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Saturday, 22 March 2014

SOCIAL CLASS cranford

within this clip social class is presented. Cranford represents the stereotypes of working class.

In the beginning scene we are introduced with a boy. A long shot has been used so you are able to see the boys clothes,location and body. From looking at these three points straight away you are able to realise that he at working class. The director has made it seem as it was natural dark lighting used, the dark lighting suggests to the audience that he is not important individual. The non-digetic slow music has been used to emphasis the working class boy.

The next scene begins in a shack, straight away you are able to see that the family does not have alot of money and they are suffering. The squeaking door emphasis their financial status as they can not afford to fix it or buy a new one. Lack of money is emphasised when the father shows the boy with a newspaper with boots wrapped inside them. The excitement that you see from the boys face is massive from this you are able spot out that this family does not get presents all the time. You will also notice that the lighting in the shack is very dark this also represents that the family does not have money to pay for power. This family confirming to the stereotype of working class. The director has chosen to give the boy more screen time compared to the parents which could indicate that he is more independent because he must work to live. To end this scene the father shouts at the boy saying that " education is not for everyone" this is reinforcing the stereotype of working class people by representing that they do not need to able to read as long as they can use they're hands to do labour jobs.

The non-digetic sound builds as the next scene begins. The music is foreshadowing danger in the future of the clip. A close up is used on the grapes to show what a wealthy person could afford and unfortunately the boy can not eat them because he is not rich enough. Now you see the grapes that the boy wants you are able to see the differences between the classes. The sun rises and a man with wealthy clothes, as he is wearing a suit which reinforces his class. When the man notices the boy a shot reverse shot is used and the camera is looking up to the man which reinforces his power within the clip.
Dominance and power is used when the man walks in to his office once again reinforcing his sterotype.
The boy then sits down and starts eating with no limits this shows the boy is not does not get food like this all the time and as the man is standing it shows that he has more power in the clip.

The next scene you are introduced with good lighting and looked after gardens, you are able to see someone with money owns the property. The owner of the house is sat on top of the manor so he is able to see all his workers. In a way he is looking down upon them while everyone looks up to him because he is sat up high. The woman standing with the owner of the house also reinforces the stereotype of being upper class because of the dress she is wearing. If you compare to the boys mother in the earlier clip you can see the differences.

The clip has conformed to the stereotypes. You are able to see the clear differences between the two.

Tuesday, 18 March 2014

Record Labels

Major Record Label

- There are the three big music companies which are Sony/BMG, Universal & Warner Brothers.
These companies own the music created and take a large cut from the money earned. These companies are well known meaning they have high levels of advertisement to get the new music popular and in the charts. These companies have their own channels like VEVO, where they advertise peoples music and take a cut from the money created form advertisements on the music video.

Subsidiary Label
- A company controlled by a holding or parent company (eg. Sony)

Independent Label
- Not connected to a major company
- An independent record label (or indie record label) is a record label operating without the funding of or outside the organisations of the major record labels. A great number of bands and musical acts begin on independent labels

Thursday, 13 March 2014

Hotel babylon essay - ETHNICITY

This clip presents ethnicity in different aspects.

In the beginning the camera has done a long tracking shot to emphasise how well the black man is dressed and the audience are able to see his strong walk. Also non-digetic happy music is being played to create a atmosphere and to emphasise the challenge of a black males stereotype.He is also given more time on camera when the shot reverse shot is used and a medium shot is used to show the two different types of black people. Another pointer that separates the two black people are the way they speak. The boy that has come out of the pool is using slang he is conforming to the black stereotype of not being able to speak properly. On the other hand the black man in the suit is challenging the stereotype once again by speaking structured english. He does not conform to the stereotypical views of his ethnic group.

The next scene we are introduced to two foreign women as cleaners and when they speak you are able to get a feel of their ethnicity. They have conformed to their stereotype because in the society of today foreign people are associated with classed jobs for example cleaners, which is what the two woman are. The director has used a two shot so the audience are able to analyse the cleaners and feel pity for them. The non-digetic is still being played to emphasis the uncertainty of the second cleaner when the close up of her face is shown. A medium shot has been used to present the man sitting on the bed, even thoe he is foreign and sitting down he still has more power then the maids because he is not wearing the dull overalls that the maids are wearing. The gown sets him apart and indicates he has money and lighting is used to light up his face. After there is a close up of money and the maid on the far right looks pleased, this indicates she is comfortable in what she is doing and is indicating to the audience that immigrants would do anything for money. Negative representation of foreign people is being showed but the maid who is up to strip is confirming to her stereotype.

