Mythology

 Mythology- Social media

 

http://www.greenbiz.com/blog/2011/12/19/ups-and-downs-social-media-sustainability

Social media has taken over most of our lives, in some way we are being social. Facebook, twitter, whats app, msn, all social media that we use to communicate with others. But what are the ups and downs of social media? In this blog i will talk about the ups and downs of Social media, going into depth, with images, diagrams and lots of text. I will cover things such as 'How has it affects today's way of life?' etc.

First of i will talk about the ups of Social media:
UPS

For business, social media is the perfect way to advertise your company. It has the largest audience that you are ever going to be hit and enables you to hit all audiences as well. Conventional methods such as bill boards are still used but are not used as much. In this day in age the use of Facebook, twitter and you tube and generate anything between 1,000 to 100,000,000 views and more. Trailers, websites and even games are released onto the web.

Through the use of Social media and convergence, you cannot escape 'The next big thing'. Apart from the promoting products through social media, it is a good way to share and relieve information. |Take twitter for example... you have the freedom to look at what you want, you can follow, funny, famous, interesting and even more intellectual people around the world.

Another advantage to social media is that you are able to talk to anyone around the world at any time, you can talk to your relatives who are in another country, you can talk to your mates who live across the world somewhere, and you can meet people and talk almost as if your there. You can also use things such as Skype which you can get on your phone and even see the person your talking, and if you have a mic you can even talk to them. Its like the world has gone smaller.  This is a form of real time communication.

DOWNS
Some of the downs for social media is that nothing is private anymore, even when you set yourself to private, people have ways of contacting you...

Also all of the social media is used through new technologies such as computers, ipads, iphones, and lots of other different devices that everyone has, which allows them to use social media. Because of the ease of use of social media, people become less, interactive with people in the real world. They loose interest to talk with there friends as they would rather go on social media websites and talk with far more interesting people on the other side of the world.
As people can pick and choose who they want to communicate with and have far more interesting convo's as was just  said, less and less people are going out as much.

Because of this social media, people become less confident and find it harder to have a conversation face to face, and would rather use text messages and other social media sites to communicate with the people they know.

 

Social media can be used in many different ways, not only for everyone to communicate with others online, this is the the basics of what is on offer. To many businesses it is a way of doing research / gaining feedback from customers at no cost. This is because they can create a user and then communicate with customers at no cost. and because of the millions of users, it is one of the most affective ways of doing research. From mass media marketing of a new product, to researching what people want out of a product. Instant news, now if people want to know what is going in the world. they don't have to watch the news but can see what is trending. Can be used in education, teachers can set up subject groups on Facebook where homework can be uploaded, or as a way to communicate any inquiries they may have while outside of school, tweeting links to useful revision websites and because of this it allows students to be learning new things everyday by doing what they do everyday "socializing".

Revision

Uk film council:
it was an agency for helping, supporting, financing the movie production.
The money came from the government, money won from loterry and it helped distributed

When it shut down it changed the filming industry as it meant that less independant movies were made.


BFI
prints and advertising funds provide £4 million every year to help british distributors to promote non- main stream films..


Because of much cheaper equipment now the independant movie with low budget can make movies cheaper and therefor can make some money of it.


Film piracy is a big issue
Net flix.
Love film

Home cinema-big screens, surround sound, alchocol and food aloud.    
Everyone wants to watch films, because everyone can relate to it, its a topic to talk about, see something new, experience what you cant experience in real life.                


Hyperdermic syringe model. Everyone has the same view from the film.


sanitisation- can stop someone being violent from watching a film on how bad violence is.



identification-were watching movies can affect people and make them shoot someone or something ect.






Why we would want to watch media:
Information- we want to find out about society, what i happening around the world, new technology, ect.


Personal identity- we may watch television to look for models for our behaviour, it helps us decide how we feel about ourselves, the warm feeling of a good ending.


Intergration and social interaction- something to talk about




Look at distributuion, production, maketing, exchange.


Digital Tech:


Production:
Audience- 3D-AVATAR
-bigger screen cinema
-home cinema
Institutions-
Mass- 3D =, having the latest thing to woaw them, always entertaining the audiences,
Independant- MONSTERS   

-Cheap for cameras
-cheap digital prodiction companies
-technology is cheaper
-dont need 35 mm cameras and crews to move them
-smaller crew which is cheaper
-locations more diverse as you can have small cameras set up in smaller spaces.

Marketing:- Synergy

Institutions-HUNGER GAMES

-Net
-Social webcas and saturation as everyone gets to see it, because of the social media.

-Blogs
-Trends

-Fandom=audiences, follow react, interact and communicate like

-Mobiles, apps=getting the hype up.

