To what extent has the credit crunch simply sped up t he natural development of the music industry

To what extent has the credit crunch simply sped up the natural development of the music industry

The industry has developed form CD’s to just downloading the music online. This is an easier way of doing it and it ends up being more cheaper than buying a CD. When downloading music you can either d it for free using different websites and convertors or people use iTunes buy the music and it is downloaded straight onto the phone.

This has a bad impact on the industry as shops are going to have fewer sales on CD’s due to the amount of music being downloaded. Shops like Zavvi have been closed down from the lack of money being earn’t due to the lack of sales. HMV is also a very well known shop that sells Cd’s, DVD’s and Games etc. However they are also still losing sales on CD’s as they aren’t very popular anymore, different things have been created to replace them.

To play music in the car you can plug your phone into the Car’s CD player, you can also plug an iPod/ mp3 or mobile phone into speakers/dock. 

Sandy Jewel- Marketing strategy

Sandy Jewel

Sandy is a 23 year old Singer/Songwriter who is starting to be recognised.
Fact File:

• Blonde
• 5ft 5
• Blue eyes
• British 

Sandy has been singing ever since she was a little girl and finally her dreams are coming true. 

We will put Sandy on a range of different TV shows such as:

• Alan Carr- Chatty man
• Day break
• A league of their own 
• Celebrity Juice
• The Ellen Show

I have chosen these TV programmes as i believe that Sandy will be able to show her humorous side and her personality and will appeal to a wide age range. She will also be able to tell people about where she is at in her career and spread the word about the events that she will be doing in 2014.

Although the management believe she will receive a lot of male attention we want her to appeal to females aswell. Therefore we have arranged for her to do a photo shoot with new look and modelling for their clothing line. We want her to be a role model to women to show a classy and well respected women, who wears affordable clothes.

Sandy will be starring in a range of magazines including:

• Vogue
• Elle
• GQ
• Heat
• Closer
• Hello

I have chosen to put Sandy in these magazines as it gives her a chance to be noticed by a range of different audiences and the readers will be able to get to know her. The magazines will involve one to one interviews with Sandy and will tell all about the year that she has ahead of her. 

Later on in the year Sandy will be bringing own health and beauty line for a range of products, which will be affordable for all. The products will be available on her website along with other merchandise, the profits however will not be all personal. Sadly Sandy has a an older sister that was diagnosed with breast cancer last year, so now Sandy wants to do as much as she can to help the charity therefore she will be donating 60% of the profits to Breast Cancer UK.

As well as her own website Sandy has set up her own you tube channel so she can do music videos and blogs. You will be able to comment and like her videos meaning you'll be able to ask her questions and she will be able to do a Q&A (question and answer) video, to reply to her fans and supporters.

Sandy will be touring with Selena Gomez and will be the opening act for all of her shows. 

Sandy and Selena have been friends ever since their childhood due to their families being very close.

Overall we believe that Sandy will be very popular and successful and will appeal to a wide audience. We hope that she will be able to plan her own tour by the end of 2014.

Thelma and Lousie essay

Thelma and Louise Essay

At the start of the film Thelma is shown to be a typical housewife who bows down to her Husband. You can see she takes the stereo typical 1990’s women who only job is to serve the family you can see this in the opening scene when she is making Darryl (her husband) a cup of tea and calling for him, as she says he’s going to be late. It shows that most of what she does is to please Darryl and even though she looks after him, he controls her like he’s more important. This makes him look incapable of doing things by himself and that she looks after him. She is portrayed to be a girly girl as for her clothing in the film she wears very feminine clothes, for example she wears a white frilly top which can come resembles innocent which she portrays at the start of the film. However Louise is shown to be the less feminine one as she wears trousers and a top with her hair up. She also comes across as the wiser and smarter one as she packs as little as possible however Thelma packs most of her wardrobe and you also see her put a lamp in the car which make she looks quite gullible but this makes her more loveable to the audience as you find it funny.

