There is no doubt in my mind that this bill’s philosophy has changed from its original idea. The digital economy bill was created to deliver high speed broadband for the whole of The UK through a public fund by 2012. First of all I dont think this has been carried out because there are still alot of households without high speed internet connections, I think the goverment have been heavily focusing on other parts of the bill and neglecting others such as this one.
Among one of the main measures is action against file sharing. The Bill states that repeat offenders could have their internet "cut off!" For me this is a step too far and simply shows were the priority lies. The Goverment would rather protect the music industry and try and save them money than keeping one of the bill's first promises in giving everyone in the UK internet connections. A compramise should try and be made because it's a tough problem to solve. People need to hear the music but music productions need the money from their prducts. Even google agrees that cutting off internet is a step in the wrong direction.
One of the main problems with file-sharing does seem to be illegal music download and I think in this department Spotify has it figured out. This programme allows subscribers to listen to variety of artist's but they do not own the music. There is a buy option so fans can download their favourite songs directly. I believe more programmes like this should be developed and the goverment has to accept that file-sharing, illegal downloading and piracy will not be going away in the near future, and probably never will!
Priority deffinately seems to be going with big buisnesses such as music producers and game developers. The goal seems to be trying to save their money rather than keep their promise of transforming Britain into one of the worlds leading digital knowledge economies.
The aim to "cut unlawful file-sharing by at least 70%" is an outrageous plan in my mind. It is a totally unrealistic view and, to me, shows that they will be carrying out with their "cut off" plan no matter what. Maybe they set this goal because they knew they wouldn't reach it.The fact that Carphone Warehouse boss Charles Dunstone recently condemned as "crazy" plans to combat online piracy by severing people's broadband connections shows that their are alot of the top internet providers are against the idea. TalkTalk have stated they will take legal action if any of their clients are cut off. Surely these buisnesses should be protected. Music producers will be saving some money but internet providers will be lossing it. Can the goverment win? Is their a compramise? I don't think so, piracy has been, and always will be a huge problem and it is going a much better bill than this to be solved! Everyone has to be kept happy, the downloaders, the music producers and the interet providers and at the minute this seems pretty hard to do all at once.
The main aim of record labels and music artist's is to deliver great music to their fansm it shouldn't be about the money. Of course there has to be a profit but in my opinion, the producers just need to make sure their music reaches their fans (through facebook, MySpace, spotify etc) and then trust them.If afan downloads the album for free, he may then pay for a concert ticket or some mercendise. A person may hear a song on spotify then go and purchase the album.
The Bill'seems very unrealistic and quite extreme in my mind and many of the leading internet companies seem to agree. "This would discourage innovation, impose unnecessary costs, potentially unsettling the careful balance of responsibilities for enabling market change." The fact is their will be too much money and time put in to tracking file-sharers and banning ISPS, time and money which could be spent funding internet in homes and setting up area access points. There has been many petitions already signed and surely the Bill will either be changed or scrapped!
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coursework evaluation
Media studies coursework, Continuity exercise.
Evaluation
For our coursework we were asked to do a continuity exercise, We had to film for a short period of time making sure no time had past and we had to try and avoid time delays during the conversations. In our continuity exercise we filmed our first character (David) entering the room. He enters the room and sits down beside our second character (Oisin). They share a few quick lines of dialogue and then David gets up and leaves the room again. During or filming we included over the shoulder shots, close-ups and long-shots.
The simple things were important when preparing our project, firstly we needed to acquire actors to carryout the dialogue and this was more difficult than expected. We shot our film with two people but the next day one of the boys was unable to get out of class so we had to reshot the whole thing. we had to ensure that our actors stayed in the same position when saying their lines and this proved a problem, the reason for this is that we had to shoot the same clip many times and then decide which we would use, if the actor is continually moving his arm then this may effect continuity. Our second actor David kept his hand over his mouth when talking and at first we didn’t even notice. To avoid continuity errors we had to make sure that things in camera view had to remain in the exact same position and again this was a problem. When we were editing the piece and trying to put clips together we noticed that sometimes objects were moving around and again this effects continuity. Usually things like this were not noticed until the editing phase and sometimes had to be reshot. We had to make sure our cameras had enough battery power to carryout the filming we needed and also every back round sound interfered with the filming and this had to avoided. Establishing continuity was vital in this task and lots of precautions had to be made.
