot dead by police on 4 August 2011. Protesters became angry after police restrained a sixteen-year-old girl who was alleged to have been acting in an aggressive and disorderly manner. Several violent clashes with police, along with the destruction of police cars, magistrates' court, a double-decker bus, many civilian homes and businesses, began gaining attention from the media. Overnight, looting took place in ‘Tottenham Hale Retail Park’, nearby Wood Green and hackney.
I feel that these two events are really similar because after these two events occurred the teenagers of the generation were labelled as troublesome, destructive, unmannered and thuggish. The British media enjoyed making these events seem worse than they were especially the mods and rockers conflict. Although the London riots were very destructive the precautions of this event meant that the even teenagers as a whole got the blame, just like with the mods and rockers conflict.
The rocker subculture was centred on motorcycling, and their appearance reflected that. Rockers generally wore protective clothing such as black leather jackets and motorcycle boots (although they sometimes wore brothel creeper shoes). The common rocker hairstyle was a pompadour, which was associated with 1950s rock and roll — the rockers' music genre of choice. The mod subculture was centred on fashion and music, and many mods rode scooters. Mods wore suits and other cleancut outfits, and preferred 1960s music genres such as soul, rhythm and blues, ska and beat music.
The mods and rockers conflict led sociologist Stanley Cohen to develop the term moral panic in his study Folk Devils and Moral Panics, which examined media coverage of the mod and rocker riots in the 1960s. Although Cohen admits that mods and rockers had some fights in the mid-1960s, he argues that they were no different to the evening brawls that occurred between youths throughout the 1950s and early 1960s, both at seaside resorts and after football games. He claims that the UK media turned the mod subculture into a negative symbol of delinquent and deviant status.
Most British Newspapers described the mod and rocker clashes as being of "disastrous proportions", and labelled mods and rockers as "sawdust Caesars", "vermin" and "louts". Newspaper editorials fanned the flames of hysteria, such as a Birmingham Post editorial in May 1964, which warned that mods and rockers were "internal enemies" in the UK who would "bring about disintegration of a nation's character". The magazine Police Review argued that the mods and rockers' purported lack of respect for law and order could cause violence to "surge and flame like a forest fire".
Fast forward a couple years another event similar to the mods and rockers conflict just more destructive the London riots occurred.
Between 6th and 10th August 2011, the riots happened first in Tottenham and later in Tottenham Hale Retail Park, thousands of people rioted in several London boroughs and in cities and towns across England. The chaos implicated generated looting, arson, and mass use of the police. The events were also called "BlackBerry riots" because people used social media and their blackberry’s to broadcast when the events would happen and
The spread of news and rumours about the previous evening's disturbances in Tottenham sparked riots during the night of 7 August in the London districts of Brixton, Enfield, Islington and Wood Green and in Oxford Circus in the centre of London. Disturbances began after a protest in Tottenham following the death of Mark Duggan, a local who was shot dead by police on 4 August 2011. Protesters became angry after police restrained a sixteen-year-old girl who was alleged to have been acting in an aggressive and disorderly manner. Several violent clashes with police, along with the destruction of police cars, magistrates' court, a double-decker bus, many civilian homes and businesses, began gaining attention from the media. Overnight, looting took place in ‘Tottenham Hale Retail Park’, nearby Wood Green and hackney.
I feel that these two events are really similar because after these two events occurred the teenagers of the generation were labelled as troublesome, destructive, unmannered and thuggish. The British media enjoyed making these events seem worse than they were especially the mods and rockers conflict. Although the London riots were very destructive the precautions of this event meant that the even teenagers as a whole got the blame, just like with the mods and rockers conflict.
Treaty For Media Project
Over the next few weeks, we will be completing a media
project that will involve both Umit Caglayan and Warren Hugh Murray who will
create a web series and who will also feature in each episode of the series.
This web series will include the components of a dancer’s life, including what
happens inside and outside of the dance studio. For example: The dancer’s diet
and technique. It will also include the preparation for a performance and
interviews from professionals, dancers and teachers from a range of styles of
genres.
Warren’s role in the making of this project will be the
filming of what goes on inside of the dance studio recording the process of
preparing for a performance. Including choreographic intention, restrictions
and progress of each dancer. Following dancers and teachers as they lead their
normal lives in dance, interviewing them to find out what goes on in the studio
and what it takes to prepare for a performance.
Umit’s role in the making of this project will be the
filming of what happens outside of the dance studio, this will include a
dancers diet, how to prepare for a dance class and what to do when at home in
case of an injury. I will be interviewing my dance teacher and asking her about
her personal experiences with certain injuries.
This project will be presented in a video blog (VLOG) style
and uploaded to YouTube weekly. The video will be uploaded every Friday. and it will feature some of the qualities that we have stated above.
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