Building an Audience

 

 

 

Distribution Platforms

 

My first option is to upload my web series upon youtube because its a worldwide website that is viewed millions of times aday ad has more chance of getting views compared to other sites. I could also upload my web series onto itunes as a download or video podcast , as my web series is about "guitar lessons " so my genre of web series would fit right into itunes.

 

Social Networking

 

My primary option is to " tweet " my web series to people who have " followed " greendays twitter and see if anyone would like to learn to play greenday songs on guitar and this would be the perfect auidence. My second option is to use facebook and instagram , i could do the same on both of theese social networking sites , but twitter is my first choice.

 

Crowd Funding 

 

Crowd funding is a way of grabbing your audience , when going on " kikstarter"  you can post about what film you are going to make , this allows people to donate money to your film " budget " because they are obvioulsy wanting to see that film. you have to set a budget you are wanting to create this film , you only have a certain amount of type to reach that budget and if you dont reach your budget in time , you dont get the money.

 

Press

 

 To build my audince through the press , I would use magazines such as " the empire " and " NME " theese magazinbes would be ideal to use as they are about " punk " " rock " music , the guitar lessons I am teaching in my web series are " greenday " who are a " punk " " rock " band so this fits perfectly as I will attrract an audience who are interetsed in this .

 

 

 

 

 



 

 

Legal

 

 

Libal Law

 

You can be sued for damages if you publish or broadcast things about a person which are untrue and damage their reputation (defame them) The law was created to protect individuals or organisations from unwarranted, mistaken or untruthful attacks on their reputation.

 

Example : - In November, Conservative peer Lord McAlpine announced his intention to seek libel damages from Twitter users over incorrect and defamatory insinuations linking him to child sex abuse. Lord McAlpine has dropped threatened legal action against Twitter users with fewer than 500 followers and instructed his lawyers to concentrate their efforts on seeking £50,000 in damages from Mrs Bercow, in what is expected to be the first High Court Twitter libel trial.

 

 

 

Obscene Publications Act Law

 

The definition of this is content that is "likely to deprave and corrupt" the audience for which it is intended.Lawyers may need to check whether a production breaks this law before it is released. Content such as sexually explicit, violent and/or drug taking is reviewed for suitability. Decisions are made dependent on factors such as age range of the audience, the time a production is broadcast.

 

Example :-

The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence) is a sequel to the film The Human Centipede (First Sequence), which was classified Although the concept of the film was undoubtedly tasteless and disgusting it was a relatively traditional and conventional horror film and the Board concluded that it was not in breach of our Guidelines at '18'. '18' uncut for cinema and DVD release by the BBFC in 2010.

 

Official Secrets Act Law

 

It is a criminal offence to obtain or publish any information from a serving or former member of the security and intelligence services or from certain categories of civil servants or public contractors where that disclosure would be damaging.

 

Example :-

WikiLeaks.org, the online organization that posted tens of thousands of classified military field reports about the Afghan war on Sunday, says its goal in disclosing secret documents is to reveal “unethical behavior” by governments and corporations. In a telephone interview from London, the organization’s founder, Julian Assange, said the documents would reveal broader and more pervasive levels of violence in Afghanistan than the military or the news media had previously reported. “It shows not only the severe incidents but the general squalor of war, from the death of individual children to major operations that kill hundreds,” he said.


Copyright Law

This law exists to protect people's creative endeavours so that they can properly benefit from their work. If such protection didn't exist and people were able to copy or sell or profit from another's work, there would be little incentive for people to create in the first place. Programme-makers are responsible for ensuring that all necessary clearances (copyright, trademarks etc.) have been obtained for their programmes.

 

Example:-

SEARCH GIANT Google was fined €25,000 for breaking Belgian copyright law for every day since an initial ruling in September, amounting to a whopping €3.45 million.
It published links to newspapers in Belgium without permission a a Belgian court said. Google was sued by a group of Belgian publishers last September, charged with breaking copyright by listing stories and brief extracts on its news aggregation site.
According to reports,MSN and Yahoo have also heard from m'learned fiends over similar matters.

