Jungle Book Revision

Film Industry Research

Sony	Warner Brothers	20thCentury Fox	Paramount	Disney	Universal
Venom	A Star Is Born	Bohemian Rhapsody	A Quiet Place	Ralph Breaks The Internet	Halloween
Spider-Man	Aqua man	Dead pool 2	Bumblebee	Incredibles 2	The Grinch
Peter Rabbit	Fantastic Beasts	Widows	Mission Impossible – Fallout	Mary Poppins Returns	Welcome to Warwen
Hotel Transylvania 3	Ready Player 1	The Predator	Sherlock Gnomes	Christopher Robin	Jurassic World 2
Slender-man	Crazy Rich Asians	The Hate You Give	Overlord	Black Panther	First Man

Rank	Movie	Distributor	Genre	MPAA	2018 Gross
1	Black Panther	Walt Disney	Action	PG-13	$700,059,566
2	Avengers: Infinity War	Walt Disney	Action	PG-13	$678,815,482
3	Incredibles 2	Walt Disney	Adventure	PG	$608,581,744
4	Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom	Universal	Action	PG-13	$417,719,760
5	Deadpool 2	20th Century Fox	Action	R	$324,563,523
6	Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch	Universal	Adventure	PG	$269,622,130
7	Aquaman	Warner Bros.	Action	PG-13	$260,024,160
8	Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle	Sony Pictures	Adventure	PG-13	$235,506,359
9	Mission: Impossible—Fallout	Paramount Pictures	Action	PG-13	$220,159,104
10	Ant-Man and the Wasp	Walt Disney	Action	PG-13	$216,648,740
11	Solo: A Star Wars Story	Walt Disney	Adventure	PG-13	$213,767,512
12	Venom	Sony Pictures	Action	PG-13	$213,429,141
13	A Star is Born	Warner Bros.	Drama	R	$202,110,097
14	Bohemian Rhapsody	20th Century Fox	Drama	PG-13	$193,644,966
15	A Quiet Place	Paramount Pictures	Horror	PG-13	$188,024,361
16	Ralph Breaks The Internet	Walt Disney	Adventure	PG	$187,152,693
17	Crazy Rich Asians	Warner Bros.	Romantic Comedy	PG-13	$174,530,416
18	Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation	Sony Pictures	Adventure	PG	$167,508,127
19	Halloween	Universal	Horror	R	$159,342,015
20	Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald	Warner Bros.	Adventure	PG-13	$158,034,792

1.  All of the top 20 grossing films of 2018 are from the big six
2.  Disney have had the greatest financial success.
3. The main genre of film that dominates is action.
4. There are 4 sequels on the list, and the majority are blockbusters in well known franchises.
5. 4 of the films on the list are blockbusters aimed at a younger audience.
6. The main genre which seems to be missing is comedies. A lot of these films do have comedy aspects, but none of them are solely comedy films.
7. The target audience for most of the films is 12 or older. 

Study Link

https://www.bbc.com/bitesize/guides/zy4rfrd/revision/1 

Social Media News

Pros:

• Immediate posts.
• Everyone can view it/report problems.
• Stories spread on a vast scale very fast.
• Easier to view on portable devices.

Cons:

• 140 character limits preventing vast, detailed stories.
• false news.
• inaccuracy, key facts missing.
• Biased.
• Inexperienced reporters.

News Addicts- Types of readers/ people:

• Fix - addicted to news, need a 'fix'.
• Track - Accesses news regularly throughout the day to keep up to date.
• Fill - Is a commuter, uses it as a past time when traveling to work or has free time.
• Indulge - Make time to enjoy the news as a break from everything else in the day.
• Invest - Read the news regularly to get an in depth perspective on stories.

News Readers:

• Millennial: The younger generation (under 30), that get there news from twitter and social media platforms online.
• Boomers: The older generation (above 30), that traditionally watch BBC news at 6pm where the main focus is formal news on politics, weather and world issues. (Catch up).

Daily Mail Mock Up

• Child obesity links to lowering IQ
• Im a celebrity 
• Christmas 
• health issues- caffeine addiction etc
• deep fried chicken salmonella
• std ladybirds 
• nhs spending more money on addiction than child cancer treatment. 
• royalty 
• celebrity news 

What was the task you were assigned?

As a class we were asked to create/mimic a daily mail front cover based on various titles/events that are happening in the world at the moment e.g Brexit/Celebrity news. The idea was to create a template that fits the Mail's format without it looking to much like a broadsheet or tabloid. Therefore, a balance of text, bold titles and pictures was required.

