Empire Magazine Cover Analysis

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Minority Report 1/2/3 shot analysis

This is the first shot from Minority Report that we have to analyse, The shot used is a medium close up to allow other members/ people to be included in this shot.  This shot could mean that all these police members have confronted the villain and are about to capture him. We know that this is taking place in public because we can see the elevators in the back which suggests that there is a lot of people in a public area. It could also mean that these police officers are trying to prevent crime form happening and are trying to persuade the villain to give up crime. It also shows that the villain could be outnumbered by police officers and has no where to go. We can see that the officer in front is talking (he may be) to the villain whilst the others are getting ready to move in which could suggest the start of an action packed chase scene.

This is the second image that we had to analyse from Minority Report. It shows a element of action from the explosion of top of the car. The shot type used for this is a wide shot. One reason why this particular scene was filmed with a wide shot was to capture all of the action that is happening at this one given point. We can see two figures in this shot one is on the roof of the car whilst the other is standing near the wall in the back. It could be that the person by the wall is trying to run away from the person on the car roof. Or he could be a colleague of him and has just seen the villain flee the scene via the explosion. A lot of action is being shown here because we have the explosion which immediately draws the attention of the audience to that explosion. 

    This shot is the third and final shot that we had to analyse from Minority Report and here we see a close up of the 'villain'. This shot was used to show all the emotion and action that happens in this scene using his facial expression. He could be looking like he is ready to give up and surrender to the police/ turn himself in. We can almost see some innocence on his face/ he is asking for mercy or to be let go from the police. He might have also done something bad/ something he shouldn't have done and now he is regretting his decision. Again all of this is just my inference it may be or not be what the director wanted to get across.    

Second Media Debate

Teenagers are involved in more anti-social behaviour than any other age group?

I think that this statement is true because most anti-social behaviour does come from teenagers to anyone. However it is not just teenagers that are involved in anti-social behaviour because adults do it as well as teenagers. There is this stereotype that teenagers are very anti-social and we are up to no good. That stereotype is false because it is some teenagers. Not all of them. We have been labelled as more anti-social than any other age group. Some would agree with this. However I don't agree with this.   

Media Debate

Are my Facebook friends the same as my real friends?

I would say that my Facebook friends are not the same as my real friends simply because they could’ve been a suggestion from the social network site. Or we could have had a mutual friend in common. Maybe it could just be the fact that I have had no physical interaction with this person who I call my ‘friend’. It takes physical interaction to know someone and the internet provides us with this electronic interaction between people and as a result we can’t really ‘know’ the person. Another point would be the fact that talking to a person face to face allows us to see what they are like rather than what they want us to see them as. Real friends have also gotten to know me as well because we could just be two liars talking to each other to make us seem greater than what we are.    



The film that I have chosen to analyse is:

The Godfather Part 1 (1972)

The Godfather Part 1 trailer

The genre of this film is it is a 1972 film set in the 1940's and it features a Italian family living in America. The genre is that it is a drama/ gangster film showing some of the consequences of being in the Mafia.

The audience for this film would have been people that are older than 18 to about 40 years old. The reason for this is because the initial film was an 18+ because of violent themes and scenes in the film but over the years younger people have seen this film even though they weren't supposed to. Males were more likely to see this film because of the plot and storyline. This was seen as a male dominated plot as men were interested in guns and bloody scenes than women at the time but some women will have seen this film as well.

The platforms that you will have originally seen this film would have been the cinema but over the years DVDs were made and this is still shown on channels like ITV 4 on late nights. You even have the choice to stream this film on TV services like Netflix. Another option would be to download this film illegally which isn't ideal but it still happens today buy lots of people. You can also find clips on YouTube but not the entire film.

The music video that I have chosen for textual analysis is:

Three Days Grace - Never Too Late

Three Days Grace - Never Too Late

The theme for this music song is motivation. This is an Indie song and the genre is post-grunge           .

The audience for this film would be teenagers aged 13-16. However people that heard this song when it first came out may still listen to it today. The reason is not old people will want to listen to really loud music and kids don't want to listen to a kind of negative song even if the message is a positive one. Males will listen to this more than women because the genre isn't popular with women. The spilt would be 60% male and 40% female because there is no reason that women can't listen to this song but the lyrics are more directed towards male viewers. Since the target audience is young mobile phones and tablets would be used to watch / listen to this music video.

Some platforms that you would see this on would be: YouTube, music channels on TV, radio and from other people's phones if they have it saved onto their device or if they are streaming it from Spotify.

The radio advert that I chose to analyse is:

Cadbury Gorilla Advert

The henre for this advert is comedy because they want you to remember the advert after some time and one way to do that is to add a comedic element to the advert.

The audience for this advert would be little kids aged 7-12 and even some teenagers. I chose this age group because it is relevant to the advert and not many adults/ parents would watch it as much as kids.

The platforms that you would see this on would be a TV because during commercials if you are on a kids channel (cartoons) they are more likely to play this. They wouldn't show this advert on BBC parliament.

This is the HSBC logo that I created. The word I have chosen is pressure and I have used three different pictures to represent scenarios where a person may feel pressure by what they are doing or what someone else is doing to them. It also includes the HSBC logo along with its slogan 'The world's local bank'. I used red text for two reasons: One it would stand out in the picture and it would match the colour of the HSBC logo. The first picture is a sportsman taking the game winning shot in basketball. The second image shows doctors performing surgery on a person and the final image shows a student being under mental pressure from exams. These are all different types of pressure but all mean the same thing/ have the same message.