Regulatory Bodies

Ofcom is the communications regulator. They regulate the TV and radio sectors, fixed line telecoms, mobiles, postal services, plus the airwaves over which wireless devices operate. They are the people you contact if you don't like something you see on television for example.

The PCC is an independent body which administers the system of self-regulation for the press. It mainly deals with complaints, framed within the terms of the Editors' Code of Practice, about the editorial content of newspapers and magazines and the conduct of journalists.

The ASA is here to make sure all advertisements are legal, decent, honest and truthful. They are independent of both the Government and the advertising industry and they are recognised by the Government, the courts and other regulators such as the Office of Fair Trading and Ofcom as the body to deal with complaints about advertising.               

The British Board of Film Classification is an independent, non-governmental body which has classified cinema films since it was set up in 1912 and videos/ DVDs since the Video Recordings Act was passed in 1984.

                                           

                                     

Legal and Ethical

Legal

Copy-right is the exclusive legal right, given to an originator or an assignee to print, publish, perform, film, or record literary

Performing rights are the right to perform music in public. It is part of copyright law and demands payment to the music’s composerly

Royalties are the  members of a royal family.

Libel is a published false statement that is damaging to a person's reputation; a written defamation.

Equal opportunities are the policy of treating employees and others without discrimination, esp. on the basis of their sex, race, or age.

The Broadcasting Act  is an Act respecting broadcasting and to amend certain Acts in relation thereto.

Ethical

Accuracy is making sure the information is precise.

Offensive Materials are agreed not to transmit, disseminate, sell, store or host material that is unlawful.

Sensationalism is the use of exciting or shocking stories or language at the expense of accuracy.

Chequebook journalism is the form of journalism where the essential characteristic is that the journalist pays the subject of the work money for the right to publish his story.

Privacy is the state or condition of being free from being observed or disturbed by other people.

Representation is the action of speaking or acting on behalf of someone or the state of being so represented.

Censorship is the practice of officially examining books, movies, etc., and suppressing unacceptable parts.

Public right to know means that the public deserve to know what is happening in the certain situation.

OFCOM

Dear OFCOM,

I am writing to aware you of a episode on coronation street where the character 'Owen Armstrong' played by Ian Puleston-Davies physically hit 'Faye Windass' played by Ellie Leach. I feel that this is very inappropriate material to be shown on the programme because there was a law that was put down in 2005 were parents were not aloud to hit someone else's child unless it does not leave a mark. This was a very bad thing to show on the television because they could have given an idea of Faye getting hit by Owen without showing the actually abuse happening. This is also a bad thing to show on the programme because there could be children watching this which isn't good for their eyes to see this and for them to maybe think that it is ok to see this happen. This is a picture of the evidence of Faye getting hit by Owen.

Yours sincerely,

Yusuf Yusufoglu

Choice in Fonts

The choice of fonts is important because it can show if the newspaper is more professional and is more classy because we can see from newspapers if they have fonts that look messy then the overall newspaper would get a bad view.



We can see from The Independent that it is presented really well and the font chose that they used looks very professional because it looks intellectual which makes the whole newspaper look very well presented. The type of font they have used makes the editor of the newspaper look like he has made the newspaper which a lot of hard work has been put into it which is all shown by just the font.

This picture shows The Sun newspaper which is a different newspaper compared to The Independent  because the sort of font that is used on this picture is more just casual font which makes the newspaper look more casual and not as much professional as The Independent which isn't a bad thing but more people would look at The Sun and say that it looks unprofessional which because of the use of slang words etc and wouldn't pick this over The Independent because they would feel that The Suns information would be less accurate compared to The Independent.

This is why it is important to make sure you present your work well and to make sure that the font you are using is professional looking so that you would be seen as a good newspaper company.

Coronation street theme musci and music beds

Theme Music and Music Beds

This is a clip of the old Coronation street theme tune which has the involvement of instruments such as the trumpet, saxophone and also these sorts of instruments which makes the theme music sound more dull and makes the music sound upsetting in a slow tune with thick sounds because in those days they didn't have instruments that were that up to date, they didn't have things that would have made it more exciting and appealing just quite boring to the public. This gave a boring look to the actual programme.

This is a clip of the end of the show which plays the theme tune at the end which has developed a lot from the older theme tune. They haven't change the actual tune, they have just changed the musical instruments and given it a better beat which has lifted the mood of the programme because they have made it more technical and because it's more modern it makes the public get attracted to it more which is good because it's new and it should be modernised and made better because there is facilities that can do that so why not change it.

Overall the change of the theme tune has changed because of the technology change since the beginning of coronation street. The theme tune is really important for the beginning of a programme because if someone has never seen the show before the theme tune would be the first thing they hear so it needs to be appealing to the audience so they would stay and watch it and not think its dull then watch something else. So changing the theme tune to more modern was a good idea from the theme tune producer to update it.

Meaning created through techniques

Choice of camera angles

This is a source from the sun which shows the whole incident with Chelsea vs Tottenham which is mainly aimed at the referee thinking that goal was a goal where clearly we can see from the photograph that it didn't go in.

We can see in this picture that the ball didn't go in but from some people's view they think that the ball did go over the line. This picture that the press got of the photographer caused them to talk about the whole situation of the ball not actually going in but inconsideration people think it went in when they watched it live and people think it didn't.                               





In this camera angle we can see that the ball didn't cross the line which brings the whole meaning of the goal actually not going in which gave the discussion of the goal being allowed or not.






In this camera angle we can see that the ball went in the net which would be classed as a goal and because there was so many pictures from different angles people didn't know if the goal was a goal or the referee got the wrong decision so people still have their opinions but people who support Chelsea of course would class this as a goal but other fans wouldn't.

soap conventions

Soap conventions.
The conventions for a soap that will be expected to be in soap episodes, these are subjects that are seen on the soaps:

• Pub
• Murder
• Theme Tunes
• Cliff Hangers
• Village/Town
• Villain and Hero
• Affairs
• Dramatic Irony
• Violence

Soap Codes
There are codes that are in soaps to bring feeling to the audience which are in the categories Camera shots, Editing, Sound and Mise-en-Scene. The one i am going to be talking about which will bring tension to the soap is crosscutting which is under editing. This is when the editor will cut one scene and switch to the next scene to bring tension. So for example two people would be talk about how they are going to hide the dead body and before they say where they are going to put it, they then switch to another scene to make us want to know what they were going to say. So that brought tension because we want to know what they are going to do witht he body.