unit 31 Social action and Community Media Task 2

There were three videos made for social action, the topic of the first one was about the "Mutual respect and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs, the second one was about democracy regarding the most recent snap general election which was about the right to vote. and the third while not offered in the initial list was about convincing people not to smoke


I performed research for the mutual respect and tolerance regarding the ethical considerations of the video.

Unit 37: task 1 Understand Presentation Roles and Techniques Part 1

From 1920 - now, presentation techniques have changed significantly, now we have chat shows like the Jonathan Ross show on the BBC or ITV, and Ant and Dec making celebrities eating kangaroo testicles live on Television where as before and on several other programs such as the news they tend to be more serious.


Pathe News:
Pathe News started in 1910 and operated for sixty years discontinuing in 1970. They primarily produced documentaries and newsreels. the newsreels were shown in cinema and were silent until 1928. Originally they were a duration of 4 minutes and were released biweekly. These clips were filmed from a single angle/position and they would show the audience the full clip where as now there would be commentary and cutaways to the studios. In-between the clips
Notable news reels that Pathe had captured include The fatal parachute jump from the top of the Eiffel tower by Franz Reichelt.

As you can see from the clip Pathe had slowly started to including more panning shots and more cutaways in their newsreels 

During the first World War the cinema released newsreels were known as Pathe Animated Gazettes and this was the first time that the newspapers had received major competition. after the war had concluded Pathe released longer and more comprehensive newsreels called cinemazines.
In 1927 Pathe sold the British branch to the now dissolved company First National. By 1930 Pathe' started to include a wide range of coverage for example sports, women's issues and entertainment in programmes such as 'The Pathetone Weekly', and 'Pathe' Pictorial'. Three years later Pathe' gained another new owner The Associated British Picture Corporation, 25 years after this Warner Bros acquired the company and it became known as Warner-Pathe'. Pathe' stopped producing newsreels in 1970 due it not being able to compete with Television but it took another ten years for the French Pathe'  to cease producing newsreels. During the newsreels run notable narrators were Bob Danvers-Walker, Andre Baruch, and Clem McCarthy.
Pathe was then sold to several more owner including The Cannon Film Group who spilt the company into the newsreels division from the it's Feature Film division. Pathe's feature Film Division is currently under the ownership of Studio Canal. in 2009 Pathe re-launched in it's own right and now it's entire archive is on YouTube for the whole world to see once more.








BBC News:
The BBC was first formed in 1922 however in order to avoid competition several newspapers publishers were able to persuade the Government to ban the BBC from broadcasting News until after 7PM. 12 years later the BBC was able to gain the rights to broadcast on it's own however it could not broadcast before 6pm until World War 2

When BBC News began televising they maintained the serious professionalism that came from it's Radio days. and they still remain professional however the morning news on BBC 1 have a sense of rapport for example the presenters have developed sense of camaraderie, they are able to joke about on occasion without loosing that professionalism however mistakes still happen.

No matter the mistakes the News readers still carry on like nothing has happened.

Notable news readers include:

• Angela Rippon-The first female news reader in 1975.
• Kenneth Kendall - The first visible BBC News Reader in 1955

In 1958 a report proposed how it would be better that the televised News were to get it's own newsroom along with an editor of the day

On April 20th, 1964 along with the start of BBC 2's transmissions was a new news programme called Newsroom which four years later became the BBC's first news programme to be broadcast in colour. In 1969, BBC News moved from Alexandria palace to BBC Television Centre where the BBC still operates out of today once the refurbishments are complete in September 2017.
The evening of September 14th, 1970 saw the first broadcast of the Nine O'clock news  

In the mid 1970's the BBC 2 news programme was renamed to News night it soon reverted to being called Newsday when the programme moved to an early evening slot
BBC Radio 1 launched a new news service on September tenth, 1973.
January 28th, was the launch of Newsnight on BBC2 unlike the one from the 1970's which was a simple news bulletin this was a 45 minute long programme.
By 1982 technology had became sufficiently advanced enough for reporter Bernard Hesketh to report coverage of the Falkland War this was the first time that the BBC filmed a conflict digitally instead of by film.
In the following January of 1983 the BBC launched it's first breakfast news Programme "Breakfast Time" the style of presenting was quite relaxed in comparison to the BBC's other news programmes of the time.
By 1987 the BBC decided to go under a slight rebranding for it's news programmes, so that each different programme had it's own unique opening sequence and accompanying music.


