weekly news 

A 21-year-old man has been arrested in Berkshire by police investigating the hacking of electronic toy maker VTech. 

The man has been held on suspicion of "unauthorized access" to a computer, said the South East Regional Organized Crime Unit (Serocu) in a statement. VTech was hit in mid-November when servers holding its customer information were breached. In total, details of more than six million people are believed to have gone astray. 

Data deluge 

"We are still at the early stages of the investigation and there is still much work to be done," said Craig Jones, head of the cyber crime unit at Serocu. 

"Cybercrime is an issue which has no boundaries and affects people on a local, regional and global level." 

In the attack, servers used to support VTech's Learning Lodge app were compromised. The software lets registered customers download extra content such as games and e-books to their handheld devices. VTech firm sells a wide range of electronic products ranging from toy cars and interactive garages to cameras, games, e-books and tablets. The Learning Lodge database logged names, email addresses, encrypted passwords, IP (internet protocol) numbers and other personal data. Some of the information was about children including names, dates of birth and gender. No credit card data was stored in the compromised database. Details on customers from all over world, including the US, UK, France and China, were taken. Some of the data is believed to have been posted briefly online before being removed. When details about the extent of the data loss became known security expert Troy Hunt said he had "run out of superlatives to even describe how bad" it was. VTech is just one of a growing roster of firms that have suffered data breaches in recent months. Pub chain Wetherspoons and telecommunications firm TalkTalk both recently lost data in attacks. 

I believe that is a horrible crime hacking. But I believe that is the companies fault that they were hacked into. They should have installed a decent computer protection scheme to protect against any viruses or programs which could have been installed by the hacker.  

weekly news

Donald Trump refused to back down Wednesday on his calls to place a temporary ban on Muslims from entering the United States telling Fox News “maybe it’s not politically correct…but somebody had to bring it up.”Trump told Bill O’Reilly on “The O’Reilly Factor” that his plan, which has sparked a political firestorm, “is about security, it’s not about religion.”“It’s a temporary ban on not everybody, but many,” the GOP presidential front runner said. “I would set up a system to see who qualifies to come in, who doesn’t.”

When O’Reilly asked Trump whether he thinks the U.S. needs Muslim nations to fight jihad, the billionaire businessman said, “No I don’t, but I do think it’d be very helpful.”“I have many good friends who are Muslim, they’re terrific people and they’re…thanking me for bringing up this point,” Trump told O’Reilly.

Trump’s remarks come a week after a radical Muslim couple killed 14 people and injured 21 at a holiday office party in San Bernardino, Calif., and as President Obama is seeking to resettle thousands of Syrian refugees in the U.S. Critics have questioned whether the refugees can be effectively screened, but none have gone so far as to call for a ban on all Muslims.

Obama, in a televised address to the nation Sunday night, called on Americans to reject discrimination, saying, "Muslim Americans are our friends and our neighbors, our co-workers, our sports heroes."

“It was a total disgrace,” Trump said. “We have a president that doesn’t have a clue, he doesn’t know what’s going on.” Trump received criticism from both Democrats and Republicans over his plan, including Former Vice President Dick Cheney who called Trump an "extremist." “I am not an extremist, I’m the opposite. I’m someone who understands what’s going on.”  

This news article i am commenting on is from the Fox news website. Fox news is extremely right wing. I believe that this is an extreme way of facing the problem. Not all Muslims are extremists. According to Angel Rabasa, who is a political scientist from the RAND cooperation (http://www.rand.org/) says that-  "While conducting research for a 2014 book I coauthored, Euro Jihad, I found that Western European intelligence agencies estimated that less than one percent of the Muslim population living within their borders are at risk for becoming radicals. I believe that there are much more less extreme ways of coping with this problem. 

James Bond- Film 

Director- Sam Manders (made Spectre, quantum of solace, Sky fall)
2012- year of film
Barbara Brocolli- Producer
kay cast- Daniel Craig, Judy Dench, Javier Bardem, Ralph Fiennes

Music by 

Thomas Newman

Cinematography by 

Roger Deakins

...

director of photography

Film Editing by 

Stuart Baird

Casting By 

Debbie McWilliams

Production Design by 

Dennis Gassner

Art Direction by 

Neal Callow
Dean Clegg
James Foster
Mark Harris
Marc Homes
Paul Inglis
Jason Knox-Johnston
Chris Lowe	...	supervising art director

Set Decoration by 

Anna Pinnock

Costume Design by 

Jany Temime Genre- Thriller, Action, adventure Theme- Espionnage,       Presumed dead, Country and queen

The weekend-
film
2011
Andrew heigh- director and writer
Tristan Goligher- Producer
Tom Cullen, Chris New- Main Cast

Music by 

James Edward Barker

...

