Christmas consumerism and the role of the media

Christmas is the most wonderful time of they year but its also the most expensive time but thing is why is this? Well it all starts with an idea, that idea turns into a vision, that vision is put up on the t.v. screen as advert, this advert is turned into profit. The example of this is the John lewis advert with the two penguins. though an idea or a theme of the advert being in love and being a child that was then turned into a vision of a penguin and after many many many months the advert is shown and then a army of stuffed penguins show there face's to consume the masses in cuteness but this is all to generate profit and to generate hype for kids for Christmas it has done this magnificently where the largest version of the doll is 40cm tall and is sold for about 35 pounds on eBay it has got the value up to £395 at maximum and about £65 pounds minimum which has made alot of profit for John lewis and this was all from a single idea. This is just one example of how infulential the media is to people buy stuff. and this is the role of the media to build intrest and intrigue into a product or a idea.

media proposal :percy jackson t.v. series

 belive i could do a teen tv show of the percy jackson series so focusing it on the adventure side like alot film industry does inbetween films i think i could do the coming of age hero story and having set in a high school or in london or somthing of that nature. i think for the opening when the main charecter who is a shy timmed boy is seemingly stalked by multiple people.

following with the books where he has been to multiple schools before hand but this is the first time somthing likes this has happened but the main thing is he always seems to be almost dieing a few months in to the school year and this time will be no diffrent the monster would be a vampire which gets away to be slain in the next episode.

the two best friends of the main charecter will be a tough skinned girl and a comdey relief boy but another girl who is very cutesy but is a genius when it comes to computers and history (convience) and this will be the main gang with side charecters as they come and go.

i think teens would like this as it would be based on a popular book series which i belive that they could relate to and it would be always changing with the new monsters constantly hassaling them.

main themes of the show: dealing with change, holding secrets and a coming age but a coming of a hero

Thoughts and feelings of grayson perry

Grayson Perry is a famous cross dressing artists with a show that tries to portrait peoples feelings emotions and show them threw his eyes who they really are such as a mp that seemed to have no cracks  because he covered them with gold to a woman who turned her life around threw religion threw a art.

The show to me dose not mean much to me but i can see the appel and unique opportunity to see the world of people who have changed there lives and what they may see them selves as but to me i am not going threw any of theses problems when it comes to gender or needing a religion or hiding my emotions like these people are.

the show personally was a good window into a subject/type of topic i haven't gave much thought of the show it self was well made and was well filmed but even though i like they way they showed theses lives and that everything in the industry is constructed.

this was made by basing it off real life stories but editing them to be suitable for the average person and family to watch.
if the person was a celebreity figure that people would recognise the celebrity and this would mean people would watch it for more insights into a celebs life so this is what instrested the people watching but in a similar way to the jeremy kyle show they did real people as well but they still made it with people from a muslmamic background and poltical background and a transgender background to make the show intresting instead of having a white middel aged man all the way through would be intrested to watch it as its would be very up to date. but for people that were not famous they made a jeremy kyle sort of story which is also a very intresting to watch and think about

repsenentaion of both sex and race