10 years after this 1997 the BBC Launched BBC News 24 to provide continuous and live coverage of news from across the UK and the Globe. the following year BBC Radio News after 66 years of operating out of broadcasting house. 1999 saw the biggest relaunch with all of the BBC News channels and programmes adopting a single common format.


With the start of the new millennium came with even more changes to the BBC, to start the 9 O'clock news was moved to 10pm at night, the region based news programs lost five minute at the end of the programme. December 2003 BBC world and BBC News 24 introduced a new style of presentation which was slightly altered for the 50th anniversary of BBC television news
May 2006 bulletins received titles and set allowing breakfast to move back into the main studio for the first time since 1997.


from august 2012 to March 2013 all of the BBC operations moved from BBC Television centre to New Broadcasting house.


Newsround:

Newsround was a short news programme aimed towards children and early teens, Originally called John Craven's Newsround before his departure in 1989. The programme has run continuously since 1972, it was initially conceived as a short series mandated by the BBC's children department. over time the programme gradually developed it's own development team.

 

As you can see the presentation of the video is slightly more mature then what it is now like the news programmes for the older audiences. By covering slightly more political topics or other topics that the programme's target demographic would find interesting.

Where as if you look at the example above of how modern Newsround is filmed the set is much larger then how it was during the 70's and more colourful, the news reader talks about more appropriate topics for the age demographic.

Modern Newsround also has had several spin-off's for example Sportsround and Newsround Review of the Year.

The BBC had a similar style show for teens to young adults called sixty seconds which is how long the programme lasts. The programme was launched in 2001 on BBC Choice a predecessor of the now online channel BBC3. the programme ceased broadcasting when BBC3 moved to BBC Iplayer

As you can see the presentation style is like Newsround but it only has time to give brief details of about three news stories per programme.

PMP Production Diary: 13/06/17

Today was when we finally completed editing Never Gonna Give You Up, which I have been editing throughout the filming process. But today was when I finally finished editing the film. The completed film is below. 

Unit 15: task 3 stage 2 - Business plan

Mr Reed’s Ecards and photos business plan

This business is a photography and Ecard Production service. If someone wanted to create E-cards either for Valentine’s Day, Easter, Christmas or someone’s birthday I could either film a personalised message or take photos for someone’s family, work, and class photo.

What make my Business different form others are that we are a local friendly private business meaning that we won’t share anything unless the clients/ customers allow us to.

 

The benefits my business would offer are that we are willing to come to the customer if he/she allows us to and we do location photoshoots.

Our customers would buy our product because of the quality and cheap services offered by my business. If I can acquire suitable studio space I would need DSLR’s cameras, Lights, printers, Tripods, and  

Background sheets including a green screen.

 

My target customer base is families however I will also provide service for schools, work places, parties and weddings and cosplayers if they want location shoots to show off their costumes.

I plan to advertise my business via social media such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. My marketing plan is to also include advertisements in local newspapers and shops.

My sales strategy is that for the first 2 months I intend to get £50 profit on average per week. To do this I would charge the client/customer £6 per hour in the studio or £7 on location if they wish for a photoshoot. 50p per copy of each customer approved photo there will be discounts around Christmas or Valentine’s day, Mother’s day, Father’s day.

 

The people I would need in my team are someone who would know how to set up a camera, lights and how to edit in a backdrop. They would also need to have skills in operating social media such as Facebook.

Work hours in the studio would be 9 am until 8 Pm

unit 15 task 3 stage 2

The different sources of work i could consider include working for one of the local filming companies, or as an assistant helping 1st year college students get to grips with the software they would be using for the next two years.

