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Task 4

Freedom of information-

How it works

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Freedom of information (or information freedom) refers to the protection of the right to freedom of expression with regard to the Internet and information technology. Freedom of information may also concern censorship in an information technology context, i.e. the ability to access Web content, without censorship or restrictions.
Freedom of information is an extension of freedom of speech, a fundamental human right recognized in international law, which is today understood more generally as freedom of expression in any medium, be it orally, in writing, print, through the Internet or through art forms. This means that the protection of freedom of speech as a right includes not only the content, but also the means of expression  Freedom of information may also refer to the right to privacy in the context of the Internet and information technology. As with the right to freedom of expression, the right to privacy is a recognised human right and freedom of information acts as an extension to this right . Lastly, freedom of information can include opposition to patents, copyrights or intellectual property in general  The international and United States Pirate Party have established political platforms based largely on freedom of information issues.

Requesting Information

We want to help you to find the information you are interested in. Before you make a Freedom of Information Act request please check that the information you would like is not already available

The BBC's Publication Scheme publishes information covering how the BBC is run and includes a disclosure log: a selection of questions and answers made to the BBC under the Freedom of Information Act.

The BBC's website publishes a vast range of information and includes information about BBC programmes as well as latest news and information regarding regional services.

If you are a journalist, you should first visit theBBC's Media Centre website.

I think that it is good to know that people can find out in more detail about different people, cultures, stories and information on their own terms. I think its the good point is that people can do their own persona research on topic that matter to them and get more in depth detail about the topic.

I think what is not so good about the 'freedom of information act' is that too much data and information about topics and people can sometimes be inappropriate due to the fact the public can receive to much unnecessary information. In my opinion I think it can be classed as bullying when there is too much information about a person. I also think it can be dangerous when people can find out too much about people, for example where they live etc.

Censorship and ownership –
Corporate censorship is censorship by corporations, the sanctioning of speech by spokespersons, employees, and business associates by threat of monetary loss, loss of employment, or loss of access to the marketplace.
Censorship is the suppression of speech or other public communication which may be considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or inconvenient as determined by a government, media outlet, or other controlling body. It can be done by governments and private organizations or by individuals who engage in self-censorship. It occurs in a variety of different contexts including speech, books, music, films and other arts, the press, radio, television, and the Internet for a variety of reasons including national security, to control obscenity, child pornography, and hate speech, to protect children, to promote or restrict political or religious views, to prevent slander and libel, and to protect intellectual property. It may or may not be legal. Many countries provide strong protections against censorship by law, but none of these protections are absolute and it is frequently necessary to balance conflicting rights in order to determine what can and cannot be censored.


Concentration of media ownership (also known as media consolidation or media convergence) is a process whereby progressively fewer individuals or organizations control increasing shares of the mass media Contemporary research demonstrates increasing levels of consolidation, with many media industries already highly concentrated and dominated by a very small number of firms.
Globally, large media conglomerates include Viacom, CBS Corporation, Time Warner.


I think censorship and ownership is a extremely vital and important part of creative media sectors as it makes sure everything is fair, and people do not steal things and are credited for their own work.
it makes sure everything is its correct place and fair.
I don't really see any negatives with censorship and ownership as it protects people, I guess when people steal things before they have ownership over it, because when a situation like that occurs their works has been stolen and will be extremely difficult practically impossible to reclaim.






Consumer choice –

Technological and information abundance:

·         Social sharing will intensify and choices will multiply

·         The marketing stage — even for small businesses — will be more global

·         The opportunity to target in a hyper-local way will create an unprecedented push of “deals”

·         Devices are still multiplying, not consolidating

·         Brands will be fighting hard to connect with us more directly and more personally

·         Sorting through the information density today is difficult and becoming impossible.

The good thing about consumer choice is that the marketer can research very easily what the consumer is most likely to like and choose which is easy for them to make money and the consumers to receive what they want.
what is bad about this is that the marketers go on figures and the odd people that want something else or something new or different are ignored as the are not the vast amount of consumers and will not be listened too.

