Who protects the public?

With use of relevant, recent examples from the press, explore to what extent newspapers exercise power without responsibility.

The media is something that we are hit apon in many different ways throughout the day that can be presented in the format of posters, television and newspapers. The media that is presented in this newspaper style carry a huge inpact on anyone that comes across it and from broadsheets to tabloid shows that it's not a matter of cost that will effect them from buying a paper. There is something called the 'data protection act' which states that the public should be protected in a way which means that personal information shouldn't be given out and certain things should be made private and if members of the public feel that this has effected them in a way, the paper has to publically apologise in an obvious place in the paper otherwise they have the possibility of being sued.

In recent news, the ‘Joanna Yates’ case has come up quite a bit due to how big all media sources have made it. Alot of other people have been murdered during this last month however the public are made to feel that they have a sort of attachment with this particular story and the papers are demonstrating what happened to the young girl in a number of ways. For example the tabloids are alot more occlusive with what there saying happened going straight to convict the first man questioned by the police. They use alot more of a casual way about it referring to her as ‘Jo’ as if they  know her in person. Then there’s the broadsheet, they come about it in a completly different way by referring to her by her full name and would have headlines like ‘man being questioned for Joanna’s death’- alot more polite and not as near so accusing.  

If the articles try and twist the truth to what is going on with the case, for example if they make up lies about it being Joanna’s boyfriend who is the murderer then in theory he has the right to complain and maybe even sue to clear his name as its not right for them to go around offending the innocent public.

Newspapers in general have to really be careful with the things that they print as in theory and with the help of modern technology, these articles that they produce can talked about worldwide. Therefore if this power is neglected then it’s quite possible to full peoples heads with false information that can badly influence a strong opinion on a certain matter and once it has been put out there to the world, it’s very hard to take it back even with many articles of apologies.

The most touchy and careful topics that the press have to be aware of are things that involve things like religion, race and politics. Part of the  data protection act states that the press should not mention these personal things like colour of a person skin as it will swing peoples views on the subject and although all papers are known for being slightly biased to a certain extent, its wrong for a paper to actually put these fresh ideas into their heads.

Overall I think that the public aren’t protected as much as they should be as I feel that sometime we’re shown to much to what is nessercery as when pictures are produced about these sick murders and violence I don’t think its right that we should have to look at them. Although i understand it’s important to not be too naive of the world however I think theres some things that shouldn’t be shared.   

Screen shots from our first edit

After uploading all our footage we began to think more in deaph about how effect our shots are and to check that we are useing a big enough range of views in our film. Currently we are no where neer our final piece as we only uploaded it today but we spent some time picking out the bits that we thought looked good and worked well along with eachother and so took some screen shots of our favourite bits which i will now post below.

These two screen shots above shows the camera slowly spinning round and looking up at the sky with the sun sneeking through the leaves in the trees. This is what are main character (Rose) would be seeing.

 To help with the continuety of this idea, we have a looking down shot at Rose which may well connotate ideas about her being just another human being in the world, looking small and vunderalbul with all the colourful leaves around her.

This shot is a long, establishing one that shows Rose in this tree then she will jump down where the camera will swap views. It's important to notice the thought out mise-en-scene with the beautiful leaves around her showing that its not quite summer anymore, however still warm enough for her to be wearing a dress. There are also lots of trees in the background along with all the other natural things around to demostrate that there is nothing man made in this universe she's living in.

 This is the shot after where she has just jumped from the tree to where we have the link to her begining her adventure.

 These two above shots is us fiddiling about with the editing and colours that we may want to play around with to get the right effect. Because this is all a dream it's not like realitiy, it can be anything where anything can happen. By making some clips a very bright and vived colour makes this being what the girl thinks about- a colourful and pretty environment to be living in.

 From what i have written above, from putting the footage now in to the black and white effect now shows a huge contrast from before, it could be showing the change of mood. Also the close up of the teddy in this second shot symbolises how important it is to the film.

 Rose is happy, shes found the teddy.

 This up close shot represents this happyness and really highlights wha t shes feeling with her big smile and eyes shut in a dream like way.

 This is Rose running- here towards the camera with the camera attached to her hand because she loves it so much and can't let go




 This is her again, this time the camera is behind her and sees her running into the distance representing her freedom and indepence. These shots will link too and fro to get the best affect of her running really quickly.

They are the shots i'm going to talk about today however like i said we still have alot more footage to go to so we may end cutting some of the above and adding different bits however i do deffiently attend to add any new shots via screen shots and annotate them in the near future.

Filming finished!

After going out for the third time on this preticular project we have finally got all the footage that we need and that we're happy with to start the editing and complete our opening. It has taken us a while to get to this point due to things like changing ideas, technical problems and finding time when we're all free to film.

We have began to discuss the editing in the group and because our deadline is in less then a month we have agreed to put and spare time during/after school to get the best and most professional finish that we can get. We have also set out a plan to first of all watch the footage that we have, then to cut down to all our best shots. Once we've got the whole sequence together we will then focus on the subtitles as these have a huge impact on films. Then finally, when we have every thing working and looking good on screen we will add the soundtrack which we are now spending alot of time researching about what we think will look good and reflect what we're trying to show in our movie.

Inspiration for how we want our piece to look

After doing some research as a group we found this music video on youtube. Understandible it is a music viedo, however there's so much I feel we can take from this as a group and work to get shot types/scenery just like this. The girl in this is very dreamy and seems to be overtaken in her own wacky universe. The coulours in this are really good as well as the forest is this dark gloomy place, then there's this beautiful girl in bright green which could connote her links with nature.

Again this video is very inspirational and if we got something even close to this, i feel it would be great.

Dream sequences

As our film is set up around this dream that is seen at the begginging of the film i have decided that today I'm going to talk about dream sequences and how there used alot in television and film.

Description

The Dream Sequence is a fragment that is separated from the rest of the story and which explains something that would be difficult to include in the main storyline.
It may appear as in such forms as a flashback, vision or daydream, and may be visually distinguished by fogging, music or other marking that emphasizes that this is not a 'real' part of the story.
Dream sequences are often quite short.

Example

A woman meets a man and has a dream sequence of him seducing her.

A scene shows the hero doing battle with the villain and losing. It turns out to be a nightmare he is having.

Discussion

The daydream can be used as a way of explaining what a person is thinking, and thus acts as a form of visual 'thought bubble'.
Dream sequences can be used to add humor, for example with morphing to exaggerate emotions. They may also be used to add tension in showing possibilities.
The dream sequence can also be used as a 'cheating' device for authors who want to explain something and do not know how to explain it in the story.

(source-http://changingminds.org/disciplines/storytelling/devices/dream_sequence.htm)

A dream that is used can also forshadow what may happen in the upcoming future on the screen, and although its unlikely for the exact same thing to happen, its possible to show something that may be seen as impossible at the begining to then come true later on.