My opinion about The Cruel Cut (2013)

I think that the cruel cut should be stop in United Kingdom and other countries because this is not related to religion or any of believes, and also in France what is the best thing that every girl is being check by the local doctor to found is they done FGM. The whole campaign is organised very well they way she persuade people to come and see the FGM story why they doing this and why should stopped. Also she only invited people from her culture which is from country Somalia. 



The cruel cut analyse
The social issue being focused on this documentary is all about FGM, the FGM is basically removing or cutting a part of vagina and why they doing this because is to protect women, and make sure that she want have sex before marriage. The whole FGM is being weird because some people that this is a religion tradition and every women have to do FGM when they are either young or older and know one can stop this. In UK they want to be against FGM and Leila is the person who will help people to find out what is FGM, she has presented to males genders and females that has never know about FGM and to find out, what kind of pain is that and she will show lot of examples.

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TASK 1: Initial Research - Moverlisa

Closing West Croydon Bus Station

This topic is all about West Croydon bus station to close until 2016 for redevelopment work, Many Croydon locals were shocked to find West Croydon bus station closed.. The closure is scheduled to last until until early 2016 as extensive redevelopment is undertaken at the terminal.

No buses will stop at the station for at least 15 months, but the estimated 8 million commuters that will be affected were only informed of the refurbishment at the beginning 2015 but station has been closed in 2014 between october and november.Some residents have complained that the transport company and the council did not advertise the changes to their journey routes in advance.



http://www.croydonadvertiser.co.uk/West-Croydon-bus-station-close-2016-redevelopment/story-23020555-detail/story.html#comments


http://www.eastlondonlines.co.uk/2014/10/commuters-surprised-by-west-croydon-bus-station-closure/


Bullying

This topic is all about bullying, both Cyber and in real life, this topic is a serious issue, which has lead to; isolation from the outside world, self harming and going beyond even that; Suicide. And I personally believe that those things are the answer to stop people from being bully, in some case it might be encouraged knowing that the victim is afraid and vulnerable, so I’ll be looking further into this, asking questions to people about the topic and then getting answers from former victims of it and how they coped with it all.

The main topic I will focused on is schools and work places where the bullying is happening all the time, and my role will be ask people questions what are the reasons for bullying, why the people do that, what we can do about it, and what people are feelings and what they feel when they been bullied long time ago or either few days or months.

Abortion 

http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/Abortion/Pages/Introduction.aspx

This topic is about abortion, and what is all about is that abortion in United Kingdom should be legal or illegal. The abortion is a topic that will never finished, there will be lot of confrontation about abortion, why there should no abortion in United Kingdom, maybe is the reason of the church, why church does not allow the abortion etc. 

I role will be to find out why abortion is bad, what are reason for abortion, why the church doesn't allow abortion, what are feelings of people how done abortion and why they decided to do abortion? and if there will be second chance to give the infant a life what they will say?


C) All the three initial ideas that I have research on are ideas that I can create my own documentary and show what I am thinking about it and show to people what I feel and people who are the main targets in those topics etc. What I am thinking to do about the three topics is to do more research on those three topics and decide later on which topic will be suitable to make the documentary on and what it will be easy for me .

The two topics out of three are the main topics that happens nowadays and it will be still going on around the world. Bullying and Abortion are topic that contain serious stuff, bullying is about harming someone, make the person to commit suicide or to runaway from the environment that the person live and I think the topic I choose is one of the ideas that I can record the documentary. The another topic is Abortion, abortion is the topic that have different views from different views, what I mean is the personal opinion about the abortion, also another opinion from churches what they think is bad to do abortions and from government, what are consequences of abortion, what government can do to you if you abort the child(infant).
The last topic is closing the West Croydon Bus station where around 2 million passenger are using public transport everyday, and I think it is good topic to made the documentary on because there will be problem for people who been using buses from West Croydon station everyday and now they have to find different area where they can find the bus to travel to the work with no any road problems.

Those three topic are very good topics that I can record the documentaries on but what I have decided that the topic I will made the documentary on bullying because is nowadays issue that is still happening and it can not be stop in the 21st century and I decide that I will made lot of research on this topic and think how I can put this everything in one piece.

