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Weekly News

BBC News...

A man has been charged with murdering four men, including a warehouse worker, a student and a would-be chef.

Stephen Port, 40, of Cooke Street, Barking, east London, is accused of killing the men in the area between June 2014 and September this year, Scotland Yard said...  'Mr Port has also been charged with four counts of poisoning with intent to endanger life.He will appear at Barkingside Magistrates' Court on Monday'.

The charges relate to the deaths of:

• Anthony Patrick Walgate, 23, from Barnet, who was pronounced dead on Cooke Street on 19 June 2014
• Gabriel Kovari, 22, from Lewisham, whose body was found near the churchyard of St Margaret's Church, North Street, Barking, on 28 August 2014
• Jack Taylor, 25, from Dagenham, whose body was found near the Abbey Ruins close to North Street on 14 September this year
• Daniel Whitworth, 21, from Gravesend, Kent, whose body was also found near the same churchyard on 20 September 2014

Jack Taylor was a night-duty fork-lift truck driver at a warehouse and was last seen by friends on a night out in Barking on 13 September.

This is a horrific story and shows how nobody knows whats round the corner. Stephen Port met these young men online and invited them back to his house, where he drugged and killed the men, then dumped them just a 5 minute walk from his home. I think its terrible how the authorities have taken this long to find this murderer as the first killings where just months apart and then Jack Taylor was found almost a year later. i see this as poor investigation and it wouldn't be easy for the families who didn't know who killed their relatives, and it shouldn't have taken this long to link them together.

Suffragette Premiere In London

Suffragette 

Last week my media group and i went to see the premiere of the film suffragette at the London BFI Film Festival. The film was very dramatic and moving and told an inspirational story of the lives of suffragette women.

The scenery and clothing had a big impact on the film as it was clear of the time frame it was set. The style of dress differed between social class and this gave us clear vision who was more important and wealthier in society. 

 All the different camera shots used have a massive influence on the impact of the film. 

This angled close up shows us the London surroundings, It shows Maud looking up to Big Ben which could suggest her looking up towards parliament to show her fight against them. It highlights the expression in her face which also gave me the idea of the determination to win against the sexist society.

This extreme close up focuses on the interlocking of two women's hands, this gives an idea of the representation of women coming together as one to fight for their freedom and equality. It creates a sense of solidarity between the women and it does this without any speech or explanation.

Long shots have great informational value about surroundings, characters and lifestyle. This image shows the amount of women supporting the suffragette's and campaigning for their rights outside parliament, we can tell this from the signs and the guards all in one simple shot, it zooms in towards the women protesting gradually to show a sense of remorse on how many women are fighting for their right of freedom.

 All the sound effects throughout this trailer give you a sense of what it is like in the film, The sound effects, including the enhancements of 'bangs' creates a feel of actually being on set and experiencing the horror they did to get their point across. The flashing images and the focus on the environment and the characters actions increase the dramatic essence of the film. It also draws you in to the understandings of why the suffragette's are doing what they are doing and creates a clear view of what women in the 1900's had to deal with in terms of gender discrimination. Women are presented in this film as underprivileged, working class citizens who obtain no rights in the patriarchal society.

Overall this eye opening film on how the women in the 1900's fought for our vote and for the equality of women is very inspiring, it creates a heart warming realization of reality that women wouldn't be where we are today if it wasn't for the suffragette's. Without the fight and surrender of lives of the suffragette's we would not be living such an equal life today with all the power and rights that we are privileged with.

Emily Davison Throws Herself Under The Kings Horse (1913). A Day that Shook the World.

Weekly news

The Hoverboards craze becoming illegal in public places

Sky News

They have become a recurring annoyance for pedestrians on busy footpaths – but now, a crackdown on "hoverboards" in public could be on the horizon.

Londoners who are thinking of investing in a self-balancing scooter are being urged to reconsider by the Metropolitan Police, as a 180-year-old law means they can only be used on private land.

Although they are powered vehicles, hoverboards are too unsafe to use on British roads, and cannot be licensed or registered under the Highway Act 1835.

But in England, Wales and Scotland, it is also an offence to take it for a spin on the pavement, as it can prove to be a dangerous hazard for others.

Guidance from the Department for Transport says: "You can only ride an unregistered self-balancing scooter on land which is private property, and with the landowner's permission."

Hoverboards have enjoyed an explosion in popularity recently – with Justin Bieber, Chris Brown and Kylie Jenner just some of the celebrities snapped on the "personal motorized transporters".

It seems unlikely that any enthusiasts will be prosecuted for whizzing down the street on a self-balancing scooter, yet offending Segway users have faced court action in the past.

Back in January 2011, an unemployed factory worker became the first person in the UK to be convicted of riding a Segway on the pavement – and was slapped with a £75 fine.

