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Film Industry: Black Widow

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  1) List the companies involved in the creation of Black Widow. You may wish to use   Black Widow's IMDB entry   to help with this -   see the company credits page   - but the answers can also be found in the notes above. 2) What is conglomerate ownership and how does it link to Black Widow? DISNEY 3) Analyse the  film trailer  for Black Widow. What aspects of the trailer tell you this is a big-budget blockbuster movie? it has advanced CGI and experienced well known actors. 4) How was Black Widow promoted to an audience? List at least  three  different methods used by the film's marketing campaign and  why  they were effective in promoting the film. social media, trailers. 5) What was the production budget for Black Widow and how much did it make at the box office? 288.5m on production and marketing 6) Would you consider Black Widow a successful Hollywood blockbuster? Why? It made by a well known studio and has famous actors. 7) Wh...

Film Industry: Marketing - Marvel Cinematic Universe

  1) How many films were there in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) at the time of this article? 22 movies 2) How much money have the MCU films made in total according to this article?  $18.2bn 3) Why did Marvel create the Avengers films? To introduce the avengers. 4) Who owns the rights to Spiderman and why is the character now appearing in Marvel films? Sony owns Spiderman 5) Which company owns the rights to the Fantastic Four and the X-Men? Marvel 6) Look at the very end of the article. What has Disney announced regarding TV shows on their new streaming service Disney+?  New marvel series tv show there planning to release 

Audience: Effects theory

  1) Write a definition of a   passive  audience:      This is the view that audiences passively take in information from the media and that it has a effect on everyone. 2)  Write a definition of an  active  audience: This is the more modern and generally accepted that audiences choose and interact with the media they consume. 3) Write a definition of the  hypodermic needle  theory: It the suggestion that audience  are always passive and take the intended message from the producer as if it was injected into their mind.  4) Write down a  media product  (e.g. TV show, newspaper or videogame)   for each category of Blumler and Katz's Uses and Gratifications theory and  WHY  it fits that particular audience use/gratification. The first one is done for you:  5) Re-watch the clip from Blue Planet above and write a  paragraph  analysing how elements of the clip offer the audience pleasures ...

Magazine Demographic

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    AGE:14-30 AS IT HAS QUITE ALOT OF BLOOD AND GORE GENDER:MALE AS THE MAIN PERSON IS A MALE EDUCATION:SECONDARY OR COLLEGE RACE:ANY ORIGIN:JAPAN IT WAS SET IN  JAPAN

Media assessment 1: learner response

  1)  Type up your feedback in  full  (you don't need to write the mark and grade if you want to keep this confidential). I got 5/30 and a grade 2. 2) Question 1 and 2 no marks. Question 3 2/12 marks and Question 4 2/2. Question 5 1/6 and Question 6 is 0/8. 3) Q4 was my strongest question as I collected all the marks for that question. 4)My weakest one was Q6 as I  didn't mention anything that was on the mark scheme. 5) Beyoncé is in an appealing outfit and the lighting makes  her standout compared to what is  happening in the background. The colour scheme  of red is linked to romance and passion.

Audience classification: Demographics and Psychographics

1) What information do media companies use to create a demographic profile of their audience? there age audience there targeting for and what gender there go for 2) Why are media companies and advertisers increasingly using audience profiling and not just demographics? As it not 100 percent guaranteed what the audience there targeting likes as everyone different 3) What are the seven different Psychographic groups? personality, values, attitudes and interests and life style  4) Write a brief summary of what each Psychographic group is seeking or motivated by. The aspirer is materialistic and cares about image and status. The reformer is independent. The Explorer is discovery. The Succeeded is organised. The Resigned has unchanging values. The struggler seeks escape from there struggles. The mainstream core in life is security.    5) What psychographic group or groups do  YOU  belong in? Think about. your own interests and lifestyle and explain your decision. Rem...

Camera movement and editing

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 1) camera movement: pan following a character there facial expressions.   2)camera movement: camera attached crane to get the whole scene 3) camera movement : tilt goes up and down to show what happening the scene 4)editing: jump cut from the newspaper to him in the train

Camera shots

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 1)   camera shot Two shot: two people in the shot to usually show there expressions or they both as important in that scène  2) camera shot  closeup: To show the face of the character emotional face to add emotions to the scene  3) angle God view: a angle above the person meaning something about to happen 4)camera shot long shot: it shows what props and the background of the main character                5)  mise-en-scene: the clothing there wearing are formal suggesting something serious happening

Mise-en-scene

  Costume: The character at the start is wearing a white lab coat. This suggests to the audience he a scientist. The clothes the actors wear are in the 80s style. Props: there was a white pizza box in the basement. There also a game board. The kids uses there bikes to get to there home. The props suggest they were have a game night. Lighting: in the beginning the light flicking suggesting something unnatural might have going on. in the end we see a figure in the shadow standing there. The lighting is to make contrast in the show.

Denotation and connotation

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  Analysis: The poster has a phrase "Dig toilets Not graves" could imply there are struggling and are in poverty.  Denotation:  The poster has a child with him being in a third world country with WaterAid at the top suggesting they don't receive enough water.   Connotation: This advert might have been to raise awareness on kids in third country not being as a fortunate at people in first world country's.        

Film poster HW

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                                                                                                                                                                          Language: The title and release date and billing block (information about the director and the production company) Industry: it was directed by Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson. The film was released may 18th 2001.The music was made by  Harry Gregson-Williams; John Powell.             Audience: it mainly made  for children as adult audience would not be as interest...

Paste special fruit bowl

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Fruit Bowl

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Introduction to Media

   1)I am looking forward to making a blog in the media. 2)I hope to learn how to structure blogs. 3)I hope to achieve a grade 5 or 6 in media. 4)The device I use to access the media is my phone or tv. 5)My average screen time averages 5-12 hours and I think it is too much. 6)The last film/show I watched was the terminal. 7)I use Spotify to listen to music. 8)I play videogames and the one i probably play the most is GTA 5 9)I'm on social media and i use snapchat mainly as I can communicate with friends 10)I think social is negative on young people because they sometimes disrupts there learning