Taste and decency –

Broadcasters in the UK are not allowed to show anything which offends against good taste or decency or is likely to encourage to crime or lead to disorder.
The UK has a well-established policy of making 9pm the pivotal point for evening television.
Before the Watershed at 9pm all programmes should be suitable for a general audience including children.
Ask the class:

• Do you think that the current system is a good idea?
• When should the Watershed start and end?
• Has anything on TV or radio upset you recently?
• Would people take notice of a ratings system for TV shows?
• What would be the strengths and weaknesses of such a system?

With UK television there is a well-established policy of making 9pm the pivotal point of the evening's television.

All programmes on UK channels are usually suitable for a general audience including children before 9pm.
Divide the class into small groups and get them to agree on the types of programmes and programme content that should be allowed to be shown before the 9pm Watershed.
Useful categories could include:

• Sex
• Violence
• Language
• Nudity
• Religion

I think taste and decency is one the most vital and important things to take into consideration when thinking of your audience especially younger ones, as you do not want to offend, disturb or upset your audiences. 

when you make a product when thinking about taste and decency it makes your show more wider to a more vast audience so therefore your product is more likely to be popular.

I can be seen as a negative thing when things are too covered up, and people have to wait to see certain products and makes more adult products less popular among vast audiences.

all of the media industry bbc thing

Develompment in technology

BBC started when there was your basic black and white screened television. in the early 60s colour TV was introduced and changed the amount of people viewing tv boosting the ratings for all the current BBC channels at the time. this lead to the BBC adding more channels in order to expand to adapt to the new craze of watching tv. the BBC has always adapted itself to the changes in TV and radio technology and the BBC has added more radio and tv channels to compensate. CBBC was launched in 2002 which is a channel directlyy for kids which again expands on the audience and helps increase ratings. and in recent days there has been the outbreak of the internet which has changed the way people recieve information. Audiences are spending more of their time getting their information, entertainment and education from interactive and on demand services online through mobile, PC and set top box. Our audiences are now spending a rising proportion of their media consumption time with international players such as Hulu, Google, Microsoft and Facebook.

In the television arena HD, 3D and interactive television are introducing challenges from commissioning right through to distribution. The share of online live streaming and on demand content consumption for both television and radio is growing, in some cases up to 15% of all viewing of specific shows now being on demand.

By Andrew Sharp.

Funding for the BBC

The BBC domestic television channels do not broadcast advertisements; they are instead funded by a television licence fee which TV viewers are required to pay annually. This includes viewers who watch real-time streams of the BBC's channels online or via their Smart phone. BBC TV international channels are funded by advertisements and subscription. Of course the licence fee makes the expression 'free-to-air' somewhat redundant and has caused speculation between viewers. a lot of people are still reluctant to paying tv licencing claiming it is obserd and dissagree with the BBC's demands. however the BBC was the first proper broadcasting company and was the only source of tv for a long time during the 1920s and 30s so tv licencing was compulsery in order to keep the company going.despite sepeculation the government do not fund the BBC. The license fee which funds the BBC is collected from us, the public, on behalf of the Beeb by the post office, who retain a small proportion for doing so. The BBC also sells its programmes abroad & to other channels to supplement its funding.

By Andrew Sharp.

BBC

History of the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation)

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting house in the city of westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff. Its main responsibility is to provide impartial public service broadcasting in the united kingdom, channel islands  and isle of man.

The BBC is a semi-autonomous public service broadcaster that operates under a royal charter and a Licence and Agreement from the home secretary. Within the United Kingdom its work is funded principally by an annual television license fee, which is charged to all British households, companies and organisations using any type of equipment to record and/or receive live television broadcasts; the level of the fee is set annually by the british government and agreed by parliament.

