Audience Needs and Lifestyles

Audience Needs and Lifestyles

Investigate and explain how different genres have developed for contrasting media products

Watching Shows Online

You can watch TV shows online through different websites such as:

• BBC iPlayer
• ITV Player
• 4OD
• Sky Player
• YouTube
• Demand Five

This means if you miss your favorite TV show like 'Castle' you can watch it online.

Niche Market Soaps

There are a lot of different teenage soaps around now such as:

• Waterloo Road
• Hollyoakes Later
• E20

There are also occupational soaps such as:

• Doctors
• Casualty

Technological Devices

You can also watch soaps on technical devices such as:

• Phones
• iPod
• XBOX
• PS3
• Wii
• iPad

You can also discuss what you think using a variety of ways such as:

• Twitter
• Facebook
• BBM
• Forums

THE MEANING BETWEEN CONNOTATION AND DENOTATION

altho along the same subjects, these two word have significant diferences. its how you see a film or picture. or any form of media.

denotation is more to do with what you see and hear and connotation is to do with what something means to you on a personal level. for example my friend showed me a picture of his family
and to me all i saw was a living room and a bunch of people, some elderly, some young and too him thats basicly all he could see. However we both had diferent personal views on it (connotations). for example i just saw a family. nothing really new to me but to my friend he saw people that he was really close to. some that also passed away. he loves the photo for the connotations. where-s if that photo was given to me i probobly wouldnt bother keeping it because it means nothing to me.

MULTI-STRAND NARRATIVE

A multi-strand narrative is when a story is split up into many stories based on the characters. For example a multi-strand story will not have 1 main character like Bruce Almighty or Spider-Man. A multi-strand story will be something like X men or The Avengers, Friends or Big Bang Theory ect. where each character has a main part to it. each character has thier own individual life, story, pro's and con's, preferences etc. which can make one story into many, or many stories into one. it works both ways.

Copyright

A basic understanding of copyright principles is essential for any blogger, researcher, reporter, photographer, or anyone who publishes their creative works. It’s important for two reasons. First, you should understand how you can properly make use of someone else’s work – quoting from it, reprinting it, summarizing it, even satirizing it. And second, you should understand how you can protect your own legal rights in what you create, so that others don’t take unfair (even unlawful) advantage of it.
Like any area of the law, copyright can get complex at its outer limits. However, a working knowledge of copyright law is not hard to acquire and will guide you through nearly all the situations you are likely to face in your day to day work.

hard news

Hard news is the kind of fast-paced news that usually appears on the front page of newspapers. Stories that fall under the umbrella of hard news often deal with topics like business, politics and international news.


What defines hard news isn't always about subject matter. Some might call a news story that's heavily reported, on a subject matter considered softer (like entertainment), hard news because of the way it was approached. articals about politics and parliment etc. are reffered to as hard new because they have a bigger impact on the country/audience. where as celebrity gossip isn't really that important thats why thats known as soft news, its just part of entertainment.

Code- Why we would expect something in a certain genre, what it means and how it makes us feel. (camera, mis-en-scene and sound)
Convention- Something you would expect in a certain genre.

Horror:Conventions...

• Tension (mis-en-scene)
• Blood (mis-en-scene)
• Screaming (sound)
• Silence (sound)
• Jumps (mis-en-scene)
• Point of view shot (camera)
• Over the shoulder (camera)

Codes...

These are all codes because its the things we expect. We would expect to be scared and grossed out becuase that is what they target the auidence at. The screaming connotes someone being scared and building the tension and by doing this is makes us scared aswell. The blood shows that someone is being harmed which inflicks pain on not only them in the movie but the audience also. The jumps in a horror movie is to keep the audience watching and intrested but we expect it becuase it is something most people are scared of and it is an effective way of building tension. Another code for a horror is a point of view shot camera movement this is because it creates the feeling that you're trapped inside their body and you're actually there which makes someone feel scared and frightened.

Scifi movie:Conventions...

• Aliens (mis-en-scene)
• Spaceship (mis-en-scene)
• lasers (mis-en-scene)
• Futureistic settings (mis-en-scene)
• War (mis-en-scene)
• Planets (mis-en-scene)
• Dutch shot (camera)
• Tracking shot (camera)
• Swords clashing (sound)
• Different langauges (sound)

Codes...
The codes of these would be that the futuristic settings, spaceships and aliens because it shows a sign of difference and being unrealistic. Making something look unrealistic creates the feeling of being in a different world. The dutch shot is an angled shot this would help create am illusion of difference because its at a strange angle. The over exagrated sound effects makes everything feel alot more dramatic and strange. Other things such as different/strange languages connotes being somewhere we havnt been before where everything is new.

Action adventure:Conventions...

• Damsell in distress (mis-en-scene)
• Hero & Villian (mis-en-scene)
• Treasure (mis-en-scene)
• Exotic location (mis-en-scene)
• Well built characters, usually male (mis-en-scene)
• Sound motif (sound)
• Sound tracks (sound)
• Tracking shots (camera)
• Worms eye view (camera)
• Fast movements (camera)

Codes...
The codes of an action adventure would be how the hero and villian scene show the different opinions in a scene. The damsell in distress will intreeg us in the film and make us want to watch more. The exotic locations show us that it is desserted and no-one is around. The different sounds connotes us into watching more,  this is like sound motifs as we know that the hero or villian is approaching and we can then breath a sigh of relief. Fast camera shots and movements connotes alot of movement within the characters to show alot of action and excitement to keep us interested.