photo evaluation

I dont feel like this is a good enough picture to use for my magazine as it isnt really clear what it is focusing on and the students head isnt in clear view of the school audience.

I really like this photo as the student is happy and the effects are nice and bright however, the background and scene isnt really that good because you cant nessceraly tell its in a school buiding and it doesnt truley convey the aspects of our school and it isnt that clear to the audience where the picture is taken.

I could  use this for the contents page because the blue door in the back ground connotes the school unifrom colours and the background shows this is a school building, also the student looks happy and it will be a suitable picture to use for the school magazine.

I think I'm going to use this for school magazine because i can use the caption "jumping for joy at the over achieved grades of Class of 2012" as the student is joyfully jumping and looks like she is pleased with her success. The student is in proper uniform and the leaves in the background dennotes even more that this is an autumn edition and I will edit on the school badge to connote even more that this is a school magazine.

I could use this for my school magazine as the student is sitting otuside  a classroom and well presented

Although this is a nice picture of the student outdoors on the school premises there is too much litter on the scene and it would not set a good example for the school if this was the front page. I will not be using this for my school magazine as it could poorely portray what the school is like.

I may use this picture for the front magazine or contents page as this is a clear head shot of the student in front of the school magazine which clearly connotes that this is a school magazine and straight away the audience will know that.

Reflection

Doing this bridging task has excited me for the rest of my media a-level course as i enjoyed researching artices and annotating them.
Also creating this blogspot has widened my knowledge on how to and maintain blogs and I will feel more confident when creating my coursework one.
Another postive I like about this is that I can look at my colleagues work and it inspires me on my next posts and i can easily get help without asking for it.

Media Guardian :)))))))

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2012/sep/17/duchess-of-cambridge-news-photography

an article that interested me was about Kate topless photos:

The duchess was recently pictured sunbathing topless and these photos were leaked by an italian magizine called Chi and this same magazine was once critiscized 6 years ago by the prince for running a picture of his dying mother which showed Princess Diane inhaling oxygen in a black and white photo.
All the British tabloids attacked the publication. "Shame on you," said The Sun, calling it "the lowest of the low". The Daily Mirror's headline said: "Our deep hurt", while the Daily Express described the image as "grotesque."
The magazine's then editor, Umberto Brindani, defended his decision to publish by saying the photograph was "touching" and "tender" but not offensive.

The author of this article defended that he published these photos to show how modernised the royal family have become.

This article interested me because it is a rare day that there is gossip on the royal family or news about someone doing some offensve towards the royal family or in some way disrespecting it.
What interested me was the same magazine got criticized six years ago for posting something disrespectful towards the royal family. So this echo of disrespect could maybe portray some spite or hate towards the royal family?

ELLE girl

♥_♥ Waterloo Road ♥_♥

For media I watched a TV Drama I had never watched before; I chose Waterloo Road. It is based on a boarding school in Scotland.
the subgenre of waterloo road


Waterloo Road is a British television drama series, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 9 March 2006. Originally set in a troubled comprehensive school in Rochdale, England, in 2012 the location of the show was moved to an independent school in Greenock, Scotland. The series focuses on the lives of the school's teachers and students, and confronts social issues such as extramarital affairs, abortion, divorce, child abuse, and suicide.
Waterloo Road is produced by Shed Productions, the company responsible for Bad Girls and Footballers' Wives.



The series is set in and around Waterloo Road, a fictional school for students aged 11 to 18, a comprehensive in Rochdale in series 1 to 7 and an independent in Scotland thereafter.At the opening of the series, the school was notorious for being "on the scrapheap" with poorly behaved students and poor-quality teachers, but each head has tried to prove the school better than its reputation and it has passed multiple inspections to stay open across the years


Tom’s in his late 30's - and is one of Waterloo Road's most popular teachers. The boys like him because he doesn't push them, the girls fancy him because he's a good-looking male teacher – but he doesn't take his fan club seriously. He tells himself this is education the modern way, but it's really 'cos he doesn’t like taking a load of jotters home to mark.



Tom's from a solid working class family with a strong belief in the importance and value of education. He developed a love of English Literature, but university was always going to be the gateway to a free and easy life for gregarious, good-looking Tom. Teaching seemed like the best bet to avoid serious hard work and be paid for talking about a subject he enjoyed. Tom is basically a sweet-natured bloke, eager to please and avoid conflict – but this has also become his flaw: a willingness to compromise and postpone difficult decisions


Chalky is an accident waiting to happen. Nervy, with a bad haircut and old fashioned clothes - the minute he steps into a classroom every kid smells an easy kill. Incredibly bright and academic, on paper, Chalky is every head teacher’s dream. In reality, he is a very different story. He's unable to discipline a class - and the pupils run rings around him.



Chalky comes to Waterloo Road straight from the all-boys school he attended as a kid. Despite being on the receiving end of many a joke and prank there, Chalky got by as a teacher – even gaining the respect of much of the class, simply by being so passionate about his subject. Maths suits Chalky. It requires no opinion, no emotion and no modernisation. Equations will always be equations – there are no grey areas – just right and wrong.


He's not had an easy life. His parents are often absent, and he often lives on his own (with the occasional company of Ronan and Josh). Finn relies on his friends to feel secure - and all of his relationships are deeply intense and complicated.

Finn has never been comfortable in his own skin, but in series six a tentative romance began between him and Sambuca - and for the first time, Finn found a girl who was actually a stabilising influence. When Denzil began veering off the rails, Finn really tried to help get his head straight.

 

~ ♥ media representation ♥ ~

Representation refers to the construction in any medium (especially the mass media) of aspects of ‘reality’ such as people, places, objects, events, cultural identities and other abstract concepts. Such representations may be in speech or writing as well as still or moving pictures. The term refers to the processes involved as well as to its products. For instance, in relation to the key markers of identity - Class, Age, Gender and Ethnicity (the 'cage' of identity) - representation involves not only how identities are represented (or rather constructed) within the text but also how they are constructed in the processes of production and reception by people whose identities are also differentially marked in relation to such demographic factors. Consider, for instance, the issue of 'the gaze'. How do men look at images of women, women at men, men at men and women at women?

http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Modules/MC30820/represent.html

Rescources I Found Most Helpful

below are three hyperlinks to the websites I found most helpful.
1) beaverwoodmediabridgingunit.blogspot.co.uk
A reason I found this post helpful was because it gives you the option to browse and view my friends and other candidates blogspots and see what they post, this inspired me and gave me ideas on how to do mine also it helped me gain access and email my gmail account.

2) beaverwoodmedia.blogspot.co.uk
this website is helpful to me because it can direct you to other websites you could find helpful and also it was an outline on how your blog spot is supposed to be and gives you an introuduction to media.

3) beaverwoodmediaas.blogspot.co.uk
For coursework we have to make a magazine and this website gave me an initial idea on what it is supposed to be and look like. There is a big chunk of information and this information inspired me on what to write about and what it should contain.