Out of the pair Louise is straight away seen holding the most power and Thelma will do anything that Louise asks of her. Louise is also seen as the most mature and the ‘parent’ in their friendship. You can see that Louise is more sensible than Thelma when they arrive at the bar as Thelma attracts Harlan (man at the bar) and starts to flirt with him without even realising which just shows how naive she is. However Louise automatically becomes protective over her and tells him where to go but both Thelma and Harlan ignore her. When Louise goes to the toilet, Harlan takes the chance to take Thelma outside and tries to seduce her. However when Thelma refuses he forces himself on her which shows men were more powerful back then and got their way. It also shows that Thelma is weak and is easily taken advantage of. Harlan would also of gotten away with it and people would say that she brought it on herself and was leading him on, so she’d only have herself to blame. However Louise comes out and threatens him with the gun showing that she isn’t scared of a man which shows that she is brave. This shocks the audience as it goes again the ‘typical women’ back then as she shows that she isn’t scared and helpless like Thelma was. She first tells Harlan to go but he becomes arrogant and aggressive which Louise gets aggravated by and shoots him. Both Louise and Thelma run off and drive away from the bar. Thelma then decides as they are driving to brush her hair and do her make up like that’s the most important thing at this point, even though Louise has just shot and killed a man.

Thelma starts to show her more reckless side when she sleeps with J.D, even though she is married. At this point Louise meets up with her fellow lover Jimmy, where you see the more softer and emotional side to her and all the sudden you see that her strong, independent women is almost a front. After the money is stolen by J.D it’s like Thelma’s head is screwed on and becomes more independent and knows that she must do things by herself and basically needs to man up. This is shown she goes into the shop and pulls out the gun and makes everyone get on the ground. In this situation she has the most power and control but you still know that she still isn’t a threatening or violent person. She takes the money from the till and then shouts at Louise 5to drive showing that she is now telling Louise what to do and almost swapping roles and has taking the responsibility to provide them with money no matter what. Later on in the film Thelma and Louise get pulled over by a cop and asks Louise to exit the vehicle and come into the cop car with him. When you think that Louise is done for Thelma goes up to the officer and puts the gun to the head and tells him to put his hands on the wheel. She then tells Louise to take the gun and proceed to put the officer in the boot. Louise is seen to be the more gullible one as when Thelma tells her to shoot the radio she shoots the music radio and not the police radio. When they get back in the car Louise and Thelma swap places and Thelma is in the driver’s seat. This shows that Thelma has more power as she’s taking control of the situation.

 Next the girls are driving along the road and a truck driver indicates for them to pull over and they just ignore him. However after seeing him for a second time they tell him to pull over but what happens next isn’t what he was expecting. They humiliate and be little him to show that they are stronger than him and won’t be treated like dirt just because there seen as the weaker ones because there the opposite sex. He doesn’t react very well causing him to be verbally rude so to show that he can’t talk to him like that both of them take out a gun and shoot his truck causing it to explode and go up in flames. Both Louise and Thelma drive off with adrenaline and laughter. Showing that they are carless of what they have just done, this was basically committing a crime.

Overall the film shows that throughout the film both Louise and Thelma become more independent and drift away from the stereo typical woman. Thelma becomes more of an individual and is no longer controlled by her husband at the end of the film. They represent the powerful and independent women that don’t need a man to protect them and can look after themselves.

Mise-en-Scene Prezie

Mise en scene prezie http://prezi.com/fboepta0mmgf/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy

THE COLOUR BLACK

BLACK

There are many things that are associated with the colour black such as:

• Death
• Widow
• Cold
• Funerals
• The unknown
• Darkness
• Night time
• Gothic
• Secretive
• Seductive
• Sexy

                                                                                   

Brief Story

A man and women have planned to secretly meet in the woods because their not supposed to be seeing each other. The man slowly puts his hand on her cheek and they both look lovingly into each other’s eyes. Their eye contact could not be separated. They were in love and this love could not be torn apart.