Main Topic: Piracy increasing with streaming https://torrentfreak.com/movie-piracy-brings-in-millions-of-extra-revenue-through-promotion-181202/ News: Piracy doesn’t actually affect box office sales, instead, it affects the DVD sales. https://www.worldipreview.com/news/uk-police-warn-of-video-games-piracy-before-christmas-17099 News:… Read more “Media Disruption Assignment ideas 04/12/18”
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Genre: Sci-Fi 04/12/18
Personally I find that genre is not one of my favourite genres; I found it hard to define a film as Sci-Fi due to the mixing of… Read more “Genre: Sci-Fi 04/12/18”
Genre seminar
Genre signifiers: Here we looked at 4 images on the board; in little groups we had to decide what genre we thought it was and why and… Read more “Genre seminar”
Understanding Media Genres
Genre groups media texts into categories that each have conventions and help producers target an audience. Key uses of genre: Entertainment Categorisation Myth* *Genre texts offer us… Read more “Understanding Media Genres”
What I did? Wentworth assignment
Whilst preparing for the presentation for Wentworth Woodhouse we worked on the Google Docs; in this I produced research on the scandals that we would therefore use… Read more “What I did? Wentworth assignment”
Revision for formative essay
We had two questions to consider for our formative exam, in which we had to select one to write in the seminar for the 13th of November… Read more “Revision for formative essay”
Ada Lovelace
We were tasked to research Ada Lovelace to find out how she linked to our Wentworth Woodhouse presentation. Ada Byron was born 1815 – her father Lord… Read more “Ada Lovelace”
Reality TV seminar
Why do we like reality TV? Is it the socially useful information? Or is it more of an entertainment aspect? From the discussion in the seminar there… Read more “Reality TV seminar”
Reality TV
Last five years: extreme market saturation in reality media content in the UK; dominates mainstream British TV schedules, even in prime-time broadcasting slots. These reality TV shows… Read more “Reality TV”
Photography and Film
In this lecture we explored the technological developments that impacted on photography and film – and thereby advertising; the growth of cinema from local to global and… Read more “Photography and Film”
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