The Film Industry - Marketing Films

Guardians of the Galaxy 2

The website contains a graphical interface with characters from the film. It has many different links to different things related to the film. Each page has enough information to keep an audience interested but not too much information that they won't have to watch the film.

Three audiences for this film may be young children aged 5+ both male and female, young teens, fans of science fiction. Young children are targeted by the use of the small smiling tree which makes it seem inviting. Young teens may want to see this film as there is use of comic book typography. The use of blues and metallic colours suggest science fiction and space travel which is a common theme in this film and may appeal to sci-fi fans.

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Week 3 Online media - 4th March

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Music Videos - Week One

Component 1A - Media language and representation Component 1B - Audience and Industry Music Video - Video that accompanies audio track / Montage of clips with song in background / Visual representation of how a song sounds / Gives contexts to the sound / Advertises the song / Primarily seen on YouTube Media language Key Terms - modes, language, polysemy, meaning, conventions, intertextuality, audience response, ideologies Theories - Barthes and Levi-Strauss Representation Key Terms - construction, processes, stereotypes, social and cultural contexts, audience response, ideologies Theories - Hall, Gauntlet, Van Zoonen, hooks, Gilroy Audience tends to be defensive over how good their favourite artist is. Bands can be role models. Bands can be used to represent somebody. We can use music to define ourselves. We can use social media to connect with artists. France Gall - Baby Pop Technologically interesting France Gall looking at the camera gives a direct...

Adbusters

Deliberately challenged the image. Its childish defacing. This defacing plays on the ideology that nothing is too high up to take down. Banksy Drawing of Policeman snorting cocaine. This is know as detournement. It is a form of high-jacking or re-routing. It is more commonly seen as Culture Jamming. Culture jamming is often obsessed with the idea of destructing consumerism/capitalism. Culture jamming - the practise of criticising and subverting advertising and consumerism in the mass media, by methods such as producing advertisements parodying those of global brands. Adbusters potential genres: Pop Culture - Sans serif font has informal connotations Satirical Comedy - Attacks something. Adbusters uses a lot of negative white space which connotes purity but directly contrasts with the image shown on the background. Masthead changes every time. Every magazine cover is unique which shows they are challenging. There is no reference to anything that is inside. No...

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