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Reception theory

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1) What is the preferred reading of a media text? When the producer wants the audience to follow their beleif 2) What is the oppositional reading of a media text? When the consumer takes in the opposite beleif which is not intended by the producer 3) How does the Harry Brown trailer position the audience to respond to the teenage characters in the film? Most teenagers just cause problems and they also they do unsafe and dangerous acts causing safety isues in their local areas 4) Why might young people reject this reading and construct an oppositional reading of the trailer? They might think that teenagers are jst like kids which are innocent and that they still have a long way until they grow up prefered  5) Talking about prefered reading the producers might want the consumers to think this new burger (big mac) which is representing the meal being a sandwich is a tasty new option u can now buy from mcdonalds. This also allows consumers to wanting to buy a new product from a famous ...

Introduction to Media - index so far

1) First blog task - 10 questions 2) Poster Analysis 3) Denotation and Connotation 4) Introduction to Photoshop 5) Mise-en-scene: Stranger Things 6) Camerawork - Doctor Who: Shots and angles 7) Camera Movement and Editing 8) Blog feedback and learner response 9) Demographics research 10)   Demographics and Psychographics

demographics research

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 Age: most likely 18+ This is because in the poster you can clearly see its a horror movie involving blood which in cinemas is over a certain age limit.This means it is restricted to a smaller amount of people due to the age limits the movie holds. gender: typically ane gender male or female This is because a horror movie generally doesnt bring a certain type of gender meaning any sort of gender is allowed to watch whithout being affected by anything. Education: highchool to 6th form This is because anyone under age could mean there is a age limit meaning they cant watch it but over highschool age 16+ might be a small chance that you can watch it  Social class: middle class I chose middle class because maybe people who are lower class might watch it as it could be a cheap film also upper class because it would be like pocket change to them going to movies to watch a film whith money Race Any race can watch this because this film isnt mentioned to a certain type of people and r...

Demographics and Psychographics

  1) What information do media companies use to create a demographic profile of their audience? Answer:Age Gender Race Social class Job placement Location 2) Why are media companies and advertisers increasingly using audience profiling and not just demographics? This way they can even earn more people to join in whith their business making them more profit and this way they can beat other companies 3) What are the seven different Pychographic groups?    The struggler The mainstream The resighned The explorer The reformer The aspirer The struggler 4) Write a brief summary of what each Psychographic group is seeking or motivated by.   The mainstream: Mainly focus on family and big famous brands whithing the 4cs living in the world of domestics The aspirer: People who mainly focus on other people then themsleves and are caring on their fashion driven by the crowd The reformer:They are independent people who are often percived as intellectual and pride them selves whith ...

blog feedabck post

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  denotation and conotation improved and finished complete and ordered the correct image in place whith no duplicates more improved poster analysis and added camera shots and miss en schene

Camera movement and editing

 The camera movement at the beginning starts with a bit of tilt from when the transition from screen to the main person, from up to down and it changes very slowly which makes the scene more dramatic and us as the audience more eerie and goosebumps .And after the use of smooth track from the man running shows us they wanted to make the scene a very smooth and steady way. This also shows us they dont want any handheld or shaking in the clip. There is also a use of crane shot when they had a shot of god which means they coulee used a crane which was built or an easier drone. A powerful shot like this makes this targeted at the audience .This makes it more relaxing to watch and for us as the audience to have a perspective as the actor.  He also uses Handheld camera movements to follow Tom Cruise character as he navigates crowded spaces and l environments. 2)  analyse the editing The editing of tom cruise    is fast and sharp which helps build tension and keep the ...

Camerawork blog tasks

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The opening two shot on the two females clearly shows one women smilling and satisfied while the other looks curiuos and questionable.This sets a clear scene of 2 emotions in one room which shows us that they could look at it differently. This shows us a medium close up shot .We can tell by the photo only going up to their shoulders which is what we call a mcu also knows ad medium close shot.We can see their expression which look like they are nervous or agitated by somthing or somone.She is also deep staring at somthing which affected her so much This shows us a 3 shot as there are three people in this scene and there emotions all look different and this shows us the three people are thinking differently at that time.Even though their faces might look alike their emotions inside could say otherwise This shows us a bird eye view of the man as the camera makes him look small and weak but in reality he is a strong powerfull human.The angle of the camera just makes the man smaller and wea...