Questionaire Essay

media.
Hannah Ustel Year 12.
My name is Hannah and I have recently finished my GCSE's at The Hewett School. My Grades are the following:A- English Literature B- English LanguageB- RS B- GeographyMerit- IT C- SpanishC- Maths D- Music.My Hobbies are generally spending time with my friends, socialising, going to parties!, listening to music, shopping, going to the cinema. And I’m starting to have a craze for perking. The Print Media that I am interested in are media reviews, TV ( Drama's Times), Horoscopes and Art and photography/fashion. I don't usually read newspapers, the magazines I normally read are ELLE, I-D, Good articles, interviews and fashion magazines. The radio stations I listen to are Radio One on a regular basis and Kiss sometimes. I really enjoy music. My favourite genres include; Indie, Rock, R+B, Anything and absolutely everything. I believe the music industry can alter and influence people's dress sense, attitude and aspirations in many ways. Obviously one is from the way there 'idol' dresses, if this is the person you admire you will try as hard as you can to look like them and want to relate to them much easier. There looking for the 'You look like beyonce!' effect. This especially happens with young teenagers. There's always that special someone who has an influence on how they talk, dress, etc. because there famous and its like 'OMG' to them.I really hate videogames with a passion, unless you don't count the wii as one. Because the wii is so much more social everyone joins in and it doesn’t seem like a video game. The fact that you some people sit down playing these for hours on end in 'free' time, slowly getting arthritis and the shape of square eyes, to actually getting the thrill out of killing people. I think its so pathetic. I think the video industry is targeted on making games with violence, and street crime and sell which goes to the young kids who play these and learn 'moves and tricks'.At the moment I don't have access to the internet, but I use it quite a lot from researching information, to using sites like bebo and my space, which really drive me insane at the moment.New technology has increased our ability to research absolutely anything about anyone, any place and anything. That feeling to me is quite creepy, there is so much information available to people on the internet to use however which I feel is not right. we have the ability to talk/phone someone living the entire different side of the globe which wouldn't have happened years back. Technology has become really overpowering. In about 60 years time my mum believes that we won't leave our houses, life will evolve around the computer. We will be educated, we can shop online, talk to our friends, etc all on the internet. We won't leave our houses as the internet has everything we possibly need and I also agree with that. Media texts like books, newspapers and poetry I think will be forgotten.My favourite television channels are the MTV!/E!/ Channel Four/ Film Four/ Living etc because they all follow a genre as you can probably see. I love trashy teen drama programmes or modelling shows and stuff because I find it really funny and interesting to watch. My favourite TV genre is reality but I also love to watch documentaries as it shocks you and sometimes make you appreciate life more.A television advertisement which strikes me as humorous is the orange mobile adverts. I know there usually on at the cinema but they are so hilarious to me. The way they just humiliate and throw jokes at them, just is really funny. I watch a fair amount of television but a programme that I have personally found memorable is Poppy Shakespeare. It was a two part drama focused on a lady who was sent to a mental institute. It showed how she struggled to cope and the break down procedure of her slowly turning insane. The plot turned out that she wasn't actually mentally unstable to begin with I the first place and the environment people she was in made her. She was put in as an experiment to see what happened. I sympathised towards the character as she had a young child and it was really sad to watch.Other memorable programmes have been: Super size Me, One Tree Hill, E! entertainment: Heath Ledger and The Boy Whose Skin Fell Off.I Love films, all genres and never get bored of the cinema. Some of my favourites have been: Ten Things I Hate About You, The Dark Knight, Knocked Up, Kill Bill, Donnie Dark, Now And Then and Atonement. Most of the films I enjoy have Heath Ledger in, I am a bit obsessed with him, in a good way. I admire all his work and I think he is such a talented actor. His best work will always have been Broke Back Mountain. I watch most films in the cinema, but buy DVD’s quite a lot. The cinema I attend is mostly ODEON because it is very near to me and the arm's go up! and VUE as it is based in the city. I ALWAYS go to the cinema with my friends and family, and wouldn't ever want to go alone.In conclusion to this the media medium that has most offended me is the fashion industry. What a joy it would feel like to look perfect in our eyes, the fashion industry has developed into a bulimic, self conscious industry. I bet half the girls on each cat walk/show have done something to make there image better and feel like absolute crap when being told hat they look like, because the industry is so critical on how your 'supposed' to look. Clothes were supposed to make people feel better and look good, but now whenever I walk into a shop I feel fat for buying a 12 and I know I shouldn't. when I see the clothes sizes like size 6 it drives me insane that people would want to look like that and will sell them that small. I was in Abercrombie and Fitch and there were a pair of jeans marked size '0', I was actually tempted to try them on. it's not the fact that I hate fashion full stop, I love reading and watching stiff on it but that’s the part that aggravates me that you wouldn't see a stubby plus size girl on a catwalk on fashion week, which is pretty sad. Also another media which I have a problem with is the Caleb gossip. Just leave them alone, the reason these celebrities have problems is probably cause you have nothing better to write than 'Brittany’s gained 3 pounds and a alcoholic addiction' leave them alone!I'm not sure what the most interesting piece of media I have ever seen or heard is. But there’s a scene in a film called 'Ten things I Hate About You' and I know it off by heart ( even the whole film) and just talking about it brought my friend tears. The film is based on Shakespeare 'The Taming Of The Shrew' and it is my favourite film ever. Threes a scene where a teenage girl reads our her poem to the class, the person who it is about is listening to it.. and she says at the end "but most of all I hate the fact that I don't hate you, not even a little bit, not even at all". The way she says it as she’s nearly breaking into tears really is so effective.'This Is England' has really altered my attitudes to how different England itself has changed from the 1970's/80's when back then it was prejudice and racism. it was almost a documentary from the past and it really moved me, because I really didn't no it was that bad back then. I think nothing should ever be that bad ever and really hated watching that film but at the same time thought it was really good.I have chosen media studies as an option because I enjoy all the aspects of media. I'm interested in audio/print/advertisement etc. and when I am older I want to purse a career in this field. If I had to construct a media text, the medium would be print. Like an magazine advert or bill board or picture for example. I’m not sure would my message would be but, I think any message can be interpreted through print and still have the same message. That means the audience can have there own idea and relate themselves.