Unit 8 assignment 2

Why are there certain things young people shouldn't watch?

• Can influence young people to do certain things 
• Not old enough to understand whats going on.  
• Might not cope with certain things. 
• Might not understand the narrative  

What is ethics?
Beliefs in what is right/ wrong. We get them from parent/ guardian, personal experience,education and  the media. There is a sliding scale.

What programmes teach us good morals.

• Judge judy 
• Scrubs 
• Dexter 
• Death Row 
• Telly Tubbies 
• Suits 

With these examples we can prove these teach us good morals in different ways.

Should Tv and film be more ethical?
No TV and film shouldn't be more ethical because there is so many TV channels out there now that every genre is basically covered. People can pick and choose what they watch not like it was many years ago. If parents are worrying about what their children are watching then they can do something about it. Parents should be more in control over what their children watch. There is channels out there what do give out good examples of good ethics( listed above ). People have a choice to what they watch so if they dont like what they are watching such as SouthPark then they can easily find something what suits them.

 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/8675609/Television-is-not-to-blame-for-childrens-lack-of-education.html

http://variety.com/2007/digital/news/tv-not-to-blame-for-violence-study-says-1117974404/

Can TV and film be blamed for the slipping ethics of society? 
Yes because teenagers are known to copy one another and dont wont to be left out on the latest things. So if a famous person on TV is doing a certain thing then they think they feel have to do it cause their mates are going to do it and is considered as cool. Teenangers are also to blame because they are copying and tricked in to liking programmes like the Geordie shore because teenagers think they live the way the people do on the programme.
http://www.radicalparenting.com/2011/09/01/why-teens-imitate-their-friends/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-200447/TV-blame-violence.html

http://www.ofcom.org.uk/static/archive/itc/uploads/Copycat_Kids.pdf

BIG BROTHER  

What behaviour raises some questions about morals ethics? 
The aggression by jade is picked up straight away because we all know what they was argument wasn't the point there was more deeper reason racism. Because Jade was arguing with indian woman people thought if Jade was arguing with a white person then the argument wouldn't of been so bad.

Why would channel 4 show this? 
Channel 4 showed this because they know the audience like to see people arguing cause its a sort of entertainment of a reality TV show. It also gets more viewers for the channel if people are talking about whats going on and if its made the news paper. People believe if something is in the paper then it has to be important.

Whats your reaction to this clip?
My reaction to this clip is wrong and stupid. The whole argument in the fist place is a waste of time. talking about and its a waste of time watching. Its not worth arguing and fighting over something petty. People say there was more a deeper reason why jade was so aggressive but there isn't any proof of this.

Trade unions

Unit 8 Understanding Film and Television 

Trade unions, Freelance and Editorial Guidelines

Activity 1

Watch the You tube video  and answer the following question 
  copy and paste this into your blog and answer the question  (http://youtu.be/iz-2P13IK9E)  go to 2:16 on the video

Why did the BBC Strike? 

The bbc did a strike because of job cuts,job load and bullying.

Activity 2 

Watch the you tube video and answer the question: (http://youtu.be/0vwcF6KI7GM)
Why did the American writers strike?


Activity 3

Using the website www.creativeskillet.co.uk and http://www.bbc.co.uk/editorialguidelines
and answer the following questions on a new post called Unit 8 Understanding Film and Television Industries. 

Trade Unions

1. what trade unions can you join if you work in the media and film industry? 

BECTU is the UK's trade union for media and entertainment. The types of media covered include broadcasting, film, independent production, theatre arts, leisure and digital media. The union is a great thing to join as it offers mainly job protection and it improves pay and conditions of service, including pensions.  

2. why is it important to join a trade union, what can they do for you? 

3. what examples can you find of strikes or other trade union action (look for writers guild strikes in USA), why did they strike, did it impact any productions?

freelance contracts

4. what does it mean to be a freelancer in the media?

5. what types of freelance contracts are there?

6. what types of film or media contracts (short term/fixed term/ first refusal)

editorial guidelines

7. explain what an editorial guideline is 

 Editorial guidelines are the BBC's values and standards. They apply to all the content we receive, no matter how or where we receive it. It is very important for producers to work under guidelines so that they make sure their productions are suitable for broadcasting and reach the requirements of their targeted TV channels.  

look at the following link and summarise the guidelines for two or three of the subheadings

8. why is it important for a television producer to work under guidelines.

