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Audience Practise essay

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How does your own experience of media consumption illustrate wider patterns of audience behaviour? Media consumption illustrates wider patterns of audience behaviour.  The big five consists of Disney, Columbia pictures, Universal studios, Warners Bros. and Paramount pictures and are the media giants of Hollywood. They are also referred to as conglomerates that dominate the film landscape who have acquired many subsidiaries. For example, in 2019, Disney acquired Fox which made Disney the largest shareholder over the media/film market, with a total of 27%. This being said, this small amount of oligopolies have the benefit of vertical and horizontal integration which is helping them slowly dominate the worlds market share of film. Streaming services have been increasing over the years and have increased rapidly over the Covid-19 Pandemic. With everyone locked up at home with no wear to go, an opportunity was introduced to all streaming services to provide a variety of new and alr...
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Hotel Babylon representation essay

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This British TV Drama series 'Hotel Babylon' shows the core representation groups of ethnicity and class/status. Ethnicity is seen through the illegal immigrants working in the Hotel Babylon. Class and status is shown through men looking down on the ethnic people. We see a contrast between the  people of status who hold dominance over the immigrants.  Stuart Halls reception theory is seen in this clip as there is an encoded message in which the audience decodes. This message sent to the audience is that these immigrants are more than just illegal citizens, but that they have come to the UK for a fresh start and to become apart of their society. The officers try take away this hope hence why the audience are touched and provoke emotions to feel for them and understand their story.  Through the technical elements the audience are able to see the changes of mood and tone throughout each scene.  Through Mise- en scene the costumes connote to the setting of a hotel a...
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Hotel Babylon plan (key points)

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British television drama  series. Ethnicity and status/wealth are the two main representational groups we have seen in this short clip. Immigrants have lower jobs in a different country; even lower than what they are qualified  for. For example, the man who helped the diabetic woman used to be a doctor hence why he says; 'I wasn't always a cleaner'. The immigrants work as cleaners and chiefs in the 5 star hotel; they are starting at the bottom even though some of them have high qualifications in other countries. We can see that the immigrants are hiding as one of the immigrants who got taken; his brothers and dad got murdered. The immigrants just want to live a life of freedom but that is overtaken by the immigrant officers higher authority.   British white men who are immigrant officers have dominance and power over the immigrants who take their freedom away. They are in high position. they wear suits which connotes to their status. They have privilege etc ...
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Slideshare on technology

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  TECHNOLOGIES EFFECT ON PRODUCTION: TECHNOLOGIES EFFECT ON PRODUCTION PROCESSES: by porcia armitage
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Lord of the rings case study

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  TECHNOLOGY: 1. Who is making the new Lord of the Rings series? The series is produced by Amazon Studios in cooperation with the Tolkien Estate and Trust, HarperCollins, and New Line Cinema, with Payne and McKay serving as showrunners. Amazon bought the television rights for The  Lord  of the  Rings  for US$250 million in November 2017, making a five season production commitment worth at least US$1 billion. 2. Where was this being filmed? Although the trilogy of movies were all shot in Peter Jackson's home country New Zealand, the filming of the new Lord of the Rings series will take place in Scotland. Therefore, originally in New Zealand.  3. Where have they just moved production to? Production has just moved from New Zealand to Scotland UK in the Amazon Studios. 4. What technology is being used in this TV series as a result of not filming 'on location' like the movies were? The new production team will have to use advanced technology to make the new seri...
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Riverdale representation essay

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This short clip taken from the TV series 'Riverdale' is a Teen Drama which shows the core media representation groups of class/status and age. The opening scenes of this clip show a strong sense of typical High school stereotypes which have been thoughtfully created through the use of camera, mise en scene, sound and editing. In this short two minute clip we see the contrast between normal high school students and students who see pride in themselves and act dominant over everyone else such as Cheryl blossom, Who is seen as wealthy and strong willed. These students are teenagers as shown through the complicated and dramatic High school. In this clip we see that Stuart Halls representation theory which represents a specific group. In this case, age and class and status are the ones most clearly seen.  Mise en scene refers to everything in the shot from lighting, costumes, make up, props, symbolism and iconography. Firstly there are five main stereotypes shown thr...
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synergy and cmc essay

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"Synergy and Cross-Media-Convergence are vital processes in the successful marketing of media products to audiences." To what extent do you agree with this statement in relation to your chosen media area? Media institutions use synergy and cross media convergence as a vital process in the success of marketing their media products to their audiences. Oligopolies such as the big 5 consists of Disney, Columbia Pictures, Universal Studios, Warner Bros. and Paramount pictures. These 5 conglomerates dominate the film landscape who have acquired many subsidiaries and are known as the media giants of Hollywood. For example, in 2019, Disney acquired Fox for $71 billion, which made Disney the largest shareholder over the media/film market, with a total of 27%. This being said, this small amount of oligopolies have the benefit of vertical and horizontal integration where they can promote their products through many different platforms under their ownership. This is seen through Disney u...
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