Carers bullied and abused frail woman at care home.

Two carers Adam Hunt and Raquel Pritchard were filmed tormenting a frail and vulnerable patient, 68 year old Bridget Mcdonald. The two carers were sacked after Mcdonald's two daughters set up a secret camera after they noticed a change in her behavior. At one point during the clip Hunt is seen shouting at Bridget and swearing.  One of her daughters is reported to be disgusted saying 'It is heartbreaking to see my mum look so scared and confused while they treat her in such an appalling way.”  

Personally, I think this is appalling as there have been many cases of this. I think the watch on care homes should be stricter and staffs treatment of patients should be regularly checked.  It is disgusting to think that the only way behaviour like this is caught is through deception and hiding cameras in a patients room, regular checks should be made to avoid this. I believe punishment is due to the carers and that simply losing their jobs isn't enough.

Fruitvale Station - Genre, Representation, Narrative

Fruitvale station is an American drama film directed by Ryan Coogler in 2013. It's genre would be a drama based on real life events - the death of Oscar Grant (played by Michael B Jordan) who was killed in 2009 by police officer Johannanes Mehserle. The narrative follows Oscar Grant who was unarmed and then shot in the back by  two police officers, he then died several hours later and therefore one of the police officers was charged with involuntary manslaughter and sentenced to eleven months in prison. The narrative follows Grant as he plans a new years resolution to free himself from a life of crime and provide a better life for his girlfriend Sophina (played by Melonie Diaz) and daughter Tatiana. As the audience see Grant begin to turn his life around, the tragedy that is his death occurs just after midnight on new years eve meaning his resolution is no longer. 

The genre would be a biography drama about Grant's life and his death.It is also a narrative feature film as its whole narrative consists of telling a fictional story. The film stays true to the real events remaining realistic throughout opposed to having regular conventions of action and crime films. 

The representation throughout is of the events that happened that night. The police are represented to be racist in their convicting, as they only demanded the black people leave the train and prematurely decided it was them that had started the fight. Contrastingly, Grant was represented to be the opposite to what the police presumed. He was shown to be getting his life back on track and be a family man willing to learn from his mistakes to better his family. This created sympathy amongst the audience as we had been following his journey of self improvement. Themes throughout include the brutality of the police force, racial discrimination and familial relationships. Unfortunately there have been similar cases to Oscar Grant's in the past, all of which seem to link in with the themes portrayed in this film. 

I really enjoyed this film as it was not what I expected it to be. It was very eye opening and I thought Coogler was right and clever in featuring actual footage from the event. This helps bring home to the audience the seriousness behind the story and how Oscar Grant was a real man, innocent and killed for no reason. Overall I was fascinated by the film as it told the story so well and realistically.

The Last Leg and Fox News

The Last Leg is presented by Adam Hills, Josh Widdicombe and Alex Brooker. I think the show is clever in the way it gives an alternative look at the weeks news. I like how it shows the highlights of the week and then the three presenters will discuss the news adding their own opinions and speaking more freely than regular news reporters. I watched the clip about the UKIP manifesto. The three presenters talking about the policies such as abolishing inheritance tax. The show is presented in front of a live audience and their laughter can be heard throughout. I like how they were light hearted in their comments and they often make jokes towards politicians. I also like how they bring on guest stars and asked how they think Nigel Farage is being portrayed in the media so that the audience get serious news but with humour as well.

The Fox news clip I watched was about the two officers that got shot during the Ferguson protests. The clip was captioned 'Two officers shot last night outside the Ferguson Police Dept' which I think is very to the point and insensitive.  They interviewed a protester live from outside the police department to which the reporter asked outright what he saw of the shooting, and then began to call the protester by his first name saying 'Ivory, you should be saying this is wrong'. I think this is really unprofessional as the news reporter should just be accepting his opinion opposed to questioning it.

Black Mirror and Misfits

Misfits and Black Mirror are both produced by channel 4. The shows are similar in that they are both based on a future world and therefore come under a science fiction/ supernatural and dystopian genre. Both look at how society's future could be in jeopardy if over ruled by supernatural powers as seen in Misfits and overuse and dependency of technology in Black Mirror.

 The narratives of the two TV shows differ in that Misfits has more or less the same cast in each episode of one series. Misfits focuses on a group of young offenders and these characters are recurring throughout each episode. Alternatively, Black Mirror has a new narrative each episode. For example the first episode is about the power of technology and the internet on blackmailing the Prime Minister,  whereas the second episode has a whole new narrative about a talent show and the 'price of fame'. A similarity between the two shows is that each episode - whether or not linking on from the previous one - follows a unique plot line and one which therefore aids its genre of science fiction. I think this makes the shows stand out against regular dramas and makes them more appealing. They offer the viewer an exciting and alternative view on the world we live in. I think Misfits is aimed at a younger audience to Black Mirror as it is centred around a group of teenagers to whom a teen audience could relate. Whereas, Black Mirror to be targeted at an older audience due to some of the harsher and more disturbing scenes such as the ones seen in the first episode. 

Misfits mainly represents youth culture as it is about a group of young people. Youths are represented negatively from the beginning as the group of teenagers are young offenders on community service and have therefore committed crimes. The representation of Kelly, a character of low social class, is for her to be a stereotypical 'chav' with lots of jewellery, lots of makeup and her hair in a high pony tail. She is also shown to have bad language and a bad attitude. The representation of the teens does however change throughout each episode as the viewer begins to learn why each person committed their crime and then begins to represent them as the misunderstood teenagers they are. On the other hand, Black Mirror represents normal people being exploited. For example, the character of Abi in the episode '15 million merits.' The world is powered by people cycling on exercise bikes and character Bing sees an opportunity for Abi to escape this world of 'black mirrors' by auditioning for a talent show. She is represent as an authentic and normal human being with a talent for singing, however due to society's dependency on technology and this particular talent show she 'goes through a filter until nothing natural is left'.