My personal opinion about The Cruel Cut

I think that the cruel cut should be stop in United Kingdom and other countries because this is not related to religion or any of believes, and also in France what is the best thing that every girl is being check by the local doctor to found is they done FGM. The whole campaign is organised very well they way she persuade people to come and see the FGM story why they doing this and why should stopped. Also she only invited people from her culture which is from country Somalia. 



The documentary effectiveness has proven to be a marketing success, as mentioned earlier, it caught global attention and was enforced by the U.S government and army following the U.S president, Barack Obama's orders. It's influence fuled by social media networks such as Twitter and Facebook had been the soucre of the attention it created. The documentary itself was broadcast online, allowing free and convenient access for people to watch and learn from just from a simple ''retweet'' or ''share'' of a button. Cleverly using his toddler son to manipulate and influence his audiences emotions and concerns saying ''If this was your child, what would you do ?'' to encourage sympathy and compassion amongst the viewers watching his documenarty as a tactic to possibly have more money donated.  Though the documentary succeeded in creating awarness and funds for the campaign, it failed to capture Joseph Kony which was one of the aims of the entire campaign and documentary. The charity organisation, Invisible Children still aid in protecting children in danger of being kidnapped by Joseph Kony. Until now they are still welcoming donations for funding the help required to free kidnapped children in Africa. As proven in the documentary, children were recued from the capture of Joseph Kony and either brought to the U.S to be an experienced ambassador for the charity or returned to their families.

Homework 3 - Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels  

Narrative:
the narrative structure shows the film that has a couple of flashback on beginning, middle and end for example when there was a flashback of Bacon and his friend walking into the pub and a man on fire comes out running and screaming that what makes this film non-linear, however film shows another flashback and is very hardly any special effects and just a couple which makes it neither like City of God. Also what I have found that in the scene when a gang goes to the house of another gang to get the money and weed and then a women appears from no where and it start to shooting at them, the director of the film has put them in the slow motion effect in which added humor to that scene. I think that it is the dark humor that is sued through the film that keeps the audience maintained.

Genre
The codes and conventions for this film that make the genre clear for example money is always on the frist place without money film want make any sense because usually the characters either want money and be wealthy or owe someone very important money. The another example that you will always find in gangster genre is drugs/cocain. In Scarface or City Of God the main drugs used was cocaine which is usually the common drug used in gangster films. The another conventions is guns and knifes have been in gangster films from the old days till nowadays, and they are very common thing in film that you will find in this genre. One thing that I thought was cleaver about this film is the way they added a stereotype in this type of film considering its not your typical gangster film, and that is when we saw Rory Breaker and his Hench Men wearing long black coats and this made it clear that this person is also either important or powerful. 

Representation

The representation of women is small and there is no any female character in the film, which actually says more about the representation as to if they were to have a lead female character in the film . I feel that women are stereo-typically as they are weaker, sex object. The men are seen as dominant and stronger and also powerful - which is how they are portrayed in this film very well, the men within this film have been represented as very violent and we do not see a variety of characters as each of them has a part in violence, which is another stereotype, The males in Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels are potrayted in different way one of the males characters is weaker and one of the is stronger and stronger characters can have a full power on weaker one.


Target Audience

The certificate of the film is 18+ and it is target audience that the film is aimed at adults over the age of 18.

However considering the genre of the film and storyline and also the actors involved it has a specific adult audience. What I have found is this film that a film includes drugs and gang related issues which could suggest an audience specific social class. The violence and abusive language that is involved in the film, such as the scene where a guy was murdered upside down when a guy by throwing a knife at his head that the target audience that the film would be aimed at 18 or over.

Violence: 
The violence in the film makes it more interested to watch due to the characters that are committing it. The film is about four men that find themselves in big debt to an East End hard man and his enforces after a card game or poker. The four men discuss various illegal schemes to obtain the money and stole from thieves next door who themselves have drug growing operation,where they grow the cannabis plants. When everything takes a turn and when they trying to go through with their plan, Eddy and his friends realise that they are out of their depth and desperately look for a way out before they find themselves in trouble. In my opinion all gangster films have the same type of theme because always they are there elements that all gangster genre films has to have without will be nothing. This film has some similarities with the film City Of God and also with the film Scarface. Themes wise however it is used differently than the other films. The example that I have found in other films is an example of power, in Scarface Tony wants to be wealthy and powerful and in City Of God Lil ze the Antagonist of the film wants to be powerful and have a City of God under his control.