Joe Leggett's Media Blog

Different radio stations suit different audiences. For example, Kerrang is aimed at both young teens who like punk music, and people who listened to that in their teen days. An example of all this the BBC. They are funded by TV licence which is paid for by the audience. Commercial radio is radio that has commercials and runs themselves. An example of this is UK Rock. Their only worry is to stay alive and entertain their audience. Public service radio has somewhat of a duty to fulfil as they are run by the government. The BBC is an example of this. They cannot be politically biased, although many people would argue that they are. Some radio shows have strips which are essentially specific time slots for certain shows, so people know when they are on. BBC Radio 1 BBC Radio 1 is aimed at younger people. It features many songs in the pop or rap genre which would be considered 'trendy'. Radio 1 features many segments such as live lounge, where artists perform ...

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Our film is called Perception. It fits under the dystopian surrealism genre.  The poster that we created is very dark and clearly targets an audience of hardcore fans of the genre, otherwise known as indie film geeks. We utilise colour very specifically, to ensure that the poster gives off the eery effect that we envisioned it would. At the same time, the poster is very simple and only features one image. The words 'head down' represent the isolation and trapped environment that the protagonist character finds himself in. We took inspiration from the Sex Pistols with the font.  Our tagline is 'Keep your head down, do your work, stay in line'.  The trailer also utilises colour and shadows to add a spooky and weird effect. The music we used was 'HEYYEYAAEYAAAEYAEYAA', a different version of a song from YouTube. We did this to make the trailer stranger and completely contradict the visuals. There is an audience appeal and promise of pleasure from the ...

Assassins Creed 3:Liberation is the fourth instalment in the Assassins Creed franchise. The game is an action and adventure, role-playing genre-based game. The main character is   Aveline de Grandpré, a female French-African assassin. The game is set in the late 17th century at the end of the Indian war. It is set in an open world map. The controls of the game are quite simple and are generally that of any other action and adventure combat game. There is an online multiplayer option on the game. It was released on PS Vita initially, and then a couple of years later it was released on Xbox 360 and PS3. This is the fourth console based game in the series and was released by Ubisoft, who went on to make another 6 console games in the franchise. Ubisoft are one of the most popular game developers and have made many successful games over the years including the Just Dance and Far Cry franchises. The game was released worldwide, but first in the US.  The advertising for the game f...

Deadpool is a mainstream film that belongs in the Marvel universe. The main character is Deadpool. He is the hero of the movie, though not a stereotypical action hero. There is a villain in the movie who is a stereotypical villain. This film has the fundamentals of an independent film although it is mainstream. The narrative is pretty simple, but in a way that is almost sarcastically simple. The film had a budget of 58 million dollars, which could be seen with the special effects and CGI that was used throughout the movie. Deadpool's costume is a very simple design, but other aspects of the film were not. The film belongs in the action genre. Most of the audience were teenage boys, which was definitely the audience that Marvel were targeting. Marvel, of course, already have a very large existing audience which was a huge positive for them for the marketing of the film. A soundtrack was released which featured artists such as DMX and George Michael.  Ryan Reynolds was already a...

This is a negative stereotype of mentally ill/disabled people by the Sun. This presents people with mental health conditions as crazy and not a part of 'normal' society. The Sun, who are notoriously known for having no sympathy towards anything that might be different than a white 'common' male, show mental health as a problem and something that needs to be ridden of and not treated. This links to the hypodermic needle theory because a lot of people (especially older people and un-coincidentally people who would read the Sun) get bad impressions of people with mental health based on these stereotypes and therefore their own opinions and beliefs towards mentally ill people are very bad. However, not all media extracts surrounding mental health are negative. Some are quite challenging. For example, the Mirror (a left-wing newspaper) usually present mental health in a good light, as something which is being understood more and that is able to be helped now. This is a c...

The Football manager franchise is a popular series of games created by Sega and developed by Sports Interactive. It has been running for many years as a continuation of the Championship Manager series. The game is about being a manager and taking different clubs to glory whilst keeping it one of the most realistic games of all time. You can now make an avatar on the game which you don't really see often but it is a cool feature as you can use game face to create a virtual replica of your own face on the game. Football manager is set in a football match when you get to the action, but otherwise you are in a series of different database menus doing different business aspects of running a club. The goal of the game is to have success with the club you are managing and get a better contract as you develop. Some people may have personnel goals like avoiding relegation or winning the World Cup. The gameplay is a 2d or 3d match engine where you watch your team perform. You can change d...