Harshprit GCSE Media Blog

         Demographics and Psychographics! 1) What information do media companies use to create a demographic profile of their audience? Media creators use demographic profiles to identify and group their target audience. A demographic audience profile categorises people based on factors such as age, gender, income, education, and occupation. 2) Why are media companies and advertisers increasingly using audience profiling and not just demographics ? Customers' wants and purchasing patterns are becoming harder to understand as they have more access to information. Businesses can precisely allocate their marketing resources by using audience profiling, which adheres to the four aforementioned principles. 3) What psychographic group or groups do YOU belong in? Think about your own interests and lifestyle and explain your decision. Remember, you may fit into two or three different groups!  I think that i'm an explorer as i like to try new things and  i have interest in creativity su

    CAMERA MOVEMENT AND EDITING 1) Pick three  aspects of  camera movement  in the Minority Report clip. Identify the type of camera movement and write about why the director chose to use that camera movement in the scene and what effect it has on the audience. The camera movement at the beginning of the scene is slow and focused on the newspaper where the heading keeps on changing and the reader is seen reading a heading about a passenger on the train seated in front of him and realizes that he is WANTED at 0.29 second the use of juxtaposition and zoom camera movement is used where the focus is on the newspaper and makes the audience feel confused although interested on what will happen to the character and why he is wanted and may think that something isn't right.  At 0.43 seconds the Wanted character realizes that the passenger has noticed him so he exports himself out of the train at the next stop and making his way to the exit however at 0.50 handheld camera technique  is used

          CAMERAWORK x Dr WHO The open starts with medium close up shot  where one of the characters this shot is occurred at the time 0:00 to 0:02 seconds of the starting point of the episode where a character holds up her passport and introduces her self as former prime minister this confirms that something is about to occur that is quite important as they are discussing in a zoom call face time meeting. At 1:11 Close up shot is used were the character is discussing a plan towards cracking down on an villain in the episode but to do so they have to build a plan towards how to hack his system and make his machines not function and another character uses their skills to spam the villain with calls this helps the audience understand that the characters a building a plan to crackdown on the two characters who are not doing the best thing to support the world At 3:59 of the video extreme close up is used where the characters plans go to a success and the villain of the episode is spammed

  CHOPRA, Harshprit Full Name Blog set up and URL provided Introductory 10 Qs Fruit bowl Denotation & Connotation x2 Mise-en-scene: Stranger Things CHOPRA, Harshprit   WWW: This is an excellent start to GCSE Media – well done! I’m delighted to hear you are interested in the creative side of media (Photoshop, editing) and that you’re aiming for a top grade. Your fruit bowl is stunning and captures that vibrant, fruity palette perfectly. Keep up the good work!    EBI: One thing to keep an eye on is your written English e.g. there/their/they’re. It’s vital that this is accurate across all your subjects at GCSE level. For your creative work, the fruit bowl is brilliant but could do with a sentence or two written to explain or justify your work – e.g. explaining the choice of colour palette and the effect you hope this will have on the audience.  LR: Create a new blogpost on your Media blog called ‘Blog feedback and Learner Response’. Copy and paste this WWW/EBI feedback into your blogp

    Mise-en-scene: Stranger Things analysis Costume:The character is seen wearing an white lab coat which tells the audience the characters role is an scientist working in a lab who is in a rush but thats when suspense is built between the audience since we did not know who the character is being chased by although from his facial expressions he looked terrified which then helps the audience know he is danger.  Lighting:The lights are flashing black and white which builds suspense and makes the character feel endangered makes him feel like something bad is about to occur i can tell something is wrong because the character is in fear by spamming the elevator button which lights up Setting:I SEE A YELLOW HAZARD POLE IN FRONT OF AN ELEVATOR TO INDICATE SOMETHING TOWARDS THE ELEVATOR WITH AN LAB SCIENTIST SPAMMING AN ELEVATOR BUTTON THAT HAS LIT UP AND A HUGE ELEVATOR WHICH DOES NOT LOOK LIKE THE MODERN DAY ELEVATORS AS THEY ARE METAL MADE ALTHOUGH THATS LOOKING WOODEN DOOR WITH A GLASS W