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Time Issues:  Time constraints can come in many forms and one of the most important aspects to keep in mind when planning a media production. The production of a media product is always carried out to meet a deadline that is often related to its final publication. Failure to meet this can often lead to the project failing and financial loss for the companies deadline. When planning the creation of a media production, timescales are often built backwards from this final deadline. This various phases of the production are then built into planning to meet this deadline. An example of this would be the release of a film, ready for the winter holiday season. Production would be planned back from this point. Personnel Issues: Gathering the right staff- the appropriate number, with the right skills and experience- for the media production is an important aspect of peer-production. During pre-production, the skills and experience of the personnel required will be considered. ...

Be able to evaluate research data used by media institutions. Techniques and Methods:   Primary- Data that you have got/found out yourself. Secondary- Data that you get from someone else. Qualitative- Only getting a small amount of data but very detailed data. Quantitive- Getting a lot of data that is statistics or a simple yes or no. Why do media companies do research? Media companies do research into their target market to see what they like and/or dislike.

Audience pleasures- The main audience pleasures of a rom com movie are reliability, pleasure gained from the resolution and many more. Reliability is often the most obvious in a rom com movie this is basically when the audience feel like they can relate to the characters or the situation. Although lots of rom coms are dramatized and not completely true to real life much of the audience will be able to relate to being in some kind of relationship somewhat similar to the one in the movie. Following on from this this over dramatized 'love story' is a fantasy for much of the audience so they take pleasure in seeing this 'ideal' love story because they believe they might one day have a relationship like the one in the movie, this can be classed as escapism.  Escapism is basically when the audience escapes into the movie and feels like apart of it, this is very typical of rom coms. It could also be argued that predictability is a main audience pleasure since a lot of rom com...

The narrative structure of the movie Memento can be analysed by looking at different theories of narrative structure. not much of the structure of this movie is anything normal, it is a very complicated movie with a very unique plot but it still follows the Todorov's theory of the narrative can be applied to Memento although it is more complicated, because the movie is not in chronological order the order in which the stages come vary. The start of the movie is actually where the disruption is although the audience doesn't learn that until right at the end of the movie. However this can be debated as the real disruption as Leonard killing his wife is more likely to be the real disruption. The attempt at repair was Teddy using Leonard's condition to his advantage to basically act as a vigilante and make Leonard kill criminals by making him believe its his wife kille r. Although it is hard to identify all the stages of Todorov's theory in Memento due to the unique plot ...

Narrative -What is meant be narrative in film and television? - Whats have key theorists suggest is important when considering narrative? Bordwell and Thompson define narrative as 'a chain of events in a cause-effect relationship occurring in time. Elements of narrative: Diagesi s- The internal world created by the story that the characters themselves experience and encounter. Story and Plot: Story - All events reference both explicitly in a narrative and inferred. Plot - The events directly incorporate into the action of the text and the order in which they are presented. Narrative range: Unrestricted narration - A narrative which has no limits to the information that is presented. Restricted narration - Only offers minimal information regarding the narrative. Narrative depth: Subjective character identification - The viewer is given unique access to what a range of characters see and do. Objective character identification -The viewe...

Lynx The Lynx advert presents women is a very sexualised way. Furthermore the model in this advertisement presents an unrealistic ideology for women. The model is photoshopped in order to look as 'good' as she possibly can. She is being presented as being the typical attractive female, slim waist, long blonde hair, curvy. This 

Still to come: LO3 : Connotation, denotation, print conventions. LO3 : Media theories: representation, narrative, genres. LO4 : Audiences - defining and classifying. LO5 : Analysing research data - research types and purposes. LO6 : Legal and regulatory systems in the media industries. Roland Barthes and 'The Rhetoric of the Image'