AS media 2021

  TECHNOLOGY: → Who is making the new Lord of the Rings series? 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. → 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.  → Where have they just moved production to? Moved from New Zealand to Scotland UK in the Amazon Studios. → 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 series of Lord of the Rings follow the original movie set loc...

Technology: by Mele Leaaetalafoou

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 students in the short clip are  teenagers who attend a dramatic and complicated high school. In this film there is a major representation of Class and Status shown through many different aspects of the film. There is also a representation of age. In this short clip we see the contrast between the students who are humble and then we see the opposite students like Cheryl Blossom who likes to Dominate and almost overtake , who is also seen as wealthy and strong willed, linking to the way that she acts and behaves around the people who are less fortunate than her. This Short clip gives us as an audience a good view of High School stereotypes.  The sound heard in the Short film is a mixture of Diegetic and Non-Diegetic sound. Diegetic sound is portrayed through the dialogue of the Characters in the film. There is also diegetic sound used...

WHY SO SERIOUS?  In the months leading up to the release of the Dark Knight an alternate reality game attracted more than Ten Million unique players to real time Gotham city. A city where the Joker left his mark on posters and bills and started building an army of henchman all over the world at comic-con players. All over the world comic-con players gathered around to take their first Orders from the Joker, working with players online they scavenged for clues.  They found their first clue typed out in the sky, it was a phone number: 800-395-9646. When they dialed that number there was a message that was left for them that said: If you want to be part of my crew your going to need to prove your up to the challenge. Players ran to the streets dressed as their leader (The Joker) and Gotham city began to creep out into the real world, building excitement and anticipation for the dark knight. All their efforts put together yet another piece of the puzzle. They were told to hit...

  Disney Film : Highest Grossing Movie films in 2018 - Domestically: Black Panther - $700 Million Avengers: Infinity War - $679 Million Incredibles 2 - $609 Million Antman and The Wasp  Solo: A Star wars Story  Ralph Breaks the Internet Mary Poppins Returns  2018 Studio Market Share: Buena Vista (Disney)  -  26.0% Warner Bros.               -  16.3% Universal                     -  14.9% Sony/Columbia           -   10.9% 20th Century Fox        -   9.1% The Above Films are all Disney that were the top Three, as well as being listed in the top 15. The second group is the Overall Studio Market Share and as you can see Disney is the top, not only the top by a little bit, but it top by  9.7% difference, which is over double the amount of the second highest. Over time Disney has grown ...

Essay Question: "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? In the film industry, the statement “synergy & cross media convergence are vital processes in the successful marketing of media products to audiences” applies to the way in which Film industries market their media products to different audiences. The Film industry consists of Conglomerates and Subsidiaries. Conglomerates being the parent companies and Subsidiaries the smaller companies that are acquired by the conglomerates. There are 5 main Conglomerates in the film industry, these are ‘The Big 5’. ‘The Big 5’ consists of Disney, Universal Pictures, Paramount, Warners Bros and Columbia. ‘The Big 5’ was Originally ‘The Big 6’ but in 2019 Disney Acquired Fox making it what it is today, ‘The Big5’. These Conglomerates are also the Oligopolies of the film in...

  Homeland Representation Essay: In this Crime TV Drama, ‘Homeland’, we see the Representation of Women being Uplifted. In this Short extract Women are being Represented as being Bold, Strong-willed, and Persistent. In this film we see a Lady named Carrie Mathison standing up for someone who is in a tough situation. With this we also see the Contrast between Men and Women, Men being seen as rough, aggressive and violent, and women seen as Carrie. Carrie is one of the Main Characters in this Short Extract, we see this through the eyes of the camera as it Quick cuts to different Shots of her also linking to how her voice is also the main dialogue heard as well. This links to the Sound Bridge that is created when the Prisoner is looking out the bar windows of his cell but the voice is of Carrie who was evidently talking about the man in the prison cell, linking to how the story of the Short extract wraps around the man in prison called Ibrahim. The Camera shots are all hand-held and ...

" Analyse how media institutions are using different platforms to engage with their audiences."   Media Institutions use different platforms to engage their audiences in many different ways. Media Ownership in the film industry consists of Conglomerates and Subsidiaries. Conglomerates being the 'parent' companies and Subsidiaries being the smaller companies that are acquired by the larger Conglomerate companies.  The major Conglomerate companies in the film industry consist of 'The Big Five', which was Originally named 'The Big Six' but in 2019 Disney acquired Fox, making it only 'The Big Five'. The Big Five include the following: Disney, Universal Pictures, Paramount, Warner's Bros and Columbia. These Conglomerates are the Oligopolies of Media, Oligopolies meaning 'A small number of Conglomerates that have the monopoly in the film industry'.  Media Institutions now days have Franchises, Movies that have Prequels and Sequels. The ad...

The clip 'breaking bad' uses all Four of the technical terms. In the film Breaking Bad there is a contrast between 'young' and 'old' we see this as the two main Characters are introduced into the film. The first being an old middle aged man and the second being a young man maybe in his early twenties. When we are first introduced to the old middle aged man, he is seen wearing black layered clothing with glasses on. His looks are 'rough' shown through his facials, hair and wrinkly skin. From personal Observation you could possibly stereotype him as a man who could (past tense) have been in prison before.   This Character is introduced to us in a Hardware Store, and is seen getting two cans of paint, which when you look closely, it looks like a normal setting but there is still a sense of uneasiness about the plot, as the man himself looks like an intense and stern man. At first the clip starts off with the diegetic sound of the man walking and getting the...

Dominant reading: The audience decodes the message exactly as the producer intended, thereby suggesting that they share the same cultural and ideological positions.   Negotiated Reading: The audience understands the meaning and the connotations of the messages of the producer but you need to adapt them to fit with your own beliefs. Oppositional reading: The audience rejects the  producer's message despite  understanding the denoted  and connotative meanings. audience understands the meaning and the connotations of the messages of the producer but you need to adapt them to fit with your own beliefs.