As we go to the next scene you are introduced to a sophisticated man and woman walking in a corridor. The man and woman have been given good lighting, but on the other hand the maids and porters have not been given any lighting because the director is saying as they are foreigners they are not important. Medium. close ups and shot reverse shots have been used for both characters to show their importance within the clip. They confirming to their ethnical stereotype, which is dressing well and having a good job. As the sophisticated woman enters the kitchen she refers to the head chef as “Mr”, the woman has given him that power and when he picks up the knife this a phallic symbol meaning he has a bigger penis then anyone else within the room and he gains more power then anyone else in the room. The head chef is challenging his ethnical stereotype as he is a leader. To end the clip the non-digetic sound has returned when the woman who was stripping leaves the room and the supervisor is watching her. This is done this way so the audience can feel sorry for this group of ethnics.

Throughout the Clip ethnicity is either being challenged or confirmed by the actors.

Tuesday, 11 March 2014

Interviewing people aged 30 and over

What type of music do you listen to?

How do you access and listen to your music?

How do you download your music, illegally or legally?

Do you keep up with the latest music?

Whats your favourite artist and why?

Can you relate to any music artists?

Where do you listen to your music most of the time?

Demise of The Music Industry

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2010/mar/12/demise-music-industry-facts

The demise of the music industry is visible everywhere but in the facts

If music executives sold bottled water, they'd be calling for a ban on tapwater downloads. But their industry is proving resilient

Illegal downloads continue to be a cause of Armageddon within themusic industry and a source of endless fascination outside. Business leaders still regularly moan that illegal downloads are destroying their livelihood, especially if representatives of government are within hearing range. At the first Music 4.5 conference in London last week, speakers took it as read that "kids are not buying music anymore" and that they must look elsewhere for revenues. Evidence of the demise of purchased music is everywhere to be seen, except for one place: the statistics.

In fact it is easier to make the case that the music industry, far from imploding, is one of the great success stories of the recession. The most dramatic example of this is in what kids are supposed not to be buying any more: single tracks. Last year sales of singles soared to an all-time record of 152.7m units, an astonishing 33% rise in a year when the whole economy (GDP) contracted by 3.3%. If the music pundits seriously think that these are not being bought by kids, then it shows how out of touch they are with their customers. These same youngsters who were – and probably still are – massively downloading free music from the internet were prepared to pay up to £3 a pop for an insipid ringtone (interestingly, not included on the industry's statistics unless they are full-track ones). Why? Because there is an easy payment system on phones which didn't exist on the web. Now there is an easy payment system (iTunes et al) on the web they are starting to pay again. If the big music companies had spent their energies dreaming up a payments mechanism for web downloads instead of suing their customers they could have swept all before them. Instead they were like the crew of a sinking boat that blames the sea instead of trying to mend the leak. If they were in the bottled water industry, they would probably be urging the government to stop free downloads of tap water at home as unfair competition. Yet the bottled water industry should have been their model. It got away with charging us lots of money for a product that was no better than free tapwater through clever marketing.

Even now practically everyone I meet from the music industry protests that it couldn't be expected to combat the technological disruption that was eroding its traditional model. What piffle. Lots of books have been written about disruptive technologies. They can't say they weren't warned. As it turned out, pretty well every system for monetising music – iTunes, Spotify, We7, Shazam, Nokia's Comes with Music et al – has come from outside the industry. What a missed opportunity.

Sales of singles are, of course, only one part of the industry. There has, unsurprisingly, been a fall in sales of albums – down from 133.6m units to 128.9m last year, not helped by the closure of key UK retail chains Zavvi and Woolworths – but that was more than offset by growth elsewhere in sponsorship, live shows and merchandising where there is something of a boom happening in Britain. Overall, the music industry grew by an amazing 4.7% in recession-ridden 2008, according to PRS for Music, and will probably be resilient when the full 2009 figures come in. A key fact is that last year income from live music overtook that from recorded music for the first time. Don't think tracks, think music.

