L3 Creative Media 18

Friday 28th September 2018: Narrative Theory:

Friday 21st September 2018: Following on from our last lesson with Luke, we looked at audience demographics today and how it dictates who looks at a piece of media and why. A way of categorising advertising to audiences is through the use of demographics, which includes: Age Gender Education Class Household size/homeowner Marital status Occupation and income Looking at the film Django Unchained that I did an analysis on  here , I have thought more about the audience and who they may be. The poster indicates that this film would attract people over the age of 15, as thats what its been age rated as, and probably a more male dominated audience as its portrayed as a violent film which usually attracts more males than females. (CONT)

Friday 14th September 2018: During this lesson today with Luke we looked at how to understand a piece of media text, such as films, TV shows. posters, magazines etc. We first looked at the Pulp Fiction movie poster together as a class to see the codes and conventions of it. We then found a film poster of our choice and wrote about that. I chose the Film Django Unchained as this is the most recent film I have watched.  Django Unchained: This is a mid-western/action film. I know this by the use of cowboy hats and guns that are shown on the cover. The character of Jamie Foxx is at the center of the poster which shows he is the leading character, but Leonardo DiCaprio and Christoph Waltz are on either side, showing that whilst they are still vital characters, the story is based on Jamie Foxx's character.  The splats of blood around them and the guns they are holding shows that this will be an action film, as it portrays violence and implies there will be gun...