Delawar's GCSE Media Blog

  1) How many films were there in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) at the time of this article? 33 2) How much money have the MCU films made in total according to this article? 29.6 billion 3) Why did Marvel create the Avengers films? To create a new line of books to sell 4) Who owns the rights to Spiderman and why is the character now appearing in Marvel films? Sony did a partner ship with marvel for spider man to appear  5) Which company owns the rights to the Fantastic Four and the X-Men? Marvel studios 6) Look at the very end of the article. What has Disney announced regarding TV shows on their new streaming service Disney+? They announced plans for several new marvel tv series

  1) Zuckerberg wanted to buy instagram as it was becoming a threat to facebook in 2012. 2) Saves time, reduces cost and better products 3) Reduced competition, increased market share and access to new markets 4) Subsidiary is smaller company owned by bigger company  5) co-co-cola, disney, sony 6) Film studios, Walt disney studios motion pictures, Disney music group, Disney studio services, Disney theatrical, A and E networks, The walt disney company, The walt disney company latin america, ESPN, Marvel 7) One of the primary rationales for buying fox was to increase disney's arsenal of general entertainment content.

      1. A demographic audience profile defines groups based on things like age gender income and education. 2. Using audience profiling to increase conversion 3. I think im th exploerer as i like to try out new products

  1) Write a definition of a  passive  audience:  This is the view that audiences passively take in information from the media and that it has the same effect on everyone. 2)  Write a definition of an  active  audience:  This is the male modern and generally occupied view that audiences chose and interact with the media has confuses  3) Write a definition of the  hypodermic needle  theory:  This assumes no individual difference in audience members 4) I NFORMATION/SURVEILLANCE:  The Times newspaper  > Why: It tells audiences important information about politics, the world and more. PERSONAL IDENTITY: warzone  > Why: Because i play alot  DIVERSION/ENTERTAINMENT: fortnite   > Why: Og season RELATIONSHIPS: Scofield   > Why: Cause hes the main character and a nice man Blue planet offers to audience a range of audience pleasures. Blue planet is narrated by the biggest british nature explorer David Attenborough. This gives entertainment and escapism from your normal life. Watching

  Q1) WWW - There is definite potential here but also a good lesson for future assessments. We need to build on Q3+Q6 and push on towards the higher levels. EBI- Revise terminology and read the question carefully. -Written english  -Make specific reference to the text and discuss range of connotations. Q2: Q1: 1 mark Q2: 0 mark Q3: 4 marks Q4: 2 marks Q5: 1 mark Q6: 3 marks 3) My stronger question was Q4 since all i had to do was talk abouyt the background ans facial expressions. 4) My weaker question was Q5 since i struggle to tell the effect on the water aid advert. 5) The red dress in the beyonce advert is dominated by red this connotates romance, fire, heat and seduction this creates a powerful effect on the audience as they see this beyonce advert which stands out. 

  1) What is the preferred reading of a media text? This is the message or ideology/belief the producers want the audience to believe 2) What is the oppositional reading of a media text? This is when the consumer takes away an opposite message or belief different to what the producers intended 3) How does the Harry Brown trailer position the audience to respond to the teenage characters in the film?   Older people might see young people ina sterotipcal way and they might see them as:gang members,criminals,bad boys. 4) because most children are not into violence 5)