Jibril's Blog

1)  Introduction to the subject and you 2)  Key concepts (LIAR) and analysis of Film Poster 3)  Denotation and Connotation: Advert analyses (WaterAid) 4)  Mise-en-scene: Stranger Things 5)  Camerawork and editing blog tasks 6)  Blog feedback and learner response 7)  October assessment – feedback and learner response 8)  Reception theory – Harry Brown trailer analysis 9)   Audience effects theory - Blue Planet analysis 10)  Audience and Industry - impact of internet essay 11)  Industries - Ownership and control (Facebook and Instagram) 12)  Film Industry: Introduction to Marvel 13)  Film Industry: Doctor Strange 14)   Film Industry: I, Daniel Blake 15)  Audience and Industry internet essay - feedback and learner response

  1) Copy and paste your feedback from the email in  full - WWW, EBI and LR. Some grammatical errors identified in your essay, try and proofread your work and ensure you are punctuation your work  Lacking a variety of sentence openings e.g. ‘There are also disadvantages…’ try and have a range of topic sentences that make your essay sound more academic and fluid. 2) What was the word count for your essay? 735 words 3) What was your strongest paragraph? Why do you think it was better than others? I think my strongest paragraph was the Film Industry paragraph because I made a lot of references to companies in that field of business and made good use of media terminology 4) What was your weakest paragraph? Why do you think it wasn't as good as others? I think my weakest paragraph was the music industry because i didn't link back to the question enough 5) How can you improve your extended writing in GCSE Media Studies in future? learn and apply a wide range of sentence starters in m

  1) What is independent cinema and how is it different to Hollywood blockbusters? Independent Cinema is a place where independent movies are screened and are promoted as they do not have the budget to promote as well as blockbusters 2) What is I, Daniel Blake about? It is about a man who has recently been ill due to a heart attack is rendered unable to work but needs money. He is struggling as the state are not providing him with enough money and then meets a woman with children in the same situation as him in terms of money so they begin to protest. 3) Who directed I, Daniel Blake and why is this important? Ken Loach directed the movie and this is because he is famous for directing movies with a political message behind them 4) How was I, Daniel Blake promoted to an audience? List at least   three  different methods used by the film's marketing campaign and   how  they targeted their audience. Guerrilla  marketing was used and disruptive marketing from interviews with BBC questio

  1) How many films are there in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU)? There are around 22 movies in the MCU. 2) How much money have the MCU films made in total so far? MCU have made $18.2 billion (£13.7 billion) to date. 3) Why did Marvel create the Avengers films? Marvel created the Avengers films to join the audiences favourite characters into one franchise 4) What will Phase Four of the Marvel Cinematic Universe involve? Phase 4 of the MCU will involve Black Widow, which is set in the Captain America: civil war and will reveal more about their past. 5) What will happen with Doctor Strange and who is the main star? In Doctor Strange, Elizabeth Olsen will feature in the next film. 6) Who owns the rights to Spiderman and why is the character now appearing in Marvel films? Sony owns the rights to Spider-Man but their character is now appearing in Marvel because Sony sold Spider-Man's film rights to Marvel. 7) Which company owns the rights to the Fantastic Four and the X-Men? Disney

1) Facebook made the decision to buy Instagram for $1 billion because it was a way to eliminate competition and widen their income, allowing them to make money from both Instagram and Facebook. 2) The benefits for media companies using vertical integration is that they get to make more money through every stage of production because they own film distributors, TV channels (e.g. Disney Channel) and even film studios and so much more. Because they have complete ownership of each stage of production, they end up making more profit.   3) The benefits for media companies using vertical integration is that they invest in buying another company, (which may be competition) at the same level of distribution and publicity so that they can expand their income and where they get their income whilst widening their audiences as well.  4) A subsidiary is a smaller company owned by a conglomerate (e.g. Disney = conglomerate and Pixar = subsidiary) 5) One example of synergy is Johnny Depp (famous actor

  Essay question:   “The internet has given audiences much more power than ever before.” To what extent do you agree with this statement? I agree with this statement to a fair point because audiences now can express what they feel about something posted or said in the media. This could be something positive or negative and could affect how someone feels about something. Furthermore, audiences can post something on a social media platform e.g Twitter which might not necessarily be true ('Fake News'), and use that misinformation to cause harm to someone for reasons such as jealousy. Besides, audiences take the power that the media has and abuse it because they can attain information, personal information which could endanger someone whereas back during the 1930s, (An example based on the Hypodermic Needle Theory) audiences of the media were all passive and believed everything that was said because H.G Wells had made a podcast on about a fiction event based on his book. This state