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Frankie Boyle

As in concerning to the insenstive joke made by comedian Frankie Boyle about Jordon's disabled son Harvey Price, I am outraged at the way he discriminated against a helpless child who can't defend himself. Although the joke was aimed at celebrities and their publicity- seeking ways, it still did not give him the right to be so ignorant and cold hearted againts the disabled.
According to Ofcom the joke made by the comedian which was aired on Channel 4 "controvened the program code, channel 4 continued to doge giving a formal apology" There should be boundaries on what jokes are aired on national televison and I believe a formal statement of apology should be made to Harvey and all the other disabled by Channel 4 and Frankie Boyle.
Even though, he defended himself later on by claiming that he was only highlighting the life style of the well know celebrity Jordon because of the way she exploits her son Harvey, it is of no value to either Harvey or Jordon because a child is not obligated to pay for the action of his/ her parent(s).
Ofcom has ruled that the material in question posed a significant cause to offend. In addition, the joke also mocked the mental and phsical disablities of a child who has not chosen to be of any interest to the public because of the reputation of his mother.  Harvey may be disabled but he has the same rights and feelings of any other human being on this planet, and he should not be singled out because of his condition. Personally, I think Frankie Boyle should be banned from televison all together because he is a bully and he only pick on people who are unable to fight back.

David Starkey

Dear BBC Headquaters,
                               I am writing this complaint in regards to the David Starkey's recent racist comment on News Night about the recent riots which occured couple months back. I believe the debate was held unfairly and very poorly. Such comments should have never been aired out on national television.  His comments were disgusting and outrageous, and he should have never been seated on the panel in the first place.
Although, he made these comments of his free will. However,  I find the BBC should also be blammed for allowing Starkey to express his feelings. And also, I feel the converstion should have been cut as soon as he started with those racist comments and being ignorance.

"We must therefore balance our presumption of freedom of expression with our responsibilities, for example to respect privacy, to be fair, to avoid unjustifiable offence and to provide appropriate protection for our audiences from harm."  According to the BBC regulations, the audience is at the heart of everything they do and expressions that are made should not be of harm to them. Well, I beg to differ on the grounds on whether such statement was a fact, then David Starkey would never have had the oppurtunity to lash out at Black people and blame the riots on "the black culture or way of life"

David Starkey is a racist man and  personally I think his opinions should no longer be of value, if all he is going to do is sterotype and blame all things bad on another person because of the color of their skin, their denomination or their way of life. As a viewer of the BBC, I am very disappointed and annoyed at the way you all allowed the debate to persisted and gave David Starkey the opportunity to disrespect the black culture, and I also feel there weren't enough done on his case.


                                                                                       
                                                                                           

Final Film Noir

Enough of me- Let's talk about me!

Hey Y'all, I'm Tashayna. I am 18 Years Old, Currently Studying BTEC Media Production And Creative Writing At City Of Westminster College. I Live In London, United Kingdom. Im  currently living with my parents and younger siblings. I am a Ctholic, but I am drawn to Ratasfarianism and their culture. I know almost everything there is to know about Ratafarians because of my love for the legendary Robert Nesta Marley, and also because my Step dad is rastafarian.

       

Music defines me! I am a big fan of Reggae music, from Bob Marley to Tony Rebel.  I am also a big fan of Bon Jovi. I live and breathe music. Without it i honestly do not know what i'd do.

Edward Muybridge

Eadweard Muybridge was an English Photographer who spent most of his life in the United States. He's most notable for his pioneering work on animal locomotion which is used to capture motion, and his zoopraxiscope, a device for projecting motion pictures pre-dated the flexible perforated film strip.
Muybridge became well known for his Landscape photography , particularly of the Yosmite Valley. He spent must of his later years in San Fransico, California lecturing and demonstrating his photographis work and early motion picture sequence findings.

In 1872 the former governor of California, racehorse owner and business man Leland Stanford hires Muybridge for some Photographic Studies to illustrate whether all of the feet of a horse were off the ground while trotting, and also whether the same technique goes for a horse gallop.

To accomplish his demonstartion he captured images in the form of Silhouttes onti a disk to be viewed on a machine he had invented, which is called a Zoopraxiscpe. He also invented his own high class speed electronic shutter and electro-timer to be used alongside a battery of 24 cameras in his set project.Using all these technologies and the Chronography, which was used to recored the vibration when the camera shutters went down, and therefore recorded the movements to prove that all four of the horse feet came off the ground whilst trotting and Galloping.

Muybridge findings and techniques are what inspired most, if not all pohotographers nowadays.

Claymation Animation Evaluation

Claymation Animation is one of the various forms of stop motion animation, but with the advent of good technologies, including digital cameras and easy to use computer software . Each animated piece of object is made from clay, usually plasticine clay, it is then manipulated and filmed to produce an image of lifelike movements.

In claymation Animation the objects are made by clay or a similar moldable  material known as Plasticine. 

As in all stop motion animation, claymation animation is set up on the set (background) when film frame is exposed you move the object/ character slightly by hands to create an effect that it moved by itself. This cycle is repeated until the Animator has achieved the amount of minutes that is needed. 

I've had a positive experience using the plasticine to create slow motion animation comparing to cut out slow motion animation, this was because plasticine can be used with ease, it's moldable enough to created any form of object, it is flexible enough to be moved in any way, shape or form and it does not melt under hot studio lighting. Also, it makes a 3D effect. On the other hand,  cut out animation is more complicated seen as the actual characters can't stand up because it's 2D animation. the movement of the object is limited seen as you can't make the fade out of the film frame, nor can it looks as though it's coming out of the screen towards you.

Morph is the first plasticine claymation character sculpted by Peter Lord, appeared with the late Tony Hart. Morph appeared usually in 1 min shots through out the , with Tony Hart usually saying a line or few and Morph would reply with meaningful gestures. Morph was produced for the  BBC by Aardman Animation.  The character Morph inspired Aardman to create other claymation animation, like Wallace and Gomet, chicken run, flushed away, arthur christmas etc.  They also created television series and  short animated films such as, planet sketch, shaun sheep, timmy time, animated conversation etc.

The strengths of using claymation animation are that clay can take the shape of any character in any way shape or form where the clay maintains a recognizable character throughout the shot. It is easy to mold and flexible to move in any direction. It enables us to be very creative and we are free to make which ever character we want.

The limitations of claymation animation are it is very difficult to move the body parts of the character without it falling into pieces. It is also difficult to stick anything to the back of a particular character in order to play its role. For example, in my Claymation animation, one of the character is superman and as we all know superman saves the day. In order for the superman character to save the skater character he must pick him off the ground, doing so was very difficult. So my group decided to use strings to pick them both up, but it was pretty difficult because the string kept cutting through the plasticine, as it was so heavy.

Overall, i think comparing to all the other stop motion animation my class engaged in, this was the easiest. Comparing to cut out it took less time to prepare because we did not have to find suitable images, then cut them out. We just mold our characters and went straight for it.

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