Student Questionnaire

Name: Sara Disborough

GCSE Results: A Level

Maths = C

English Lang = C

English Lit = C

Drama = C

History = D

Citizenship = C

Religion = E

ICT x2 = C

Science YR 11 = C

Science YR 10 = D

Hobbies:

My hobbies include:

Acting

Reading about history ( at the moment the Tudors and The French Revolution)

Reading novel (Stephanie Meyer and Philippa Gregory)

Watching TV (The Tudors, Ugly Betty, Ghost Whisperer, Medium, Supernatural)

MEDIA INTERSTS

Print Media

I am not the type of person who reads newspapers I prefer magazines. When I do read newspapers I normally read The Sun or The Daily Mail due to the fact my parents and grandparents read these newspapers so they are always around the house. When reading magazines I normally read Sugar, Ok, Hello or take a break. Sugar contains all the latest stuff on the teen world. I sometimes read the information on the internet if I find a story interesting by the headlines.

Radio Media

I am a big fan of heart. I love waking up to heart every morning because I always have its part of my daily routine waking up to Matt and Sarah at breakfast.

Music Industry

My favourite genre it pop/ pop rock. I am a big fan of artists like McFly, Jonas Brothers, Take that, Britney Spears etc. I listen to my music all the time and I either listen to it on my mp3 player or on BBC Iplayer or You Tube. My opinion of illegal downloading is simple if it is a song/album of great quality and is from a well known artist and you get it from a website for free then it is illegal downloading.

I believe that the music industry does effect how we dress and act. I think that it is a very effective part of the media, maybe even the most effective part. We act and dress like the people that we admire. For example people who like 50 cent might dress like him.

Video Games

I don’t really have a favourite video game but I do love to play Sims 2 but that is only for a few minutes because I get bored very easily and end up doing so history research or reading a book. I think that video games have a big effect on which we are as a person. Not all video games give the user a negative effect but some do. Games like Grand theft auto give the player a bad reflect on life. Someone who plays this game (mainly young people) could grow up thinking that if you run someone over they will just get back up and carry on with there life. This is not normally the case. Just because games that are rated 18 doesn’t mean that younger people wont play them. I believe that games like these should be band due to the fact that yes they maybe fun to play but to a little Childs mind its like the real world and i don’t think anyone really wants little children running around beating people up and running them over like in the game.

New Technology

I think that new technologies have increased our understanding of the world a lot. For example the internet can provide you with so much information and it is all at a click of a finger. The internet is a fun new way of learning facts you need to know. I am always on the internet either researching stuff for my homework, looking up things I find interesting or talking on msn to all my friends. Msn is a great way of communicating some people will disagree but I think its great because I can sit on msn talk to my friends and do my homework at the same time. For intense I am talking on msn and doing my homework. New technologies broaden how we watch TV and how we find out about the latest film. For instance if we miss a TV programme we can always go onto the website of the TV channel and watch it on there.

Television

I don’t really have a favourite television channel. I like them all. It mainly depends on what I’m in the mood for watching sometimes I want to watch Friends other times I want to watch The Tudors so it all depends on what type of mood I am in, this applies with genres to I does all depend on what mood I’m in sometimes I want to watch crime sometimes I want to watch romance and others comedy. My favourite advertisement is the Clearasil lipstick advert I find it very humorous and very clever. I think that this advert is something every girl wants. The advert has a hidden meaning behind it and that is love and that is why I like it.

My top 5 most memorable TV programmes are:

The Tudors

Friends

My Family

Gossip Girl

Demons

Feature Film

I don’t have a favourite genre because i like them all i find every them all interesting to watch. I am not to keen on war films that are full of blood and guts mainly because I think that they are a bit stupid and i don’t really like seeing people have there heads blown off. I believe this to be because i am deep down scared of people getting blown up because my dad works with bombs (In the RAF).

The films that i find most outstanding are:

10 thing I hate about you

Sweeny Todd

Twilight

I like to watch films at the cinema or at home. As long as the seat is comfy and i am watching a good film i don’t mind. I love Cineworld in bury because of the floor my feet stick to it and i love that part of going to the cinema that’s how i tell its a good cinema. I love going to the cinema with my friends and family. I love being in a group because you have so much fun and you can all talk about the film after.

Conclusion

It has been all over the news lately about a women who murdered her two teenage daughters as they slept. After reading so many news papers about this topic and reading all the different sides people have take it has most offened me that people believe that a mother could do this just to get back at her ex husband. I believe this to be fails due to the fact that i don’t believe any mother could hate her ex husband so much that she would kill her own children. I believe she was not in her right mind when she done this.

I have seen many different types of television programmes about the Henry VIII and i found Henry VIII the tyrant a very interesting and factual programme it was a two part series that told you about the life of one of the greatest (well known) English kings in history. In the programme it told us a lot of henrys past that i didn’t know me. Like the fact he was never meant to be king. This programme also showed me that Henry did have a sensitive side to him even though he killed many people because he could.

I have chosen to do media studies because i wish to either be a media studies teacher or to be a actress. I believed that media studies would be a great way to learn what goes on behind the camera and how much effort actually goes into the films we watch.