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.

 I will link the vlog that I did to answer my first evaluation question. The Question is, In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

below you will find a link to a podcast that I did to answer my A2 Media Studies evaluation question number 2.

Below will be my Answer to the third Evaluation Question. What have you learned from your audience research. The questionnaire that I have produced has been done to answer the third evaluation question for my final A2 production, The Life Of A Football Hooligan.   The question is what have you learned from your audience feedback. I did this as a questionnaire because I felt it was the best way to get all good answers for all the questions that were appropriate to my production. The first question that I asked was, How old are you and out of 21 responses, 5 people said 15-17, 10 said 17-20, 2 said 20-23 and 4 people said 30 plus. These answers show me that the main target audience would be people between the ages of 15 and 20. This fits in with what we expected it to be when we first throughout of the idea.   The second question was what type of TV do you typically watch. 5 people said they watch comedy, 4 people said they like drama TV, 4 people also said they watched re...

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Now that I am coming to  the end of my main production The Life Of A Football Hooligan i can start to fully focus on my Ancillary texts which are a Poster to use a promotion for my film and also a radio interview to promote my production. the ancillary texts as well at the evaluation questions will be up on my blog shortly as well my final production.

For our final A2 production as I’m sure you know we decided to film a mockumentary about the life of a football hooligan. The reason that we decided this is because we both massive football fans we thought it would be a great way to bring our two main passions of football and film making into one. We did however have to put a lot of research into the production for example first we looked on YouTube and online about other production that were similar to ours to make sure that we didn’t completely copy them. Then we had to decide what shots we needed and where we were going to film these shots. In the end we decide that we would film part of our production in different houses and also at a number of different football grounds. After we had completed this we need to gather permission form people to film there as well finding suitable times to film. Football Hooligans in France at Euro 2016 The Kassam Stadium home of Oxford United Football Club

In class recently we have been looking at the affect the rise of online TV has has on the traditional TV shows. I specifically looked at Eastenders the BBC program. EastEnders is a British soap opera created by Julia Smith and Tony Holland which has been broadcast on BBC One since 1985. Set in Albert Square in the East End of London in the fictional Borough of Walford, the programme follows the stories of local residents and their families as they go about their daily lives. Initially there were two 30-minute episodes per week but since 2001 episodes have been broadcast every weekday apart from Wednesdays. Within eight months of the show's launch, it reached the number-one spot in BARB's TV ratings and has consistently remained among the top-rated TV programmes in Britain. In 2013, the average audience share for an episode was around 30 per cent. Today, EastEnders remains a significant programme in terms of the BBC's success and audience share, and also in the history of ...

In My A2 production The Life Of A football Hooligan we have had to use either sound clips or songs that are copyrighted and therefore I had to Email Neil Diamond as I used his song Sweet Caroline in the production. I have also have to email the YouTube channel Talk Norwich City to ask permission for there sound clip of fans singing Yellows as it used at the start of My production. I will link prof of me sending the emails below. Seeking Permission form Talk Norwich City  Seeking Permission from NEIL Diamond 

Eastenders is a British soap opera created by Julia Smith and Tony Holland which has been broadcast on BBC One since 1985. Set in Albert Square in the East End of London in the fictional Borough of Walford, the programme follows the stories of local residents and their families as they go about their daily lives. Initially there were two 30-minute episodes per week but since 2001 episodes have been broadcast every weekday apart from Wednesdays. Within eight months of the show's launch, it reached the number-one spot in BARB's TV ratings and has consistently remained among the top-rated TV programmes in Britain. In 2013, the average audience share for an episode was around 30 per cent. Today, EastEnders remains a significant programme in terms of the BBC's success and audience share, and also in the history of British television drama, tackling many dilemmas that are considered to be controversial and taboo issues in British culture and social life previously unseen on Unite...

Fo    The fourth and final Evaluation question for my final A2 production I have decided to make a power point. The question is  How did you use new media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages? I will answer this by doing a different slide on each of the sections and therefore making a power point. I will link some examples below of how a power point has been used to answer this question before. If you click on the link it will take you to the blog of a previous student who also had the same idea as me and that is to answer question 4 as a powerpoint. Blog from previous student

The evaluation question 1 for the advanced portfolio is, in what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? The way that I will answer this question is by doing a directors commentary. What I mean by this is I will be talking over my production and be stopping it at points and talk about the ways this production is developing or challenging the forms and conventions of real media products that are also available. I will link an example of a director’s commentary below. the examples that i will link are one that was done for our product last year but by a different students and then one for a Hollywood movie. 

Third Evaluation for my A2 final production The Life Of A Football Hooligan, is What have you learned form your audience feedback. The way that I will be doing this is either by doing an interview with potential viewers or set up a questionnaire and talk about the answers that i get from the questionnaire. I will example of both down below. the first link is to interviews that were done form our first production from year 12.

The second evaluation question that I have to answer in regard to my A2 Final production, The Life Of A Football Hooligan is How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts? the way that I will be answering this is through a podcast. In the podcast i will be addressing the question and then answering it after looking at both my ancillary texts and the final production. below I will link a few examples of different types of podcasts so you can see the general theme of a podcast. My Podcast will be sightly different to these though as normally you address lots of different topics while I will only be addressing a few. the first example form a very popular podcast made by XO. My podcast will be a lot shorter than this i will only discuss the question  How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary text.

As you can i was originally going to do a directors commentary for my first evaluation question which is, In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and convictions of real media products. after looking at the question again i have decided against a directors commentary and will now be answering the question in the style of a video blog or a vlog as they are more commonly known now. my vlog will be different from the vlogs you see on you-tube because they are mainly talking about their day while i will film myself on the set of my production and answer the question. 

As I'm Sure you've seen i recently updated a rough edit of our A2 final production Life of A Football Hooligan and as well as linking this below i will also state what we need to do and add to this production before it is 100% finished. What is missing? we still need to add music to the production. we need to add a few more clips that we have filmed recently into the production. we need to remove some clips that don't really fit in.  we need to re edit a few bits because we think it might make the viewers loose interest.  we need to make sure that all the clips in the production fit together and make sure it runs smoothly.   we need to add text to some parts for example a title to the production. 

In class we were given the essay question  Discuss the extent to which the distribution and consumption of media have been transformed by the internet? down below I will copy in my answer to this question. TV has been in ever changing industry since it began in the 1920’s and it has recently been making even bigger strides with new channels being added on a regular basis as well as the introduction of smart TV meaning you can now access the internet through your TV. As well as being able to access the internet through TV’s the internet has had a massive impact on the amount of TV people watch because of how big sites like YouTube where you can watch videos for free and now subscription packages like Netflix and Amazon Prime becoming much more popular. With the popularity of the internet getting bigger the traditional TV channels like BBC, ITV and Chanel 4 have had to start using the internet to their advantage as well. All of these big name channels now have online platforms ...