Wednesday 29 January 2014

How have people responded to mad men?


  • people have made character profiles and analysed them on youtube 
  • Mad men  fan sites
  • won 68 awards
  • merchendice- T-Shirts, mirrors, bobbly heads, hip flask, clocks posters
  • other writers who like the program have housed it to influence there programs

Wednesday 22 January 2014

Most media texts target a wide range of audiences 'how true is this to your chosen text'.

Lost is a mainstream text this means the director JJ Abrams target a wide rainge of audiences both passive and active.

A narrative device that is used in lost is enigma codes. An enigma code controls what the audience sees and knows, this device is used to keep the audience hooked as some information is kept from then. An example of this is when they see a polar bear. Kate says "guys this isn't gust a bear,its a polar bear." then boon says that can't be a polar bear" and the rest say back to him its a polar bear. the is creating an enigma code because they are in a jungle and polar bears live in the north pole.
the uses of enigma codes keeps the audience hooked because they want to know what is happening which means that they will keep watching to find out.



Another narrative convention that lost uses is the use of a score. score is music that has been specially written to accompany the text to help the audience to




another convention that lost uses to appeal to a mainstream audience is the use of an ensemble cast. this is when the cast has a wide variation in there age, race, gender and nationality.
an example of this is when they find our

Wednesday 15 January 2014

My Targets

To improve my grade i have to:

. gather all of my notes for the different industries and text that i am analysing so that it is easier to revise.

. i need to keep up with the workload that has been set, if i don't finish it in lesson i need to spend time catching up.

.i need to be more punctual to lessons because i sometimes miss the start and that is as important as the rest.

. when i am doing independent study i need to stay focused, especially if i am on the computer.