Clearly, the industry is changing. Consumers can now buy the singles they want without being locked into buying albums containing other tracks they don't want. That may bring in less income but it is the gateway to other revenues. The people who allegedly won't pay for downloads will pay huge sums to hear their favourite artists live or be part of the merchandising experience. Maybe illegal downloads – which, needless to say, I don't approve of – should be looked on as a massive crowd-sourced marketing operation to generate money for gigs, memorabilia and future sales.

The future lies in capitalising on the whole musical experience, as the admirable Music 4.5 initiative well knows: it seeks to bring together artists and entrepreneurs to plot the future. If the quality of the five-minute pitches made at the conference by budding businesses is anything to go by, the future is bright. I loved the way Songkick.com is moving beyond Last.fm by linking songs you and your friends like with information about the band's past and present gigs, enabling you to talk about them after the show. MusicGlue offers free downloads in exchange for email addresses which, over time, will produce geographic patterns showing where there is a dense enough cluster of fans to justify a gig. CloseCallMusic encourages people to interact with live music as it happens, while TuneRights is trying to crowd-source the financing of records. Audiofuel, which matches music to your jogging beat, aims to be the new Ministry of Sound. I loved what Decibel is planning – to have a vast data base of meta tags so you can find out details of each member of the band: that Jimi Hendrix played as a session man on a Little Richard track, for instance. That is just the sort of value-added that will lure people away from free downloads. Nick Hornby would love it.

These were only some of the pitches made which suggest that the future of the industry may continue to reside in bottom-up initiatives rather than the top-down approach of the major labels. The music industry, to be fair, is still a very heavy investor as a new study shows, but it had better be alert if it doesn't want to be upstaged even more. The sad fact is that around 90% of start-ups fail – but it is vital for future employment, as well as the health of the music industry that we spend money to find the winners. A revolution is under way.

Music Industry - Music Interview

what is your favourite artist of this year?

how do you find out about new music?

what type of consumer am I?

how and where do you store your music?

do you feel a connection/relate to their artists?

guilty pleasure?

why do you listen to music, is it a habit?

Do you create your own music?

Do you listen to a specific genre?

Where do you find out about new music?

What do you think of downloading music illegally?

Friday, 7 March 2014

disability essay

As the clip begins it starts with a birds eye view of the two boys sitting in the room together, the birds eye view is showing there is distance between the two characters. You are able to acknowledge the disabled boy side of the room as it childish as it is messy, bright in colour and the toys situated every where. On the other hand you can see the other boys room represents a typical teenager, the full colours represent he lives a normal life. Non-digested sound is used, which is the brother speaking over the clip talking about different ways of killing his brother because he is disabled. This shows he is not comfortable with having a disabled sibling and on the plus side he must look after him. He probably also embarrassed of having a disabled brother as disabled people are looked down upon in society and treated the same. The close up towards the end of clip shows the disabled boy as a victim and very venerable. The clip fades away as it is important to the other child.

The next scene is in the kitchen the camera is closed up on the disabled boy once again to emphasise on his disability. On the other hand when the abled child is standing, the camera is at a low angle, which represents that he has more power physically, then the brother. Shot reverse shot is used in the conversation between the abled brother and disabled brother, you notice that the camera stays on the abled brother much longer then the disabled brother this represents that the disabled brother is less important, in society’s point of view. You are able to see the divide in society. When the parents are talking to the abled child there is no soft tone, the sentences are snappy and straight to the point. Whereas the disabled brother is spoken to softly. which makes him feel safe and comfortable. The disabled child is spoken to as a little child.

The next scene is in the park. The camera closes up to the disabled child on the bike. In the close up you can see his dad helping him this represents that he is unable to things on his own and requires support. The close up is seen through a gun target, which makes the disabled boy looked as a victim once again. The brother is then shown shooting the brother with a smile on his face this shows you his emotions he has towards disabled people. You then see the disabled child doing child activates for example eating ice cream and a medium shot used when flying a kite this shows that the boy has not matured as a teenager.

This clip is reinforcing the stereotypes of disability as the disabled boy is portrayed as a victim and given more sympathy then to someone who is able. The able brother is seen as a villain as he shows no kind emotions towards his brother, which also tells you he does not think disabled and abled people are equal.