Pros 

•  Flexibility 
• Always working on something different  
• Get to work with different companies  
• Good way to get known in the industry  
•  Meeting new people. 
• Holidays

Cons  

• You have to work based on what the contract tells you. 
• Not having a stable employer. 
• Cash flow. You have to keep finding work. 
• Not always working for the same agency/company. 
• If you have a bad record its going to be hard to find work. 
• Sorting your own tax out.

Activity 4 Read the article and write the advantages and disadvantages of a freelance contract.  Create a blog with your answers on. Be prepared to discuss this in class. 



Activity 5 

Copy and paste the You Tube video on BBFC (http://youtu.be/NjGPvOV3wv4), and answer the questions

Who are the BBFC and what do they do? 

The BBFC (British Board of Film Classification) is the organisation that set the boundaries on our TV programmes and films which tell us what sort of content is included. The ratings range from U (safest) to R18 (most unsafe).

What can you/can't you show in a PG, 12A and 15? 

Drug Taking 
Sex 
Nudity  
Strong language  
Violence.  

Pros and cons of a freelancer

Pros 

•  Flexibility 
• Always working on something different  
• Get to work with different companies  
• Good way to get known in the industry  
•  Meeting new people. 
• Holidays

Cons  

• You have to work based on what the contract tells you. 
• Not having a stable employer. 
• Cash flow. You have to keep finding work. 
• Not always working for the same agency/company. 
• If you have a bad record its going to be hard to find work. 
• Sorting your own tax out. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Unit 8 Prep work ( BBC )

What is the BBC?  

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a UK-based international public-service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London.

It is the world's oldest national broadcasting organisation and the largest broadcaster in the world by number of employees, with around 23,000 staff in total, and 16,672 in public sector broadcasting. 

When did the BBC start? 

  

The BBC was founded on 18th October 1922. The founder was John Reith. The are of service is global. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC#The_birth_of_British_Broadcasting_1920_.E2.80.93_1922

 Britain's first live public broadcast from the Marconi factory in Chelmsford took place in June 1920. It was sponsored by the Daily Mail's Lord Northcliffe and featured the famous Australian Soprano Dame Nellie Melba. The Melba broadcast caught the people's imagination and marked a turning point in the British public's attitude to radio However this public enthusiasm was not shared in official circles where such broadcasts were held to interfere with important military and civil communications. By the Autumn of 1920, pressure from these quarters and uneasiness among the staff of the licencing authority, the General Post Office (GPO), was sufficient to lead to a ban on further Chelmsford broadcasts.

But by 1922 the GPO had received nearly 100 broadcast licence requests  and moved to rescind its ban in the wake of a petition by 63 wireless societies with over 3000 members. Anxious to avoid the same chaotic expansion experienced in the United States the GPO proposed that it would issue a single broadcasting licence to a company jointly owned by a consortium of leading wireless receiver manufactures, to be known as the British Broadcasting Company Ltd. John Reith, a Scottish Calvinist, was appointed its General Manager in December 1922 a few weeks after the Company made its first official broadcast. The Company was to be financed by a royalty on the sale of BBC wireless receiving sets from approved manufacturers and by a licence fee. 

How is it funded? 

The BBC is funded by UK citizens. We pay a license fee what pays for the BBC. The cost of the license fee is £145.50 and a black and white TV license is £49.  

 Pros and Cons

  

Pros of the licence

The greatest advantage of the TV licence is it creates a pull of funds for financing the operations of the BBC. Many official reports indicate that the fee makes the corporation considerably productive. According to Davies Committee 2000 and Ofcom Report 2001, a vast majority of owners of digital television equipment and payers of the fee hold that using the licensing model enables the corporation to deliver quality and enhances access to information.

Though people have different opinions on the subject, it is true that the BBC delivers better quality content than its commercial competitors because they do not they do not aim at profit making. Moreover, the licence enables minorities as well to get quality information since the licence is simply required when watching or recording live TV while it is being broadcasted. This means any person can watch a quality programme that was previously recorded for free.

Cons of the licence

The main con of the license is that it is uneconomical. The annual rates are high and should be reduced to cater for the poor more significantly.

