Audience

Who creates what we watch?

The media decides what we watch as they produce the media but the audience decides whether it is worth watching.

Can the media exist/function without the audience? Can the audience exist/function without the media?

The media cant exist because if there is no audience the media is pointless. If there is no media the audience have nothing to talk about.

Can the media control an audience?

 No the media cant control an audience be the audience decides what they like and what they don't, but the media can control an audience because it puts things into the audiences head and makes them believe things.

Who is more powerful the media or the audience why? how?

The audience because we decide what we believe and enjoy. The media also brainwashes us to believe things.

Uses and Gratifications

It is suggested that the uses and gratifications theory has to fulfil one of the following when we choose a form of media:

Identify- being able to recognise the product or person in front of you, role models that reflect similar values to yours, aspiration to be someone else.

Educate- being able to acquire information, knowledge and understanding

Entertain- what you are consuming should give you enjoyment and also some form of 'escapism' enabling us to forget our worries temporarily

Social Interaction- The ability for media products to produce a topic of conversation between other people, sparks debate.

Uses and gratification theory can be seen in cases such as personal music selection. We select music not only to fit a particular mood but also in attempts to show empowerment or other socially conscience motives. There are many different types of music and we choose from them to fulfil a particular need  

Film and You

What do we mean when we use the word 'film'?

When we use the word 'film' we are talking about the film industry as a whole. Films ate classed as moving pictures and can change over time. A film is created by photographing scenes and putting them all together to make one big film.

Do you think it means the same as the word 'movie'?

I think the word 'movie' means the same as the word 'film' because are a type of visual communication which use moving pictures and sound to tell stories or inform people.

And what about the word 'cinema'?

The word 'cinema', short for cinematography, is often used to refer to the industry of films and filmmaking or to the art of filmmaking itself. It is also used to tell stories and inform people.

Top 10 Favourite Films

1. Tangled                               

2. Divergent series                                             

3. The Hunger games series

4. Harry Potter series

5. Fault in our stars

6. Mean girls

7. Peter Pan

8. Click

9. Marley and Me

10.  Alice in Wonderland

What do they have in common?

Some of my top 10 films are Disney films they are all in common because they all come from the same film industry. The hunger games series, Harry Potter series and the divergent series are all in common because they are all action films and have a lot going on which is what I like in films because they keep me entertained. Also the divergent series and the fault in our stars are in common because the main characters in the Divergent series are the main characters in The Fault in Our Stars. Marley and Me and the fault in our stars are similar as they are both sad films that are likely to make people cry.