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Straight Outta Compton Straight Outta Compton is a 2015 American biographical film directed by F. Gary Gray, depicting the career of gangsta rap group N.W.A. Titled after N.W.A's 1988 debut studio album The film focuses on members Eazy-E, Ice Cube, and Dr. Dre, and the rise and fall of the group. Straight Outta Compton is set in Compton California in 1986. Eazy-E is a drug dealer, Dr. Dre is an aspiring disc jockey, and Ice Cube is a young rapper. Intrigued by Cube's "reality raps" reflecting on the crime, gang violence, and police harassment that they and other African Americans encounter daily, Dre convinces Eazy to fund a start-up record label, Ruthless Records, with Dre as record producer. When their song "Boyz-n-the-Hood" is rejected by a New York rap group, Dre convinces Eazy to perform it instead. It becomes a local hit, so Eazy, C ube, Dre, DJ Yella, and MC Ren form the group N.W.A. Eazy accepts Jerry Heller's offer to manage N.W....

Daily mirror: Headline: The headline is “So what the hell happens now?” Makes people reflect on the issue and question what is going to happen next. Through the use of rhetorical question it prompts the reader to feel worried about what’s next. The use of alliteration emphasises the question being asked. The size of the headline is eye catching for the audience and draws them in making them want to read the article. Stuart halls reception theory could be a good theory to suggest that there is a hidden message in the headline, as it says “so what the hell happens next?” It could be suggested that there is a message that could suggest there is bad things to follow from the departure of the EU and the start of Brexit. Strapline: The strapline “Day one of Brexit Britain”, presents Brexit as a bad thing and is biased view as it implies that the daily mirror is against Brexit. The use of alliteration emphasises this. This could involve Stuart Halls reception theory, as this could be...

There are two main types of newspaper: Tabloids and broadsheet They get split in to three groups: The quality newspapers (broadsheet) Middle market tabloids Tabloids of 'red tops' 7 people or organisations control the 20 national newspapers. There are 11 different features included in newspaper front covers. These are: Masthead Headline Plug/puff Strapline Stand first A pull quote Subheadings The central image The jump line A Stand alone A splash There is an example of a tabloid below: Masthead: 'DAILY Mirror' Headline: "so what the hell happens now?" A splash: The whole thing Central image: the only image there. Here is an example of a broadsheet on a similar story: Masthead: 'theguardian' Headline: "Cameron faces fight for survival as Britain sets course for Brexit" Plug/Puff: Festival advertisement

Rupert Murdoch- News corporation: The sun, Times, The Sunday Times and The Sun on Sunday. Background: The original News Corporation or News Corp . was an American multinational mass media corporation headquartered in New York City. News Corp was created in 1979 by Rupert Murdoch as a holding company for News Limited On 28 June 2012, after concerns from shareholders in response to its recent scandals and to "unlock even greater long-term shareholder value", founder Rupert Murdoch announced that News Corporation's assets would be split into two publicly traded companies, one oriented towards media, and the other towards publishing. Keith Rupert Murdoch was born 11 March 1931 and is an Australian-born American media mogul. His father, Sir Keith Murdoch, had been a reporter, editor, and senior executive of the Herald and Weekly Times newspaper publishing company, covering all Australian states except New South Wales. After his father's death in 1952, Murdoch decli...

In this lesson we completed a disaster soundscape without video, above is my soundscape where I used different sounds from sound Bible to create a plane dropping a bomb. Music: Army strong theme song sound effects: planes and bomb drop Dialogue: Jiddu Krishnamurti Foley: none