Research And Planning: Audience

Thrift Shop

Target audience demographic for Thrift Shop:

-       - Comedy Hip-Hop fans

-       - Age range from 13-late 20’s

-       - Both Male and females

-       - All ethnicity would be interested

-       - Largely middle class ABC1 demographic

-       - Likely to be educated and fortunate

-       - Happy adopting new technology and regularly uses social networking sites and the internet.

Brands/lifestyle for Kings of Leon fans:

-       - Very likely to own a phone, MP3 player or a computer. Most likely IPhone.

-       - A chance they love shopping and spending money on fashionable clothes.

-       - Enjoy spending time to look good.

-       - Levis.

-       - Some are sporty people with good energy and fitness.

-       - Most likely listen to music regularly.

-       - Spotify music

-       - JD

-       - H&M

-       - NIKE

Assignment 3 Photoshop Research Element

Assignment 2 Movie Poster

Representation

The characters in the movie are predominately English because James Bond movies are of the action movie genre therefore audiences expect a British or American hero because they are more relocatable, The main protagonist James Bond (Daniel Craig) is a very masculine character with strong intentions to get the villain which is conventional because action hero's need to be fit, brave, role models.

The females in this movie are shown as objectified and sexualised since the strong men use them in that way shows that men dominate the "action" world. To Bond they are limited to love and it seems they have a need to help him, although they contain some mystery such as they are from foreign countries. The Scientist women is subversive as she is taking action in the movie so not all women are drawn to love.

Villans in the movie are foreign  as they are from Russia, they are presented as very dangerous, unpredictable thugs who rule the world. The have crazy gadgets such as machine guns expensive cars and so on. The viewer is lead to hate them because of the destruction they create to their surroundings and since they want to take down James Bond.

Britain is presented as a very dangerous  place that hosts many crimes and incidents all around the place. This creates an image for foreigners to not visit the uk since its been displayed as a bad place to be in. However the Russians are shown to be evil,crime committing people because they are the people who create the obstacles for James Bond.

Narrative theory

The trailer for Spectre uses many narrative elements typical of the action genre. Propp's character theory relates to this films narrative because Spectre has a clear protagonist, Daniel Craig's character James Bond. Bond is shown to be the strongest character in the movie because he has several set of skills such as using his intelligence to escape from the villain. The heroine is the Russian woman who Bond protects and has romantic feelings towards her. In some characteristics, the Russian woman conforms to conventional heroines for instance she is seen as a prize for James Bond. On the other hand, she could be seen as subversive because she is intelligent scientist, independent, and has an impressive job. The mentor role is one of teacher or guider and you could argue that M fulfils has this role.


In trailer, there is not much evidence to support equilibrium in Todorov's theory, Theres more proof sof disequilibrium which makes perfect sense for a James Bond film. Agent Bond is a spy and he fights crime for a living which makes his like a living chaos in our eyes. To truly find the equilibrium in Spectre you need to really pay attention to small details in the film due the movie is constantly full of energy and action. In the trailer its basically disequilibrium constantly.


For Barthes theory, the enigma code is when the father of the missing daughter reveals to Bond that she is missing. This is an enigma code the reason for this is that the daughter is the only help for Bond so theres a mission for him to find her as he now knows she's missing. The missing girls father commits suicide due to the stress he has, which made the whole situation a lot more intense.Action codes are very conventional in this movie, theres action most of the time. The action code is at its most effective way is when agents Bond finds the girl and now has a duty to keep her safe from the villains, in addition he has also gave his word to find the girl which he does. There are dramatic scenes when Bond has shooting scene or a fighting scene that creates visceralious pleasure to the viewers. 

SPECTRE

Genre
Action

Narrative
The storyline is clear as it shows us that in this movie, James Bond is on an adventure teaming up with a cooperative agent's daughter to find and eliminate the bad people. Also, he meets a beautiful widow in Rome. James Bond covertly intercepts a secret meeting in which he uncovers the existence of the sinister organizer SPECTRE.

Character
The character is a British actor that plays in movies that are involves violence and brutality. In this movie, he is on a journey to find a cooperative agent's daughter. Then he finds her and teams up with her to find the bad people. The main character is: strong, smart, fearless and brutal which signifies that this movie does belong to the action genre category. He is brave enough to be alone and fight lot of enemies which shows how much love he has for his daughter.

Iconography
The iconography of this movie are: Car chasing, Car drifting, guns, explosions, elaborate clothing, hot ladies and lot of running. The iconography emphasises action because in action movies, it usually involves these iconographies. This movie should belong to action genre.

Setting
The trailer of this movie shows that the settings of this movie is in the mountains and cities. The setting is in the city suggests that this a action movie because the iconographies of this movie usually happens in cities rather than other places.

Genre: Horror

Narrative:
On the day that their parents die, sisters vanish in the wilderness, prompting a frantic search by their Uncle and his girlfriend. miraculously, the girls are found alive in a decaying cabin, Their uncle welcome them into his home. But as the girlfriend tries to reintroduce the children to a normal life, unexplainable things happened in the house... Only the kids can see this "MAMA" creature. The uncles girlfriend finds that someone or something still wants to tuck them in at night.