Outside the UK, the BBC world service has provided services by direct broadcasting and re-transmission contracts by sound radio since the inauguration of the BBC Empire Service in December 1932, and more recently by television and online. Though sharing some of the facilities of the domestic services, particularly for news and current affairs output, the World Service has a separate Managing Director, and its operating costs have historically been funded mainly by direct grants from the British government. These grants were determined independently of the domestic licence fee and were usually awarded from the budget of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. As such, the BBC's international content has traditionally represented – at least in part – an effective foreign policy tool of the British Government. The recent BBC world service spending review has announced plans for the funding for the world service to be drawn from the domestic licence fee.

The 1920s

The 1920s see the creation of the BBC as an insititution and as a broadcaster. John Reith, the BBC's founding father, moulds its ethos – to inform, educate and entertain – which still endures to this very day, setting the model for many other public service broadcasters. 

Radio quickly takes off with the British public in this decade, as listeners cluster around their crystal sets. Broadcast 'first' follows broadcast 'first' – from first news bulletin to first outside broadcast, from first royal address to the very first sound of Big Ben on the BBC. The BBC also faces its first major government confrontation over editorial independence, during the General Strike of 1926.

The 1930s

The BBC expands with real confidence in this decade, symbolically marked by the construction of Broadcasting House, the first ever purpose-built broadcast centre in the UK. 

Innovation follows innovation, as the BBC pioneers an ever expanding range of radio broadcasts across arts, education and news, launches the Empire Service (forerunner of the World Service), and experiments with the world's first ever regular TV service under John Logie Baird.

But World War II put a rapid stop to further development - the last broadcast before the shutdown was on 1 September 1939.
TV remained silent until 1946, and the BBC radio's national and regional programmes were replaced by the Home Service.And this was the face of British broadcasting until after the war, when normal services began to resume.

The 1940s

The outbreak of World War 2 brings a pivotal role for BBC radio (the TV service closes during this period). Winston Churchill makes his famous inspirational speeches over the BBC airwaves, and BBC news becomes a lifeline for countless listeners in the UK and around the world, as the source of objective and independent journalism.

But Radio finds a lighter entertainment voice too -  through new music and variety formats; it launches some of its long-running programmes such as Woman's Hour and Book at Bedtime; and creates the groundbreaking Third Programme (later to become Radio 3).

The 1950s

This is the decade of television – triggered by the coronation of Elizabeth II in 1953, when 20 million BBC viewers watch the young queen crowned. Subsequent television innovations include Attenborough’s Zoo Quest, Blue Peter for children, the creation of daily news bulletins and analysis programmes such as Panorama, and the first ever British TV soap.

Radio in turn brings memorable comedy, the lyrical and unique Under Milk Wood, and the longest running radio soap drama in the world, The Archers.

The 1960s

This decade sees the confident expansionism of BBC TV and Radio, symbolised partially by the building of the first ever purpose-built TV centre in the world. From here come groundbreaking social drama (The Wednesday Play), sweeping adaptations of the classics (The Forsyte Saga) and the anarchic comedy of Monty Python's Flying Circus, while on BBC radio pop music is reinvented by the birth of Radio 1.

This era also witnesses momentous technological breakthrough, as the nation gasps at pictures of man on the moon and observes the transition to new colour television.

The 1970s

The 1970s see yet more evolution in BBC broadcasting. Morecambe and Wise make the whole nation laugh, while The Family shows us ourselves as never before in the first fly-on-the-wall documentary, and Attenborough continues to reveal the natural world in new and revelatory ways. Drama expands to span both the dark and the literary, from Dennis Potter to the BBC Shakespeare Project. 

New broadcast partnerships include the BBC's link with the Open University, which breaks new ground in universalising education.

The 1980s

A war-torn world gives a renewed focus to the BBC, whether reporting the Falklands War or mounting the groundbreaking Live Aid concert. Meanwhile, one of the largest TV audiences ever is recorded for Charles and Diana's wedding, television finally colonises the House of Commons and even our breakfast tables, and the BBC launches its most popular TV soap of all time, EastEnders.

There is a serious rift with the government over editorial independence, this time around the Northern Irish issue - probably the most serious since the General Strike of 1926.

