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Adolescence- Audience: reception theory

  1) What is the preferred reading of a media text? What the media creators want you to think. 2) What is the oppositional reading of a media text? What the media creators don't want you to think 3) How does the Adolescence clip position the audience to respond to the teenage character in the scene? That teenagers can get angry and do have emotions and go through stress that triggers such emotions of anger 4) Why might young people reject this reading and construct an oppositional reading of the trailer? Because of the emotion that's used. It could be seen as a bad representation as people who are always angry. 5) Exam-Style Q: Explain how representations of young people are constructed in this clip. Answer with reference to Stuart Hall's reception theory.  Using oppositional theory the representation for young people could entirely create an overall negative character and style causing a disparity between people for young people and represent them as these aggressive being...

Demographics and Psychographics

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 1)How do media companies 'classify   (groups) potential audiences for their products?   Through Class, Race, Gender and anything that would define a persons identity 2) What are the names of the seven different psychographic groups that Young and Rubicam use to profile audiences ? Aspirer ,Explorer, Mainstreamer, Reformer, Resigned, Struggler,  Succeeder 3) What psychographic group or groups do YOU belong in?  Most Likely Explorer as i like to understand or look into multiple things to understand different peoples views 4) Who are the target demographics for this Heat magazine front cover and why? Upper Middle Class White Women who are big into Celebrity drama and get captivated by seeing "stars" such as David Beckham 5) Which psychographic groups would consume this Heat magazine and write a typical description of who they are and what they enjoy?  Mainstream or Succeeders as this typically comes of for people who are into popular Drama

LR for HT1

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 Mis-en-Scene Lighting - Within the fight we can see two different smoke colours emanating light within the dark room. There is the orange/Red smoke Focused more close towards Vader. And a blue Smoke focused more towards Luke. This highlights a difference in moral good with the two Obviously Blue being a light of good and justice. And Red being corruption and evil. Costume - As Seen the two have very different costumes matching their alignment of morality. With Vader he wears and all black suit and a mask that almost resembles a samurai helmet meant to obviously represent his skill in using a lightsaber. However this dark attire obviously meant to show his acceptant of unfortunate side of morality confiding himself within the shadows. With Luke he wears almost like an   adventurer Outfit meant to show his will to  survive and escape  The Mess he has entered.  A sign of fight or flight within his costume.# Camera Shots & Angles 2 Camera shots - This Dual...