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 .

Katie Piper :) My Beautiful Face

I felt acid melting my face away and wanted to die. Now I'll show the world this evil rapist didn't win !!!!

Damn ritee he didn't Win .... Katie Piper is beautiful same way .
I just cant get over and believe how evil and out of control a human can be ;; we shouldnt even call him human

Joke is he had the CHEEK i repeat CHEEK to call katie the night before and say that he'd got a present for her that would change her life forever.
who would do that !

Basically to cut the story short ,,
Evil Danny Lynch had already brutally RAPED Katie, kept her a PRISONER and BATTERED her before he decided he wanted to spoil her beauty forever - and sent a henchman to hurl SULPHURIC ACID in her face.

The acid caused third degree burns to Katie's face, neck, chest, upper arms, wrists and hands and left her blind in one eye. It also caused severe damage to her respiratory system when she swallowed acid while screaming.

She needed more than 30 operations just for her nostirls and gullets and also needed to wear a mask 23 hours a day .

Katie quotes ;; Although I have been scarred for life I am extremely happy with my new beautiful face," she says. "I look at old pictures of myself now and see her as a girl I spent loads of time with," says Katie. "It's like she was a best friend I'll never see again.

"But I am happy now. I laugh and smile every day. And thanks to the wonderful people around me I am going to be OK."

Hear what katie has to say <<<

Personally i think she is one of the bravest woman ive heard about . Seriously come on Beauty is like a girls best friend ,, how many girls do you know walk past a mirror without having a look at their face ? For her to look at the mirror and see a face that has changed completely and which brings back the past is beyond brave ! we should be grateful for what we have and consider those who have gone through times like this.

What i Learnt Today :)

There are three main media platforms which are :

Broadcasting: is basically sending out contents of TV and radio to a large number of people. there are 6 major broadcasters in the UK which are ;; BBC, ITV, CHANNEL 4 , FIVE, BSKYB, VIRGIN MEDIA. most of these broadcasting institutions have a presence in other media platforms which is called a synergy . For instance the BBC have 8 national TV channels and 10 national radio stations && 40 local radio stations !

Print: is basically producing a content ; copy and images using ink or paper. News papers are published at least once a week their are approximately 680 newspapers in the UK ;; 290 are free and 390 are paid for !!! hear this most newspapers are owned by the same institution for instance News International owns the times, Sunday times , the Sun, and the London paper.

E-Media: the world wide web , internet and other platforms. the internet is the newest form of media communication and the also the most fastest use of communication. the internet is growing rapidly as their are more people using the internet and the improvement of technology.

For example not long ago all you could with a phone is answer calls now phones can text,send pictures,receive news, advertise and navigate directions . Not yet does any one own or control the internet !

✩✩What Do you Think Of JEDWARD ✩✩

Jedward the nations most annoyin but yet entertaning twins on the xafctor !

arghhh ! mee personally i cant stand them yes they may be entertaning in some way buh i jus cant c it .. im not hating on them or anything because they blaitently have a wide majority of people voting for them and absolutely adore them butt the question iss ... WHAT IS IT THAT PEOPLE REALLY LOVE ABOUT JEDWARD ? i knoee for sure its not their singing

HAVE YOU REALISED THAT AS SOON A SIMON CHANGED HIS MIND ABOUT THE TWINS THE PUBLIC NOW SEEM TO HAVE LESS HATE FOR THEM !

The reason why i say this as on facebook every week since x-factor has started people are insulting the twins over and over again also renaming the x-factor as fixed-factor some even said that they will never watch x-factor again if jedward continue to stay on the x factor. However as soon as Simon said that he actually enjoyed them he also had them go into dead lock between them and Lucie (which was a shock) as they are great entertainers. Funnily enough straight after that nights show less people were insulting the twins but actually praising them .

quote from a friends on facebook - '' I actually love Jedward can't believe i hated them Goo Jedward '' another commented '' Its actually true what simon has said about the john and edward - i have less hate for them now :) ''

On sunday nights show simon admitted that he'd ''probably'' rather watch jeward again rather than watch Lucie but on saturday night show he claimed that ''we all know by now that you actully cant sing but that was actually a good song choic for you two'' . This is came as a suprise to most members of the public as Simon was known to actually hate jedward as they are annoying and can not sing what so ever . The majority of people threatened to boycott x factor and renamed the x factor as Fix - factor on thier Facebook and Twitter pages but the other half of the public actually did not see what the fuss is about !

Lets just say Simon was taken over by their performance of GHOSTBUSTERS !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2pJPLhZjjc

✮✮Response to Pete's Blog ✮✮

well ... when i first got told to go on this blog i was thinking here we go this is going to be something really boring :(

But surprisingly it was actually really interesting :) :)

Wow....... its funny how most of our time is taken up the web . Everything we do nowadays has got to do with the web weather it was for research or entertainment we use the net at irrelevant time which makes it seem as if we are controlled by it ! weird right :)
Quoted from Micheal Wesch video - Web is us !
dO You believe that the web is us ? do you believe that the web controls and takes up lets say vulnerable time ?
watch this > Web is us

Our everyday life is taken up by the web its funny when you come to think of it but when i watched the video i began to understand that the web does really take up most of our time.

I Just had to post this video from petes blog coz it really did interest me and it will do the same to you .. i hope :P

Students View

As you can see from the video the students are holding up papers in relation to the internet, most of the students in the video are complaining about things that happen in a lecture room or better enough in their life as a student in uni ... ''18% of my teachers dont know my name'' to me that seems unfair but hey in a class of almost 200 students that understandable. Joke is many of the student use the web whilst in lectures not to study but to go on FACEBOOK ! :)

✩✩Progress✩✩

My media grade for last term was a D2 :s !
My target grade is a C3 !

Hmmm ...

Looking at the grades its not as bad as it seems as we have just started the media course and are now starting the big assignments. To know that i have started with good feedback is great as i am along the right tracks but just need to expand and go into detail on what i write on my work.

Three Targets i will set myself will have to be :

1. Come out of the box and explain in detail what message im trying to put across in my work
2. Secure myself in a safer lets say higher C .. i guess lol
   
3. Revise and learn key terms