Friday 10 June 2016

Curriculum Vitae - Troy Dennis
Contact Number: 07496648627 or 02087712932
Address: 80 Lyndhurst Road
                Thornton Heath
     CR7 7PW

Personal Statement
I am a determined and hard working individual. I am a very confident person and I tackle every mental and physical task given with all effort. I work really well by myself or as a team because I know how important teamwork is.  I have good speaking and listening skills as I can provide creative ideas and take on board feedback and constructive criticism. I have always had a passion for movies,  in my spare time between studies  I like to create my own home made movies directed by me and starring my friends.

Work Experience
Sainsbury’s General Assistant:  My overall role in Sainsbury’s was to assist customers with any enquiries they may have and to show them any items in the store that they could not find. I also maintained a clean environment on the store. I done this by ensuring that all the aisle are properly dressed and replenishing low stock.  Finally I helped and supported my colleagues with any tasks they needed extra help with because teamwork really does help the work load get done faster.  (20/11/15-1/1/16)
Qualifications
GCSE Results:
Maths- C        English- B   History- B Spanish: C Science- B
A level results:
Performing Arts: Merit   Media: Merit
Schools Attended
Archbishop Lanfranc School (September 2008- June 2013)
Coulsdon Sixth Form College (September 2013- Current)
Interests

My current interests reading non-fictional books and play football and or basketball with my friends. I really enjoy listening to music as it is been a huge part in my life since I was younger.

Friday 6 May 2016

Documentary proposal


  • Title of project: Homeless south. 
  • Short summary of your film: my film is based around a issue that has been around for years, people in south london croydon in particular who still regulary sleep rough.
  • Length of film: 5mins
  • Film completion date: 01/18/2016
  • Specific filming dates with location: I filmed all of my film in croydon shopping centre. it took just one day of filming on 01/07/2016 
  • Locations - is permission needed to film at these locations?:no
  • Production team,  key people, places, objects that you want within your film: Myself, Dione Decker (camera woman) and two people to interview.
  • Key messages, stories and points that you wish to communicate: i just want to make people more aware of this issue and inspire be to look at and treat homeless people differently.
  • How you intend to use your film (promotional, educational, brand awareness etc.): educational
  • Target audience: everyone in the london borough 
  • Music - what general feel/ambience of music would you like to use? Is there a specific song you want? Is this song copyright cleared? none 
  • Archive - Is there media that is already captured that you would like in the film? no

Friday 22 April 2016

7.3 Regulation and Employment in the Media Sector



Following the ethical and lawful restrictions placed upon media products. Regulators enforce and maintain the standards put in place on behalf of the government. There are also independent regulators whose purpose is to ensure that fair impartial advice also available for the public.

Regulations are needed particularly in terms of controversial texts. Censorship is used to restrict potential harm that a controversial text may cause to the audience. But when censorship imposes itself over creativity and human rights the boundaries often come into questions.  

Examples of regulators


BBFC-British board of film classification.
ASA-Advertising standards authority
Ofcom-Television, Radio and Telecommunications, Office for communication.
PPC-Press complaints commission.

PPC

is an independent self-regulatory body which deals with complaints about the editorial content of the newspapers and magazines and their websites.

Office of communications (Ofcom)


The communications regulator; regulates television and radio, fixed line telecoms and mobiles, plus the airwaves over which wireless devices operate.

Department of culture, Media and sport

Department of the united kingdom government, with responsibility for culture and sport in england, and some aspects of the media throughout the whole UK e.g. broadcasting. it also has responsibility for the creative industries (some joint with department for the business, innovation and skills) and tourism in England.

Advertising standards authority (ASA)

Self-regulatory organisation of the advertising industry.
Non-statutory organisation and so cannot interpret or enforce legislation.
Code of advertising practice broadly reflects legislation in many instances.

British board of film classification (BBFC)

non-governmental organisation, funded by the film industry
responsible for the national classification of films
it has a statutory requirement to classify videos, DVDs and some video games under the video game recordings act 2010

Different Job roles


  • Accounts
  • catering
  • transport-transport manager, transport department
  • production office
  • casting
  • Location manager
  • Health and safety 
  • sales agent

Production officer.

Film production is a complex business which effectively requires the setting up,running, and closing-down of a substantially sized organisation, solely for the purpose of producing a single film.

Financial.

Finance is he science of funds managements. the general areas of finance are business finance, personal and public finance. Finance includes saving money and often includes lending money. the field of finance deals with time, money, risk and how and they are connected. it also deals with how money is used and create a budget.

Creative. 

this part of the industry help to set the scene, and make the film accurate and realistic for the audience. in addition they also help to portray a genre within a film or a different form of media.



Friday 18 March 2016

7.2 Ethical and legal constraints in the creative media sectors.


Constraint is a limitation or a restriction on something to prevent something else from happening. In the media industry there are many limitations, laws and restrictions. some regulations aren't legal in that they aren't provided by law.

