#8 - Media Conference

1. Perfecting your Production work

Research
Look at examples
codes and conventions
Media Magazine
Target audiences
Institutions

Planning
Plan for what can go wrong
Record all planning
Show process of planning

Blogging Evidence
Storyboard
Script

Ideas/ Feedback
At every stage take feedback to improve

Logistics
People, place, props, costume
Rehearse and prepare
Share contact details

2. Chewing Gum for the Brain: Why do people talk such rubbish about Media Studies?

Professor David Buckingham talked about the critics of media studies and referred to “Angry parents accuse school of 'dumbing down' English by showing The Simpsons in class”. In addition he went on to say that a Media study is a dumbing down of English where they favour The Simpsons over the traditional Shakespeare.
Also another thing he talked about was that Media studies alongside sociology is a Mickey Mouse subject which aimed to brainwash young people and that schools should be teaching the more academic subjects.

3.Online media, Cleggmania, and the Cowell Factor

Julian McDougall argues that Media 2.0 is a more interactive form of emedia where people express themselves thorugh social netowrking sites, download songs from..thus leading to the end of traditional methods of doing things the longer the way.