Thursday, 21 May 2015

Channel 4-  http://abdirahmanmohamed251.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/channel-4.html

2) TV News case study 2: BBC News at Six

3) TV News case study 3: coverage of the General Election across different news programmes

4) TV News case study 4: independent case studies (BBC3 60 Second News and Newsround)

5) News Values blog task

6) TV News audience - creating a running order

7) TV News representation - analysing Sky News coverage of the 2011 riots

channel 4

When is Channel 4 News on?
The channel 4 news is on at 7:00pm-7:55 pm

When was the programme first broadcast?
Channel 4 began broadcasting 2 November 1982 in the afternoon.

What awards has the programme won?
Channel 4 news has won International Emmy Award for News
2014 2013, 2004 Also British Academy Television Award for Best News Coverage
2012, 2004, 1996 Affairs Journalism 1994, 1993

What is the media institution that produces Channel 4 News?

Who are the presenters?
The presenters are Jon Snow Krishnan Guru-Murthy and Cathy Newman            

What are the presenters wearing? What does this communicate to the audience?
The presenters are wearing smart cloths this tells the audience that this is and new program and shows that there are professional.

Opening Sequence
The shot was about a serious topic on immigration.
The opening scene uses graphics and images to attract the audience by making the opening news more modern and more appealing for the viewer.
At the start of the news there was typical dramatic music that was used.
In the start of the news they should the news stories that were going come up in the show for the following hour.
Studio mise-en-scene
In the news programme you can see the desk and the TV screen.
The presenters at the start of the programme are standing up and then after the presenter are sitting down on a chair.
The technology is visible in the show to give a impression that they have modern technology.
The colour that the studio used was mainly purple and the secondary colour was white.
How news stories are presented
The new programme typically give a brief statement of what the new is about and then show a short footage of the incident with a depth explanation of the situation.
The programme uses camera to record the programme, they use many reporter In the area, moreover use of graphics to give a modern effect to the studio, has many interviews.
Channel 4 news normally covers: World News, S               ports, Politics, 
News stories on the election at the moment keep people interested by having interviews with many political leaders. Another new story was on migrants trying to get into the EU and the news programme shows live footage to keep the watcher entertained.   
Running Order
The top story was about the election.
The top story was on for about for about ¼ of the shows timing.
Each story is spilt into equal intervals and one story is about 5 minutes
This was because so that the audience don’t get bored on one story only.
 Audience
The main target audience is young adults aged between18-30 years old.
People are mainly likely to watch this is because of the characters which are shown on the channel. The uses of the presenters attracts the audience and the way is presented to the audience.
The audience have the ability to go on the website of Channel 4 news and there they can comment on the news that they have watched or comment on YouTube.

The audience pleasures from escapism and surveillance.

Thursday, 8 January 2015

Narrative theory


A retired CIA agent travels across Europe and relies on his old skills to save his estranged daughter, who has been kidnapped while on a trip to Paris.In the movie Taken uses many narrative techniques typical of Hollywood thriller and action. Applying Propp's character theory, we have a clear protagonist in Liam Neeson character 'Bryan Millis' . He makes his mission to not rest till he he gets his hands on his daughter again. Bryan goes against the antrgonist 


Todorov: equlilrium

Seventeen year-old Kim is the pride and joy of her father Bryan Mills. Bryan is a retired agent who left the Central Intelligence Agency to be near Kim in California. Kim lives with her mother Lenore and her wealthy stepfather Stuart. Kim manages to convince her reluctant father to allow her to travel to Paris with her friend Amanda. When the girls arrive in Paris they share a cab with a stranger named Peter, and Amanda lets it slip that they are alone in Paris. Using this information an Albanian gang of human traffickers kidnaps the girls. Kim barely has time to call her father and give him information. Her father gets to speak briefly to one of the kidnappers and he promises to kill the kidnappers if they do not let his daughter go free. The kidnapper wishes him "good luck," so Bryan Mills travels to Paris to search for his daughter and her friend.

Tuesday, 6 January 2015

Movie: Taken 

The movie 'Taken' has an element of stereotypes as the the Hollywood actor ' Liam Neeson' is expected to be involved in violence, action and thriller. 

Tuesday, 9 December 2014

Newsround

Newsround is a 10 minute news programme, mainly appealing to young teenagers. Newsround is a BBC children's news programme, which has run continuously since 4 April 1972, and was one of the world's first television news magazines aimed specifically at children.


  • Time 
Newsround starts at 8:15 an till 8:25

  • Presenters
The presenters are the following: 





Thursday, 13 November 2014

RELOAD


Movie name: Reload

Tagline: The true story of a real fake
                                              
Log-line: Son of a framed father makes it his mission to continue on the family name and infiltrates the NCIS for vengeance, as he notices his faces the challenges of exposure from his uncle, who goes by the name of Hitler Zeus

Reload is psychological action thriller movie, which follows the story-line of a 19 year old teenager, Jack Crude, who servers the pain of the in existence of his father. After having heard his father was murdered in United States of America’s president elections, he decides to take action into his own hands and attempts to avenge his long lived father. Jack insistently arrives at the crime scene of his beloved father, where he finds him lying on the concrete floor as the frozen rain hit his expired face, with a knife inserted into his heart.


 Reload offers an all-action thriller element to the film Taken. The film provides appeal to late-teen as well as adult audiences with an effective coalition of serious thriller, and explosive action.







Tuesday, 11 November 2014

Poster Picture:

      
Key Convention:

-Title
-Release date
-Actors
-Central image
-Secondary Image
-Tagline

Actors- 
The movie utilizes a professional as well as successful Hollywood star, Liam Neeson. This attracts many of the audience as he is well known for many action-thriller-horror movies. Liam Neeson is the main character of ' Non-Stop', which was seen to be the best action-thriller movie of Liam Neeson's selection.This is a productive way of appealing to many audience.

Central Image:
The Central image is of Liam Neeson whilst holding a M15 pistol in his right hand.