georgio's media gcse

  1) How many films were there in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) at the time of this article? 22 films 2) How much money have the MCU f ilms made in total according to this ar ticle? Over $29.8 billion 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 bought them for $7 million 5) Which company owns the rights to the Fantastic Four and the X-Men? Marvel studios 6) Look at the very end of  the article. What has Disney announced regarding TV shows on their new streaming service Disney+? Disney did announce that we can expect new stories set in the world's of Pixar's Monsters Inc. and High School Musical, making sure there's something for everyone in an attempt to rival Netflix. Grade 8/9 extension tasks Read  this Guardian review of Black Widow  to prepare for studying our first CSP. What did the Guardian think of the film? Easily  one of the ...

  Georgio,   A few things to work on here as discussed:    Full Name Blog set up and URL provided Introductory 10 Qs Denotation & Connotation x2 Fruit bowl Mise-en-scene: Stranger Things Blog marking LR Camerawork - Doctor Who Camera movement and editing Index so far Demographics and psychographics October assessment LR Reception theory blog tasks Audience effects theory - Blue Planet TOUMA, Georgio   I finished everything that is not labelled green, I completed them all. 3 things i need to improve this half term:  Revise more Catch up with the work even if I wasn’t in Handwriting 

  1) What is a   conglomerate  in the media industries?  major media company 2) What is a  subsidiary ? smaller companies 3) What are the benefits for media companies of  vertical integration ? when one conglemerate owns different companies in the same chain of production 4) What are the benefits for media companies of  horizontal integration ? when one company buys other companies at  the same level of distribution 5) Give  three  examples of media companies or brands that have used  synergy  to maximise their profits. There are examples in the notes above to help you. mobil  pixar disney 6) What is  convergence  and what device has changed the relationship between audiences and producers?  it refers to the fact we can now access all  different types of media on one device 7) why did Facebook buy Instagram for $1bn? Answer in as much detail as possible Facebook bought Instagram for $1 billion in 2012, ...

  1) Pick  three   aspects of  camera movement  in the Minority Report clip. Identify the  type  of camera movement and write about why the director chose to use that camera movement in the scene and what effect it has on the audience. Zoom, handheld, crane 2) Pick  two  aspects of  editing  in the Minority Report clip and write about what effect it has on the audience. Cut-shot changes from 1 to another Dissolve-shot melts into another 3) Finally, revise last week's work on camerawork by picking out  two   shots  or  camera angles  in the clip that communicate meaning to the audience. Crane: Camera attached to crane – can pan, track or ‘swoop’ in or out as required Crane shots are often high angle and show large, epic scenes of dramatic action. Tilt: Camera tilts up or down from fixed point The hero or villain can be made to look weak or powerful using a tilt (high/low angle).

  TOUMA, Georgio   Full Name Blog set up and URL provided Introductory 10 Qs Denotation & Connotation x2 Fruit bowl Mise-en-scene: Stranger Things Blog marking LR TOUMA, Georgio   WWW: You have made a very positive start in GCSE Media – well done! Your fruit bowl is superb – I really like the image you’ve used as the base to your colour palette and it’s given you a very interesting take on the ‘urban’ palette. Keep up the good work!     EBI:  One thing to address – you have missed the second half of the denotation and connotation work. You’ve analysed the Water Aid advert but then needed to choose an advert of your own to analyse. Go back and finish this when you get a moment and we can update your tracker to green.   The key aspect to work on if we want to aim for the higher grades is depth and detail in our written work – for example, the ‘connotation’ and ‘analysis’ paragraphs for denotation and connotation. Aim for an extended paragraph an...

QUESTIONS   1) Write a definition of a   passive  audience:  This is the view that audiences passively   take in information from the media and that these messages have the same effect on everyone. 2)  Write a definition of an  active  audience:  This is the more modern and generally accepted view that audiences interact   with and make conscious choices regarding the media they consume. 3) Write a definition of the  hypodermic needle  theory:  This is the suggestion that audiences are always passive  and therefore take the intended message from the producer as if it was injected into their minds. This assumes no individual difference in audience members.  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:...

                                                                                      Audience: Reception theory 1) What is the preferred reading of a media text? This when the producer picks and chooses how they want their audience to view the media text. 2) What is the oppositional reading of a media text? When the audience rejects the preferred reading and creates their own meaning for the text 3) How does the Harry Brown trailer position the audience to respond to the teenage characters in the film? A pre-credit sequence shot to resemble mobile-phone footage

                                            Media Assessment Learner Response Total = 9    Grade = 3 WWW- You've clearly learned media terminology and picked up marks throughout so now we can focus on exam technique. EBI- Focus on the question is the most important thing to learn from this. We also need to write more for 8- and 12- mark questions. LR- See blog Q1) 1 MARK Q2) 1 MARK Q3) 3 MARKS Q4) 1 MARK Q5) 2 MARKS Q6) 1 MARKS 3) Identify one of your  stronger  questions. Why did you do better on this question? Use the mark scheme to help you with this. I think question 5 was my strongest question as I described how are Camera shots and mise-en-scene used to create an effect on the audience in the Water Aid advert. 4) Identify one of your  weaker  questions. Why did you score lower on this particular question? Use the mark scheme to help you with t...