The legislation refers to the laws in which help to protect employers and employees from unsafe working conditions and unhealthy situations. This means that all health and safety regulations be properly assessed and considered as well employee's rights and equal opportunities.

Employees rights 

Employees rights at work depend on 
  • statuary rights
  • contract of employment
Statuary rights are legal rights based on laws passed by parliament. nearly all workers, regardless of the number of hours pr week they work, have certain legal rights. There are some workers who are not entitled to certain statuary rights. The contract of employment is the agreement or what has been verbally agreed between the two of them. In addition, the contract of employment will also include 'custom and practise' agreements. These are how things are usually done in the workplace, for example, if the employer always gives the employees a days holiday in august. Even though this is not mentioned in the written contract this will form part of the contract of employment as it is the usual practise.


Employees liability insurance 

Employers are responsible for the health and safety of their employees during work hours, this applies in any work place. Employees may be injured at work or may become ill as a result of their work while in during employment. If an employee feels that the employer is responsible then they might try to claim compensation. The employers liability act 1969 ensures that you have at least minimum level of insurance cover against any such claims.


Public Liability

Public liability insurance is important when out filming in public premises because it will pay out in the event that a mistake is made which causes an injury to a member of the public, or damages their property. 


Copyright and Trademarks


Copyright applies to work that is recorded in some way; rights such as literary, artistic, musical and dramatic work as well as films, sound recordings and typographical arrangements. it gives the author specific rights in relation to work, prohibits unauthorised actions and allows the author to take legal action against instances of infringements or plagiarism.

Trademarks are registered at a national or territory level with an appointed government body and may take anywhere between 6 and 18 months to be processed. 

Tuesday 8 March 2016

Documentary Evaluation.



The Planning for my documentary was easy as I already had an idea for everything I wanted to include such as where I was going to film, I chose to film in croydon shopping centre as it somewhere that I know I could get a lot of good shots where I can show where some homeless people are forced to find shelter.

Next I moved on to writing my script, i chose to keep my script basic and essential in order to make sure my audience didn't get annoyed with me using long and unnecessary complicated words. I also wanted my script to feel natural specifically during interviews so it was only my questions that had already been written.

Planning my shots was very important as i wanted to show first hand the kind of environments homeless people are staying in. to do this i had to visit the parts of croydon that are hidden by alley ways and car parks. I spent just one day filming as i felt confident that i had covered all the areas i had planned to in that space of time.

these are some of the facts and statistics i found online during research of my chosen topic, this helped me to give factual information during the documentary, it also produced a great reaction from the two people i chose to interview when I revealed these facts to them.


*7,500 people sleep rough on the streets of London every year.
*A lot of people end up homeless due to a relationship breakdown, redundancy, poor mental
health, alcohol/substance addiction, domestic abuse etc....

individual factors including lack of qualifications, lack of social support, debts - especially mortgage or rent arrears, poor physical and mental health, relationship breakdown, and getting involved in crime at an early age
family background including family breakdown and disputes, sexual and physical abuse in childhood or adolescence, having parents with drug or alcohol problems, and previous experience of family homelessness 
an institutional background including having been in care, the armed forces, or in prison.



ReasonNumber of accepted households, 2013/14% of total
End of assured shorthold tenancy13,65026%
Parents no longer able to accommodate8,52016%
Friends/ other relatives unable to accommodate6,66013%
Relationship breakdown with a partner: Violent6,13012%
Loss of other rented accommodation or tied housing3,0406%
Relationship breakdown with a partner: Other2,5505%
Rent arrears1,7403%
Mortgage arrears (repossession or other loss of mortgaged home)9902%
Other reasons2,5505%
Total52,270100%

Friday 4 March 2016

Understanding Media sectors 7.1
There are many different media sectors.


TV
Television is one of the biggest sectors with in the Media Industry with a lot of competition that employs over 50,000 British people. TV broadcasts many different types of TV programmes and films which i will get more into later on. In the UK TV is dominated by a few main broadcasters or channels, however that does not take anything from away from the smaller broadcasters. these main broadcasters consist of:
The BBC - a Public company which is funded by TV licence.
ITV - this a privately owned company, 60% is owned by ITV PLC, it is also owned by STV group PLC located in scotland and UTV located in Northern Ireland
Channel 4 - a private company funded by adverts
Channel 5 another private company - owned by Nothern & shell.

Radio
Radio is one of the oldest forms of mass media as radios have been a common household accesory long before TV sets were invented. Radios transmits sound-based media to the likes of cars, TVs and just ordinary radios. There are three sections of radio

Public funded radio - funded by taxes
Commercial Radio - funded by commercials
Community and voluntary Radio - varies


Film:
The film industry is one of the largest and most profitable sectors in the media industry. In the UK alone it employs 27,800 people. 62% are employed in exhibition, 34% in production and the remaining 4% in distribution.

There are six different components to the film industry; Development, production, facilities, distribution, exhibition, and export.