Privacy Law

If a media company publishes information about someone which is information that should be considered private, that is to say, information in respect of which you had a ‘reasonable expectation of privacy’, then legal action for misuse of private information can be brought under the Human Rights Act 1998.

Example

The News International phone-hacking scandal — dubbed "Hackgate", "Rupertgate", or "Murdochgate" by the press — is a controversy involving the now defunct News of the World and other British newspapers published by News International, a subsidiary of the then-News Corporation. Employees of the newspaper were accused of engaging in phone hacking, police bribery, and exercising improper influence in the pursuit of publishing stories. Investigations conducted from 2005 to 2007 concluded that the paper's phone hacking activities were limited to celebrities, politicians and members of the British Royal Family. In July 2011, it was revealed that the phones of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler, relatives of deceased British soldiers, and victims of the 7/7 London bombings were also accessed, resulting in a public outcry against News Corporation and owner Rupert Murdoch. Advertiser boycotts contributed to the closure of the News of the World on 10 July, ending 168 years of publication. Continued public pressure later forced News Corporation to cancel its proposed takeover of the British telecommunications company BSkyB.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



My Stop Motion Animation

The programme i used was Istopmotion3 witch is an animation programme to produce stop motion animations. the good thing about the programme is that after you take a photo , it leaves a shadow image witch is a faint outline where your object used to be , this is called onion skin. the slower the animation the better , slow is good. the settings on the program is 12fps witch gives a great viewing of the animation after.

this is the quick 5-7 second animation i made using my character

I like my animation because its quite smooth as i used slight movements to make my animation look professional  if i was to make it again i would change the camera.The camera was a bit difficult to use as the stand for it is not very stable so you get a lot of camera shake , the quietly is good though and im proud of first animation that I've made during this introduction to stop motion animation

My Character 

I wanted to make this character because i like carrots. but i wanted to it to be different so i made it a flat carrot. i got some orange and flattened it down and curved it inwards slightly. i then got some brown and thinned it out so make eyebrows , After this i got some white and made small flattened circles for his eyes and added green balls for his pupils. To make his nose i just added a small white circle and also thinned out a bit of white and stretched it out to make his mouth. the teeth were a special added effect to make him different , again i added just flattened square white teeth.

Scooby Doo

Scooby-Doo is an American animated cartoon franchise, comprising several animated television series produced from 1969 to the present day. The original series, Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, was created for Hanna-Barbera Productions by writers Joe Ruby and Ken Spears in 1969. This Saturday morning cartoon series featured four teenagers—Fred Jones, Daphne Blake, Velma Dinkley and Norville "Shaggy" Rogers—and their talking brown Great Dane dog named Scooby-Doo, who solve mysteries involving supposedly supernatural creatures through a series of antics and missteps.

Wacky Races

Wacky Races is an American animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera. The series, inspired by the 1965 slapstick comedy film The Great Race, features 11 different cars racing against each other in various road rallies throughout North America, with each driver hoping to win the title of the "World's Wackiest Racer." Wacky Races ran on CBS from September 14, 1968, to January 4, 1969. Seventeen episodes were produced, with each episode featuring two different races.

Yogi bear

yogi Bear is a family cartoon character, created by Hanna-Barbera Productions, who has appeared in numerous comic books, animated television shows and films. He made his debut in 1958 as a supporting character in The Huckleberry Hound Show. Yogi Bear was the first breakout character created by Hanna-Barbera and was eventually more popular than Huckleberry Hound.In January 1961, he was given his own show, The Yogi Bear Show, sponsored by Kellogg's, which included the segments Snagglepuss and Yakky Doodle. Hokey Wolf replaced his segment on The Huckleberry Hound Show. A musical animated feature film, Hey There, It's Yogi Bear!, was produced in 1964. Yogi was one of several Hanna-Barbera characters to have a collar. This allowed animators to keep his body static, redrawing only his head in each frame when he spoke. This reduced the number of drawings needed for a seven-minute cartoon from around 14,000 to around 2,000.

