News Stories:

Justice minister Malik steps down (source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8051091.stm)

Summary: labour Mp Shahid Malik has stepped down as Justice Minister because of the claims that the daily telegraph has reported about his expenses. Mr Malik is protesting that he has followed all the rules. An investigation has been launched, Gordon brown has asked Sir Philip to investigate as quickly as possible. Browns spokesman has said that Mr Malik position will not be filled while this investigation is going on and if he is cleared he will return to office.

This is a political news story, This is the latest news about the on going news story of the MP’s Expenses.
This latest story was reported today (15th may 2009).
This story is news worthy because it informs the public on the latest news on how MP’s are using the publics tax’s.
The institutions agenda is to inform the public of the way that the MP’s use there allowances for there own use, I agree with the institution and think that the public should no how the MP’s are spending our taxes.
The story is not purposely biased they have tried to report the story as unbiased as possible, but with this latest story they are finding people to blame and Shahid Malik is the first victim.
The information for this story has been collected through news agency and eyewitnesses statements. I say eyewitnesses statements because MP’s have commented on this story through spokes people.
There is a short video with the news story, Its a video of Mr Malik defending himself however it just seems like he is covering his arse rather then saying sorry for his mistakes.
There is two social groups involved Mr Malik and The prime minister saying that he wants to clear this up as soon as possible so everything can return back to normal. They are both represented as fair although the news video is seen to be a little negative.
There is no interaction between the institution and the audience.
All the sites that i have looked at features the story.

Jessie James: Do You Know Who Killed Teen? (Source: http://news.sky.com)

Summary: Police are appealing to the public for any witnesses for a four year old case. Jesse James was 15 when he was shot back in 2006 and the reason for this news story today is that today would be his 18th birthday and instead of celebrating this day, the family are grieving because his killer has still not been found despite effects of the police.

This is a crime story. This is a follow up story from a previous news story from a few years ago.
This story is reported on the 15th may (today) because it would have been the victims 18th birthday.
This is a news worthy story because the murder is still out there and could kill again but its not a vital news story.
The agenda is to try and get the public to come forward if they no anything about this case because the police have hit a dead end and are urging people to come forward with information.
This story is biased because they are appealing to catch the victims killer, so the story is making the public sympathetic to the victim and there family.
The information was gathered from old news reports and police and family statements.
The are two images of the victim one with the main headline and a poster that says ”Can you live with it?…..I can’t” which is there way of making the public feel guilty if they no anything about his death.
There is sympathetic biased towards the family and a sense of begging to the public to take notice.
There is are phone numbers that the public can call to contact the police with any information they have.
Sky news is the only site that features this story that i can find

Man jailed for ‘barbaric’ murder (Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/8051257.stm)

Summary: A Brazilian man has been jailed for 21 years after stabbing a 17 year old girl to death and then dismembering her body and throwing it into a river.

This is a crime story. This is a new development because it reports on the case developments after the trail.
The story was reported today but it has been a long standing story for a year.
This is a news worthy story because it brings notice to young girls traveling abroad with devastating consequences.
The agenda is to make more people aware that there are damagers abroad and it could happen to anyone.
It is biased in the view that this drugged up man is evil for killing a child.
This info has been gathered through police reports and news agency.
There is a picture of the young girl, it looks like a typical social networking site photo that adds more impact to the viewers.
There is no no social groups featured.
There is no interaction from the public.
No i can only find this story on the BBC News website.

_{Focus Group for media Critical Research} 

_{This is the question that I will be asking all my focus groups; Question: How are the female roles represented in the original and the remake film genre film noir.} 

_{For my focus group I will get a few different age ranges, to compare the different generations that the genre film noir has effected. My first focus group was with middle aged women age ranging from 40-50 years of age. Also in the focus group I showed the women some scenes from “The Big Sleep” original and remake.} 

_{The Response that was common was that women in the original seemed to be very independent but is also second best to the male character. The focus group seemed to identify the typical female roles characteristics, The femme Fatale was “The Bitch”, There is a house wife role who is there to represent the typical 1930’s women.} 

_{My focus group talked about how the women are the support for the male characters in the film noir genre. And are in the films to look pretty. This was challenge by some of the women saying that the character like the femme fatale makes the film noir genre because of the typical story lines, where the male lead is always enticed by the femme fatale.} 

In film noir there are three roles that women play: Also known as Noir Women.

The Femme Fatale

This Noir women resorts to murder to free herself from a controlling man. 

“Women are represented as prizes, desirable objects” Sylvia Harvey-The women of film noir.

• Lana Turner in the Postman always Rings Twice

The Good Women 

These women are shown as good and normal women. She is the traditional house wife. which is a role that is out of place in the film noir genre. The “NORMAL FAMILY VALUES” contrasts against the world of film noir. 

The Marrying Type

In the late 1940’s another distinct character appeared in film noir. This woman was there to domestic the hero which is suffocating for the hero and encourages him to rebel against his responsibilities. But the whole perfect family life that she is so desperately wanting to be normal is not normal in film noir. 

Films that involve these types. 

