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| NOT part of the franchise, but similar personnel; typical WT? |
This is primarily intended to aid exam preparation, but has a definite link to coursework; your post title will be: World's End: Why Accurate Audience Research is Vital!
Spend at least 40mins on RESEARCH and discussion of findings, not presentation - if some additional time is needed to put together a post that's fine.
Use any and all resources you've seen/used this year to help with the following - you'll speed the process up if you think carefully about this.
This is a group task so you can share files via dropbox, the Mac's share function, or by copy/pasting each other's draft posts (or USB!).
In doing this task you will be touching on the five core 'key concept' areas that the Media A-Level is focussed on (and one of the A2 exam Qs is specifically focussed on applying theory on these to your own work):
Media Language - you must utilise any relevant terminology, including clear + specific denotation but also narrative, semiotics...
Audience - the British Cinema Q is headed 'Audience and Institutions', and you need to analyse the interplay between the two, as you will here
Narrative - posters and trailers selectively present the narrative; character types can be vital for audience appeal, as can narrative elements (eg the classic feelgood Hollywood closed ending; the American dream - Billy Elliot...)
Genre - even low budget flicks can have a chance if they tap into popular genres; Hot Fuzz and Shaun of the Dead were spectacularly successful given their budgets; Warp has produced several slasher movies alongside its less commercial social realist productions
Representation - the ideology or cultural impact of representations is a key issue, but this also applies to marketing and, for British films especially, the crossover potential for mainstream success and/or foreign sales/distribution
You can remember these as 'MANGeR', or even MIGRAINe if you include institution and ideology!
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