Jack's Media

Monday, 23 February 2015

Hurt Locker

Representation:
The representation of some of the people, show the toughness of the place they are in and how careful they need to be. This would represent the kind of people that would watch this film as it fits the convention of the target market. The main person in the extract represents how all the male target audience would like to be.
Soundtrack:
* Fast pace
* Loud
* Shouting
* Elision
* Running
* Foot steps
* The sound of gun barrels sliding as they loads guns.
Editing:
* Jump Shot
* Being very cautious due to the situation and this is shown by them walking to the man and not running towards the man, however they need to be quick as they want to disarm the bomb before it explodes
Mise-en-scene:
* Dusty
* Bomb
* Old
* Poor
* Bright
* Worn
Camera Work:
* Close up
* Establishing shot
* Wide angle
* Pan Right shot
* Eye level shot
Character:
The character in them shout at each other which shows the intensity of the situation, and the fact that they wear military uniform show that it is a very serious situation. Also because they are wearing that it shows that it's an action adventure genre because it matches one of the conventions
Events:
The main

Friday, 30 January 2015

Edge of Tomorrow

Edge of Tomorrow

The costume in the film is a bionic suit which allows the person to become very strong and can hold very powerful weapons, its used because . Rita’s hair in the film is really dirty which shows that a lot of fighting is going on as it may be dirty from all the bits of rubble or from the explosions.
The makeup suggests that she has been burnt by all of the explosions taking place on the battlefield, it also shows that she's quite masculine . In the film there are many air vehicles and land vehicles that drops the people off, they also carry around swords with them which are supported by the suit as they will weigh a lot. The whole setting for the film is mainly on a battlefield with mimics attacking the humans, and the reason for this is because during the film they try to reset the day so keeps setting it to the start of the day, trying to set up a different scenario to win the war. But the over all setting for it is a apocolypse

Friday, 5 December 2014

Exam Question

(a) Compare how and why two programmes were scheduled on different channels

The two programmes which I am comparing are Bad Education and Miranda.

BBC produced both of the shows but Miranda was produced by BBC one which means it was paid for by the audience and Bad Education was produced by BBC Two which tells it wasn't a paid for by the audience and a private production company

Miranda is on at 22:00 on BBC Three and is normally on after the watershed because the programme has a lot of adult humour which parents won't like their children watching it so set a time based on the average time which most go bed. Miranda is aimed at 29-39 years of age as the characters in the show are the same and this is because the comedy that they use are would make that specific audience laugh the most. The Demographics for Miranda are from Semi-Skilled workers to Managers/teachers because it's that sort of age.

Bad Education is normally on at 21:00 on BBC Two and is also on after the watershed because of the same reason which Miranda is one at that time. The audience age is similar to characters as the they would use the same language and humour because they are the same age so would here, say and use the same things. The audience demographics of the show are from unemployed/students to Semi-Skilled workers.

The similarities between the two are that they are both produced by the BBC and are both on after the watershed.

Tuesday, 2 December 2014

Miranda Exam Practise

"Discuss in detail how two comedy programs offer audience pleasure."

Miranda is a show which offers lots of pleasures to a certain audience. The audience age is aimed at around 30-40 years, because the age of the main character is in that age range in the episode (S1E04) it will reveal more about her.

One of the pleasures which I picked out was the familiarity and recognition between the characters in the show and the audience. This would be due to them both being the same age so will know the same things that they want. This is shown when she talks directly to the camera and talks straight to the audience which engages them with the show and makes the audience feel happy because they are able to relate their lives with Miranda’s

Another pleasure was anticipation and suspense in the show and there is an example of this when she admits to being "Amanda Barns" and waiting until it would unfold and that makes the audience excited and makes them want to keep watching until it does so it keeps the audience focused on the show. By using anticipation and suspense throughout the show makes them enjoy it because the audience will be engaged with it because they will want to know how it is going to be resolved and this links to how the audience also gets pleasure from the resolution at the end because nothing bad happened at the end leaves the audience with relief.

Another one of the pleasures in Miranda is making the audience feel more superior than Miranda and this is shown when she gets excited about the hand dryers in the toilets from one of the clips, and because she finds that appealing it gives the audience humour because they wouldn't find that exciting which shows she is less educated than the audience. The reason why it makes the audience enjoy the show is because it makes them feel higher over Miranda and can laugh at her because she doesn’t have the knowledge. This might link to the audience’s lives because it shows

Tuesday, 7 October 2014

The IT Crowd

The IT Crowd is a sitcom which involve 3 main people called; Roy, Moss, Jen. I know that it's a sitcom as it uses things which are completely ridiculous for the type of scene which it is. The conventions which they try to bring in a younger audience by using very childish tones for the the people that play as the characters. This is different to another sitcom such as the The Inbetweeners as they are more to reality then to what the IT crowd is by it using the same age range which are for the characters and the audience. The settings for the two programmes are different in that one is really colourful which shows what age it's aimed at and one being basic colours and dark which could suggest that it's aimed at an older audience. They are bothalso 30 minutes long.