Joe Parker A2

Below you will find an essay that i did on Twitter about how big of a platform its becoming but also how influential it is on media as a whole in today's society. Twitter is an online news and social networking service where users post and interact with messages, known as "tweets." These messages were originally restricted to 140 characters, but on November 7 th , 2017, the limit was doubled to 280 characters for all languages except Japanese, Korean, and Chinese. Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams and launched in July of that year. The service rapidly gained worldwide popularity. In 2012, more than 100 million users posted 340 million tweets a day and the service handled an average of 1.6 billion search queries per day. In 2013, it was one of the ten most-visited websites and has been described as "the SMS of the Internet. As of 2016, Twitter had more than 319 million monthly active users. Twitter'

Below is a link to my finished A2 production The Life Of A Football Hooligan.

I have recently completed the first  ancillary text. The first ancillary text that i did was a poster for our film The Life Of A Football Hooligan. I will link the poster below. i decided that i will  make the poster look like the front cover of an Oxford United match day magazine. The reason that i did this is because i felt like it would add something more to the production instead of just a generic film poster.  Oxford United match day magazine My film poster

Below you will find a link to my second ancillary text. This ancillary text is radio trailer where i am being interviewed by a radio presenter about my life as a football hooligan and promoting the production as well.