John Barrowman - The Autobiographies

Source: Print Source

To get more information on John Barrowman, I looked 

into his two autobiographies. "Anything Goes" and "I Am What I Am". With this, I got more of a sense of John as a person and also gained a full list of his lifetime achievements. This gave me a much greater understanding of John as a person. 

John Barrowman - The Music Career

Source: Web-based

Website: amazon.co.uk

I looked on amazon to get information on the five albums that John Barrowman has released over his career. From this, I was

able to establish when the albums were released and also sampled some of his music to get a sense of his musical abilities.

Jeffrey Lewis

Source: Youtube website and Class Handouts

As a class, we looked at Jeffrey Lewis. He is an anti-folk singer and a comic book artist. We looked at a few of his comic strips and also one of his music videos. Here is a link to one of his music videos.










From this, I have gained a greater knowledge of the different media practitioners I could research over the summer. It was now time for me to narrow down my choices for my media practitioner.

My Take On Frank Miller

Source: Print Based

I took a scene from one of Frank Miller's graphic novels and erased the dialogue and replaced it with some of my own, to illustrate part of Frank Miller's career. The image is as follows:

Frank Miller - Background Research

Source: Wikipedia Website

We looked at Alan Moore as a class. We learnt that he is a graphic novelist, screenwriter and movie director. I researched him on wikipedia and learnt that he created the graphic novels Sin City and 300. Those have now been adapted into feature films. Frank Miller was a co-director of Sin City. He also wrote the screenplay and directed the film The Spirit. I have learnt that Frank Miller likes to adapt graphic novels into feature films...

Alan Moore Music Video

Source: Youtube website

We looked at the music video to March Of The Sinister Ducks by The Sinister Ducks (Alan Moore's band). From this, we learnt that Alan Moore really doesn't like ducks. Here is the music video to the song...

Alan Moore Film Research

Source: imdb website

Me and Ash then looked at the imdb website to get some information on the film adaptions on alan moore's graphic novels. From there, we were able to watch some of the film trailers and looked at some reviews of the films. We learnt that Alan Moore hated the film adaptions and therefore refused to be credited with the making of the films. The films that we looked at were: V For Vendetta, Watchmen, The League of Extroadanairy Gentlemen and From Hell. This helped us to understand how his work differed from the graphic novels and the film adaptions.

Alan Moore Basic Research

Source: Wikipedia Website

I worked in a pair with Ash and we researched into a media practitioner who worked in more than one creative field. We were given Alan Moore and had to prepare a presentation. The first place we looked was on the wikipedia page and learnt some of Alan Moore's background information. We learnt that several of his graphic novels had been adapted into feature length films and that he was also in a band. His graphic novels that had been adapted into films were: V For Vendetta, The League Of Extroadanairy Gentlemen and Watchmen. From this, we were able to understand more about Alan Moore personally and also some of his recent career achievements.

Media Practitioners Part 4

Simon Pegg is most famous for co-writing and acting in the films: Shaun of The Dead, Hot Fuzz and Run Fatboy Run. He also appeared in the Channel 4 Series of Spaced.

Alexander Ludwig is famous for playing the lead in The Dark Is Rising in 2007 and co-starring in the Disney film: Race To Witch Mountain in April 2009.

From this, I was able to determine what two media practitioners I wanted to base my research on. The practitioners who worked in more than one creative field that appealed to me the most were, Garth Jennings and John Barrowman.

Media Practitioners Part 3

Garth Jennings directed the big screen version of The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, and also wrote and directed Son Of Rambow. He began his career by making TV Commercials and music videos.

John Barrowman is a TV presenter, actor, theatre actor and also a solo

singer. He is most famous for his role as Captain Jack in Doctor Who and Torchwood.

Media Practitioners Part 2

Josh Franceschi is the lead singer in the band: You Me At Six. Hayley Williams is the lead singer in the band: Paramore.

Liam Mower took on the role of Billy in the West End version of Billy Elliot in 200.He played the role for a year and a half. He has also appeared in the TV show: Wire In The Blood. See image:

Media Practitioners Part 1

I made a list of all media practitioners, all of whom appealed to me. This list consisted of Ewan McGregor, David Tennant, Josh Franceschi, Hayley Williams, Liam Mower, Garth Jennings, John Barrowman, Simon Pegg and Alexander Ludwig.

Ewan McGregor is an actor who is most famous for his roles as Obi-Wan Kenobi in the latest Star Wars films. His latest film is The Men Who Stare At Goats. He also appeared in the TV Documentary: The Long Way Round. He is also a voice-actor and has provided the voice in the film: Robots.

David Tennant is also an actor. He is renowned as being the tenth Doctor in Doctor Who. He has also appeared in films, such as Harry Potter And The Goblet of Fire and St Trinians 2. He has also appeared in the stage version of Hamlet.

Original Practitioner Research

Russell T Davies

When this project was first set, I wanted to use Russell T Davies as my media practitioner. He is a writer and producer. He is famous for reviving the Doctor Who Series. He also created spin-off shows Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures.

He also created and written the shows Queer As Folk, Casanova and Bob and Rose. I decided not to use him as my chosen practitioner as he only works in one creative field instead of two or more.

17/07/09 - Torchwood BBC research

Source - bbc website

I looked on the BBC website to find out more about John Barrowman's role as Captain Jack in Doctor Who and Torchwood. I found out the names of the Doctor Who episodes in which he has appeared in and also the episode synopsis. I also looked at the Torchwood series 3 synopsis and read an interview with John Barrowman about the latest series of Torchwood.

16/07/09 - John Barrowman Background Info

source - john barrowman official website / wikipedia page

Today, I decided to start my own research on John Barrowman. To do that, I visited his official website at www.johnbarrowman.com. There was not much background information on him, so then I looked at his wikipedia page. I managed to find out some background information. I took down some notes and this formed my first page of work in my sketchbook, which is about the background information on John Barrowman.

Background Info On Garth Jennings

Source: Wikipedia Website

I looked at the wikipedia website. I learnt some of the background research on Garth Jennings, such as his childhood, some of the music videos that he has directed, such as Coffee and Tv by Blur.

I then looked at the pages on his two feature length films. The one for Son of Rambow and the Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy. This helped to increase my knowledge of him as a person and his creative style of his work.

The Hammer And Tongs Website

Source: Hammer And Tongs Website

Today, i went on the tongsville website. I looked for information on Garth Jennings and some examples of his work. Instead, I found out some of his latest achievements, such as the latest PG Tips advert.