cover sheet for media

Pre-production
My Pre-production consisted of watching shows of similar genres and paying attention to what people watch online such as arrow or flash and what channels they are on. I also looked at different programs and topics I am I know a lot about in the case of my project that would be Greek mythology. I then started to develop my characters by giving them personalities and by basing this idea off Greek gods I can base it off the personalities and attributes of the god's.

Production
during the production i worked by myself this then aloud me to work they way i thought was best and the ideas i wanted to do, which ended up being a poster and a pencil case. with the poster i originally had the idea of having it with out the pictures of the gods above them but i then this would be confusing to people as there would be kids just in front of a mountain but with godly figures above them allows for the power relationship and where the kids stand in comparison to their parents. while with the pencil case I used I the design is supposed to reflect each of the characters and there gods such as the first one is athena the goddess of tactics and that is why on the pencil case there is the books to symbolise intelligence. even though i did enjoy making these's products I did need help from other students when trying to use's photoshop as it was a complicated program.

Report
At the start of this report we discussed what teen genre we would like to do and the class talked about the horror genre mainly so we decided on that. we were told to watch at least 3 things that would help us with our T.V. programe, I ended up watching the second percy jackson film'sea of monsters', my baby sitter is a vampire and i read up on some greek mythology such as the minotaur and the different gods. My findings of watching and reading is that there are some conventions that i can follow such as the bully is a strong female in a physical sense as well as the older the character the wiser they are. also with some of the stories from greek mythos and the film and show is that they are a rising hero story or a more than meets the eye with someone that looks weak is actually strong in different ways.

Everest avalanches

Following the most recent earthquakes in Nepal Mount everest has had a avalanche kill 17 people and 60 more reported to be injured. The Nepal earthquakes have claimed at least 3,218 people so far.
footage has also been found of the avalanche hurtling to people


this is just some of the affects of the an earthquake and this is just one of the many dangers and means that Nepal will need aid in the coming months but as much as this is a tragic event politician will focus on it and make it an emotional point and help them with there party

Mediterranean migrants: Hundreds feared dead after boat capsizes

hundreds are feared to have drowned when a boat in the Mediterranean capsized and was suspecting to have been carrying up to 700 migrants only 28 migrants have been rescued and 24 bodies have been discovered so that is 648 people still un accounted for a quote from Matteo Renzi couldn't verify the ammount of deaths but it is a 'dramtic ammount' but putting all of this in to context there has been another 900 people dieing when going across the Mediterranean.

This is a sad waste of life but what i am wondering is where has the news coverage of theses events on t.v. in newspapers or anywhere as it seems like a common accourance and shouldn't the surrounding governments be putting more strict sailing laws or standers to stop something like this happening

revsion sights

https://brianair.wordpress.com/as-media-exam-tips/

http://www.slideshare.net/jphibbert1979/as-media-studies-exam-revision

2 websites im currently using to revise thought might help with anyone that wanted them

radio example

Radio although not as big as it once was is still an important tool in today's media for spreading information to millions of people very quickly and cheaply compared to other methods of advertising as radio stations such as capital fm has over 7 million active listeners weekly while capitals major competitors kissFM has 4.9 million weekly listeners as well as it being one of the most advertised radio stations as the company that owns them comunicorp(all of the uk except england) has radio stations many different countries and capital is also owned by global radio(england).

For this piece I will be focusing on the radio station capital FM.
Capital FM has been running since the 1970's with there first broadcast being on 1973 making it one of the oldest radio stations but this capital was focused on information instead of the charts or what is happening in the celebrity world this type of format wasn't used until the 2000's where the world of music was become more prevalent and more influential.

The main audience for capital is middle class white people living in and around london but so capital can appeal to the most people they offer a variety of shows to show their diversity in music and show off different styles of DJ's they hire or have on hand as well as different music they have to offer the audience even though it is usually for just an hour or so and then it would be back to the chart hit's.




Now Capital hasn't lasted this long without making some serious cash with getting money to broadcast adverts getting deals to broadcast up and coming artists songs as well as hosting many events such as the summer time ball and on top of all this they get some of the biggest stars on the radio shows they have to either DJ or to talk about them and what they want to talk to there UK fans.