Media Jobs Task 4

the media industry is always trying to adjust its paramaters to make everything suitable and appropreate. for example the watershed, which is the name for a set time (after 9pm) in which television can start to show programmes with swaering or explicit content in without leagealy being sued. also in newspapers only so much swaring and nudity etc is allowed for certain papers, it has always been that there is a topless woman on page 3 of a lot of common newspapers.

the freedom of information act was brought in 2000 which creates a public "right of access" to information held by public authorities. If you are a public authority you have a legal obligation to provide information through an approved publication scheme and in response to requests. there was recently a lot of speculation on what the government is up to whether it was what they were spending money on plus there was speculation as too the elected members of parliment (MP's) spending tax payers money on unnessasariy things. the freedom of information act gives the media and therefore the public more insight into current government affarires and also states that they have the right to know what goes on in there goverment and public authorities. people can use the act to find out about a problem facing your community to see how effective a policy has been, to find out about the authorities spending and to genrally see if an authority is doing what it says it is. this means the media can post news or shows about used to be sectret government issues which gives the public a lot more control.

Media censorship has been greatly exercised in our day and age, because of its highly revealing content that can infuriate those it may offend, or influence others by its immoral message. There is always some kind of censorship involved, especially in countries where it is strictly prohibited by the government or concerned agencies, that strive to keep viewing-audiences away from such material. Children and young adults are those that are greatly affected by the media, and censorship is something that needs to be regularized before this audience.

video instillation idea

 idea 1
 to show a normal day from start to finish what you go through. mainly to highlight small things you do which generally build up a day to show all the hidden pleasures that you would do without really thinking about it. such as waking up and stretching or sneezing which are usually dismissed or just done without a lot of conciousness but are considered to be nice. to do this i will film someone doing all the normal things during the day but highlight them and show them in a quick fire style with shot after shot back to back from the start of the day to the end of the day. i will not need any hard to get props or locations because my instillation video follows a normal day and will only require every day things such as food,drink and t.vs ect. i have a location avalible to use which is my own house which is suitable for the filming whenever.

idea 2
 to show  a number of people giving there opinions on the same film (or something else media related) and gauging the reactions to compare and show how different peoples opinions on the same thing varys. it can also be interepreated on a larger scale like politics or football e.tc i will have the different people sat in a chair and tell them a film, just to gauge there reactions and opions. i will use a still camera and place the different people in the same chair to make it as fair as possible to show that the only focus is the individual reactions and opinions. i will most proberly film this within the college to keep that official feel in terms of surroundings though it will not be relevant. i will chose possibly 3 diffrent films from different time periods to make it a varyed test.