Characters:

Two children are attached to a horrific creature; in the trailer you can tell that kids feel trapped and uncomfortable with their surroundings. The uncle who is represented as a relative who truly care for those kids took them in into his house. And finally the girlfriend of the uncle is a caring yet creeped out person because of the "MAMA".

Iconography:

The thing the causes this movie to be a horror movie is because of the jump scares, haunted house, invisible creatures, scared children and involves a spirit.

Settings:

It is mostly set in the uncles house, everything that happens to the kids is in the household.

Genre:
Action / Sci-Fi / Fantasy 

Narrative:
From the trailer you can tell that the narrative is about conflict, fight between Batman and Superman for power. There could be a story twist since the trailer doesn't show or give a lot of detail about the movie.

Character:
The main characters is Batman and Superman. Superman is a out of this world human, containing over powered strength and god like powers... in the trailer he is shown as a threat to Batman and someone who is a threat to this world. Batman is shown as a hero, strong, powerful mastermind and relied on  to save us.

Iconography:
There is plenty of iconography typical of the action / fantasy genres: gunshots, violence, god like humans with super powers, technology, explosions and smashing glass. All of these are typical of the action fantasy genres.

Setting:
Even though its not clear where the setting is. its fair to say its set in America judging by the court scene and the language is spoken. Another place where they could be is in Gotham predicting this by the batman scene. 

MY MAGAZINE COVER FINAL

Science Fiction 2015 summer research project

Science Fiction 2015 summer research project

The movie I will be analysing is: Guardians of the galaxy

GENRE AND SUB-GENRE

In my opinion the genre in this movie is mainly science fiction. This is because the overall setting is in the future, with futuristic concept technologies along with space travel between planets and different civilisations. This is obvious that the main mode of transport as being spacecrafts and there being multiple fight scenes with these space crafts. One of the more quirky characters is also a genetically modified (Rocket) the raccoon.
Arguably one of the things that does not make this a more 'pure' sci fi film the sarcasm and characters within the film make it a more fun experience than a film such as Star Trek or Star Wars. For example little things like when in the plan to escape the prison, Rocket asks for a mans prosthetic leg then later on when confronted about why is was needed he simply laughs and says 'I thought it would be funny' Also, Groot makes for some silly moments as the only thing he can say is 'I am groot' and the only one who can understand him is Rocket. What makes it humorous is how you have to rely on HOW he says it to understand what he has said.
Another obvious genre that guardians of the galaxy is action. We can see this in the way that the film is scripted and played out to the viewer.  It follows the rather bland plot of: all is well, hero gets dragged into something, finds out the world/universe needs saving, gets some friends, goes to prevent the villain from destroying everything, it seems like all hope is lost, there is a big final battle and eventually the universe is just about saved. 

BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE PLOT

Brash space adventurer Peter Quill finds himself the quarry of relentless bounty hunters after he steals an orb coveted by Ronan, a powerful villain. To evade Ronan, Quill is forced into an uneasy truce with four disparate misfits: gun-toting Rocket Raccoon, treelike-humanoid Groot, enigmatic Gamora, and vengeance-driven Drax the Destroyer. But when he discovers the orb's true power and the cosmic threat it poses, Quill must rally his ragtag group to save the universe.

SETTING OF THE MOVIE

The movie has a setting that is linked massively with science fiction because most of the movie is set on different planets and outer space, and once set in a futuristic prison for all types of creatures. Pretty much all of the creatures are unknown and not many humans.

CHARACTERS

Even the characters are linked with the genre sci-fi just simply because some of the characters art seen on earth before.

Star lord : is a human who wares a suit and has futuristic technology along side him to survive with all the other creatures. 

Groot : is a super natural living and moving tree. He can grow roots to get things high or far away...just like roots grow. overall he is a super hero that only can say " Im Groot"

Gamora : is hated by every body because she either stole from them killed their loved one or landed them in the space prison ... she has green skin and highly professional in fighting.

Rocket: is a speaking racoon who has ultimate weapons and he is the only character in the movie who understands what Groot says. him and root work together to earn money and hunt people to get that money.

Dax the Destroyer : has killed many in battles and has fought many times in the movie, he has lost his family because they were killed by the villain in the movie (Thanos)

THEME

the theme of the movie is a picture of space wars ,prison breakout, mission to savethe world from a very powerful villain.

THE INSTITUTION BEHIND THE MOVIE

Production company: Marvel Studios , directed by - James Gunn

The Main Cast : Star lord - Chris Pratt
                           Groot - Vin Diesel
                           Gamora - Zoe Saldana
                           Rocket - Bradley Cooper
                           Drax - Dave Bautista
                 
Year of production release : July 31st 2014

Production company and who its run by : Marvel Studios, Avi Arad

Other films they produced: Marvel Studios produced all sorts of Super hero , comic inspired films. from Iron man to Spider man, captain america, the incredible hulk.