Postman Pat

Postman Pat′s first 13-episode series was screened on BBC1 in 1981. John Cunliffe wrote the original treatment and scripts, and it was directed by animator Ivor Wood, who also worked on The Magic Roundabout, Paddington Bear, and The Herbs. Following the success of the first series, and that of several TV specials in between, a second series of 13 episodes was produced by the same crew in 1996. Here, Pat had a family for the first time. A new version of the series has been produced by Cosgrove Hall from 2004, which expanded on many aspects of the original series. For the first time in the programme's history, Postman Pat was no longer sponsored by the Royal Mail, which previously had used the show as a marketing vehicle for them. This link was dropped in November 2000, with the Royal Mail spokesman saying the character no longer fitted in with the company's "corporate image". Subsequent to this decision, Postman Pat became an employee of the fictional Special Delivery Service.

Media Sectors

 

TV.



Television is a way of telecommunication for transmitting and receiving moving and still images. These images can be presented in black and white or colour and also with or without sound. Television can also be known as television set, television program or television transmission. Companies such as Virgin media, Sky, BBC and ITV are the main companies that use this type of media; they offer a wide range of different channels, music films and radio all in one. Between them, they employ 55,800 people to control what goes on in your TV.



Film



Film also known as movie or a motion picture is a collection of still images which when all put together, it creates the illusion of moving images. A film is created by taking photos of actual scenes with a motion picture camera, by taking photos, drawings or small models using animation techniques. Companies such as Warner bros , Universal studios and more are the main companies to use this method , they produce films such as harry potter and the Grinch , two very popular films , and they employ 27,800 people to work on the films.



Radio



Radio is a wireless way of transmission signals through space by electromagnetic radiation. The radio frequency ranges from about 30khz-300ghz. These waves are called radio waves. The electromagnetic radiation travels through the air and space. Companies such as BBC are the main companies to use this method as they air out BBC radio. They fund this by advertising and marketing and sponsorship and employ 22,000 people to work on the radio industry.



Animation



Animation is creating continuous motion and shape changes. It is a sequence of still images that change from each other. This creates the illusion like in motion pictures. There are different animation methods such as traditional animation witch is a creative method using stop motion, puppets, clay, and Lego figures. The images are usually presented in a very fast sequence, usually 24, 25 or 30 frames per seconds’. Companies such as DreamWorks and Disney are the main companies that use this method; they have produced many popular animated films such as Mickey Mouse, toy story and Shrek! They employ about 4,700 people to work on the animations that you see in the films but also to help advertise.



Publishing



Publishing is producing literature, music and or information. It is making the information available to the general public. Sometimes the authors may be their own publishers. This means they would be the developer of the content and also provide media. Things have changed nowadays and in this day and age you can read most of the information published by newspapers on the internet, websites and blogs. Companies such as “the sun “, the daily mirror “and many more are the main companies to use this method producing thousands of newspapers and online articles to spread their news. They employ 200, 00 people to work on these newspapers and articles, but many of them are journalists and find their own information.



Games



Games, also known as “computer games or video games “are played on a personal computer or console, not as much as the traditional arcade machine. Games usually include controlling a character and completing a story that the creator has given. Companies such as “EA “ and “Rockstar “are the main companies to use this method of media, they have produced games such as fifa , Gta red dead redemption and burnout … 3 very popular games and especially the newly announced GTA V ! These companies employ 10, 000 to work on these games that become huge sell-outs.



Interactive Media



Interactive media is linked to new media, interactivity, human computer interaction, cyberculture, digital culture, and includes specific cases such as, for example, interactive television, interactive narrative, interactive advertising, algorithmic art, videogames, social media, ambient intelligence, virtual reality and augmented reality.



Advertising/marketing



Advertising is a form of communication for marketing and used to persuade an audience viewers, readers or listeners; sometimes a target audience). They advertise through TV, radio and websites trying to make you wasn’t to buy their product. 17,000 employees are employed to work in this sector of media to bombard your personal media products



Photo Imaging



Photography is the art, science, and practice of creating images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation. A lens is used to focus the light reflected from objects into a real image on the light-sensitive surface inside a camera during a timed exposure. The result in an electronic image sensor is an electrical charge at each pixel, which is electronically processed and stored in a digital image file for subsequent display or processing. 4,400 people are employed to work on this sector of media and produce great photos of sport, cars, nature ECT...




TV licence?