(uncredited)

Cinematography by 

Urszula Pontikos

...

director of photography (as Ula Pontikos)

Film Editing by 

Andrew Haigh

Casting By 

Kahleen Crawford

Production Design by 

Sarah Finlay

Makeup Department 

Jo Way

...

makeup artist: daily

Production Management 

Michelle Burt	...	post-production manager
Yuen-Wai Liu	...	production manager
Robert Newlove	...	post-production manager

Drama, Romance- Genre
Sexaulity, Acceptance, Bravery- theme
After a drunken house party with his straight mates, Russell heads out to a gay club. Just before closing time he picks up Glen but what's expected to be just a one-night stand becomes something else, something special.
Protagonist- Russel and Glen
Antagonist- society, culture and life
storyline- linear and single stranded
key scenes- Where glen and Russell meet for the first time in the club. 
Where the Two boys are talking inside Russell's house and starting become friends and have sex again. 
Where they fight the last time before the Glen leaves and then make up after it. 

COMPARABLES- Boys directed by Mischa Kamp, The lilting 

Weekend Vs Pride 

Weekend is a film directed Andrew Heigh. The genre is Drama and romance. It is a drama because it heavily relies on realistic character and story development and it’s a romance because the plot revolves around the love between the two protagonists. The themes of the film are sexuality, acceptance, relationships and friendship. It involves sexuality and acceptance because The protagonist, Russel, wants to come out as gay publicly but he is scared of what people would think of him. Relationship and friendship are involved throughout the film between the two protagonists. The film is about after a drunken night with his straight friends, Russel heads out to a gay bar and picks up Glen and what is expected to be a one night stand turns in to a something else. something special. Pride is a film directed by Matthew Warchus. He also directed Sampatico. The genre of film is comedy and period drama. It is a comedy because it uses humour as a driving force to develop the characters and story. It is a period drama because it uses realistic development in story and characters and it is set in the past in the 1980's. The themes of the film is acceptance, fighting back, cooperation and philanthropy. It involves acceptance because through out the film the protagonist group want to be accepted by the public and that is why they have so many marches and parades. Fighting back is a theme because right from the beginning. One of the protagonists Mark has a banner across his window saying  "Thatcher out". They are constantly fighting against the stereotypes they are given.  Cooperation is involved when the gays join the miners in their fight for the strike and philanthropy is a theme because the protagonists donate and help the miners out. the film is about a group of gay activists join the fight with the miners during their lengthy strike in the summer of 1984.  

The film Pride seemed to feel much more like a documentary and felt much more third person then the weekend. This I believe is because that is a period drama and the director wanted to show the story of this group gay activists in the 1980s. I believe this is also due to the fact that the film pride had a lot more settings, locations. It was set in London. In joes house, gethins house, the small welsh town. Pride also had a lot of characters and viewed each on of them equally. Weekend felt as though it was much more first person. It viewed the characters as though we were with them. It had a very small cast meaning the film can view these characters in a huge amount of depth. The amount of locations in the weekend was very small. This also is another reason why the film is first person because it doesn’t have to spend so much time with stablishing shots. I conclude that the film Pride has a documentary feel to it because it is a period drama and the director wanted to include everything to do with the event. This is also down to the cinematography. The cinematography in Pride was directed by Tat Radcliffe he also did the cinematography for the film 71. The cinematography was on sticks and had no hand held camera. The weekend cinematography was directed by Urszula Pontikos. She also directed the cinematography in lilting. It is hand held in The weekend therefore giving it a first person feel.

Stacey Dooley vs Reggie Yates

Reggie Yates documentary Race Riots USA was presented by Reggie Yates, Directed by Ruhi Hamid and produced by kandise Abiola. Ruhi Hamid has also directed other documentaries such as extreme south Africa with reggie yates and extreme Russia with reggie yates. This documentary covered how the death of Micheal brown, the unmarked black teenager killed by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, reggie yates examines the position on African Americans in the U-S society. The documentary gave a very first person feel to the documentary. You were with reggie yates all the time and the voice over was the from the voice of reggie yates. This gave a very educational feel to the documentary. This could be because the race now is such a big crisis now that it has to be viewed not in a entertainment way but in a factual and informative way. 

The documentary covered how African american people in not only Ferguson are being primarily picked on. This documentary showed how the law system viewed African american people in negative ways. The lawyer which Reggie yates went to go visit stated how there are now laws in america for the way you walk and dress. For example there was a law against how people shouldn't sag their trousers or if they were to be seen walking in a group and looked as though they were wearing stereotypical gang clothing they could be charged. The law is aimed primarily at the stereotypes of a young black rappers. These young black rappers ideolised by other young black African Americans and personnel identity and friendship groups are created. This then gives the police something to charge and therefore collect money. The lawyer says how the american policing system is used for profit and how it uses these new laws to collect money. 

Reggie Yates had a interview with a law enforcement officer and was told that an officer, when pulling over a car for anything, has to prepared to kill everyone in the car if needs must. Some other police trainees were saying how they need to walk up to the car as though they are going to be prepared for a gun fight if needs must. This i believe is wrong because if you walk up to the car thinking that the person in the car could attack you at any point you're going to act aggressive. I believe that the system is wrong. The laws are used to gain profit which is so wrong in so many ways. the law should be there to protect and serve not gain money. The government are creating laws around young black African American rap and using that to charge African American people because they know they are going to be following these rappers. All of this is used to create money.  

