Guardian article

Article 

the fifty shades of grey film adaptation has hired British TV screenwriter Kelly Marcel. The author announced the "so-called" good news on twitter. Fifty shades of grey is being overseen by producers of The Social Network. saying things such as "she was the right person to augment our fifty shades of grey family". However screenwriter Bret Easton Ellis decided to go on twitter and say "Dear God." A separate tweet read: "Kelly Marcel?!? KELLY MARCEL?!? Kelly Marcel is WRITING the script for Fifty Shades of Grey?!? THIS is the movie they want to make? ARGH. 

in my opinion 

it really shows two aspects of media platforms. The first one moving image as movies and second one e-media. As how e-media gives a chance for people to speak about their views and also interact with each other creating valid debates and also sometimes informing people about certain things. However my opinion on this article is that it really shows as to how society has changed (SHEP) as how we have become so open about sex and porn etc. As it also shows that some people are okay with it others are not, reflecting clashes of ideas again bringing controversy to the story. 

Sacha Baron Cohen article

Article

Summary
Billionaire business man Cecil Chao offered a 65 million dollar (£40m) dowry to any man who can marry his lesbian daughter. He was being really serious. However Sacha Baron Cohen decided to use this as a inspiration for his next venture it will be backed up by Hollywood studio Paramount. Sacha will produce through his four by two films banner.

My opinion
it really shows as to how homosexuality is portrayed in these 2 different places and cultures. As in places such as America and England this idea of Cecil paying a man to get married to his daughter is silly in our view, as homosexuality is seen not mostly but by some people as okay, as we also find it humorous as to "Hollywood" and paramount a huge institution's backing up the idea. However whereas in Honk Kong which is a more conservative place has a total different view on it.

feminism lesson

To what extent do you agree with Rosin's hypothesis that women are taking over modern society? Give examples in your response.

- Women are getting married later - more career oriented "These changes have reached deep into the intimate lives of couples, shifting the way men and women worldwide think about marriage, love, and sex"

- divorce rates are increasing - women are more independent "the average age of marriage for women is 32 and divorce in many Asian countries is skyrocketing"

- dual burden- women are taking over household work and outside work-"conversation. Her name was Bethenny, she told me. She was 29 and ran a daycare centre out of her house. She was also studying to get a nursing degree and raising her daughter"

-Men are unemployed more - "In the recession, three-quarters of the 7.5 million jobs lost were lost by men"- "In the recession, three-quarters of the 7.5 million jobs lost were lost by men"



Can we find examples in modern media that support Rosin's suggestion that women are taking charge? You may wish to argue the opposite - that men still dominate the media scene.
NO

-Music videos- rap videos- e.g monster-kanye west, criticised for misogyny 

-Manic pixie dream girl- E.g 500 days of summer

-smurfette principal-in tv programmes there is a higher male proportion to female in casts. E.g big bang theory, 30 rock etc.

-so many films have failed to pass the bechdel test (1) it has to have at least two women in it, 2) who talk to each other, 3) something besides a man) E.G 2012- 90 MOVIES ATM have failed this test including the dark knight, 21 jump street, the dictator etc, 

Yes

- Third wave feminism- are proud of who they are and therefore celebrate women's sexuality For example christina aguilera your body

Mumford n Sons Album sales Article

Guardian Article

Summary

Mumford and the sons have become the fastest selling album of the year within the UK and US. This is the bands second album and has sold 159,000 copies in the first week and in the US 600,000 copies. it has also smashed spotify records with having round 8 million listens, statistics showing one in every
10th spotify (paying a certain amount of money monthly and getting unlimited music streaming) user listen to the babel track. with spotify having 15 million users. However acts like coldplay have withheld their albums from spotify as people criticised for giving labels low royalty payments compared to album sales. Glassnote records says " spotify is retraining people to buy music through streaming services"

Opinion

its a big point that goes against people who say digital sales has totally killed CD sales from stores. As from this article it shows people still do  purchase albums from stores and also people are using "legal" ways to download their music for example spotify. Also it shows spotify could be the future of music downloading as we might move on from single downloads to paying monthly and getting unlimited music streams.

Post-Colonial theory

first text...
- race and ethnicity is shown in a positive way
-Globalised- the internet, technology etc (coming together)
- as by how we see all the races come together and celebrate
- also over the time how different races have had great achievement in music E.g rizzle kicks, dizzie rascal, asian music
- also the white wife and the black husband living a good middle class life style. going against the stereotype. And how to races have come together to make a happy family
-Relating it to theory - Alvardo - Humorous-not in a comic sense but in the sense of joyful happy characters
-negative-  Frantz- black wearing white masks- want that lifestyle

Second text...
-negative representation - multicultural - staged and not true
- trying to say we don't see black father and white mother living in a middle class life style
- Frantz- that black people are aspiring or wanting to be like white people as seen in the Olympic opening
-alvardo- pited, as black people in real life don't have a middle class life style.

Media Guardian Article

Guardian Article

Summary
With the release of iPhone 5 there has been a lot of controversial view on the new Maps app. However this hasn't discouraged people into buying the new phone as nearly 1,297 people were queuing outside from 8am which beats pas records of the iPhone 4s, which had a total of 778 people queuing. Also now that apple has stopped using Google maps as one of its apps, it has now combined it new map app data with TomTom and own sources however it has had many errors. Furthermore Apple has also given a statement as to it is "working on it". However it hasn't stopped iphone 5 sales and iOS 6 downloads. in addition other issues have been such as the new sim card slot "nano-sim".


In my opinion
i believe iPhone 5 does deserve the sales and admiration that it is getting. As just because of one app they are getting all this criticisms. As there are other aspects about the phone that can be appreciated such as the length etc. And also Apple being such a well known brand it was expected that the product will get so much attention due to its well known name and also loyal customers who will buy their products.

Evaluation

Self-Evaluation
- in my video what went well was that i used the research well in the video and pretty well edited. However i could have used my own research and plus used more original content which could have put me into the L4/L3 grade. -_-
EBI-
according to me the strengths of the internet is how it has changed communication. And the way we work as its affected everything such as business with how advertising is so much easier. Music as how downloading music and also for music companies who can find talent on the internet. etc
However there are also weaknesses such as cyber bulling which has become more common then bullying in schools. Also things such as fraud, crime etc has increased.
In conclusion my opinion is that internet has more strengths then weaknesses as it has enhanced and changed the way we live our lives.






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