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Who regulates music videos and films? -The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC), is a non-governmental organization, founded by the film industry in 1912 and responsible for the national classification and censorship of films exhibited at cinemas and video works (such as television programmes, trailers, adverts, public Information/campaigning films, menus, bonus content etc.) 

Who regulates newspapers? -The Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSPO), the independent regulator for the newspaper and magazine industry in the UK

 Who regulates video games? -Pegi (Pan-European Game Information) 

Who regulates radio? -Ofcom is the communications regulator in the UK. It regulates the TV, radio and video-on-demand sectors, fixed-line telecoms, mobiles and postal services, plus the airwaves over which wireless devices operate.

BBC’s mission statement: To enrich people's lives with programmes and services that inform, educate and entertain.

ITV’s mission statement: ITV, as an integrated producer broadcaster, creates, owns and distributes high-quality content on multiple platforms.

Netflix is an American entertainment company founded by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph on August 29, 1997, in Scotts Valley, California. As of July 2017, Netflix had 103.95 million subscribers worldwide, including 51.92 million in the United States.

Kia Ora, I'm Holly and this is the start of my 201MEDIA research blog. I am yet to choose a specific topic but I have some ideas of the types of pathways to choose for this paper.

I will likely focus on the second topic of gender, media representation and audience consumption, or potentially, the impact of culture practices on media production. (Again, likely looking at gender).

I am a feminist and enjoy topics around gender. Possible ideas for a start of a topic are as follows:

Bechdel Test (I think this is an interesting place to start, I think it is quite shocking and something I have talked about a bit with my friends)

Woman who work in film - NZ director(s) or a specific woman (Greta Gerwig)

Harmful stereotypes of gender roles and the impact that has on the audience.

Something to do with the Barbie movie

I have found that within the industry, technology usded to make animation has changed drastically. 

For example, within 2D animation animators used to only have paper and pencils to draw with on line testers and peg bars. This would take them twice the time it does a 2D digital animator to animate. nowa days 2D animation can be done with a tablet, stylus and computer software. Although the artist has to draw out every frame like the traditional animation, its easier to erase and create layers for each part of the object. 

At the start of the year, I found that you have to create different layers for every part of the body when creating a walk cycle. For example, the legs and arms have to be on a seperate layer to the body because it makes it easier to adjust and make changes to the animation if it needs to be redone.