Monday 22 April 2013

12D Exam HW: Oscars

Media Forms: The Character of the film uses the humor of show the audience what the genre of the film is about. As you can hear him say funny quotes and his responses to the to the questions asked were funny remarks or sarcastic opinions that was directed at other celebrities making humorous this connotes that the genre of the film will be a comedy.

Media Representation: Ethnicity was represented with the use of mise en scene, as you see the character from the film came to the red carpet in  (i think) some sort of uniform representing the Iraq. this shows the audience that the film will be based somewhere around Asia. The hat for his uniform makes him look like hes important in the film.

Media Institutions: This extract was typical in the Hollywood insdistry because many celebrites have done crazy things on red carpet red carpet in the past promote their films, it is jut good way of attracting a wider range of audience. As you can see Sacha Baron makes a fool out of himself but people take no notice of it because they know he is only promoting.

Media Audiences: The character from the film came out in his costume to promote his film, he was acting in character to give the audience a little sneak peak about the the movie. He made a scene on the red carpet by spilling the ashes on Ryan Seacrest's head to get the audiences attention so they will notice him and wonder what the film is about, this attracts a wider range of audience as thousands of people will see him on tv as well as the people in public. Sacha Baron was acting lively and humerus throughout, making the audience want to know more about the film.



Monday 15 April 2013

Eater Homework section A practice


Media Forms: At the advert at the start the Guardian uses big bold writing to catch the audiences eye. The Guardian uses sympathy to make the audience believe that the pigs were guilty as they had bullet point headlines with quotes such as "family and friends show emotional tributes".

Representation: The news in the advert The Guardian represented as a well known news paper that many people take seriously. You can tell from the way the people in England was mostly looking at the guardian website to see the latest news it connotes that they think that the Guardian is the most reliable source for news.

Media Institution: The story of the 3 pigs created conflict and argumentation on twitter making millions of people who live round England discuss and share their own views on the situation, the advert showed some people taking the story more seriously than others as they showed many people blogging and tweeting angry and disappointed comments this shows us that the guardian has a very high value towards the people in England and that they take the guardian very seriously.

Audience: From watching the ad several times i have seen that the target audience using demographics is the groups of A/B, I believe people of a high class in demographics would watch this. On the other hand it is also a story about the 3 little pigs so i would add the groups of D/E.



                                                           Call of Duty Game Trailer





Media Forms: The codes and conventions of the advert connotes that the trailer is going to be a violent game as you can see images of players holding guns and other very dangerous high tech equipment such as grenades, c4's, flash bangs etc. It also connotes that the genre of the game will be an action game due to the explosions and movement of the characters.

Media Representation: The game trailer uses happy rock music this connotes that they represent war as being fun and enjoyable. The quick moving cuts of each scene makes the trailer look epic also they huge explosions in the trailer makes war look exciting and daring.

Media Institutions: It is typical because it has key conventions that all army games would have such as rock music, bloody images guns being used etc. Also they show the new game play in the trailer , this will attract audience as they would want to see what its like and try it out.

Media Audiences: This text appeals to teenagers aged 17 and over , you would expect a game like this to be around that age group due to the blood and gore, drug reference, intense violence and strong language. The trailer shows many pleasures towards the target audience as they show in the trailer that you can play in different areas making this game more interesting.