My evaluation

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Ancillary tasks part 2

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Ancillary tasks

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Daniel Chandler – Personal home pages and the construction of identities on the web

Asynchronous mass communication
The web is unlike any previous modes of presenting yourself in everyday life. You are able to mass communicate in an environment that is more accessible than the print publishing and conventional mass media. They are asynchronous communication unlike modes of telephone and face to face interaction that requires real time. This asynchronous nature makes them comparable to textual forms such as diaries however they have a potential mass audience that makes them different from any other forms. Owning a web page is almost like owning your own printing press, however they are audio-visual texts and more dynamic. The re writing of pages make it easy to change previous identities and edit them so previous ones are unrecognisable.

Bricolage

Bricolage is the creation of the web page and the information about you that comes with it aside from the pictures and the text. This information is easy for people to copy from each other which lead to notable academic paranoia about student plagiarism. These backgrounds, layouts etc are a way for people to differentiate each other. Bricolage can help represent a persons values.

The building blocks of webpage identity

Creating a personal homepage can be seen as building a virtual identity as it flags up many parts of your personality. Links between a person and his friend can be seen as a creation of a ‘virtual community’. The question people ask of themselves in these pages is ‘who am i?’ and the people realise that publishing this is available to much larger audience than just immediate friends. The web allows substantial amounts of people to publish their ideas. However many home pages are badly executed and bizarre and many are generated to satisfy objectives of employers or educators. Many of these pages are practically useless to anyone apart from their owners. Web pages have several features that make them different from printed media. When pages are grammatically correct, they are more pleasing and stand out more to the literate reader.

Constructing identities
The structure of web page can sometimes say as much about their authors as does the content. Some people even feel that they are their own audience for their web page, posting their feelings helps to validate them. The web seems to be leading to people posting information that previously, they would have kept private. The appeal of a pages content can lead to it having a global audience. Some critics are anxious that the web has allowed people to manipulate their identities too much, however these pages do often contain many ties to a persons real life such as photographs of themselves and real addresses etc. We are more in control of the image we present on a personal home page than in day-to-day life. Basically, the ability to mask or change certain details about yourself can be seen as a positive or negative thing. It means people can choose what they reveal to people on the internet, which means they can hide or change things that could have an influence on whether you would associate with that person or not. People worry that the younger generation will increasingly socialise online and less face-to-face, although this has been argued as a positive trend as it makes things like working through problems easier. ‘The label ‘home page’ itself ought to remind us, one supremely disadvantaged social group amongst those without home pages is that of the literally, physically homeless in the cold reality of everyday life, who could be forgiven for regarding this textual genre as an irrelevance. Virtual homes provide no shelter for anyone’.

Essay Introduction

Explain how stereotyping in British TV drama and British film contributes to a sense of collective identity.

Collective identity is made to represent a certain group of people, whether it be based on their age, race, sex, religion etc. The idea of collective identity is commonly constructed through stereotyping. This is the easiest way to put people into a certain group as they are put together through one shared, basic characteristic. Within British TV drama and British film, stereotyping contributed to a sense of collective identity in different ways. It creates this sense of an image that the country portrays to the rest of the world, as well as this it also helps people to give an idea of what they are about as an individual and as a British person.

Filming Essay

On Thursday the 11th June we had to split into groups and make a video of a tour around our school and sixth form. The class got split into three groups of about 4 or 5 people. We chose to basically do a day in the life video with someone from our sixth form and we filmed in various every day school situations doing the sort of stuff he would do in a normal school day. This was our first proper attempt at filming and so we, as well as all the other groups encountered a few problems.

The first major problem that all the groups faced was the steadiness of the camera. A lot of our filming we had to walk with the camera in our hands so it was difficult to keep it steady. There isn’t a lot that we could do with this problem other than trying to get the person with the steadiest hand or for shorts where we didn’t have to move with the camera we could have used a tripod. This was a major problem because it meant that it ruined what otherwise good shots we would have had that had been planned out.

Another problem that we had was the gaps between clips. In our video especially, there was a couple of times where there was a couple of gaps in the video where the screen would just go blue. This happened because we accidentally turned the camera off a couple of times and so were careful not to record over what we had already done. The only way we can make sure that this problem doesn’t happen again is by just getting in practice and getting used to the camera so that we can get to use it easily without making mistakes.

The other major problem that we had was with sound and noise. The narrative was often lost in our videos and there wasn’t much we could actually do about this. The real problem was the other sound that we would have in the background such as traffic and wind. To sort this problem we would obviously need to film in locations that were away from roads, or on a windy day try to film as much as possible inside. This was a problem as the sound quality isn’t brilliant on the camera to start with, so other sounds that aren’t needed make it almost impossible in some shots to hear the narrative.

The last thing we struggled with was the cuts. A couple of shots were cut too quick and so if it came to editing we wouldn’t of had a lot of film to work with. In one particular group the shots being too short also lead to some of the speech being lost. The only way to solve this problem is to allow the camera to run for a few seconds before and a few seconds after.

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