Storyboard from Adam Picton
Monday 28 November 2016
Sunday 27 November 2016
Print-based analysis
This is the poster to the film Fight Club:
We can see that it has some kind of action in it from the cuts and bruises on the character closest to the audience' face. Since he is the closest to the audience, he is most likely the protagonist. We can also see he is very well lit, even his clothing is a bright white, which suggests that he is a morally good character. Meanwhile next to him is another character shrouded in darkness. This shows he's most likely the antagonist and the darkness to the protagonist's light. He's also looming over the antagonist, possibly hinting at a difference in power and how the protagonist isn't as powerful. They both share the pose of having a cigarette hanging out of their mouth though which shows that they're not entirely different and have some similarities. For anybody that's seen the movie and knows it's ending, all of this is done incredibly purposefully.
We can see that it has some kind of action in it from the cuts and bruises on the character closest to the audience' face. Since he is the closest to the audience, he is most likely the protagonist. We can also see he is very well lit, even his clothing is a bright white, which suggests that he is a morally good character. Meanwhile next to him is another character shrouded in darkness. This shows he's most likely the antagonist and the darkness to the protagonist's light. He's also looming over the antagonist, possibly hinting at a difference in power and how the protagonist isn't as powerful. They both share the pose of having a cigarette hanging out of their mouth though which shows that they're not entirely different and have some similarities. For anybody that's seen the movie and knows it's ending, all of this is done incredibly purposefully.
Saturday 26 November 2016
Weekly news 9
'It's Not Over Yet, Donald Trump election win dealt blow as Wisconsin announces it will recount vote after Jill Stein alleges Russian tampering'
Source: The Sun
First of all, I'm happy. Because even though I don't particularly like Clinton either, Donald Trump has very strict policies on immigration and considering how much I want to go to the US for University and then work, it was scary to see he'd been elected. Most of our generation don't particularly care about the election but I don't really have a choice but to care. After all, it affects my future. So fingers crossed the recount changes the result to something less difficult for me.
Anyway, if we compare the reaction to Donald Trump's original victory and this story, it's not nearly as excited as you would have thought. I was prepared for a massive online reaction with everyone cheering and hoping once again to put someone else in the White House after all the complaining and previous resentment towards the first result but it's been surprisingly lackluster. In fact, if I hadn't had gone searching for this story for my weekly news, I doubt I would've even heard of this.
Source: The Sun
First of all, I'm happy. Because even though I don't particularly like Clinton either, Donald Trump has very strict policies on immigration and considering how much I want to go to the US for University and then work, it was scary to see he'd been elected. Most of our generation don't particularly care about the election but I don't really have a choice but to care. After all, it affects my future. So fingers crossed the recount changes the result to something less difficult for me.
Anyway, if we compare the reaction to Donald Trump's original victory and this story, it's not nearly as excited as you would have thought. I was prepared for a massive online reaction with everyone cheering and hoping once again to put someone else in the White House after all the complaining and previous resentment towards the first result but it's been surprisingly lackluster. In fact, if I hadn't had gone searching for this story for my weekly news, I doubt I would've even heard of this.
Sunday 20 November 2016
Weekly news 8
Jessica Whelan Cancer Death: Four-year-old Who Touched Hearts Dies
This Sunday, a child named Jessica Whelan passed away from Cancer. She had stage four neuroblastoma. This is a type of Cancer that leads to several symptoms depending on where the tumor is located. Sadly, because it had spread to stage four, the tumor affected her whole body. She suffered from every symptom, including tiredness, struggled breathing, muscle pain and jerks, constipation, urination problems, struggled walking and back problems, the list just goes on. The chemotherapy she endured in the hopes of survival was constant pain for her. Her father posted on a facebook page he opened in her name informing everyone of her passing with the words "I feel both sadness and relief in informing you all that Jessica has finally found peace at seven o'clock this morning.".
There's not much to say about this opinion wise. Just that it's a horribly unlucky thing to happen to anyone, let alone children, however it affects them the most, being present in around 100 children a year in the UK alone. I'm happy that she was able to get treatment though. If she were to be born in the US, she may have still had to pay for her treatment, costing her and her family. And especially now that Trump is thinking of abolishing Obamacare, or at least minimizing it, it would've been even worse. It just makes me increasingly glad that our government happens to be one of the beneficial in the world, at least to most.
