Friday, 2 March 2012

The Ring

The Ring was a popular horror film made in 2002. it is a horror / mystery / thriller movie about a mysterious videotape which causes the death of everyone who watches it exactly a week after they watch it.
The mise en scene of the movie is set in a girls bedroom with two girls talking assumably having a sleepover. the weather is raining with great use of sound effects and emphasis of the rain colliding with the window. The audience are then told about a mysterious video tape which kills you 7 days after you watch it through conversation between the two girls. One of the girls confesses that she watched the tape 7 days ago and pretends to die playing a practical joke on her friend. the girl that watched the tape in named katie but the audience are not aware of this information just yet. Katie tells her friend that she went to the "Lake" last weekend and that she also had sex. Any horror movie fan knows that one of the rules in horror movies is that "If you have sex you die" immediately after we are told this, the phone rings. This is a huge reference to the movie "Scream" we find out that on the other end of the phone is her mum and there is nothing to worry about at all which is a referance to the "Luton bus technique". after the phone call has finished the TV turns on by itself when only katie is down stairs. She turns it off but it turns on again so she unplugs the TV and walks away. Katie goes upstairs and sees water on the landing, walks into her bedroom then sees the movie on her TV, screams and the scene ends with a very fast montage of images and an image of the ring just before she dies.
we are later in the film introduced to aden whom is Katies cousin. Aden has been acting strangely and drawing pictures of rings and his cousin being killed a week before her death. Adens mum investergates the situation and the death of Katie and finds a camera with photos from last week on that have not been developed yet. the relationship between Aden and his Mum is close as she is a single parent however Adens Mum works alot and "dosent have enough time for Aden"
After the photagraphs are developed

Thursday, 1 March 2012

Shropshire Star SA

Introduction


The Shropshire Star is a regional newspaper. It has been the main local newspaper in Shropshire since 1964. It is owned by the Midlands News Association with 171,837 adults reading on average every night, 57% of these (98,458) read no other daily paper.
The shropshire Star is published 6 days a week Monday to Saturday with a current cover price of 42p. it is sold inside all good news-agents in Shropshire and delivery is available depending on the location of which you live costing £2.34 a week. The circulation area of the Shropshire star is huge covered by 3 different editions, County, South and Border. As seen in the image below, the circulation (Areas covered) are Ellesmere, Whitchurch, Shrewsbury Rural, Market Drayton and Wem are covered by County Editions. Cleobury Mortimer Rural Area, Knighton, Church Stretton, Ludlow and Bridgnorth are covered by the South Edition and Llanfyllin, Oswestry, Newtown and Welshpool are covered by the Border Edition




The Shropshire Star is known for having the most Impressive circulation performances of any UK regional newspaper.
The Midlands News Association owns many newspapers in the Midlands also including the Express and Star newspaper, Also the North Shropshire Chronicle.
News statistics show that the Shropshire Star is the fastest growing newspaper website in the UK