The 1990s

BBC enters the digital age in this decade, developing a range of digital broadcasting and internet services. As it makes this transition, traditional genres are continually refreshed. Andrew Davies's Pride & Prejudice captivates the nation, Only Fools and Horses makes us laugh, and Teletubbies transforms programming for young children on a global scale.

News goes 24 hours, Princess Diana dominates the documentary headlines and, by the end of the decade, 19 million people will watch her funeral.

The 2000s

This decade is the digital decade, as the BBC responds increasingly to audiences' need to have programme content 'anytime, any place, anywhere'. The IBBC iPlayer launches successfully at the end of 2007, enabling viewers in the UK to catch up on programmes screened over the previous seven days. The BBC website grows exponentially, receiving an average of 3.6 billion hits per month.

The BBC is increasingly global – its coverage of the 2008 Olympics available on TV, radio, online and by mobile phone. Its popular programmes, such as Doctor Who and Strictly Come Dancing, become universal hits.

The company - who is it owned by and does it own any other companies?

Guglielmo Marconi made his historic foray into broadcasting in 1901, when his wireless transmitted the first radio waves across the curvature of the earth.
The Italian entrepreneur's broadcast, from the Isle of Wight to Cornwall, sparked the beginning of the broadcast revolution.

By 1922, the British Broadcasting Company (BBC) began its daily radio transmissions, and "listening in" to the wireless quickly became a social and cultural phenomenon in the UK.

The BBC is owned by no one, it is the property of the british public of those who pay the television licence fee and the british government. Although it is state owned however, the BBC Trust run it on their behalf to guarantee it impartiality.

The BBC have a variety of channels including, BBC 1, 2, 3 and 4. They also have a number of radio channels playing throughout the UK. Also we have to count BBC inlayer which is a fairly recent addition into the broadcasting medium which is based on the internet and people can catch up with all BBC television programmes.

The BBC the heart of a variety of BBC corporations such as BBC american and BBC world wide.

BBC american - 

The channel launched on March 29, 1998, broadcasting comedy, drama and lifestyle programs from BBC television  and other British television broadcasters like ITV and Channel 4.

In the early days, the channel focused on repeats of popular lifestyle shows such as Changing rooms and Ground force BBC America's head of television programming later stated that it was important for the channel to establish a niche since non-UK viewers found the lifestyle shows appealing. The evening schedule is where most new programming would appear.

The network removed the popular British soap opera Eastenders from the schedules in 2003 after low ratings, but provoked a high number of complaints from viewers which caught the attention of the media.

BBC radio -

BBC Radio is a service of the British Broadcasting Corporation which has operated in the United Kingdom under the terms of a Royal charter since 1927. The service provides national radio stations covering the majority of musical genres, as well as local radio stations covering local news, affairs and interests. Internally, BBC Radio is now organised under the banner of BBC Audio & Music, which also oversees online audio content.^[1]

Of the national radio stations, BBC Radio 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 Live are all available through analogue radio (5 Live on AM only) as well as on digital radio and internet services through Real Media, WMA and BBC iplayer. The remaining stations, BBC Radio 1Xtra, 4 Extra, 5 Live Sports Extra and 6 Music, all broadcast on digital platforms only.

BBC radio times (magazine) - 

Radio Times was first issued on 28 September 1923, carrying details of BBC radio programmes (newspapers at the time boycotted radio listings, fearing that increased listenership might decrease their sales. It was at one time the magazine with the largest circulation in Europe.

Radio times is also another way how the BBC is funded - merchandise. 

by shannon griffiths

film installation

Location - recce

For my film ill be using a different and a vast variety of different locations such as college, shops, home and restaurants too indentify and explain why and how we become addicted too food and how the effects of its addictiveness on our everyday lives and how we become increasingly drawn too food.