This Sunday, a child named Jessica Whelan passed away from Cancer. She had stage four neuroblastoma. This is a type of Cancer that leads to several symptoms depending on where the tumor is located. Sadly, because it had spread to stage four, the tumor affected her whole body. She suffered from every symptom, including tiredness, struggled breathing, muscle pain and jerks, constipation, urination problems, struggled walking and back problems, the list just goes on. The chemotherapy she endured in the hopes of survival was constant pain for her. Her father posted on a facebook page he opened in her name informing everyone of her passing with the words "I feel both sadness and relief in informing you all that Jessica has finally found peace at seven o'clock this morning.".
There's not much to say about this opinion wise. Just that it's a horribly unlucky thing to happen to anyone, let alone children, however it affects them the most, being present in around 100 children a year in the UK alone. I'm happy that she was able to get treatment though. If she were to be born in the US, she may have still had to pay for her treatment, costing her and her family. And especially now that Trump is thinking of abolishing Obamacare, or at least minimizing it, it would've been even worse. It just makes me increasingly glad that our government happens to be one of the beneficial in the world, at least to most.
Sunday 13 November 2016
Weekly news 7
Paedophile sent naked shower selfie to '14-year-old girl' nabbed by vigilante group
Source: The Sun
First and foremost, this is one of the most sensible articles I've seen written by the Sun. It's seemingly unbiased but the fact that it wasn't rated as a significant story slightly irritates me. Moving on though, the story is about an online group called the Online Predator Investigation Team who posed as a 14-year-old girl called Ellie. The defendant and alleged Paedophile, James Hanson, started inappropriately talking to Ellie and asking her for such things as pictures and asking her to touch herself in her 'privates' meanwhile sending sexual pictures of himself.
From the sounds of it, the defendants points were absolutely atrocious, saying it was 'out of character'. Well no shit, it's not exactly something people go around advertising as a feature of their personality on Tinder. The real disgusting part of this story is the fact that Hanson was let off with only 120 hours of unpaid work and 60 days rehabilitation. The Judge justified his decision by mentioning that there was no real girl and thus, no victim. In my opinion, this changes nearly nothing. He genuinely believed that he was speaking to a 14-year-old girl and thanks to this vigilante group, he was caught before anyone was hurt. But if they didn't catch him, he could have just as easily found a real girl who may have been even younger and some real damage would have occurred. He was let off easy for a minor technicality that shouldn't have been taken into account. He was let off especially easy considering that if he lived in the US, it was still entirely possible he could have received the death penalty.
Source: The Sun
First and foremost, this is one of the most sensible articles I've seen written by the Sun. It's seemingly unbiased but the fact that it wasn't rated as a significant story slightly irritates me. Moving on though, the story is about an online group called the Online Predator Investigation Team who posed as a 14-year-old girl called Ellie. The defendant and alleged Paedophile, James Hanson, started inappropriately talking to Ellie and asking her for such things as pictures and asking her to touch herself in her 'privates' meanwhile sending sexual pictures of himself.
From the sounds of it, the defendants points were absolutely atrocious, saying it was 'out of character'. Well no shit, it's not exactly something people go around advertising as a feature of their personality on Tinder. The real disgusting part of this story is the fact that Hanson was let off with only 120 hours of unpaid work and 60 days rehabilitation. The Judge justified his decision by mentioning that there was no real girl and thus, no victim. In my opinion, this changes nearly nothing. He genuinely believed that he was speaking to a 14-year-old girl and thanks to this vigilante group, he was caught before anyone was hurt. But if they didn't catch him, he could have just as easily found a real girl who may have been even younger and some real damage would have occurred. He was let off easy for a minor technicality that shouldn't have been taken into account. He was let off especially easy considering that if he lived in the US, it was still entirely possible he could have received the death penalty.
Thursday 10 November 2016
Proposal
I'm going to be making a trailer for my coursework and the reason for this is because I've always been interested in editing footage. Filming also seems to come more naturally to me then designing posters or magazine covers, etc. I'm going to do this by keeping it as simple as possible, not using very extravagant sets or props and keeping the budget as low as possible.
Sunday 6 November 2016
Weekly news 6
'WE'VE GOT CONTROL OF THE PRISON' Riot Police prepare to storm Bedford prison as 300 knife-wielding lags riot while sending terrifying videos of mayhem.
