Essay plan.

How are institutions and ideologies represented in the film "The Pursuit of Happyness?"
(each bullet point is one paragraph/a couple of sentences)

Juxtaposed and Anchored image

The source of this image is a photographer called Martin Argles (google him, he's a photographer for the Guardian). Nick Clegg is just gesturing with his hands, however his position allows me to give meaning to that by suggesting that he's demonstrating the size of the fish he caught last weekend. Instead of anchoring the original meaning, I have subverted it for the purposes of humour. This is actually juxtaposition so I'll name it as such.

Forgot that I haven't posted the 5 media products homework yet. It was in my book and I never got round to typing it up until now:

• Internet - Arby n' the Chief web series. Audience is mostly passive young people with an interest in internet memes and video games.
• Radio  - A series of psychotic episodes. Audience is active, young people. Probably middle class.
• Film - Any James Bond film. Audience is mostly passive insecure young men who hold the same values as the film.
• Printed Media -Morning Star. Audience is mostly active, working class.
• TV - The Lost series. Audience is active and middle aged.

Framed image

I haven't been so active in writing over last week. This is because Halo 3: ODST came out on Tuesday. I have since been playing it at every opportunity. For the information of people who don't know, Halo 3 is the best selling game on the Xbox 360 with 10.17 million copies sold to date. ODST is an expansion of sorts which follows the same story as Halo 3 except from a different perspective. A bit like the expansions for Half-Life.

Newspapers

I shot this Vlog sometime last week but can't quite remember, anyhow, here it is:

2nd EDIT: Peter commented that the autoplay was getting annoying and seeing as it doesn't play on school PCs there's not much point it being here. Therefore it has been removed, if anyone really wants to see it I'll keep it in the video archive of my (personal) blog and might upload it to YouTube whenever I get an account.

The best of radio comedy.

I recently found a bunch of torrents of radio shows. My views on piracy aside, it's a great opportunity to re-listen to fantastic radio comedy I've listened to since I discovered that non-visual gags are also funny.

Eastenders commentary

I'm missing breakfast to post this but I'm anxious as to whether it'll work properly, so here it is:

EDIT: Peter commented that the autoplay was getting annoying and seeing as it doesn't play on school PCs there's not much point it being here. Therefore it has been removed, seeing as it wasn't that good I probably won't reupload it to YouTube unless anyone specially requests it.

Layouts

I've spent the past few days piddling around with blog layouts (on new blog) after having bought server space and a domain and trying to get stuff to work. I have drawn up the following observations:

First!

This is my first post on the new Media Studies blog. As asked I have replaced the image of George Kerr that was my earlier profile picture with an illustration I made on my proper blog. The reference to the practice of commenters to post 'First!' on any new thread may be continued in the comments here... But I doubt it somehow as this is a 'adult friendly' blog and to narrow it down even further it's a 'teacher friendly' blog.
To explain; we learn about audience theory in Media Studies, the content here is adjusted to be appropriate for it's audience (teachers and exam moderators).