(unfinished)

film installation

Technologies 

For my film installation ill be using my own camera (canon DSLR, HD) to film for the best quality image and film…also ill be editing my film using my own laptop (apple mac pro) and the software to edit ill be using will be final cut express because the computer offered by the college are of poor quality and i can edit at home - I also find that final cut express is a better editing software, well for me personally anyway.

I may also use the green screen for added effects for my film and add images to my film in creative aspects.

For my film ill be using a variety of different short films rolled into one…to demonstrate the theme of my film which is addiction to foods.

Ill be showing different situations of people trying to diet and avoid foods in restaurants etc to people who are out of control and binge eating ill be showing this in a empathised way in which will shock or surprise the audience and at the same time make it more relatable and understandable by expressing the scenarios in different context.

my main idea for film installation (unfinished)

Task 2 - themes : primary and secondary research

Eating addictions 

Primary research using myself and those around me to describe and research the feeling when craving food and feeling the addictive emotions towards it.

In a sense, we are all addicted to food. Think about what it feels like when you aren’t able to eat. You start to crave food, and become more physically and emotionally uncomfortable the longer the cravings go on for, until eating becomes the most important thing for you to do. This is the experience of all addicts.

In my film id like to explore and even try and answer for myself - Is there any connection between eating disorders, alcoholism, smoking and drug addiction? Are the causes of anorexia, bulimia and binge eating the same as the causes for alcoholism, smoking and other addictions?

so for my film installation ill be having the set made like a candy shop and have people sitting around surrounded by really nice food all of all kinds and just eating while the audience have to stop and watch the film while having the temptation to eat and feeling jealous of those eating…it'll make the point I'm trying to make (about addiction) more understandable and relatable to the audience.

Secondary -

Food is essential to survival, and unlike other addictive behaviours, it is normal to eat repeatedly every day, and to look forward to eating for pleasure. But several characteristics separate normal or occasional binge eating from a food addiction.

Firstly, food addiction is maladaptive so although people overeat to feel better, it often ends up making them feel worse, and gives them more to feel back about. Food addiction can threaten health, causing obesity, malnutrition, and other problems.

Secondly, the overeating that food addicts do is persistent, so a food addict eats too much food -- often the wrong kinds of food -- too much of the time. We all overeat on from time to time, but food addicts often overeat every day, and they eat, not because they are hungry, but as their main way of coping with stress. Then if they are unable to overeat, they experience anxiety.

film installtions

My ideas for my mini film -

Idea 1 - addiction.

I feel like addiction is a part of everyday life and is some how involved with everyone from extreme addictions such as drugs or alcohol to playing on the xbox to much. In a variety of ways each and everyone of us encounter some kind of addiction at some points in our lives.

In my film ill be focusing more on one particular addiction and that is those of an eating disorder - from both points of views of someone who is over weight and of someones who is under weight.

ill be exploring the addiction to foods and the addiction to stay away from foods to become an idealic image of which society has forced upon an unfortunate individual.

Ill be trying to show how these addictions can occur and how they can also occur without even realising or trying to stop them.

Idea 2 - British Teens.

In britian, to me the adult world has a pre misconception of those of my age…or do they - is it me who has the naivety to not see what my generation is and has become? I feel like the media has brain washed people into believing most people of my generation and age group are just a bunch of hooligans who haven't been taught right from wrong so I would like to make a film about my visions of people this age and what the society should see more of. The film would be based around how i vision people my age to be (typically) for example it wouldn't be just based on one thing or person it be based on people i know - weather i like them or not. It would be done in the style of a news report as id like to give the film a fairly realistic vibe.

idea 3 - Religon.

I find this topic extremely interesting as I find peoples views, opinions and beliefs on the subject some what inspiring and interesting and yet at the same time funny - but that my be due to my slight ignorant attitude. But never the less I don't see how you wouldn't find this subject fascinating as there are so many different types of religions to discuss and explore from strict religions such as Muslims to more spiritual, laid back religions such a Buddhism. Id show in my film all the different structures and ritals of different religions - including terrorism, spreading peace and just simply going to church - id like to include as much as i can about religion in the film and everything relating to religion and why.