Stacey Dooley's documentary Sex trafficking In Cambodia was presented by Stacey Dooley, directed and produced by Fiona Lloyd Davis. The documentary was about Stacey Dooley explores the issue of under aged sex in Cambodia. Fiona Lloyd Davis is a documentary maker who focuses on human rights issues in conflicts zones. So this documentary is right up her street. This documentary had very third person feel to it and felt as though it was entertainment purposes and we were watching how this normal every day girl reacts to these shocking stories. This is done through the the voice over being done by a separate person. I didn't feel as though i was with Stacey in Cambodia. This is also due to the different locations they all traveled to. In Race Riots it was all based Ferguson. This is based all over a country which is a much larger area. Therefore by having a national scale it didn't feel as though i was with Stacey but more as though I was watching her do this from home. 

The documentary showed these girls in a very recessive position. All of the girls were at the mercy of these pimps and men. It painted a picture that it was men doing all of the dirty work. For example men are pimps and they are the ones who have sex with under aged girls. But in fact in some of the stories its actually the aunt who sends the child off or sometimes the mother who sells the child off money. If it wasn't for the mother in the first place the Girls wouldn't be in the hands of these horrible men. So the women are just as bad as the men. On the other hand there has been cases where the mother has said no or the family member has said no to selling the girls and the pimps have came and kidnapped the girls. Now very little people in Britain can relate to this meaning that the audience they are being alienated and distanced from the subject matter meaning that it has a lack of personnel identity. This then makes the subject more interesting and shocking to audience because they have not seen or experienced anything like it. 

The reason why the young girls are selling their bodies to these pimps and men is because there is a huge amount of money which comes with it. One of the girls in the one of the interviews says how they were going to be payed $700 for having sex with a man. That is worth 2 months wages and to girls who's families are very poor and have debts to pay, this offer is very enticing. But the girl says how after having sex with the man she doesn't even get payed and she is beaten up for asking for the rest of the money. 

Mediterranea  

I went to go see the film Mediterranea on Friday the 16th of October. The film is directed by Jonas Carpignano. It was made in 2015. The genre of the film is drama and adventure. it is a drama because it heavily relies on realistic character development and story line development. It's adventure because the men travel to places they have never been before and discover new things. The themes of this film are friendship, racism, immigration and money. it has friendship because the story line follows the character Abas and his friend Ayiva. Both of the characters have strong bond between each other. It includes racism when they two men travel into the small town in Italy. The white people don’t like the Immigrants taking their jobs. They specifically don’t like the black skinned people taking their jobs. It includes immigration throughout the film because the two mean are moving from country to country and includes money because the older man Abas is always looking for stuff to sell and provide for his friend. The film is about two men who take a dangerous trip to Africa and then Africa to start a better life but then face hostility and violence in this shocking look at life and death struggle of refugees.  

The cinematography through the film was handheld. The cinematography was directed by Wyatt Garfield. I believe this was to create the illusion to the audience that they are with the characters in the film. It gives the film a rougher edge  and a more realistic feel to the film. This put the audience in a first person view and in some scenes this would scare the audience such as the scene where the group of people are still in Africa and are just about to climb over the top of hill and the terrorists come over the hill and hinder the group from progressing to the border. The shakiness from the camera puts the audience in a recessive position.  

The sound was directed by Nicolas Bekker. There is no non diegetic soundtrack in the whole film. It’s a bit like the film the weekend where they only use the noises around the characters to create a realistic interpretation. Just like the scene in weekend in Russells house where Glen is eating the chocolate bar. They emphasize the noise of the chocolate bar wrapper. This is to make the audience feel as though they are in the scene with them. They do the very same in Mediterranean. In most of the desserts scenes they use the non diegetic noise of wind, the sand hitting the clothing and their feet digging in to the ground. They all emphasize these noises to make it seem more realistic. What I mean by emphasizing the noises is that they make them very noticeable so they increase the volume of the sound effects.

  

The performance of the two men displayed that they were both very close to each other. The proximity of the two brothers were very throughout the film was very close. This then showed that they were not afraid of getting close this is because they have grown up together. There is a film where a similar relationship between to males happen. Which is The Selfish Giant. The two boys Arbor and Swifty weren't afraid to get close not in a sexual way but in a friend way. They would hit each other and wrestle. Another example is the film My brother the devil. the two boys Rashid and Mo have a close relationship and this is displayed through the older brother Rashid touching his brothers Mo's head. In summary the performance of the men are very similar to these two other films.  

The mes en scene in the film tells and shows the audience that they are not in a poor estate wherever they go. Throughout the film you never see any huge high rise buildings. Therefore they never go in to a big city. The meaning of this is to show and tell how these two boys never make it "big" or can never make it "big". Another form of mes scene which shows how they are poor and struggling is there clothes and setting where they sleep. Their shelter is a small little shack made out of different pieces of metal and scrap. Therefore telling the audience that they are very low class and have little money. There clothing is rough and has been torn in multiple areas. meaning that the characters have no money to buy a new jumper so they keep the one they have at the moment. In conclusion this shows us that the area the characters are in is poor and they themselves are very low class and are very poor.