Source: The Sun
First of all, I just want to point out how the Sun put an advertisement on the video of this "terrifying" story. Nice one. Second of all, I can't lie, it looks kind of fun despite the rumored injuries. Of course because it's the Sun, they were trying to make the police look like the bad guys to try to sell as much as possible and shit stir. It says that a source inside said that "The guards all ran away and didn't want to do what they were paid to."
Let's compare the headline to the BBC's headline on this. "Bedford Prison 'riot' involving up to 200 inmates". Factual, informative, accurate. Fair enough. But this means that either BBC's info was slightly off or The Sun was exaggerating, and I think it's more than likely the later. The Sun also choose to use the word "lags" which for those that don't know, is an informal term that means somebody who has been repeatedly sent to prison. It's seen as a very negative term. But god forbid the Sun humanizes thugs and "knife-wielding" criminals. Seriously? All 300 of them have knives? In a prison? Where it is very difficult to obtain such weapons? There's a point where it becomes simple lying rather than twisting the truth. Putting fear into people's hearts sells papers and that's all the Sun wants to do.
As for my opinion on the story, it's a dangerous situation that I trust the police will get a hold of. At least the riot is contained inside a prison and not on the streets where more civilians are likely to get hurt. Count the blessings. And just remember that not all of the inmates are participating in the riot and not all of them are violent and inhumane. Some people have just made horrible mistakes.
Source: The Sun
First of all, I just want to point out how the Sun put an advertisement on the video of this "terrifying" story. Nice one. Second of all, I can't lie, it looks kind of fun despite the rumored injuries. Of course because it's the Sun, they were trying to make the police look like the bad guys to try to sell as much as possible and shit stir. It says that a source inside said that "The guards all ran away and didn't want to do what they were paid to."
Let's compare the headline to the BBC's headline on this. "Bedford Prison 'riot' involving up to 200 inmates". Factual, informative, accurate. Fair enough. But this means that either BBC's info was slightly off or The Sun was exaggerating, and I think it's more than likely the later. The Sun also choose to use the word "lags" which for those that don't know, is an informal term that means somebody who has been repeatedly sent to prison. It's seen as a very negative term. But god forbid the Sun humanizes thugs and "knife-wielding" criminals. Seriously? All 300 of them have knives? In a prison? Where it is very difficult to obtain such weapons? There's a point where it becomes simple lying rather than twisting the truth. Putting fear into people's hearts sells papers and that's all the Sun wants to do.
As for my opinion on the story, it's a dangerous situation that I trust the police will get a hold of. At least the riot is contained inside a prison and not on the streets where more civilians are likely to get hurt. Count the blessings. And just remember that not all of the inmates are participating in the riot and not all of them are violent and inhumane. Some people have just made horrible mistakes.
Tuesday 1 November 2016
Weekly news 5
There were 4 stabbings on Halloween. And because of how close the road was to the route I take travelling back from martial arts and the stabbings were reportedly around the same time I would've been returning, this was a very close call. Luckily my dad offered to drive me home this week or I could've been one of the victims.
Compared to the rest of the UK, Croydon has some of the most stab-common areas in the entire country and I simply hate living in an area with such a statistic. Not only is it dangerous but it means that everyone in the area, including me, is associated with the statistic. I've gone to job interviews in much nicer areas where I have seen the interviewer visibly grimace when I've mentioned where I live. Local residents are thinking that it's because of the disappearance of the police station that used to be near Norwood Junction and I can't help but agree. I think it needs to be reopened or at least have the one near Crystal Palace Stadium send a few more patrols near the area for the next few months. Maybe even half a year. Luckily only 1 of the 4 victims died and the other 3's injuries are thought to be non life threatening. Of course it's sad that any of them passed away but it's good to count the blessings.
Compared to the rest of the UK, Croydon has some of the most stab-common areas in the entire country and I simply hate living in an area with such a statistic. Not only is it dangerous but it means that everyone in the area, including me, is associated with the statistic. I've gone to job interviews in much nicer areas where I have seen the interviewer visibly grimace when I've mentioned where I live. Local residents are thinking that it's because of the disappearance of the police station that used to be near Norwood Junction and I can't help but agree. I think it needs to be reopened or at least have the one near Crystal Palace Stadium send a few more patrols near the area for the next few months. Maybe even half a year. Luckily only 1 of the 4 victims died and the other 3's injuries are thought to be non life threatening. Of course it's sad that any of them passed away but it's good to count the blessings.
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