At the time, campaigners who were pushing for wider Segway use expressed outrage at the ruling.

The vehicles do have form for veering off course unexpectedly – even making it difficult for the world's fastest man to leap out of the way in time.

In August, Usain Bolt was flattened by a cameraman on a Segway just moments after winning the 200m gold medal at the World Athletics Championships in Beijing.

London

AS Media Trip To London

To Suffragette We Go...

Friday the 9th of September me and my amazing (some of them) media group went on a trip to London to go to the BFI London Film Festival. Our teacher Barrington succeeded at his job of not to kill any of us, and making sure nothing killed us due to the paperwork. We traveled on plenty of trains which surprisingly,  no one decided to wander off in the distance or get lost, which is good for us. We saw the premiere of the film suffragette in Haymarket and this was our journey....

This was taken on the train, of the London Eye ...

Finally arriving at London Waterloo...

The National Gallery...

There's Emma and George the Fourth on his horse in Trafalgar square...

I love this horse if you can tell...

There's the horse again...

 Here's Graham. (at cine-world)

 We don't know these people but its all about making friends...

Finally made it to the premiere and saw Suffragette...



Overall we had a really good day and i thought the film was very good.

Crash (2004)

Visual and Audio Codes

 Crash

Whats it all about?

Crash is an inspirational movie set in Los Angeles. Ordinary American citizens with very separate and different lifestyles interweaving in stories of race, loss and redemption. Each character has to deal with the tense race relations that occur in the city.

Among the characters are: the Caucasian district attorney, who uses race as a political card; his Caucasian wife, who, having recently been carjacked by two black men, believes that her stereotypical views of non-whites is justified and cannot be considered racism; the two black carjackers who use their race both to their advantage and as an excuse; partnered Caucasian police constables, one who is a racist and uses his authority to harass non-whites, and the other who hates his partner because of those racist views, but who may have the same underlying values in his subconscious; a black film director and his black wife, who believes her husband doesn't support their black background enough, especially in light of an incident with the racist white cop; partnered police detectives and sometimes lovers, one Hispanic female and the other black male, the latter who is dealing with a drugged out mother that feels he isn't concerned enough about taking care of family; an East Asian man who is run over but who is hiding some valuable cargo in the back of his van; a Persian store owner, who feels he isn't getting satisfaction from American society when his store is robbed time and time again; and a Hispanic locksmith, who just wants to keep his family, especially his young daughter, safe in a seemingly unsafe world.

Technical and Audio codes

There are many music tracks in this film which portray the drama genre, the music creates suspense and helps us embrace the story line and understand the mood they want to create. Voice overs are used to give a sense of the past, it also fills us in on the information that is not shown during the film that we need to understand the plot.

The directors use many different camera shots. They used long shots to create a wider view of the surroundings and the positions of the characters from a greater scale to give the viewers non verbal information. Close ups are also used to create emotion and to show the effect racism has on society and how it makes people feel, they also help the viewer to understand what the directors are trying to highlight to get a message across.

Representation

Representation of Age

How Age Is Represented In Media

There are four outlined categories of age highlighted in society, these include children, teenagers, adults and the elderly. Age is represented to society in many ways, people get stereotyped by others due to what other people around them think because who doesn't want to fit in right? There is both negative and positive representation, both which influence the opinion of others. Not all stereotypes are  necessarily shown in the media however the representation of minor stories contributes to the views of certain age groups in society. Representations are constructed by the media to elicit a response from an audience, these responses are what structure the ageist views of society today.

The Elderly

The elderly are predominantly depicted as sweet and vulnerable. News stories that show elderly as crime victims are prime examples this. Headlines like 'elderly women scammed out of her life savings' create an aspect of remorse, Such stories also perpetuate the stereotype of elders as being warm, but incompetent figures who deserve our pity. Older people are characterized as vulnerable and in need of protection and charity. This stereotype can be problematic as not all elderly people have seen the worst of their days and are still going strong, however the media portrays this image to society and how the elderly group are victimized more harshly than just individuals giving the impression to others that all elderly citizens are the same.

Young People

Teenagers in society are portrayed in many ways. Everybody has the image of moody, spotty, hormonal individuals when the word teenager is mentioned right? Many people may have other views which are gang related, these stereotypes for example, would have strongly been influenced by the London riots. The riots largely impacted views of society and portrayed that most teenagers were at fault, many innocent people got the blame of some of the damage when in fact they where innocent.  The older generation often categorize younger people as being rude, thoughtless and disrespectful.  This is not helped by their portrayal in the media and leads to preconceived expectations of how they will behave.  Often these expectations are unfounded, and means that younger people have to work harder to gain respect.

People are much deeper than stereotypes. That's the first place our minds go. Then you get to know them and you hear their stories, and you say, 'I'd have never guessed.'Carson Kressley