Moral Panics

Moral Panic - A moral panic is an intense feeling expressed in a population about an issue that appears to threaten the social order.^[1] Moral panics are in essence controversies that involve arguments and social tension, and in which agreement is difficult because the matter at its centre is taboo.^[2] The media are key players in the dissemination of moral indignation, even when they do not appear to be consciously engaged in crusading or muckraking. Simply reporting the facts can be enough to generate concern, anxiety or panic. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_panic



Happy Slapping - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7293829.stm
http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2005/apr/26/ukcrime.mobilephones

NeckNomination - http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/neknomination-craze-claims-fifth-victim-as-20yearold-bradley-eames-is-found-dead-after-downing-two-pints-of-gin-9131987.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/news/10649164/NekNominate-alcohol-deaths-rise-fuelled-by-online-drinking-games.html
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/feb/10/cardiff-man-death-neknominate-drinking-game

Kylie Jenner Challenge - http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/i-tried-kylie-jenner-challenge-5570777
http://metro.co.uk/2015/04/20/people-are-using-bottle-tops-to-get-kylie-jenner-lips-on-social-media-and-its-terrifying-5158382/


E Cigerettes - http://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2015/p0416-e-cigarette-use.html
http://www.itv.com/news/update/2015-06-10/e-cigarettes-adverts-banned-on-social-media/

Nos - http://www.gloucestercitizen.co.uk/Concerns-hippy-crack-popularity-Gloucester-moves/story-26690480-detail/story.html

http://www.wigantoday.net/news/local/warning-over-legal-highs-1-7346699

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/aaron-dunford-deadly-hippy-crack-5949338


These are examples of moral panics as the media has taken a small proportion of the population where the crazes have  ended in a negative way and exaggerated it to scare the wider population .

Using conventions from real media texts

Post production

Research and Planning

One of the things that we learnt about research and planning was the importance of having somebody on set to log all costume changes and props.  In our opening sequence Lewis was playing the role of the protagonist, the boyfriend and band member whose girlfriend is dying.  He appears in 3 scenes.  However, he was wearing the same t-shirt in scenes which were meant to represent different timelines.  In retrospect, we should not have done this.

Our planning could have been in more detail for our use of equipment as we faced some technical difficulties when recording using the cameras. We weren't experienced in using the microphone attachments to the camera which we should have planned to test them before. This then resulted in us having to film again which then meant that we were delayed to film other parts meaning that we had to re-plan certain parts.

Another skill we developed in planning was set-dressing.  As our script involved a number of locations (hospital, chat show and restaurant scenes) we either needed access to these places or had to recreate them ourselves.  Despite trying to get access to a hospital filming location we were refused (due to cost) so we used our creativity to get round the problem. We researched into key factors of each location that the audience would recognise as being in that location so that we could try and access the props. We did this by watching films and tv.  We dressed a backstage dressing room in school with a mattress, a drip and a sheet to make it look like a hospital bed.  We shot the scene in a tight mid shot so that it was easier to disguise the location.

Creativity

In AS media as we had many difficulties with getting enough footage due to our lack of preparation this meant that some of the footage wasn't high enough quality for the final product, however through our editing we adapted and  the lower quality ones so that it would be good enough to use.

This quote applies to my media as from the difficulties and mistakes that we faced, we had to find compromises to make sure that we could continue with the filming, such as when our actors were finding it difficult to follow our script so we adapted it even though it changed our idea, we accepted the change. 

Another skill we developed in planning was set-dressing.  As our script involved a number of locations (hospital, chat show and restaurant scenes) we either needed access to these places or had to recreate them ourselves.  Despite trying to get access to a hospital filming location we were refused (due to cost) so we used our creativity to get round the problem.  We dressed a backstage dressing room in school with a mattress, a drip and a sheet to make it look like a hospital bed.  We shot the scene in a tight mid shot so that it was easier to disguise the location. This shows how from our research and planning of locations such as hospital we re-created/ "mimicked" the result of what a hospital looka likes. 

Digital Technology

We used a wide range of digital technology to help produce the opening to our film.

 We used Blogger to post our research and planning. This meant that me and my partner could access this from different locations such as when we were filming in the park to check that we were following the plan. Blogger wasn't only easy to access, it was also easy to organise the posts using the label tags making the research and planning simple and straightforward. 

We used You Tube in our research and planning as