Reflection

I must admit at first I was thinking 'Oh no! This is gonna be hard!' but when I read the instructions for each post it broke the tasks down into easier parts. The examples really helped as I used it as a guide line. The bridging tasks were very exciting and different from the other subjects. I was very thankful that it wasn't an essay but something very enjoyable and entertaining especially the TV Drama. That had to be my favourite post to produce and publish. It also helped me prepare for what's coming in the next year or so as I had a little practise of analysing a TV Drama and a Magazine cover. It was as if my brain flooded in with memorable work from year 10-11 English Language.
It was easy for me to familiarise myself with this blog as I used to have a blog on wordpress.com and the layout is almost the same so it was very easy to handle.
By doing these tasks I now have a clear understanding of the criteria and the course.

Guardian Story

The Guardian article that caught my attention the most was the one about our Manchester striker Wayne Rooney. He admitted that he gained a seven pounds over the long summer holiday blaming 'bevvies' for his weight gain. But he's not letting a few pounds stop him from being the best striker there is. He's stated that he'll tackle loosing the weight head on. "I drank a few bevvies while I was away. I'm stocky. I'm not like Ryan Giggs, all bone and lean muscle. But I gain weight quite easily. It's not a problem though." He's putting on a brave and positive attitude into loosing it.

Manchester United's Wayne Rooney
Guardian story here

Wayne's not upset or frightened that his managers will start calling him fat because he knows that he's able to shed it off in one or two weeks time. "There's no room for failure or second best at this club..." Talking about nutrition Rooney will start his strict diet until he's at his goal weight.

However Rooney hints that he could be struggling having the football lime light on him and having the pressure to score in all games. This has altered my views on football players. I didn't think that they have to maintain their weight and have strict diets and do so much to keep in shape.

Magazine Annotation

Cosmopolitan 

TV Drama

Promotional Poster

Quick Summary

2 Broke Girls" is a comedy which follows two young women Caroline & Max and their job at a greasy spoon diner. By working together, they start to become friends even though they're the complete opposite of each other and come from two different worlds. Max comes from broken family, has to work 2 jobs to keep herself financed while Caroline is a daddy's little princess however with her dad in jail she is forced to work for herself. By no means she employed at the dinner. At first glance Max views Caroline as a "waste of space" until Caroline seeks an opportunity in starting a cupcake business with Max as she loves to bake cupcakes. 

Channel: CBS (USA) Monday nights at 8:30pm and E4 (UK) Thursday nights at 9pm

Genre: Sitcom

Creators: Michael Patrick known from making the 'Sex and the City' and writer-comedian Whitney Cummings from 'Chelsea Lately'

Producers: Tim Kaiser, Sonny Lee and Patrick Walsh

Production Companies: MPK Productions and Warner Bros. Television.

Cast: 

• Kat Dennings as Max Black
• Beth Behrs as Caroline Wesbox Channing
• Garrett Morris as Earl
• Jonathan Kite as Oleg
• Matthew Moy as Han Lee
• Nick Zano as Johnny

Episode Summary - Episode 1 series 1

Max and Caroline's first encounter

The pilot episode, the audience is first introduced to all the characters. We first approach Max as she waits on a table of two hypster boys treating her in an obnoxious and rude way. With this she throws them back their attitude and insults them. Meanwhile Han Lee (the boss) fired the old Russian waitress and hires Caroline. Caroline lied on her resume saying that she had worked in the top Manhattan restaurant. However she knows nothing about being a waitress. Later Max finds out Caroline has no where to sleep and offers her to be her room mate. Whilst Max is out on her second job, Max's boyfriend finds Caroline and tries to approach her. Caroline panics and tells Max. But being Max a hard headed person, she doesn't believe until she caught her boyfriend cheating on her with one of his band members. Max kicks him out and breaks up with him. 

Max Black in Episode 1 

Max

In this episode Max is portrayed to be sarcastic, constantly makes jokes and regularly insults and offends people without much thought. We also know she's been a waitress all her life as she's said so. We also now she's financially unstable as she has to work two jobs one after another just to sustain herself which explains why she's living in a 'rough' neighbourhood in down town Brooklyn. She is mostly seen wearing her work uniform but when she isn't she wears clothes bought from Goodwill (Charity Shop). 

Caroline Channing in Episode 1

Caroline

Caroline is the opposite of Max; she's sophisticated and comes from a wealthy background. We can spot this by the way she talks, acts and dresses. We first she her coming out of the women's changing room refusing to wear the uniform as "It doesn't match with her skin tone." Due to her upbringing, she is very stylish and used to designer clothing. Her father Martin Channing was involved in a Ponzi Scheme and the government was forced to freeze all of their bank accounts forcing Caroline to work and sustain for herself. 

Personal Overview 

In my perspective 2 Broke Girl's is appropriate for teenagers and above but not for younger kids as they sometimes use rude or foul language. It's very entertaining and hilarious due to the comic style sitcom the producers have created. 

I believe that the casting directors have chosen the perfect actors to play Caroline and Max as Beth and Kat play their roles outstandingly accurate. 

Representation

Definition

Representation is concerned with the way that people, ideas and events are presented to us. What appears on screens, in print etc., does not appear by accident, but through a process of
decision making from within the media industries. A media text then, needs to be viewed in this light - as a series of representations, a vehicle for beliefs, values and attitudes, which can be reinforced ( or challenged) by the audience.

(definition taken from here)


My definition

To my understanding, 'Media Repentaion' is the way media is enhanced for different purposes such as gender, age, ethnicity and so on. It may also construct a false reality to highlight different aspects of the media.

Three Resources I Found Most Interesting/Helpful And Why

These are the three resources I found which particularly helpful when creating my blog for our Media Bridging Unit.

 1) The first resource I found helpful was the 'Your AS Media Bridging Unit' page. Why? because it informed me about the AS Level course, it's also cleared my understanding of the criteria.

2) The next resource I found interesting and helpful was the  'Annotating a Magazine Cover'. This page is very useful for an example of the task as it's very simple to understand and use.

3) The last resource I found was helpful and interesting was the 'Brief introduction to TV Drama'. Before reading this page I was confused on doing the task but after reading it, it became clearer and I was able to do it. I was very delighted to come across this page as I had no clue what I had to do.