Reflection

My Reflection

I have to admit although I am very passionate about Media and different Media branches, unlike other Media students I found this bridging task very difficult to complete, now this wasn't because the task were to "hard" or maybe i was to "stupid" to comprehend the work, but it was because I was to lazy but now that I have completed the bridging task I am now prepared for the hard work coming my way and I plan to make no compromises.  

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Ochuko Ideh 

MEDIA GUARDIAN 

Instagram Introducing ADS

Brief Summary

In a blog post entitled "Instagram as a growing  business" Instagram quietly hinted that they were going to be introducing adds to the mobile service, now users will be opted to view pictures and videos from companies they don't even follow. This is all part of instagrams plans on still being a variable business after being soled to Facebook in 2012. Luckily Instagram had stated that we will be able to opt out of viewing certain ads and give feedback if we find them inappropriate.  

      here is a section of the blog post explaining the decision. 

        "Seeing photos and videos from brands you don’t follow will be new, so we’ll start slow ... We’ll also make sure you have control. If you see an ad you don’t like, you’ll be able to hide it and provide feedback about what didn't feel right,"

I found this article interesting because as a teenager in 2013 Instagram alongside other social networking sites such as Facebook and twitter had become a big part of my social  life, and alongside various other teenagers i would hate to have ads and other sort of spam appear in my instargram news feeds.

 The article and story can be found here.

Magazine Analysis- GQ 

TV Drama

Teen Wolf

Quick Summary

Teen Wolf is a teen tv drama that follows the life of Scott McCall a slightly awkward teenage boys whose life quickly gets turned upside down when he is attacked and bitten by an Alpha werewolf transforming him into a werewolf himself, Scott now has to learn how to keep his new werewolf powers a secret from his friends and family but Scott quickly learns he can't handle it himself. 

         Teen Wolf falls into the sub genres of; Action, Romance, Comedy as well as Teen Drama, it has a beautifully written and developed story line with skilled writers who had cleverly crafted eact of these particular sub genres together to coenside perfectly with each other. 

Development and History  

In June 2009 MTV announced that they were to make a TV adaptation of the 1985 Comedy Teen Wolf but with a more dramatic and darker tone once the show was giving a go the main producers began casting and the main cast consisted of;  

Tyler Possey - Scott McCall 

Crystal Reed - Allison Argent 

Dylan O'Brien - Stiles Stalinski 

Tyler Hoechlin - Derek Hale 

Holland Roden - Lydia Martin 

Colton Haynes - Jackson Whittemore 

Teen Wolf was created by Jeff Davis and premiered on MTV on June 5 2011 right after the 2011 MTV Movie Awards, with the second season premiering on June 3 2012 after the 2012 MTV Movie Awards. On July 12 2012 Teen Wolf was renewed for a third season which was announced to consist of 24 episodes instead of 12 and the production location was also moved from Atlanta to California. Season 3 premiered on June 3 2013 gaining the series extremely positive reviews and ratings the series was able to earn a 61 out of 100 on the review site Metacritic. The Metacritic review of Teen wolf can be found here. 

Episode Summary - Season 1 Episode 1  

In the pilot episode we are introduced to Scott McCall a 16 year old and his best friend Stiles they both go into the woods to find a dead body of a girl whose one half is missing, but Stiles' father catches them and takes Stiles home. While Scott is returning home he is bitten by a werewolf. The next day, Scott discovers new abilities like super-hearing and enhanced strength, and is quickly noticed by the team captain Jackson. Scott gets a date to a party with the new girl, Allison, but Stiles warns him that the full moon is upon them and he shouldn't go. Despite the warning Scott goes to the party, but starts getting pains from his first transformation and flees. Scott later begins to view Derek Hale, a mysterious young man who drove Allison home from the party, as a threat as he thinks Derek is the werewolf who bit him. When Scott is shot in the arm with an arrow by  three werewolf hunters in the woods, he is saved by Derek, who reveals to him he is a werewolf too. The next morning at school, Scott apologizes to Allison for leaving her at the party and finds out that one of the werewolf hunters is actually Allison's father.

Character Analysis- Scott 

In this episode Scott is introduced as a slightly awkward asthmatic teenager who so desperately wants to fit in and become popular but as the episode goes on through Scott's infection by a werewolf we get to watch him grow and transform into a more confident and more athletic young man, which all his new skills and traits he had required Scott found his chances at successfully becoming popular a sure win, he then puts this to the test by trying to impress Allison the new girl at the school.  

Character Analysis- Stiles

 

Straight away from the start of the episode we could tell that Stiles was going to be the comical character of the show; his Strong friendship with Scott is showcased in the first scenes of the episode has Stiles is the one who is always persuading Scott to carryout crazy demands which even led to Scott being bitten by a werewolf. 

Media Representation

Definition 

Media representations are the ways in which the media portrays particular groups, communities, experiences, ideas, or topics from a particular ideological or value perspective. Rather than examining media representations as simply reflecting or mirroring “reality,” we will be examining how media representations serve to “re-present” or to actually create a new reality.  

(Definition can be found here)  

My Definition 

Media representation is a system created by media institutions to act as propaganda to indoctrinating their demographic by portraying a particular group of people in a certain type of perspective; just like portraying teenage girls as avid shopaholics or portraying teenage boys as avid video game players.

Three resources I found most interesting/helpful and why

To aid me whilst creating my Media Studies Bridging Blog I was given a handful of resources and examples to use at my disposal as verbal  and visual scaffolding, these are the main three resources I found helpful. 

*1) The Actual Main Media Blog 

       Ideally The main Beaverwood media blog was the most resourceful source i was given; this was 

           because this acted as a hub of knowledge in which i could gather collect information and detailed instructions ranging from videos on starting a blog too examples of completed and successful blogs. 

*2) The "Annotating Magazines Cover" page 

The Annotating Magazines Cover page was great, I have to admit; there were quite a few vocab words on that page that were completely new to me one example being "Masthead". 

With all the new analyzing techniques i gathered from this source i can bravely say I qualified to analyse any example of a magazine cover, which is why i found this source extremely helpful. 

*3) The Example of A Successful Bridging Unit 

I found this source surprisingly useful, this is simply because I was able to use this successful example as a stimuli to base my own blog on, this example blog acted as a visual example and representation of what i should aim to make finishing blog look like, and for this reason I found the source useful.  

Additional Helpful Source 

I found another really useful source online, this source was a webpage explaining how to embed an image into your title, I found this very useful because it covered an area that wasn't covered in the Media blog that was provided.