Femme Fatale: 

• I wake up screaming (1941)
• Out of the past (1947)
• The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
• Gilda (1946)
• The lady of Shanghai (1947)
• Murder My Sweet (1944)
• Laura (1944)

The Good Women: 

• The Maltese Falcon (1941)

The Marrying Type: 

• Pitfall (1948)
• D.O.A (1950)
• The Big Heart (1953)
• Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
• Touch of Evil (1958)

Source: www.filmnoirstudies.com

French Film Noirs: 

• Pepe le Moko (1937) directed by Jules Duvivier
• Le Jour se leve (1939) directed by Marcel Carne 

Classic-era film noirs 

1940-49- The Maltese Falcon, Shadow of a doubt, Laura, Double Indemnity, Mildred Pierce, Detour, The Big Sleep, The Killers, 

Remember: 

Questions will ask either what you think about it or how the market has gain from it. (Audience and Market)

_{New media technology} 

_{Source: http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/michaelwalford/entry/glossary_for_new/}

HD-TV. High definition TVs came on sale in Britain in a big way in 2006 in the run up to the World Cup. whilst the quality is undoubtedly excellent when you see one with a live HD feed there is a problem in the UK of a lack of available program material in HD. 

iPhone. January 2007 CES saw the awaited launch of Apple’s iPhone. This is a fine example of convergent technology in which a phone is able to download both music and video. The screen is a widescreen. The phone is also controlled via a touch screen rather than conventional buttons. 

Interactive TV. The ability to feedback information into the TV system. This requires digital technology. Typically the flow of information from the receiver.

MP3. A digital compression system for transmitting music over the internet with short download times. The rate of sampling is only about half as much as on conventional CDs therefore quality is compressed and more songs are compacted into the memory. 

Internet Search Engine. To navigate the internet effectively it became necessary to invent new software to make a rapid search of the millions of domain names which mushroomed on after the start of the World Wide Web in the mid 1990s. The most successful to date is Google. The way in which the companies who run these make money is by selling advertising space.

_Technology: 

_{Mobile Phones}

_{Article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/business_basics/469294.stm}

_{The mobile phone industry has grown over the years because of the growing technologies that has been created since the invention of the first mobile phone back in 1973 which was analogue. Today mobile phones are digital.}

_{Convergence is a key part of mobile phones today, the newest mobile phones have the internet, video recorded devices, camera devices, music players etc. The mobile phone industry has opened up opportunities for a lot of people which it has supplied jobs.} 

_{The article published 10 years ago reports that a third of the population in the UK own mobile phones. Today most of the population own a mobile phone and its only a small majority of the population today that don’t own a mobile phone because they either cant you one or refuse to have one.} 

_{Article:http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4163003.stm}

_{There has been a growing concern on how mobile phones effect our health and worry over more younger children such as eight year olds having the use of a mobile phone. There have been reports that mobile phones can effect brain function and in extreme cases brain tumours.}  

_Music: 

_{Ipods, Mp3 players, Cd’s}

_{Article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4230846.stm}

_{Music as a whole is growing. you can download music from the internet and download them onto an Ipod or an Mp3 player. Before the Mp3 there was the Cd player and before then there was the tape player. As the music industry grew and invented Cd’s the tapes became none existent and vinyl are collected or used by Dj players in clubs. But the music industry has taken a blow because of the illegal downloading on the internet. The number of Cd sales have dramatically dropped because more and more people are downloading music and would rather download the music from the internet then go and buy a Cd. And due to this the Cd players are not being sold as much anymore because of this.} 

_{Production Lodge for Advanced production}

_September

_{19th- Introduced to the assignment brief for advanced production.} 

_{26th- After going through each of the selections i decided to create a for advanced production.} 

_October

_{3rd- I did some advertising while looking for my band to be in my video. I created a blog on my myspace, face book and word press to see if any bands were interested in making a band video.} 

_{10th- I was contacted by the band Sofasonic, are a rock/jazz/ indie group. I then messaged them back and agreed that they would be the right band to make this music video for.}  

_{17th and the 24th-  I then looked into the bands music on there myspace account and started to create rough ideas that would go with some of there songs, focusing on there song Ben,  whilst developed my ideas for my music video, I researched music videos looking into bands like the script and the killers.} 

_{31st-  I arranged a meeting with band to held on the 4th of November, to see what they thought of my ideas and get some  feedback to see what they thought of the ideas, and overall see what they wanted to do with the video.} 

_November 

_{7th- After the band meeting, I changed the idea of the music video a little to suit the new chosen song that is now Turkish Delight. I am now finalising the shot layout of the video as well as creating storyboard.} 

_{I have arranged another meeting on the 10th to look through my storyboards that I have created and for them to sign personal release forms and talent release form.} 

_14th- 

Sites on film Noir

• http://www.filmsite.org/filmnoir.html
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_noir
• http://www.bighousefilm.com/noir_intro.htm
• http://www.ericenders.com/noir25.htm
• http://www.filmnoirstudies.com/

Critical Reasearch: Women and film

Question: How are the female roles represented in the orignal and the remake of the film genre film noir?

Research plan

Look into five film noir films

• see how the female roles affect the plot
• see how the female roles effect the male roles
• how important the female roles are to the storyline
• look at the different types of female roles in film noir

Films:

• The Big Sleep (1946)
• The Maltease falcon (1941)
• The postman always rings twice (1946)

Remakes of fim noir films

Source: http://www.film-noir-alley.com/film-noir-remakes.html

• The Big Sleep (1946), Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall
  The Big Sleep (1978), Robert Mitchum, Sarah Miles and James Steward

• The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946), John Garfield and Lana Turner
  The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981), Jack Nicholson and Jessica Lange