Vox Pop - Review

Through carrying out the vox-pop about bullying in School/ Colleges I was trying to find out from the audience how they experienced the bullying, why the bullying is happening and try to get as much feedback and informations from my interviewee and test out few questions that I might ask in my real documentary but this was only practice that I can try to find out what answers I might get from different people if I ask the similar questions to them.

The effectiveness of my vox-pop is basically the camera angles that show we are in the class room and it represent we are in school and plus I think the effectiveness of my vox-pop was questions because one of the question been personal/private questions about if you ever been bullied and how did you experienced this type of bullying and how did you feel.

I was also hoping to used establishing shot and mid-shots and the angle to understand what the best outcomes will be and what I think would be the most effective relating to my topic. I am happy what I done for this interview practice because it gave me some clues what I might used for my real documentary. 

Analysing Interview Techniques - Lady Gaga - Jonathan Ross Interview

The person I will focused on is the Interviewer call Jonathan Ross he born on 17 November 1960 he is an English television and radio presenter, best known for presenting the BBC One chat show Friday Night with Jonathan Ross during the 2000s and for this show he has interviewee Lady Gaga.

Jonathan Ross his aim is to found out from Lady Gaga the all costumes, dresses that she has it, he want  to find out why she dresses like that, what people will think about her, where she keeping all costumes.
How she inspiring people by dressing like that, she want to be different to other artist. Lady Gaga is more preferring sad fashion and how she inspiring people.

The purpose of the interview is about expressing opinion about her fashion, how she want to inspiring her audience, Jonathan Ross asking Lady Gaga mostly open question and close question and she is answering very open, she got her opinion about her style and she want be accepted. She doesn't have any friends she got friends around stages in concerts.

Structure
The introduction of the interview was very open, Lady Gaga has answer mostly questions, Jonathan Ross was very nice to her and she either prove this in his interview, the development question that he was asking her was very open but when he want to ask about her personal life she didn't either answered and that was closed question.

Jonathan Ross want to build with her good connection and what this call is (Building Rapport) and this how Jonathan want to be confidence-building, when he is asking about her personal life, Lady Gaga want prevent before she going to answer a question and she is picking up her telephone which is basically her hat.

Communication skills 

Jonathan Ross want to build with Lady Gaga good connection between them (building rapport), The way he did this is asking her question relating to her costumes, with people she works and what she experience on stages (concert) and how she feels about it and what fans thinks with her.
Body language of Jonathan Ross was very good, he been pointing on Lady Gaga costumes, he been joking with her.




Comparing Ross Kemp and Jonathan Ross interviewing skills which they presented are very different and each of them got different style of asking questions. After watching Jonathan Ross's interview with Lady Gaga we can see that he ask her multiply questions and in some instance he disrupts her while she is talking to either make a joke or add a humour effect.
When interviewing Lady Gaga Jonathan Ross uses a lot of hand movement when making a point such as pointing at her when saying 'you' similarly  Ross Kemp  also used similar hand movements when interviewing his interviewee but I believe Kemp uses this to make sure his  interviewee  who understand him (able to communicate)  due to the interviewee not having English as their first language.

Sitting position
Body language
Empathy / sensitive towards
Jonathan Ross was not serious to Lady Gaga, compering him to Ross Kemp was more more serious to prisoner and he wasn't disturbing him when he was interviewing him.  

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.

The beginning of this

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.

City Of God - HOMEWORK 2

Narrative 

City of God uses narrative in a complex way, manipulating the timeframe, and using a narrator to lead the audience through the film. The narratir is inside the narrative narrating in the first person. The narrative doesn’t fall easily into the usual theory. There is certainly three parts to the film which is start, middle and end. The start of the film is after all sequence that actually heralds the end of the film , and apart from being a dramatic sequence that serves to engage the audience, but is show an understanding of the changed circumstances of the city, and makes the antics of the Tender Trio look rather tame compared with the later action.
The audience is introduced to the characters and their backgrounds when they were younger. In the middle of the film there is a flash back through the characters younger years in the 1970's and 1980's to the present day. Comparing how they were then to how they are now. The themes in the film City Of God are Jealousy, violence, poverty, revenge, loyalty, fiends, betrayal and morals. The portrayal throughout the film is that the gangsters are always after each other's businesses, money and drugs. The main genre for the gangster film is violence. The themes in the City Of God such as violence show if you use violence you might get a power over some one or either business.

Genre

The film genre for City of God is Gangster. The Genre is established through the motel scene in the middle of the film. There is a sense of realism throughout the film due to the use of location and the use of children when they are fighting or committing another act of violence.
 The characters don't have a good education and they struggle is shown through the different characters lifestyles which my by coused by drugs, weapons and violence in the family or in the area that they live.  The genre is made clear to the audience through the use of a narrator and the subtitles on the screen which explains the place or the year when this has happend also use of violence, language and drugs, personalities portrayed through the characters, gang wars.

Target Audience 
 The target audience for film City Of God is 18+ because of the content of drugs, sex, guns and violence.The gender of the target audience would be mainly male because the use of violence, guns and cars and sex and nudity. 

The techniques which are used to target the audience are drugs, sex, power, crime, guns, blood, violence, strong language and also the Portuguese which is the language of the film, for people who might understand this language and get a content of the film more clearly than people who don't speak Portuguese and things that they translate on the screen might mean something different than what they said in Portuguese.

Violence 

The use of Violence in the film City Of God was when Lil'Dice kills the people at the motel people who didn't do anything bad to him, Steak is forced to kill the two defenceless boys by Lil'Ze and Benny's Death. Also when Lil'Ze rapes knockout Ned's girl, Shorty kills/ murders his wife and Steak kills the boy because of Lil'Ze. The film would not be the same or rather it would not have the same effect on the audience because violence drives the movie forward. It is more violence in City Of God than in Scarface depends to the actors doing it. Also one thing to comparision to Scarface it's kids who are doing the killing not the adults and this what make more interesting than Scarface but in Scarface you have follow the plot if not you will lose the content of the film.

Representation

 Violence is the main theme and is portrayed through the characters struggles and desperation. The City of God is portrayed through violence and sex. Women are seen as objects and are viewed in a sexual way.

Also the representation of Drugs Culture in the film, the Drug Culture in City of God is very much seen as the norm, whether it be to those who purchase drugs or who are the dealers. It is represented as a common trade in which sales are made daily as evident by Tiago and Rocket purchasing drugs in a fashion that is quickly glossed over, as if it were nothing. The scenes in City of God show the power attached to Drug Culture could include in which Rocket explains the chain command in regards to the selling of drugs, but the Benny entrance with his new image to a room of individuals in Lil' Ze's employs, all working in the manufacture of drugs and this is very important in the film because to consider that the WAR which is happening is between two gangs or to biggest lords is for further control the city and thus the drugs trade in the City of God.

Also what the last thing I want to say in the City of God represents someone from the area rather than the representation of their race. The people who lived in the Slum were the black poor people but in the town lived more white/ Brazilian people showing that they had more money. The children in the City of God are represented as violent and unruly also desperate  for power which they got by killing and stealing.