MEST 4

1: Outline the Text and Topic to be investigated
celebrity obsession : i will be focusing on the following questions
why are people obsessed with celebrities?
Does the media create celebrity obsession?
Are celebrities famous for what they do or who they actually are?
how does audience obsession start?
how do celebrities keep up there status in order for them to have so much fans?
do they become famous instantly or does it take them years in order for them to be well known?
I will be looking at celebrities such as Trey songs, Beyonce, Miley Cyrus , Justin Bieber

2: Outline the proposed linked production piece

The proposed linked production piece could be either a fan web site linked onto face book or an article interviewing and focusing on a celebrities life and their achievements.

3: List at least 2 Media texts that you plan to investigate.

i plan to investigate the institutions behind these celebrities.

4: Why have you chosen these texts?

5: Apply MIGRAIN to the 2 texts.

M:

I: mtv, celeb fan sites

G: music, film , singers and actors

R:

A: all ages mainly teenagers males and females

I: fox warner bros, record companies

N: how are celebrities constructed and how are they concieved by the audience

6: What are the issues and debates surrounding these two texts?

some issuses and debates surrounding these two texts is does the audience make celebrites who they are? does the media make the celebrites who they are? wheres does obsession come from the way the media represents the audience or is it how the celebrites potray themselves.

7: State why you believe the 2 texts fit the 'contemporary media landscape'.

8: Discuss the reason this topic area resonates so deeply with you?

This topic resonates so deeply with me as i feel as i can relate to why people can be obsessed with celebrities and its a topic which is intresting and i enjoy investigating.

Media Guardian Top 100 - 2010

1) The media guardian 100 is a rank of people who have had an impact on how we consume the media and issues that have been raised in the UK within the media industry.

The panelists on media guardian are a group of successful leaders in the media industry,they are people who have spent many years working close to the media. For example Farah Ramzan Golant is a cheif executive of advertising agency and has been working with them since 1990.

2) There is 19 woman in the top 100.

3)

Dawn Airey ;chairman and chief executive, channel five

Sly Bailey; chief executive trinity mirror

Jana Bennett ; director of vision BBC

Helen Borden ; director BBC news

Rebecca Brooks ; chief executive news international

Jane Bruton ; editor grazia

Roisin Donelly ; corporate marketing director and head of marketing, Procter & Gamble UK and Ireland

Janice Hadlow ; Controller BBC2

Angela Jain ; Head of E4

They are all part of the broadcasting and publishing industry.

4) A fifth of the top 100 are women.

5) The list clearly states that men are more dominant in the media industry; out of 100 only 19 women, 81 being men were listed. This could suggest that men can handle the media industry way better than woman, they have the ability to influence “economic, political and cultural” in the UK media industry better than woman .