teenage anxiety research


researchers who looked at mental health data for high school and college students from 1938 to 2007, more and more young people report symptoms of mental illness in general, and anxiety in particular.

Other experts look more closely at the teenage experience. Today, more teens stay in school longer and delay entering the workforce, which effectively extends the unstructured teenage years, often well into the 20s. More teenagers come from homes with divorced parents than ever before

makingamediaproduct2@blogspot.co.uk

Spike lee notes

Lee's movies have examined race relations, colorism in the black community, the role of media in contemporary life, urban crime and poverty, and other political issues. 

Lee was born in Atlanta, Georgia, the son of Jacqueline Carroll (née Shelton), a teacher of arts and black literature, and William James Edward Lee III, a jazz musician and composer.^[5][6] Lee also had three younger siblings Joie, David, and Cinqué, who all worked in many different positions in Lee's films. Director Malcolm D. Lee is his cousin. When he was a child, the family moved to Brooklyn, New York. His mother nicknamed him "Spike" during his childhood. He attended John Dewey High School in Brooklyn's Gravesend neighborhood.

Lee enrolled in Morehouse College, a historically black college, where he made his first student film.

cross platform adz

What is cross platform advertising?

Cross-platform advertising can be used by any business marketing their company brand. This is done by using numerous technology devices such as TV, internet, mobiles, and social media. The aim is to market set brand to the majority of the population or as much as the business can afford.
Market researchers study consumer behaviour to understand how to advertise effectively.for example, statistics are collected from the target demographic of a company.

mASLOWS THOTIANA

Maslows Theory 

Maslowos thotiana, he has her on lock, very big pimpin 

Maslows theory implies and analyses the key to human happiness. The basic needs of the human mind to sustain a healthy place in one's world. 

Essentially the difference between a millionaire and a homeless man. A prisoner and a free man.

Maslows theory states, that we need all five of these elements in our lives to maintain composure and content within society. Removing even one of these elements causes a domino effect with negative consequences.

For example, a rich man comes home and finds his wife sleeping with another man. He loses his sense of self actualisation, self-esteem, love and security in his own home. he is now left only with physiological needs - he is mentally they same as a man who has just arrived in prison.

SHOT TYPES N ANGELS RIP THE FALLEN

Firstly FRAMING

• Frame can be empty or full 
• Characters/products can be in the background or the foreground
• Everything in is constructed/ has purpose for a message 

Extreme Close-up

• Extreme close ups show only a section of a person/object/product to focus attention
• good for detail 
• often used to discomfort 
• very dramatic

Close up 

• Close ups frame a particular section of the body of a character or product 
• They draw attention to a facial expression or particular action or object 

Medium shot 

• A medium shot is used to show characters interacting 
• helps audience see body language e.g intimacy 

Long shot/Wide Shot 

• this shot often shows the relationship between product and setting

Extreme Long Shot 

• Shot is used to indicate a sense of setting and scale 
• It is useful when portraying an overwhelming feel through the use of environment  
• Used to establish location and a feeling of isolation for the audience 

Eye level shot 

• level of camera creates a degree of normality for the viewer 
• the viewer can feel personally connected to set character at eye level 

Low angle shot 

• Presents character/product in position of power 
• things appear to be bigger than they are 
• what is seen seems awe-inspiring, powerful or odd 

High angle shot 

• suggests object/character is below viewers POV. The audience feel in power 
• uses to suggest size/scale

STEREOTYPES OO KILL EM...

CoDING dECODING N MOULDING DA UTE DEM

CODING AND DECODING FOR CHILDREN 

Coding and decoding is a principal used in advertising to simply make the consumer think.

The advert provides a code or message for the consumer to decipher. Instead of wondering weather they want to purchase into the product or service offered, the consumer is focused on understanding the message whilst subliminally thinking about the product or service advertised. 

As a result, the advertiser as placed thoughts of the product in the consumers mind which can only help sell more of what they have on offer.

Representation 4 DA nATION

                                     representation of age issues and events positive and negative

Weekly News Blues

Flim REVIEWSKI

Menace 2 Society is a film about life in south central, LA. It revolves around its leading character Caine of whom is named by his drug dealer father and drug fiend mother in the 1970’s.  His beginnings foreshadow to be the film the tragedy in which it becomes. 

We enter the film seeing Caine’s father murder his friend simply because of an unpaid debt. Caine witnesses the murder – his narration tells us how it was the first and certainly not the last. This allows the audience to understand the complex nature of life within South Central for a young black male – the reasons behind the crime in the 1980s and 90’s.

We then fast-track to Caine’s adolescence. He sports nice clothes, jewellery, and a pager, finishing a season of high school along with his classmates, embarking on his daily entails under the beaming California sun.

He is shown to have a good heart and kind nature as he helps Jackie and her son financially in honour of his long-time friend who is currently in prison.

