Unit 1| Analysis of Media Work

 CBS- NCIS - drama  Ace Ventura - children's Big Bang Theory - sitcom Wheel of Fortune - game show This station targets late teenagers upwards leaning towards male audiences in C1 and C2. Its prime objective is to entertain an audience, this is either by the audience watching the show or directly interacting with it via phone call or app. Channel 4 Friday night dinner - sitcom Channel 4 News - news Grand Designs - documentary The Great British Bake Off - Reality

conglomerate company - a company which has ownership over a smaller company subsidiary - a company owned by a conglomerate company  independent company - a company that takes no ownership and isn't owned by companies Independent companies work with larger companies or more established companies to get their product distributes, a example of this is when Hat Trick Productions who made the sitcom Derry Girls worked as part of a joint venture with Channel 4 to get it distributed on Tv. When companies work as part of a joint venture it is because it is mutually beneficial for both companies Derry girls - by Hat trick productions Warp films produced The 4 Lions Synergy - when they choose the most successful and effective method to promote a media product across media sectors. This means cross promotion.

PAMCO - Publish Audience Measurement company - print/magazine readership RAJAR - Radio Joint Audience Research  - radio/listenership figures BARB - Broadcasters Audience Research Board - TV viewing figures break audience down -  > gender  > age > social grade (A-E) > geo-demographics > psychographics(lifestyle traits) > ethnicity > sexuality In 2000 , broadband technology entered the UK YouTube launches 2005 2007 - video on demand services(VoD) launched web 2.0 - interactive stage of the Internet 2012 - digital switch-on date  time shifting - when we shift time - Box-sets, Catch-up   livestreaming - you can stream it on the internet at the same time as it is on tv - sport and news, large national events - simulcasting(simultaneous broadcast)

vertical integration - when a company controls production, distribution, exchange

 

https://media.info.co.uk media industries are known as media sectors - these are the main areas the media operates within - magazine - newspapers - tv - games - film - web based/social media - radio and music conglomerate - large organization that owns smaller companies(subsidiaries) independent - is free from conglomerate ownership eg - Warp Film Commercial company - objective is making profit - has adverts public service company -  funded by public money - e.g. tv license fee - BBC content is for a variety of cultures and all audiences BBC remit - inform, educate, entetain

 

starter - Conglomerate company - a company that acts as a parent company - owning other smaller companies subsidiaries - a company owned by a larger company an independent company - a company that isn't owned and has no ownership over another company magazine conglomerate - bauer media web conglomerate - Facebook radio - bauer media

 

LO3    microelements, production techniques genre , narrative, representation Genre theories steve neale (1995) repetition, difference Jason Mittell (2001) genres are exploited for profit David Buckingham(1993) negotiation and change Narrative theories Levi Strauss binary opposites Cause and effect Barthes enigma effects Representation Theories Voyeurism - presentation of women is for heterosexual male pleasure Racial representation - ethnic minority groups are pitied, dangerous, exotic or humourous stereotypes

  This scene is taken place in space on what appears to be the moon, this can be implied from how we can see a planet in the background in this wide angle shot and how the environment doesn't appear like any from Earth. This creates a sense of mystery as it makes us wonder why there is a structure here? who is there? Moreover from the bottom right we can see 5 people, from their shiny suits they are astronauts and from the designs of their suits it appears to be set around 1960. We get a better look at these people in the next scene which is shot at a low angle to show them looking down at something, most likely it is in the hole that had been lit up in the previous scene. We see one of them turn to another, we presume that this is asking what they do next which connotes uncertainty in them so this could infer that they are investigating something. In the background we have non-diegetic music that is quite eerie, it is most common in horror and it is used to build tension...