 
Distribution:
-Digital prints Vs 35mm

-Satelite streaming
-Home market > VHS > DVD > Blue-ray > Netflix
-Home market > TV > Satelite > On demand
-Internet, have to have good technology to make it work, fast internet speed to ct down o buffering times,

Exchange:
-Cinemas keep unto date.

Disability

Discuss the ways in which the extract constructs representations of disability using the following:

• Camera shots, angles, movement and composition
  The extract represents disability by the camera sots as it uses simple camera shots for example when Mr frost is talking to Billy, simple close ups of the characters talking makes it seem like Billy has disabilities so simple things have to be used so he could understand well because of his condition. This is further supported by the use of language as Mr Frost talks slowly with simple English words to make sure that Billy understands.

• Editing
The editing in this extract was also very simple which could imply that 


• Sound
 Disability can also be represented by the sound. For example Mr Frost talks to him with very clearly and with simply, Billy also replies with a slow muffled voice which implies that he has a condition. He also repeats what he says sometimes which further on shows the audience of his disability. 

• Mise-en-scene

The Hunger Games

The hunger games is set in the future where one boy and girl is chosen randomly from each district and they are then made to fight for their lives to be the only survivor of the 24 contestants. This movie is based on a book written by Suzanne Collins which is aimed at young adults. Lionsgate bought the rights of this book in 2009 and tried promoting the video , this made promoted the film which was going to be made, this is a good example of synergy.
This was a great success and within 3 days it made a gross of $155,000,000 (£97.4m) just in the USA and a further $59,250,000 (£37.2m) outside of the USA. This is a massive amount of money earned in the first 3 days, even when there movie budget is around $78,000,000 (£49m)

Friendship problems

Write about the charecter:

This character will be a kinda good looking 17 year old guy who is shy and has a view really good friends. But he always has a desire to be like someone else and to have what he always wanted - girls.
He gradually gets enough confidence and he starts to talk to different girls and finds out that he is a lot better than he once thought and he realizes hes full potential. He starts to meet different girls and eventually starts having sex with them. But he's sex life gets out of control and he wants more and more and he starts to notice that his friends girlfriends are really fit and he starts to have a desire to have sex with them also. He finally looses it and has sex with everyone of his mates girlfriends. His mates find out about it and they stop being his mates, they stop talking to him and they don't even look at him anymore. He then realizes how much hes lost and misses his mates. Hes really depressed and starts being a loner. He then tries to get his mates back but he has real trouble.......



Tops
Jeans
T-shirts
Tall
Blue-eyed
Trainers
Brooklyn
Steve Stevenson
17
Brown
Streetwise
Talented
Leader
Motivated
Innocent
Trendsetter
Ladies-Man
Loner
Few-friends
Ambishious
Big-dreams
Good-parents
Caring
Sweet-talker
Bad-memories


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OCR G322 Monarch of the Glen Extract (Age)

Discuss the ways in which the extract constructs representations of age using the following:

• Camera shots, angles, movement and composition

At the scene where Paul is telling Amy to leave, the camera angle goes up to look at Paul to show that he is the older one, the man of the house, it also makes him look really big and tall. However the camera angle that shows Amy speaking is slightly pointing downwards and it shows the massive size of Paul next to her, making her seem powerless and really small and young.
Also when Amy starts the car there there is a camera movement around Amy to show what she is doing, but she isn't completely sure what she is doing so it shows her young age as she isn't sure how to start the car properly.

• Editing
When Paul starts talking to Edward Green in the office, the isn't a lot of quick editing from shot to shot, the film spends longer on each individual angle, the movement is slow which reflects the old aged adults talking, but when Paul comes out and talks to Amy there is sudden quick movement and the camera angles changes a lot, so there is a lot of editing put into this to make sure its quick and snappy which shows that Paul is talking to the younger people as they tend to be full of energy and move around quickly unlike old slow adults.

• Sound
When Paul is talking to Edward green he speaks quietly and calmly like with an adult but when he starts talking to Amy he is more sharp and he talks much quicker. This shows representation of age as he talks much quicker with the younger people. He also talks to the older person politely and with long fancy words like 'reimburse' but when he starts to talk to Amy he uses simple English words that any young person would know the meanings of, and he is really not polite with her and uses words like 'damn' because he doesn't have a lot of respect for her as she is really young.

• Mise-en-scene
The mise en scene represents age, as all of the old characters are wearing jackets, coats, checkered shirts and plain dirty trousers. This shows they have been working there a lot in their old lifetime because of their old dirty clothes. The younger characters are wearing t-shirts, hoodies and jeans, which are all clean and look almost new which shows that they haven't been working there for a very long time as they are really young, this is an old dirty farm so they would get really dirty even if they did a little bit of work.