The 'LOST' Questionnaire!

Hello all,

For those that do not know me, my name is Zoe, a third year media student at the University of Lincoln, and for my Dissertation, I am studying ‘LOST’ and its fan culture. I need your help! If as many of you could please take a few moments of any free time to spare answering my questions, that would be fantastic! There are sixteen questions in total.

First set of questions is to do with the type of audience ‘LOST’ attracts for my audience research:
1. How old are you?
2. Are you male or female?
3. What do you do for a living? Are you employed, unemployed, student, retired etc?
4. Are you an aspirer or a homemaker?
5. Do you think ‘LOST’ is for a narrow audience or broad audience?
6. Where are you from?

And now for the questions on ‘LOST’

1. What is the appeal of 'LOST' to you?

2. How many ‘LOST’ forums are you a member of?

3. Do you part take in any fan culture activities? Such as fan fiction, fan videos, fan art, etc?

4. What would you consider as fan activity apart from the aspects I mentioned?

5. Do you look for spoilers, or avoid them?

6. Is six seasons enough, or would you rather there be more episodes?

7. To what extent does your fandom go?

8. Have you ever attended a ‘LOST’ convention, and if so, how were they conducted, and what did you do at them?

9. Would you go to Hawaii to go on the tour of the ‘LOST’ set, and if so, what would you get most excited about seeing?

10. Do your friends ever get tired of your expressed fandom of ‘LOST’, and would you consider yourself as an ‘Annoying LOST Fan’?

Thank you very much for your help, you can keep up-to-date with the progress of this dissertation if you follow this blog: fal108-themediastudent.blogspot.com

You may email your responses to: thelostdissertation@hotmail.co.uk

BBC Scriptwriting Talent Competition

I have a serious challenge on my hands. I have learnt to read my uni emails for frequently, as I have only just found out a few days ago that there is a BBC Talent competition to write a drama or comedy script 30-90 mins long to submit to the BBC with a chance to to given oppertunities and mentioning within the BBC, also the top 5 students get given full professional report on their work.

So, coming up with an idea, treatment, research and this 30-90 minute drama (not comedy cuz I'm really not that funny) script and have it sent to the BBC Writers room for the 9th Nov, which is Friday, and now is the early hours of Wednesday morning. I start a new job on Thursday from 12am, and I'm filiming a forensic scene for my single camera project in my uni group at half 12 this afternoon. Can I pull it off? We'll just have to see!

At the moment I've been researching what the BBC have done so far in drama series and serials, I thought about doing a film but I think it will be harder to come up with an idea, plus they don't accept detailed treatments, which is probs what I'll get carried away with.

Wish me luck, a job in the BBC is really what I am aiming for afterall once I graduate!

Zoe out until this project is complete

About Fal Media

OMG A NEW BLOG PAGE!

But yeah, just quickly explaining that I am going to use this blog to post up all my media work, especially if I think I have done particuarly well in assignments/projects.