Post 1

My Top 5s
Top Film

Top 5 Films... 
1. Plastic
2. Atomic Blonde
3. Kingsman
4. Ferris Bueller's Day Off
5. Valerian
Top Film Poster

Top 5 Film Posters...
1. Valerian
2. Submarine
3. Brooklyn
4. Cinderella
5. Boyhood

Top 5 Music Artists...
1. Bastille
2. George Ezra
Bastille 2017 Album
3. Circa Waves
4. The Kooks
5. Scouting for Girls

Top 5 TV shows...
1. Peaky Blinders
2. Skins
3. Black Mirror
4. Catfish
Peaky Blinders
5. Ru Paul's Drag Race

Top 5 Actors...
1. Domhnall Gleeson
2. Ryan Reynolds
3. Cillian Murphy
Charlize Theron
4. Jack O'Connell
Domnhall Gleeson

5. Taron Egerton

Top 5 Actresses...
1. Charlize Theron
2. Jennifer Lawrence
3. Helena Bonham Carter
4. Kaya Scodelario
5. Cara Delevingne

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Power and Media Industries

Image
James Curran and Jean Seaton ON THE NEED FOR DIVERSITY - "diversity is in the public interest - but modern societies suffer from collective attention deficit disorders [...] the public interest has to work harder to be noticed, and we need agile but resourceful media to do that" Digital technologies have access to the internet, and this means that people have access to a much wider range of things. I good way to describe the range of media is as a MONOPOLY, and this is when someone has the exclusive ownership of something. Rupert Murdoch is the CEO of News Corporation , which owns the Sun, The Times and The Sunday Times. Not only does News Corp own these newspapers, they also own ITV, Fox, National Geographic and Sky. A conglomerate is a large corporation which consists of multiple smaller companies. A subsidiary is a smaller company owned by a larger corporation. DISNEY is a good example of a conglomerate, as they own Lucasfilm, Marvel, Pixar and Vice. By doing...
Read more

Regulation

Image
In the UK, television has a 'watershed' period which has been agreed that inappropriate content is shown only after 9pm , and this prevents young children from being exposed to things like extreme violence and nudity . This also means that the channels get less complaints. Ofcom   is the regulatory service in the UK which oversees the regulation of British TV. It helps reduce harm and offence by limiting it. It is "required to assess the likelihood of material encouraging or inciting the commission of crime or of leading to disorder", which could be something which portrays racial hatred and encourages things like hate crimes. The mass media can be used to manipulate groups of people, and a main concern with this is the hypodermic syringe theory . This is a passive audience theory, which means that people just take in and copy what they see. Sonia Livingstone and Peter Lundt theorised that regulation very rarely works , and this is because the internet m...
Read more

Revision 7

Explore how 'Humans' and 'Les Revenants' uses marketing and promotional campaigns to maintain both local and global audiences [30] KNEE JERK: advertisements which include reviews from English newspapers for LR, use of unconventional/viral marketing for H  INTRO -  D efinition   A rgument   C ontext Marketing is a key part of selling a media product, and by using promotional campaigns it ensures that the product can attract and maintain audiences. By using viral marketing campaigns and digital convergence, producers can reach not only local audiences but also audiences globally. Whilst 'Les Revenants' uses more traditional marketing campaigns through advertising, 'Humans' uses the more unusual viral marketing technique, using the brand of 'Persona Synthetics' from within the TV show.  CONTENT -  - the shows' own concepts (i.e. Humans intertextual sci-fi to Blade runner and typical UK shows like Doctor Who with ...
Read more