Research Unit 3 & Factual Unit 36: October 2013

Monday, 21 October 2013

Unit 43.2/Hegemony

Hegemony

Hegemony is an idea of rule by consent, which means the most important people almost tell people what to like. For example, reality shows or competitive shows like Geordie Shore or X factor, set an image that young people would follow. Simon Cowell is the main guy in the making of the X factor, a lot of named shops copy the styles of these shows and celebrities that appear on screen. The top people would create a style for shops like Topshop, River Island, New Look etc. This is a way of making money for big companies that Simon Cowell produces.

James Watson 1998. "In its simplest sense, hegemony means 'control over'; yet in referring to 'hegemonic control' we are not repeating the same thing using another phrase, but describing a special form of control."

Unit 43.2/Counter Culture

Counter Culture

Counter Culture is someone who is involved in a group, and break the rules or be a bit rebellious because they disagree or do not follow the rules set by their parents or guardian. Different social groups are given names from how they dress and act. For example, the different social groups you could come across are, 'chavs', 'punks', and many more different groups. 'Chavs' are known for dressing scruffily. For boys its usually tracksuits and trainers and wander the streets as if they are bigger than anyone else, for girls it could be the same. 'Chavs' usually live on council estates with their families and sometimes cannot help what they are but often come from uncaring, out of work parents.

However, you could the odd person who just wants to fit in, and dresses the same as what 'chavs' do so they don't feel out of place. A lot of people in social groups are stereotyped for what they are named after which what counter culture is.

Unit 43.2/Moral Panic

Moral Panic

Moral panic in the media industry is when an event happens so suddenly that can upset the public. Miley Cyrus is a good example of moral panic in the media industry at the moment, this is because as a kid, Miley Cyrus grew up in Disney as fictional character called 'Hanna Montana'. From being an innocent Disney star to making music videos in which she is hardly dressed, creates a moral panic for everyone. Parents are the ones who are mainly concerned with 'the new Miley Cyrus', this because their children will be watching her on the TV and copy her dress sense or how she acts. Britney Spears at the time her first video came out would have created a moral panic. However, she doesn't reveal as much as Miley Cyrus does. Both videos are 'coming of age videos', basically doing what teenagers are doing or want to do, so this would defiantly create a moral panic for most parents.

Wednesday, 16 October 2013

Unit 43.2/Production Research/Actor Release Form

This is an Actors Release Form, after i interviewed my brother i asked to him to sign this for proof that i interviewed him and to show that he agreed to to interview.

Unit 43.2/Production Research/Actor Release From

This is an Actors Release Form, after i interviewed Sophie i asked to her sign this for proof that i interviewed her and to show that she agreed to to interview.

Unit 43.2/Production Research/Production Risk Assessment

Tuesday, 15 October 2013

Unit 43.2/Production Research/Call sheet

This is my call sheet that I have filled out for my interview with Courtney. It shows where the interview was held, how I got there and when the interview started and ended.

Unit 43.2/Production Research/Recce

This is the Recce sheet I have filled out for the interview with brother. This shows where the interview will be held and what I will need to do in order for the interview to be at a good standard. For example in order for the sound to be a good quality, I will need to record my interview in a quiet room with no distractions or other sounds.

Unit 43.2/Production Schedule Overview

This is the Production Schedule Overiew, This explains what date the unit was set, how many weeks in which to do it in and the end dates for all the productions.

Monday, 14 October 2013

Unit 43.2/Radio Podcast Research

Radio Podcast

Welcome to my radio and factual podcast.
In my radio factual i will produce a short 10 minute factual about dog owners being allowed to own dogs, whether or not every dog owner should have a licence, or whether homes should be checked by police in order for them to have a dog in their homes. Dog attacks happen quite often and it is usually young children who are attacked, which is why i am doing my radio podcast about if family's should be allowed to have a dog as a pet in their home. I will interview a young boy who were attacked by a dog earlier this year and ask what he feels about dogs being allowed in homes, also i will interview dog owners and hopefully interview a man called Pete, a publisher for the 'Manchester Evening News' about the story and what he thinks about dogs being allowed to be kept as pets in family homes, and the statistics of how many dog attacks happen yearly.
Hopefully my radio podcast will consist of statistics, interviews from a range of different people such as: dog owners, the young boy which was attacked, families with no pets and opinions of members of the public about dogs being allowed in homes.

In my podcast i will use a range of primary and secondary research including interviews, using the internet to find contacts or other information. I will try my best to interview journalists and members of the public to get as much information i can get for my radio podcast.

The publisher of the Manchester evening news newspaper has agreed to have an interview, and this has already been arranged.

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Unit 43.2/Interpreting my results

I asked the public ‘Do you think the majority of dog attacks happen due to how the dog has been brought up? ’Eleven out of fifteen of them think that dogs should be licensed to help stop a lot of dog attacks from happening. However the ones that said they shouldn’t have a license had no evidence to support why they thought that.

Another question i asked the public was public was 'what do you think needs to happen to bring the risk of a dog attack from happening?'

The majority of the people I asked said that all dogs should be licensed. The results I got I were really happy with, this was because some of the answers I got were things like, ‘they should be muzzled’ or ‘they should be trained correctly’. I got in depth answers and the majority of them were ways of reducing dogs attacking young children, which i was pleased with as hardly anyone just said yes or no.

In conclusion, from the results I got from the whole questionnaire, I am really happy with the results I got. I feel some of the people I asked had no idea what they were talking about and answered the questions based on a guess. Overall, the final question I asked the public was ‘To avoid the risk of young children being attacked, do you think that all dogs should be licensed? I asked a total of 15 people, and 11 of them said yes and gave a reason why. The other 4 people that said no had no evidence to support it, so to me this shows that didn't really know much about the subject, couldn't be bothered with the questionnaire or didn't really understand the question.

Unit 3.3/Presentation