Lastly, the TV licence criminalises poor people. A majority of poor people often find themselves in court corridors defending themselves for evading paying the fee. Whenever they are prosecuted successfully, they pay hefty fines. The law allows a fine of up to £1,000 making the licence a legal challenge. 

http://www.groundreport.tv/what-are-the-pros-and-cons-of-the-tv-licence-in-britain/

What are commercial TV channels?
 Commercial TV channels are a channel that promote certain stuff and to make profit.

How are they funded?

Commercial broadcasting overlaps with paid services such as cable television, radio and satellite television. Such services are generally partially or wholly paid for by local subscribers and is known as leased access. Other programming (particularly on cable television) is produced by companies operating in much the same manner as advertising-funded commercial broadcasters, and they (and often the local cable provider) sell commercial time in a similar manner.

The FCC's interest in program control began with the chain-broadcasting investigation of the late 1930s, culminating in the "Blue Book" of 1946, Public Service Responsibility For Broadcast Licensees. The Blue Book differentiated between mass-appeal sponsored programs and unsponsored "sustaining" programs offered by the radio networks. This sustained programming, according to the Blue Book, had five features serving the public interest:

• Sustaining programs balanced the broadcast schedule, supplementing the soap operas and popular-music programs receiving the highest ratings and most commercial sponsors
• They allowed for the broadcast of programs which, by their controversial or sensitive nature, were unsuitable for sponsorship
• They supplied cultural programming for smaller audiences
• They provided limited broadcast access for non-profit and civic organizations
• They made possible artistic and dramatic experimentation, shielded from the pressures of short-run rating and commercial considerations of a sponsor.

Commercial time has increased 31 seconds per hour for all prime time television shows. For example, ABC has increased from 9 minutes and 26 seconds to 11 minutes and 26 seconds.

What is meant by media conglomerate?

A media conglomerate, media group or media insitution is a comany that owns large numbers of companies in a various mass media such as television,radio,publishing,movies and the internet. Media conglomerates strive for policies that facilitate their control of the markets across the globe

Channel 5s most viewed programme.

Channel 5 recently bought the rights for the programme Big Brother. This has been a huge success for the channel.

 ITVs highest ratings.

 http://www.bbc.co.uk/corporate2/insidethebbc/whoweare/licencefee  

 Major Studios  

BLUE SKY STUDIOS 

Ice age 

Ice age did very well at the box office. The studio went on to make more ice age films. The budge was very big for a film like ice age. 

  

Rio had a massive budget. I think the studio was expecting a big profit back on the film. 

What is a independent film?

  

Independent film is often thought of as an antidote to the mainstream Hollywood blockbuster. In the beginning, independent film was everything that the major films studio films were not. While Hollywood sold films that were safe, escapist and mega-expensive, independents were the opposite.

An independent film can be made on a shoestring budget. Many of the great independent directors have financed their films using very unconventional methods. Robert Rodriguez sold his body to medical trials in order to finance his first film. One director faked a car accident in order to gain finance from the insurance money for his independent film. Credit cards, loans from family and friends and savings will all go towards a director’s passion for making his own film.

In the nineties, independent film went through a major change. Major studios would not usually bother to touch indies because there was no profit to be made from them, but a small film company called Miramax was instrumental in changing the studio’s mind. The owners of Miramax, Harvey and Bob Weinstein, saw that they could buy films from independent film directors and make huge profits.

Small budget films such as Sex, Lies and Videotape, Pulp Fiction and Good Will Hunting helped change people’s attitudes toward independent film. Compared to the studio pictures, indies were made for very little money, relatively quickly and with first time directors and screenwriters. Independent films began grossing hundreds of millions of dollars worldwide, and the studios began to pay attention.

http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-independent-film.htm 

Independent films what have won awards  

The Pride.

What are the new technological developments in the way we watch/make TV? 

  

There is always new ways on watching TV such as Netflix,amazon prime and watch now tv. These are easy to get you need internet connection and a device to watch it on such as Xbox, Phone and computer.

TV

£8.00 per month per household.

Total spend £2,276m (66%)

Radio

£2.30 per month per household.

Total spend £650m (19%)

Online

£0.61 per month per household.

Total spend £174m (5%)

Other costs

£1.82 per month per household.

Total spend £357m (10%)