What programme did you use to complete this task?

I used publisher to create my front page, so i could add pictures and titles with a professional touch. Personally, i thought publisher was perfect for this task as it was relatively simple to create a template and adjust various aspects to create a professional looking cover. Next time if i could do this task again i would use photo shop to create an original touch to my piece of work instead of using all pictures from the internet.

What tools did you use to create your task?

I used various tools whilst creating my front cover such as cropping, editing and removing background of pictures to create a professional touch, i also added various shapes within publisher to mimic the boxes used upon the daily mail front coverings. 

What were the biggest obstacles to completing the task?

Personally i believe the biggest obstacles were firstly finding the correct text to match the daily mails titles. With this i finally found a similar text that i could print screen, then edit and place onto the publisher. However the text then had to be cropped and it caused the image to be slightly fuzzy and lose quality due to the movement round various programmes rather than downloading the font. In addition the other obstacle was that during my first draft i had lots of white space present, i then had to rearrange most of the texts and enlarge the mast head.

Describe your production and why you chose the various text heading and images?

Firstly i chose the image from the home alone film due to the time preoid that we are making the newspaper in, therefore it corresponds to the potential readers. I tried to use a catchy titles to lure in the audience about the problems with child obesity, therefore if the titles is bold and gripping it is more likely that the audience will read the rest of your article. The sub-heading used was also very fact based to again show the shocking reality.

What was your initial feedback? What did others day about your production?
Firstly the images that i used were not relevant to the titles and stories therefore i removed them. The elongated picture i used had be over stretched, therefore i has to get the original image again and add it in to the publisher so i didn't ruin the cover. Then the Mast head was not aligned to the rest of the texts and titles within the front covering, so the whole texts where left aligned. After more text was needed to fill the white space.

Identify what went well and with hindsight what would you do differently?
Personally i believe my cover looks rather professional, however next time i would use a different text/font to prevent the mast head becoming fuzzy and not very detailed. If i completed this task again i would use photoshop to complete an original image to place on my front cover.

News Values

Threshold = the bigger the impact and reach of the story
Unexpectedness =  an event that is out of the ordinary
Negativity = Bad news is more interesting
Elite persons = stories about important people and powerful means
Unambiguous = stories that are easy to understand
Personalisation  = stories that include personal interest
Proximity = stories that are closer to home
Continuity = stories that are already in the news, continue to update

Ideological discourses in Newspapers

The Sun: Racism

• The suns audience tends to be of a lower social class therefore the titles and captions are very large and are slang based to either entice/amuse the audience the reader. 'Jihadi' is used to make the audience think about the stereotype image. The term 'fiery' is used to describe no only the audience, the individuals included within the story. As the lower classes are visioned to be more rowdy and out of control (rebellious) based on the stereotype. 
• The audience of the believe most of its news and are into nationalist views stereo typically. Therefore the people being portrayed as foreign are shown badly through horrific terminology which associates continuous stereotypes. The hegemonic belief is still maintained through the negative portrayal on the front cover.  

The Guardian: Right Wing politics

• The front cover of the guardian consists of sophisticated language which matches the target audience, the lack of big bold titles helps represent a subtle yet important format. The main title for the front page suggests how the PM (right wing) is accused of various fixing/biased rulings therefore this supports the audiences ideas of a left wing audience; which publicizes the right wing in a negative format.
• The ideological discourses seem to be direct as it is stating the prime minister (who is all powerful - predominantly-) grabbing more power and reducing it for other mps or those who are associated with politics.
• The hegemonic belief is portrayed perfectly for the audience as it shows the pms dominance and influence in a negative way. As a left wing audience, negative representation of the right wing is to help and correspond to the readers beliefs.

Daily Mail: Nationalism

• The right wing mail audience predominantly believe in nationalism and improving the economy with helping others with minimal effort. The noun fury represents the reaction to the authority (Those in power within the government). Therefore the audience will agree with agree with this as the government are predominantly right wing. 
• The direct ideological discourses as complimenting the queen helps maintain a higher status representing positive messages about our culture and idols. Then the nationalist ideas present through 'fury' to allow migrants into the country maintains the highest social class (by protecting heritage- by presenting it as our country).
• The audience for this paper will predominantly believe that migrants from various foreign countries are of a lower social class stereo typically either from there birth countries or economic status therefore the hegemonic belief is still visible as the audience feel they are more important and higher on the social hierarchy than other migrants in this case the turkish citizens.