The film industry is dominated by many major companies: paramount, universal, 21st century fox, disney, and many more. These multimillion pound companies tend to produce the big blockbuster films, as they have bigger budgets to produce and market the films.

There are however, a few smaller film companies, such as Pinewood studios, a small British film company. films produced by smaller studios tend to be small, cult-film. However, these films can sometimes become successful, popular films.

Television & Film. 

The television sector and the film sector are connected by the fact that TV channels often play films. There are also many TV channels that are dedicated purely to showing films, such as Sky Movies.

Films are also mainly advertised on TV, both the cinema and DVD releases.

When it comes to ownership, there are various forms that depend on such things as licensing, government influence, intake of money and the care of managerial roles.
The first is an Independent ownership. This form of ownership is usually associated with smaller companies that work outside bigger corporations. These companies have a lot more say in how the company is run and control over their own work compared to other companies with different forms of ownership.
Secondly, there is Private ownership. A private ownership is where a company is privately owned by a single person or several individuals. The owners have a the ability to run the company how they want making decisions on marketing, products, and how the company’s hierarchy works. It also means that there is little to no government influence. Indie company’s are the most common businesses that use this form of ownership because of the low employee numbers working on projects.
Thirdly there is a Conglomerate. A conglomerate is a corporation made up of various different businesses. The company’s will operate separately, the conglomerate hold the majority of stakes with regards to money.
Fourth is a Multinational ownership. A multinational corporation is a company that operates in various parts of the globe. They are usually comprised of a very large and wealthy company that has the money and resources to expand internationally


DNAFILMS

DNA Films is a British film production company founded by Andrew Macdonald and Duncan Kenworthy. DNA Films Merged with Search Fox Light in xxxxxx, this means now that they are a single enterprise. Its a share holders company, it is an Vertical Integration company because it has the means of production, DNA produces and Fox Searchlights distributes them and does their marketing. It’s Multinational as large corporation with operations and subsidiaries in several different countries.

When it comes to ownership, there are various forms that depend on such things as licensing, government influence, intake of money and the care of managerial roles.
The first is an Independent ownership. This form of ownership is usually associated with smaller companies that work outside bigger corporations. These companies have a lot more say in how the company is run and control over their own work compared to other companies with different forms of ownership.

Secondly, there is Private ownership. A private ownership is where a company is privately owned by a single person or several individuals. The owners have a the ability to run the company how they want making decisions on marketing, products, and how the company’s hierarchy works. It also means that there is little to no government influence. Indie company’s are the most common businesses that use this form of ownership because of the low employee numbers working on projects.

Thirdly there is a Conglomerate. A conglomerate is a corporation made up of various different businesses. The company’s will operate separately, the conglomerate hold the majority of stakes with regards to money.

Fourth is a Multinational ownership. A multinational corporation is a company that operates in various parts of the globe. They are usually comprised of a very large and wealthy company that has the money and resources to expand internationally

Below i will give an example of an private ownership and a publicly owned organization


ITV

itv is privately owned and is funded by advertising. ITV is a major commercial public service TV network in the UK. Launched on the 22nd of september 1955 launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK. ITV is owned by ITV plc, STV Group plc, UTV Media and channel Television. ITV have a number of businesses such as ITV 1, ITV 2,ITV 3, ITV 4, ITV and ITV studios as well as ITV Player which is an online service, that allows you to catch up on any missed ITV shows. ITV is funded by advertising and sponsorship where as another broadcasting service such as the BBC is funded by the government from the collection of licence fees. Private ownership has a lot of advantages but it also has its disadvantages, one advantage is that it runs only on advertising funds because there are a lot of companies that want their products to be advertised on TV and are willing to pay a lot of money. this is great for private ownerships because the more popular the shows the more the adverts cost. 


BBC


Public service ownership is funded by the government, which everyone with a TV pays for known as the tv licence. Companies that are government run have to take on board the publics interests. for example is the public complain then the company will make the changes. Also if a show doesn't get a lot of views it will be cancelled. BBC is vertically integrated, this means a group of companies that are linked through a ladder with a common owner. the companies can co operate to produce the materials needed for production. Also, a company can start to take over more aspects of producing and distributing of the end product that sells in order to increase that companies dominance in the marketplace.


Friday 5 February 2016

Having taken part as an observer, interviewer and interviewee in today’s session, list the skills, personal qualities or previous experiences you have which would be of value to a potential employer.

my skills are;

-I am hard working and consistently put in 100%.
-A lot of experience with working in teams.
-Great attitude, always polite.
-Experience using some media software such as 'Imovie'.

List any concerns you may have about your management of any interview situation.

-Maintaing eye contact.
-Researching the organisation.

Having watched or taken part in mock interviews, list the common weaknesses in an interviewee’s performance

-Repeatedly saying 'like' before sentences.
-Over answering questions.


how could these be overcome

-remaining calm.
-take time whilst answering questions.


list 8 key factors important to an employer in interviewing a potential employee.
  1. knowing what they are talking about.
  2. good communication skills