In order to have a successful project we needed to prepare and to do this we made a storyboard. The Storyboard contained the shots we were going to use and also the dialogue we wanted the actors to exchange. This helped us when we were shooting as our group who were filming knew what shots to include and the actors knew what to so and what actions to perform if necessary. Our group was made up of three people, Lauren, Daniel and me. We each had different tasks, when filming we all tried to share this responsibility and we usually used to cameras at the same time so we could get more shots in. I was also responsible for the actors, I tried to constantly remind them of their lines and when they made mistakes we all tried to solve the problem of fixing the dialogue and also the shots we used.
For our exercise we decided to film in a lunch room, we filmed during class so the room was empty and the corridors were quite. This helped us capture the sound in our filming and avoided any back round noise. The lighting in the room we used and in the corridor became a problem. At first the corridor was quite dimly lit and we took a few clips of the first scene, but when we returned and shot the same clip again at a different time we noticed the lighting had changed and this effected continuity drastically. The main thing I learnt from this was with the conditions we were in it was important to try and film the whole clip at around the same time to avoid our previous mistake. We had to repeat the filming in the corridor and room because of the change in lighting and it was one of our main problems. We thought our filming had been completed but when we edited it down we released that there were many problems in continuity and lighting. There were also some problems with the filming and the main example of this is in one of our shots Davids head was cut out of the shot. When we tried to correct this we noticed we didn’t have enough footage so we had to reshoot the whole thing again. We ended up shooting the film three times before we had it right, we learnt from the mistakes we made and corrected them. In our final take we tried to film each scene as many times as possible and from different angles, this ensured that if something was wrong with our first clip we had backup.
When we had all the appropriate footage we then began to edit it on imovie 08.
Evaluation
For our coursework we were asked to do a continuity exercise, We had to film for a short period of time making sure no time had past and we had to try and avoid time delays during the conversations. In our continuity exercise we filmed our first character (David) entering the room. He enters the room and sits down beside our second character (Oisin). They share a few quick lines of dialogue and then David gets up and leaves the room again. During or filming we included over the shoulder shots, close-ups and long-shots.
The simple things were important when preparing our project, firstly we needed to acquire actors to carryout the dialogue and this was more difficult than expected. We shot our film with two people but the next day one of the boys was unable to get out of class so we had to reshot the whole thing. we had to ensure that our actors stayed in the same position when saying their lines and this proved a problem, the reason for this is that we had to shoot the same clip many times and then decide which we would use, if the actor is continually moving his arm then this may effect continuity. Our second actor David kept his hand over his mouth when talking and at first we didn’t even notice. To avoid continuity errors we had to make sure that things in camera view had to remain in the exact same position and again this was a problem. When we were editing the piece and trying to put clips together we noticed that sometimes objects were moving around and again this effects continuity. Usually things like this were not noticed until the editing phase and sometimes had to be reshot. We had to make sure our cameras had enough battery power to carryout the filming we needed and also every back round sound interfered with the filming and this had to avoided. Establishing continuity was vital in this task and lots of precautions had to be made.
In order to have a successful project we needed to prepare and to do this we made a storyboard. The Storyboard contained the shots we were going to use and also the dialogue we wanted the actors to exchange. This helped us when we were shooting as our group who were filming knew what shots to include and the actors knew what to so and what actions to perform if necessary. Our group was made up of three people, Lauren, Daniel and me. We each had different tasks, when filming we all tried to share this responsibility and we usually used to cameras at the same time so we could get more shots in. I was also responsible for the actors, I tried to constantly remind them of their lines and when they made mistakes we all tried to solve the problem of fixing the dialogue and also the shots we used.
For our exercise we decided to film in a lunch room, we filmed during class so the room was empty and the corridors were quite. This helped us capture the sound in our filming and avoided any back round noise. The lighting in the room we used and in the corridor became a problem. At first the corridor was quite dimly lit and we took a few clips of the first scene, but when we returned and shot the same clip again at a different time we noticed the lighting had changed and this effected continuity drastically. The main thing I learnt from this was with the conditions we were in it was important to try and film the whole clip at around the same time to avoid our previous mistake. We had to repeat the filming in the corridor and room because of the change in lighting and it was one of our main problems. We thought our filming had been completed but when we edited it down we released that there were many problems in continuity and lighting. There were also some problems with the filming and the main example of this is in one of our shots Davids head was cut out of the shot. When we tried to correct this we noticed we didn’t have enough footage so we had to reshoot the whole thing again. We ended up shooting the film three times before we had it right, we learnt from the mistakes we made and corrected them. In our final take we tried to film each scene as many times as possible and from different angles, this ensured that if something was wrong with our first clip we had backup.
When we had all the appropriate footage we then began to edit it on imovie 08.
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