The MediaMagazine conference in Russell Square was very interesting, I learnt a lot more than I expected and had a lot more fun than I expected. There were many 'acts' who spoke about the influences of media on their audiences and themselves. _____ spoke about violence in the media and how it affected the audiences through cinema's, television and most importantly comic books. We saw a few pages of a comic book which included violence of 'aliens' and also had innappropriate names such as 'Shaggur' which the whole lecture hall found hilarious. We also heard from Heydon Prowse and Jolyon Rubinstein who star in the BBC3 programme The Revolution Will Be Televised. They were exceptionally funny and explained how they got into the media which was really interesting.
5/6 ex-A Level students also spoke to us as they took Media A Level andhave all ended up in secure, good media positions such as on set of This Morning, newspaper article writiers (Guilty Pleasures) and directing small movies. Some got to their current positions in the media by simply starting off a small blog and writing about everyday things and they soon got recognised. I have planned to do this:)
_________ is a journalist of The Guardian newspaper and he spoke about Twitter, and how news can travel faster online than anywhere else and gave examples such as the Summer riots and the end of the world.
Corin Hardy was amazing, we watched a lot of his work, like his animations where the characters were made out of cigarette packets and also watched a lot of his childhood videos. They were SO good, and also watched the opening to Devlin ft. Ed Sheeran - The Watchtower music video which Corin directed. He also gave us an insight into why he loves making horror so much and what he did to get into the media. We also got a picture with him, and he favourited & retweeted 3 of my tweets!
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