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Demographics and Psychographics:

  1) What information do media companies use to create a demographic profile of their audience?  Age, gender, race, social class, area 2) Why are media companies and advertisers increasingly using audience profiling and not just demographics? Demographics is not an effective way categorising this is because people that are the same age or gender will have different interests. 3) What are the seven different Psychographic groups?  The aspirer , the succeeder , mainstream , the resigned , the struggler ,the explorer. 4) Write a brief summary of what each Psychographic group is seeking or motivated by. The aspire is motivated by impressing others and driven by other peoples perception , The succeeder is responsible in society and seek out the best , The mainstream seeks for value of money and respond to big established brands , The resigned are predominantly older people an stick to things familiar to them , The struggler is people who live for today and are heavy consumers ...

demographics research :

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  Age : The vampire diaries is mostly aimed at teenagers and young adults. Gender : The show is predominantly for females. Education : Most likely still in education. Social Class : Working class - Middle class Race- All races. Job

Introduction to Media: Blog Index

  1) First blog task - 10 questions 2) Poster Analysis 3)  Denotation and Connotation 4)  Introduction to Photoshop 5) Mise-en-scene: Stranger Things 6)  Camerawork - Doctor Who: Shots and angles 7) Camera Movement and Editing 8)  Blog feedback and learner response

Blog feedback and learner response:

 WWW:  A fantastic start to Media Lilliana.. You’ve completed all of your set tasks to a great standard and shown real focus and commitment throughout. It’s clear that you’re keeping on top of your work and taking pride in what you produce. Well done!  Next Steps:   Now that all of your core work is finished, challenge yourself by attempting the extension tasks. These will help you deepen your understanding and push your skills further. Aim to apply what you’ve already learned in new and creative ways — this will really help you stand out. Ensure your latest work  camera movement and editing is complete. 

Blog Task 7: Camera movement and Editing

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Tilt: This type of camera movement is called "tilt". The director chose this angle because they want to show his real reaction to what he is witnessing.  This will show the audience that something interesting will happen. Zoom: This camera movement is called "zoom". The director chose this shot so you  can see both the peoples emotions. When director's add in a zoom camera movement its usually because something with allot of action has happened. Crane:   In this scene there is the camera movement called "zoom" , this is usually used when        something is high up for example a superhero flying down or in this case someone climbing  up very high.                                            

Blog Task 6:Camera Angle

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 Camera Angles: In this scene , this camera angle is called a camera shot this is because the camera is looking from behind the person at the subject. This is used for coversations between people or to show characters POV. In this case it is used it is used to see what she is doing on the machine.  In this scene this camera angle is called a two shot. This means two people in a shot up close to see characters together this is to see their POV. In this shot you can see the the different reactions between them two, in this picture you can see they could've just found out something. In this scene it shows a camera angle which is called a close up this is because  you can see the camera is zoomed into his face to see the reaction. You can see he is looking at something bright in the sky , this could be the arrival of the doctor. The reaction in his face can show us he is very shocked by what he can see.

Blog Task 5:Mise-en-scene: Stranger Things Analysis

 STRANGER THINGS ANALYSIS: The opening of Stranger Things establishes the setting as , dark , dangerous , and mystery there is allot of pauses throughout the scenes. This suggests that there will be something upcoming which makes the audience have suspense or worry. This has connotations of evil and mystery will be shown throughout this whole show. All the settings shown have been dark , foggy and very empty. This has connotations of something bad happening or someone getting hurt. The actors are placed on bikes in the middle of the night this placement shows hey should not be out in the middle of the night as children.