Kaitee Miller media blog year 1

Discuss how the representation of gender, class or age would appeal to a target audience in one of the media products you have analysed this year. This year we analysed stranger things and its target audience. Which is targeted from 15-25 males interested science fiction. Many things such as gender, class and age appeal to this target audiences. For example the main group of boys are all preteens who are the rejects of the clichés who form a bond with there teacher. Many of the families in the show a middle-class families where the husband works and the mother is a stay at home wife for example the wheelers. Although in this family Nancy breaks the stereotype by her interest in science rather then popularity like the other females in the show of her age. The Byers family is shown as working class family and don’t follow traditional house roles. Byers mother is divorced so takes on the traditional mans role of having to provide for her two sons whilst wills brother all takes on the ...

Explain how different newspaper audiences might interpret the same content in different ways. Refer to the front covers below to support your answer. Different newspaper audiences might interpret the same content in different ways depending on the newspaper’s audience political views. Daily mail targets an audience that is right wing in their political views where the mirror is left wing. So people with right wing values have a preferred reading of the daily mail as it follows there political views and vice versa. The mirror shows a global issue about the war on terrorism with the news values of an elite nation of America and the elite person George Bush who was president at the time. Because this is a global issue there will be less political bias so both wings will get similar preferred reading. It will be less political because its an issue that affects everyone, its an attack on both ideologies with the threat of terrorism. Whereas the daily mail is a national issue instead of a...

  Explain how economic contexts influence film production. Refer to Disney’s The Jungle Book (2016) to support your points Economic contexts will influence film productions in the case of remakes. For example, in the case of the jungle book (2016) the production would’ve been influenced by many factors and one of these factors would be funding. The jungle book was a popular movie when in it came out for the kids in that generation. So, the remake would’ve already had an existing audience for those kids who are now adults and have children of there own to go and take to see the remake. But the production of the movie still needs to be mature to interest the older audience for example the original primary target audience was children so the format was animation , the remake is targeted at a more mature audience so the format is live action .Since there is already an audience for the movie it would be easier to fund due to the audience existing there is a forecast for profit. Ec...

  Explain how ongoing audience interaction influences the production of video games. Refer to Minecraft to support your answer.   Minecraft is the perfect example of audience interaction influencing the production of video games. Minecraft started off as a non-commercial product, so the product wasn’t really created to be a social platform. It was more of a place for creators to just build and mess around in so it was targeted to a small amount of people making it a niche market for the few of those that were interested. However, those playing the game decided to talk about the game and creators began making review videos. The original non-commercial game became very well talked about on social platforms and this helped to create an audience for the game. The developers of the game began to become aware of the rising audience for the game listening to the creator’s feedback and deciding to make the game more accessible to the audience demanding the game. Due to the aud...