Budget and box office: $232.2 Million from making and $774.176.600 out come box office worldwide.

Awards and Reviews: 

They won - Critics Choice Award for Best Action Film,  BFCA Critics' Choice Award for Best Makeup, empire award for best newcomer , Hugo best dramatic presentation long form, Kerrang best film award, detroit film critics society award for best ensemble, adg excellence in production design awards fantasy film.

Mostly all of the reviews were amazing and positive about the movie because they truly made a interesting fictional movie.

TARGET AUDIENCE 

The production team has aimed this movie for teenagers mostly and young adults because most of the people who followed or follow the comic types the would enjoy this movie the most. the age range can go from 14 - 25 year olds... gender 65% males rather than females... its aimed at middle class people more like to an average person.

HSBC ADVERT PROJECT

My HSBC advert has Randy Ortan on it because he is a man with different personalities, also the words written on the pictures represent him perfectly. As you see this picture you judge him straight away these words on top do reinforce those stereotypes and gives you an outside of the box point of view. I chose the words "champion", "arrogant", "dangerous" because these words have represented Randy at one time in his life, and people known him for being like that.

I can improve my work just a little more by choosing a better picture that would represent these words a bit more.

The target audience for this adverts are older kids, teenagers, and young adults. This is because WWE appeals to younger audience.

GROUP MOVIE PROJECT

My group members are Me, Rashida, Gus and Tariq.

The film title we came up with is "The Real Earth Landers" because our plot of the movie relates to the title massively and its basically means what it says.

Other than the Sci-Fi genre we had, we had sub-genres to our movie. we had action adventure, and some hints of fantasy, because we chose to have an alien invasion and the setting of the movie is dystopia.

Basically another race of creature who are the old earth population left earth and now the came back to claim back what was for them before.Humans dig a hole underground and expand it so so that all people that live on earth are underground approximately 5 millions aliens. Aliens come along suddenly find the hole and set a bomb. It leads to the aliens finding the humans and its a cause of humans vs aliens.

Director: A list director to get the best possible work flow in the movie

Cast: B list cast team

Filming location:  Mediam set because we dont want to spend most of our budget

Camera: 4K HD Cameras

Editing: Heavy CGI editing

CGI:  Explosions, and simple FX

Markiting: Only in English speaking countries

I Robot Trailer

In this movie there are aspects of Sci-Fi because its unreal and there's scenes of things that will never happen in real life, such as the robots having feelings. Also I Robot it has hints of action and adventure because there is a chase in some scenes.

Conventions for this movie is futuristic and you know this by watching the robots with human figures and characteristics. This movie has a moral behind it.

The target audience who watch it are mostly teenagers, young adults, and mostly men.

Avatar

In this movie there are aspects of Sci-Fi because its unreal and there's scenes of things that will never happen in real life, such as the blue avatar creatures who live in a massive tree full of dead peoples souls. Also Avatar it has hints of action and adventure because there is a chase in some scenes, with guns and weapons.

Conventions for this movie is futuristic and you know this by watching the humans in avatar with future armour figures and bad ass characteristics. This movie has a moral behind it. and its if you kill 1 you affect the entire population.

The target audience who watch it are mostly teenagers, young adults, and mostly men.

Avengers

In this movie there are aspects of Sci-Fi because its unreal and there's scenes of things that will never happen in real life, such as the aliens coming down and gods living amongst us. Also Avenger it has hints of action and adventure because there is a chase in some scenes, with guns and weapons.

Conventions for this movie is futuristic and you know this by watching the buildings, and technology in the movie. This movie has a moral behind it. and its if you kill 1 you affect the entire population.

The target audience who watch it are mostly teenagers, young adults, and mostly men.

MY INTRO

Why did you choose GCSE Media Studies?
I chose GCSE media because I enjoy editing videos and I want to develop my skills for the future.
i also have a youtube channel: MY CHANNEL!!!!
thats why i wanna devlop my skills
And i did a intro for my mate and its on his channel
MY MATES CHANNEL MY INTRO IS ON HIS CHANNEL


Which part of the course are you looking forward to most?
I am looking forward to making the music video because i can show off my editing skills and tune it to the song that's playing with it.

What knowledge and skills do you hope to learn in Media?
I hope I learn how to make the perfect movie and what's good and bad about movies so you can do better in the future.

What grade are you realistically hoping to achieve in Media?
I really want to achieve an A* because I think I am completely able to achieve that grade.

What was the last TV programme or film you watched?
The last TV show i watched was Prison Break on Netflix, the last movie i watched was Kingsmen.

Why do you think that TV programme or film appealed to an audience?
because they make the audience interacted with them and make them watch more of them.

What technology have you used to access the media in the last 24 hours?
my phone....TV....computer

What device do you use most to access the media?
phone and computer.

Find the trailer for Jurassic World on YouTube and embed it in your blog. What film genres would Jurassic World fit into?
sci-fi     JURASSIC WORLD

Why does Jurassic World appeal to a family audience?
yes it will because it has a target audience of children and adults!!!