It costs £145.50 per year to own a colour TV licence and it costs £49.00 per year to own a black and white TV Licence. If you are 74+ you are entitled to a Free TV licence. If you are residents of a care home you are entitles to only pay £7.50 per year, and if you are registered as blind, you are entitles to 50% off your TV licence per year. If you are guilty of not paying your TV licence it is classed as a criminal offence, this can lead to prosecution and possibly an appearance at court and a £1000 fine. The licence is payed is shared out between different products such as...



Computers, laptops and tablets



. Mobile Phones



. Gaming consoles



. Digital Boxes (eg. sky, virgin media, and BT vision)



DVD, Blu ray-ray Recorders.





Conglomerate



A conglomerate is a combination of two or more corporations together that are entirely different businesses that fall under one corporate group, usually involving a parent company and many subsidiaries. Often, a conglomerate is a multi-industry company. Conglomerates are often large and multinational. 

Takeover- This occurs when one company acquires control of another company.

Merger- This occurs when two companies combine into a single entity.

Vertical Integration- When a company expands its business into areas that are at different points of the shame production path.

Horizontal Integration-When a company exspands its business into different products that are similar to current lines.

Public and private Ownership

The Public ownership is the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) which is funded by the government with is known as the TV Licence. As the BBC is government run they have to cater to the Public wants and interests. For example the Public are able to complain and give feedback and BBC will take in the feedback and make changes. Also if a certain show does not receive many viewers the show will be cancelled and will not air anymore. Because BBC is paid for buy the public there isn't any advertisements there for no breaks in between the programme you are viewing.

Private ownership is funded simply by advertising. Therefore Private ownership's is more able satisfying the company shareholders rather than the public’s interest. Private ownership defiantly had more varied channel choices. You find with private that certain channels are only aimed at one type of audience for example MTV is only aimed at an audience between the ages of 16 - 24 therefor the advertisements on these channels would be different from the adverts on a Discovery Channel. BBC however is targeted at all types of audiences so the shows viewed on this channel will be more varied and have different target audiences for every show.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                   

Stop Motion Animation

Georges Méliès

Georges Melies was a French illusionist and filmmaker famous for making films in the earliest days of cinema. While using special effects, Georges accidentally found the substitution stop trick in 1896, and was one of the first filmmakers to use  time-lapse photography, dissolves, and hand-painted color in his work.

Windsor Mccay

was an American cartoonist and animator. He is best known for the comic strip Little Nemo.and the animated film Gertie the Dinosaur in 1914. He began his career making posters and performing for museums, and began making newspapers and magazines in 1898. He joined the New York Heraldin 1903, where he created popular comic strips such as Little Sammy Sneeze and Dream of the Rarebit Fiend. 

Lotte Reiniger

Lotte Reiniger was a German silhouette animator and film director. She was born in Berlin-Charlottenburg on 2 June 1899. In 1918, she animated wooden rats and created the animated inter titles for Wegener's Der Rattenfänger von Hameln (The Pied Piper of Hamelin). This work got her into the Institut für Kulturforschung (Institute for Cultural Research), an experimental animation and short-film studio. It was here that she met her future creative partner and husband (from 1921), Carl Koch, as well as other avant-garde artists including Hans Cürlis, Bertolt Brecht, Berthold Bartosch.

Walt Disney -SteamBoat Willie 

Steamboat Willie is a 1928 American animated short film directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks. It was produced in black-and-white by the Walt Disney Studios and released by Celebrity Productions. The cartoon is considered the debut of Mickey Mouse, and his girlfriend Minnie, but the characters had both appeared several months earlier in a test screening of Plane Crazy. Steamboat Willie was the third of Mickey's films to be produced, but was the first to be distributed. The film is also notable for being one of the first cartoons with synchronized sound. It was the first cartoon to feature a fully post-produced soundtrack which distinguished it from earlier sound cartoons such as Inkwell Studios' Song Car-Tunes(1924–1927) and Van Beuren Studios' Dinner Time (1928). Also distinguishing Steamboat Willie from earlier sound cartoons was the level of popularity.

Mine and toms quick Animation

Scrabble Animation

This is a scrabble Animation