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  1) What information do media companies use to create a demographic profile of their audience? 2) Why are media companies and advertisers increasingly using audience profiling and not just demographics? 3) What are the seven different Psychographic groups?  4) Write a brief summary of what each Psychographic group is seeking or motivated by. 5) 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!  1) Media producers define and categorise their audience through demographic profiles. A demographic audience profile defines groups based on things like age, gender, income, education and occupation. 2)It makes it easier for you to reach your target customer Understanding your consumers' interests, attitudes, and where to find them online not only allows you to craft a message that resonates, but also ensures you're investing in the right...

  1) First blog task - 10 questions 2) Denotation and Connotation 3) Introduction to Photoshop: fruit bowls 4) Mise-en-scene: Stranger Things 5) Camerawork: shots and angles 6) camera movements and editing  7) Blog feedback and learner response

WWW: It’s great that your blog is set up and you’ve posted some work. Best of all, your fruit bowls are absolutely stunning – you show real technical skills in Photoshop. The fact you’ve completed and posted two also show the level of focus you showed in that lesson and also the development of your skills. We now need to make sure we match that technical skill with ensuring all homework, blog work and analytical tasks are fully completed.    EBI: Unfinished work. Your blog is missing two pieces of homework – Denotation and Connotation and the Mise-en-scene Stranger Things work. Both of these were set for homework – original tasks on the blog:   Then, on your LR blogpost, reflect on your first month of Media. What do you feel is your strongest piece of work so far? What is your weakest? What specific skills or knowledge do you need to develop over the rest of the course?  i think my strongest piece of work is my fruit bowl. i think my weakest is the denotation and con...

 Costume: The character at the start is wearing a white lab coat. This suggests to the audience... Lighting:  Setting:  Props:  Actor placement/movement/expression:   In a lab on the outskirts of the fictional town Hawkins, Indiana on November 6, 1983,  a scientist is seen attempting to escape from an unseen monster.   The monster attacks him in an elevator and kills him . the scientist is wearing a lab coat which suggests that he does experiments on people and is a scientist. the scientist was in a government lab which has restricted signs, also with flickering lights which suggests that something isn't right its a bit sketchy, its almost like something bad is bound or going to happen. 

  denotation: what I can see in this photo is a young boy sitting down on chair. The background has trees and a building on it. connotations: the advert also has big white words saying dig toilets not graves which maybe suggests that people are dying because of water shortage and dehydration.     denotation: what I can see in this photo is a man and women with a football at their feet. connotations: the advert says woman's football but the wo is in orange and the men's is in white maybe this emphasises that women's football should be more know like men's or should get treated the same as men's football. i also noticed that they are in the exact same kit and are wearing the same boots which suggests maybe that it does not matter what gender you are you can play for any team and wear any boots you want 

  1) Pick  three  camera   shots  from the Doctor Who scene and explain what type of shot it is and what meanings or effect they have on the audience. 2) Pick  one  camera  angle  that is used in the scene and explain the effect it has on the audience.  3) Pick one aspect of  mise-en-scene  from the scene and explain what connotations are being communicated to the audience.   t hree camera shots 1a.medium close up shot in the first second of the video. the women is holding a passport which indicates that she is going on holiday or she is proving who she is (her identity). 1b.close up shot 0.30 seconds. her facial expressions are quite serious. she looks scared and worried which emphasises that something bound to happen or something bad has already happened. 1c.establishing shot clearly shows the character in a room by herself on a computer doing something. Kind of looks suspicious as there two different computers she is us...