I could use social media such as Facebook, twitter and Instagram in order to reach and communicate with new and old clients/customers because that appears to be what many small businesses do these days I could also puts advertisements in the news papers or in local shops rather old school but still effective. I could also offer discounts around Christmas or valentines day depending on the bulk of photos that need to be created or videos that need to be edited.

My targets and goals include to get on average £50 per week for the first 4 months but as time goes on I would like to be earning more as my client base expands. Another target is to get 100 followers each on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram within the same four month time span.
The initial staffing at would be myself and possibly someone operating the computers and printers while I took the Photographs. eventually though I would like to expand such as having a receptionist taking calls and greeting clients as we are finishing up with the previous client/customer and possibly additional photographers if we get sufficient studio space so we can get more profit and go through clients and get more profit.

Unit 15 Creating a small business for media Task 3 stage 1

Stage 1
My media production skills include editing, Camera operating, sound recording, photography, Writing.
My editing skills are average but i can produce a sufficient cut of a film given dedication, patience and and a stress free environment however I may be understating my abilities.
My capabilities of camera operation are likewise average, I can name most types of camera angles and types of shots and what they are used for, for example a birds eye view is used for getting a shot where the camera is facing down pointing at the floor,an establishing shot can either by a panning shot where showcases an environment or a tracking shot where the camera focuses on a specific object usually an actor or a prop to establish the environment.
I can hold the Boom pole up high but not very steady I will admit to that but the sound usually is good so there is that.
I know how to set up the flash on a DSLR camera and how to set the lens focus to the specific settings for which event as well as how to set up the timer setting.
I am able to write good dialogue that doesn't sound like myself if I have assistance but I Need prompting to fully flesh out the character motivations and back story.

I could start an E card business as it does involve the editing filming and photography so I would be using three of my major Media Production skills. i could also start a photography business as well.

My idea for once my time at Ufilms has concluded would be to start a E card/photography business because it makes use of three of my major media production skills. For this business to be successful I would need suitable studio space. I would the appropriate equipment such as lights, cameras, tripods green screen, or various background sheets or whatever the client requested. I would also need the appropriate editing and/or printing facilities and software in order to produce what the theoretical client/customer has ordered.

critical appraoches downton abbey

The extract opens at least a day after the Titanic has sunk with the maids and servants being awoken to starts the day's work. It shows the servants quickly prepare the house before the Lords and Ladies awaken. When the newspapers arrive the entire staff is in shock at sinking of an apparent unsinkable vessel. the nobles of the house show subdued shock, sympathy, surprise and possibly indifference at the death of numerous unfortunate passengers.
 The extract's genre is historical drama. And everything is era appropriate for it being set in 1912.


The extract features several long tracking shots: The first one follows the one of the servants as she leaves the lower levels to light the fires on the ground floors; the second tracking shot follows various other servants as they attend to their duties preparing for the nobles of the house to awaken and descend for Breakfast; The third tracking shot follows Lord Grantham as he descends the stairs to the dinning room for Breakfast. The first and second tracking shots are quite quick and hectic as are all shots involving the Servants of the house. But the shots involving Lord Grantham and the editing regarding those shots are quite slow denoting his status and wealth.


The music has a sense of regal, elegance especially when Lord Grantham descends the stairs. There are chimes of the bells in the kitchen.


The mise-en-scene is era appropriate the old fashioned maid costumes, The Male servants have pressed suits with starched collars. The Kitchen is full of brass and copper pots and pans and silver trays and cutlery. The news papers are ironed and there is discussion of electricity being a relatively new thing being introduced in homes. There are wood fires and the news papers are ironed. Mr Carson is shown polishing what appear to be brass candelabras. Mrs Hughes carries large iron keys with her. there is a system of bells connecting to each room to the kitchens in the servants quarters, so that the servant are made aware. there are wooden crates by the back door and the paper boy is covered in soot and ink wearing scruffy blackened clothes. At the News paper printers. There is a woman operating a Morse code machine. The colours of the house are Grand and elegant but muted for instance the walls of the dinning room are a dulled shade of yellow. There are ancestral portraits upon the wall of the dinning room.