Louis Oram GCSE Media Blog

Wednesday 24th January 2018 L/O: To investigate how news programmes are targeted towards different audiences. 10 News stories this week... Target Audiences for these programmes... 1. Radio 1 Newsbeat  Gender - both  Age 15+ Interests - Music  Live - UK 2. BBC 10 o'clock News  Gender - both Age - Young adults and adults Interest- interested in the news Live - UK 3. Spotlight Gender - Both Age - young adults and adults Interest - People that are interested in the news close to them or in their region Live - People that live in cornwall or regional news

Friday 12th January 2018 L/O: To explore the concept of 'fake news' and how to spot it. Fake News- False information used to shape your views, opinions and ideas. The information is often exaggerated, heavily biased or simply not true. The purpose of fake news is used to control and manipulate people. 5 examples of Fake News: *Muslim demands pork free menus in the us. *Queen Elizabeth removes Obama from royal party list. *Celeine down hates the american flag because he hates the country. *60 churches out of 1000 in Houston help hurricane harvey victims the other 940 didn't. *Hillary clinton assistant found dead. People fake news to get views and get the media attention they want. You can spot fake news by:

Friday 15th December 2017 L/O: To create a realistic green screened clip using iMovie. Special Effects... *Green Screening *Animation *CGI (Computer generated images) *Makeup and Prosthetics  *Robotics

Friday 8th December 2018 L/O: To explore the different features of iMovie and experiment with different genre features. I've changed et a sci-fi adventure film into a horror sci-fi WWW: I used every aspect of iMovie that i was told to and I like how my trailer has turned out a lot. EBI: If i built my trailer around the sound and music.                

My Shootout Movie Poster... WWW: I like how my poster has turned out and i like my photo. EBI: If i could find a better background. To improve this I added a title using a western style font

My Shootout Scene... WWW: The images and audio i have chosen is good EBI: I added more transitions and added gunshots.

Wednesday 22nd November 2017 Western Shootout Movie Posters... Conventions of Western Movie Posters... Usually mid shots, mid close ups or close ups of characters. The title always stands out and is very bold, its always straight as well. The posters use big blocky font, this is usually common in western movie posters. There is always a tag line. There are always weapons and guns on the front of the posters.