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Demographics and Psychographics

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 1) Using things like Age, Gender, Ethnicity/Race, Location and Income. 2) Aspire, successor, reformer, mainstreamers, strugglers, explorers and resigned. 3)Probably mainstreamer. 4a) 4b) I think it's British people (Location) and Older people (Age)  5)Maybe Aspirers. They like status and appearance and knowing some drama and excitement in the magazine may please them, not to mention holding and showing the magazine off could be a huge flex in their perspective because they get to consume something entertaining and smt. 6)

Camera blog work tasks

1a)0.55- The camera shot is from the back, the effects on the audience is that it might tell them to pay attention or recognise the character as intelligent or subtlety mysterious. b)2.25- the camera shot is showing the head until the waist of the subject, the effects of that it creating a sense of importance to that character to the audience. c)0.46- the camera shot shows it zooming into the subject, highlighting the characters face and/or features whilst creating a sense of mysterious-ness..  2)0.55- The camera angle is from the back and the effects on the audience is that it might be an intense or important scene or makes the audience think the character is smart. 3)0.00- the connotations in this scene might be that she’s showing her importance or she’s being blunt about her identity to maybe prevent distrust or disloyalty from the other characters due to her being a part of an important mission.

Denotations and Connotations

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  I can see a child that looks upset and impoverished. It could be a poster for a charity, showing the lack of fresh water people in poorer places have, trying to avoid death and try to make a change, as inferred from the words. The charity might be trying to communicate to the audience to donate money to help those in need, hoping the pitiful advert may sway the hearts of people in more richer places in the world. This advert shows Heinz ketchup cut and shaped and symbolising its original form, a tomato. 'No one grows ketchup like Heinz' could tell the audience that they have the best, very tasty sauce and they show that physically as well in the ad, shaping the bottle as a sack of cut tomato's.

Avengers MEDIA ANALYSIS

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The film cover (Avengers 2012?) shows a ton of action, probably an action/thriller movie. The people in the cover are serious, their faces either frowning or alert and there are explosions and crashes in the background, suggesting tragedy and destruction. The title shows the superhero's symbol at the front perhaps suggesting that they're the main good guys and will win. The movie was directed by Joss Whedon and produced by Kevin Feige. It seems to be targeted to male teenagers and male adults because of the fact that the main cast seems to be majority male with stereotypical imagery of destruction and extreme action. The characters in this movie poster shows a majority white male cast with only one female superhero and a green guy, though he doesn't rep anyone. This shows that the lack of represenation means the producers might uncosciencely have a bias or other groups just don't make sense in this sort of show, e.g. disabled people. This may only allow a specific group...

'First 10 questions'.

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  1) Which part of Media are you looking forward to the most? 2) What knowledge and skills do you hope to learn in Media? About media and everything related to it. 3) What grade are you realistically hoping to achieve in Media? Hopefully anything above a 5 4) What device do you use most to access the media? (The media = news, TV, music, film, social media etc.)  My phone 5) What is your average 'screen time' (or equivalent) on your phone each day. Is this about right, too little or too much? Why?  Probably 5 hours 6) What was the last TV programme or film you watched? AOT/SNK 7) What device or subscription do you use to listen to music? My phone 8) Do you play videogames? If so, what do you play games on and what is your favourite game? The only game i play is Roblox 9) Are you on social media? If so, what social media do you have and why do you like it?  Yes, Tiktok cuz its entertaining 10) Finally, do you think the media is a positive or negative thing for young pe...