GCSE Media: Fronter page

I have created a 'hand in page' in the year 10 media fronter room. This will be open for your to upload any work over the summer holidays for marking. The assignment sheet is also uploaded to Fronter. Remember unit 3 is a independent assignment and you have 3 tasks to chose from.

Have a great summer year 10, see you in September!

Miss Alleyne

Year 12 media: How to delete yourself from the internet

This is an interesting video we looked at in class; can you delete your existence on the web?





With help from technology writer Jemima Kiss, Guardian journalist Mark Rice-Oxley tries to erase his online self. But aside from deleting your social networking profiles, is this even possible? Are there sites out there that can help?And where does your Facebook profile go when it is removed?

Mark Zuckerberg: Inside Facebook questions and answers

Mark Zuckerberg states "Social networks will be ubiquitous tool used by billions of people to stay connected every day"

1. What does this statement mean?
This means that social networks will be present everywhere and any where in our every day lives.

2. How many people in Britain are registered on facebook?
30 million

3. Why does Mark Zuckerberg want people to share information?
He wants people to share information to make the world more open and connected. It allows users to discover new things like movies, places etc.

4. Why are so many users attracted to using facebook? Give reasons
* Some people have facebook purely because they have been pressured as they feel they are missing out on socialising. Others are addicted to facebook as they can discover new things, reunite with old friends etc.

5. How did Mark Zuckerberg develop facebook? When did it start?
The development of facebook originally started off as a prank when Zuckerberg was in university which set up a website called 'facemash' which was a profile in which they would judge and rate people on how they looked. People themselves didn't put up their pictures.

Media activities for the summer holidays

GCSE Media 

Activities in this summer pack will be useful for your GCSE Media exam

 

Research the film industry and answer the following questions:

Explain what a film director, cinematographer and producer does?

What is a ‘media conglomerate’? And give examples

Freelance working is common in the media industries. Explain what a ‘freelance’

worker is and give two examples

What do you understand by the phrase ‘fixed term contract’? Why is this type of

contract popular with employers in the media industries?

How is the film industry regulated?

Explain the three stages of a film, what is involved in each stage:

—  Production

—  Distribution

—  Exhibition 

Name three world-wide distribution companies

Why is the timing to release a film important? 

Name five key elements with a film marketing campaign?

What is a teaser film poster? 

How is the internet used to generate a buzz before a release of a film? 

List as reasons how the film industry has been changed by the Internet

Year 12 media: How the Internet has revolutionised the Media by Hollie O’Byrne

The leap from web 1.0 to web 2.0 has made a huge impact on the media and is leading towards abandoning the traditional ways of media.

The internet has revolutionised the media, the newspaper industry is now in crisis. Broadsheets like The Guardian are losing £100,000 a day. Income from advertising has disappeared as more advertisers are also migrating to the web in order to reach a wider global audience. David Gauntlett is a theorist who came up with the analogy Web 1.0 being a garden and Web 2.0 being an ‘allotment’. The development from web 1.0 to 2.0 means that audiences can’t only just look at the media, they can create, share and edit on online material. Audiences can now contribute, produce and consume the media. These people are now called prosumers as they are active participants of the media.

As Web 2.0 has continued to develop and has lead to creating an online community of people who Dan Gillmor calls ‘Citizen Journalists’ he suggests that large media corporations cannot control the media anymore. News is being published as it unfolds which is available to everyone, via the internet for free. Gillmor states that ordinary citizens use blogs and we media and user generated sites such as Twitter, Facebook etc. to share our news, which he calls ‘Citizen Journalism’. Twitter has played an important role in the media during big events such as the summer riots of 2011. It was said that some riots were organised through twitter, people were using false identities but then those who commented, shared were exposing their identities which helped unroll new leads to who started the violence. News that a protest over the police shooting of Mark Duggan had descended into violence was being passed along a chain of thousands of Twitter users before journalists had even arrived at the scene. The observations of local residents and observers of the riots- citizen journalists- proved useful. 

The Guardian not just a newspaper, but a multimedia platform available for audiences to see globally, this is because of web 2.0. The Guardian was the first UK national newspaper to use web first stories which means stories that are produced on the web before print, blogging software and podcasts. There is a comment is free section, readers responses and forums. 

Rupert Murdoch's news corporation has the largest overall share of newspaper circulation. Profitability of the newspaper is in question due to the popularity of the web and ‘free online news’ The Times website has recently introduced a paywall which means users can only read a certain amount of an article and if they wish to continue they need to pay in order to do so.

Miss Alleyne's comments 

Well done Hollie!

You have applied what we have learnt in class and used examples from the Guardian case study. Confident use of media terms such as web 2.0 and cross media convergence. Also excellent points made about web 2.0, citizen journalism and we media.  Keep up the hard work!

Mark Zuckerberg: Inside Facebook

 In class we have been watching a documentary on Facebook and answering the following questions.

Mark Zukerberg states “Social networks will be a ubiquitous tool used by billions of people to stay connected every day”.

What does this statement mean?

How many people in Britain are registered on facebook?  

Why does Mark Zuckerburg want people to share information? 

Why are so many users attracted to using facebook? Give reasons  

How did Mark Zukerburg develop facebook? When did it start?

How does facebook make money and what are the problems? 

How do facebook ads differ from google adverts? 

How to advertisers target audiences on facebook?

Facebook is more than a website but known as a platform. What does this mean?

-Technology eco system (Facebook is open to developers...why 

http://watchdocumentary.org/watch/mark-zuckerberg-inside-facebook-video_c4de389c7.html