A bright start to the film to say the least. We notice a contrast between the good and bad times in life.

Caine and O-Dog, his heedless, violent friend, enter a Korean grocery store to buy a couple of beers. The grocer and his wife, who don't want trouble, ask them to make their purchase and leave. Caine and O-Dog engage in a little meaningless verbal intimidation, aware that because they are young and black they can score some points through the couple's fear. "I feel bad for your mother," the grocer says as they are about to leave. That is all O-Dog needs to hear, and he murders the grocer and then forces his wife to hand over the store's security videotape before killing her, too.

Caine is shocked by this sudden violent development. He sees it in terms of his own misfortune: He went out to get a beer, and now he's an accessory to murder. During the course of the movie, O-Dog will use the videotape for entertainment at parties, freeze-framing the moment of the grocer's death. Eventually dozens of people will know who killed the grocer, but nobody will be charged with the crime, because such violence is so common and the laws are such that many murders simply slip through the fingers of the police.

There are people in Caine's life who care for him. A friend who has an athletic scholarship. A teacher at school. His God-fearing grandparents, who eventually throw him out of the house. His mentor's girlfriend, who wants him to move to Atlanta with her and start over.

But Caine's world is narrow. He has the values of his immediate circle, and the lack of imagination: He cannot envision a world for himself outside of the limited existence of guns, cars, drugs and swagger.

We see his role models are represented by his cousin Harold who is killed in a carjacking after a party. Caine is in the car with him and is shot several times. For now, he survives. Harold’s death is clearly a foreshadowing to the eventual fate of Caine and his lifestyle.

After he leaves hospital, his friend O-Dogg tells Caine the whereabouts of the gangsters who killed his cousin. That same night him and his friends murder those who killed Caine’s cousin. Caine shows remorse in saying ‘ I’m not killing no kids or shooting any crowds’ but his friends conquer his dispute by re-instilling the idea of being ruthless to his enemies.  

That same night he lays in is bed thinking of his vengeance.‘ I didn’t feel anything, I just knew I could do it again’. The thoughts of a child numbed by his environment.

As the film endures Caine is arrested for car theft. His short time in jail is deemed almost irrelevant. However, there is a scene where he is interviewed and intimidated by a police officer in question on the murder in the grocery store. The lighting is intense and Caine is scared. This amplifies how Caine is still a meer child, when faced with accessory to murder he is unsure of himself and worried by the power of the law.

This doesn’t seem to phase him. When he leaves jail his intentions are to make more money through the distribution of crack – cocaine. Another product of society, another statistic, another menace.

He was taught to make crack-cocaine as a child by his deceased father.

Continuously, Caine buys a car, he is flossed with gold and he only needs one more thing – gold rims. This leads him to rob a boy at gunpoint in his car at drive thru. The victim says ‘we’re supposed to be brothers’ in which Caine dismisses as an only child alone in a world of drama and vices.

Caine is then seen to have everything he wants as he cruises through the city to a local barbeque.

He meets a lady of whom he eventually impregnates, but doesn’t claim responsibility for.

Jackie, his girlfriend attempts to convince Caine to move with her and her son to Atlanta, away from the endless gruels of South Central, LA. He is resistant at first but agrees to the idea in the end as he sees nothing else for him in LA.

Unknowingly to Caine, the world is turning against him. His associates grow jealous of him and envy his life. He is confronted by the cousin of the lady he impregnated. Caine assaults him and the cousin feels violated. He returns later with his gang in the form of a drive-by, the death of Caine. Sadly, just as he and Jackie were moving to Atlanta - to escape. 

In my opinion Menace 2 Society represents the tragedy of many vulnerable young black boys in impoverished areas all over the world. There is not a lesson to be learned only the harsh truth of many.

These Manhood Memoirs are a collection of stories from the eyes of a boy becoming a man, conflicting within himself as to whom he should become.

He shows us a glimpse but never the beginning or the end.

Currently an outcast in the school he attends - he feels he is a prince, true royalty - his presence is bright when he walks, everywhere except a crowd.

He understands we are all human, but his ego is in his essence. The females can feel it inately but he rarely flirts.

No true friends as of yet, but he most definitely the coolest cat in college. lol

The social aspect is new and entertaining, but most seem so young - it can feel lonely here, although he never feels alone. 

Hazel eyes see the bigger picture, always focused on tomorrow and forever. He wants to be a king, he wants to rule his kingdom, he is eager to change the world. Perhaps he cares too much, maybe he should work towards serenity for him and his family.

But that would be so boring!

You must understand, he bares acres of wisdom and truly wishes to feel and spread love - a true angel who resides in a world of fuckery.

For now he wants money, he wants paper to write, he wants music to feel, he needs someone to love completely 

Only flashes of genius or innocence make him happy.

He probbably also would like someone to make him laugh 

The End until next time, this time was very early, very young indeed.