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Introduction  I am going to write about what I’ve learnt and I will be giving evidence. The Ten Media Sectors 1     Film (Moving images) 2     TV 3     Radio (Audio) 4     Interactive Media (Website) 5     Publication (Publishing) 6     Press (Magazines) 7     Gaming (video games) 8     Marketing (Adverts) 9     Animation      Photo-imaging GENRE Genre is French for  type . There are 5 different types of genres, which are  Cross-over genre,  which is when a movie contains more than one genre, e.g. Wonder Woman contains  action ,  romance  and  fantasy . Which is the same as  Hybrid genre .  Intertextuality – Intertextuality is an audio or a visual that an audience expects in a particular genre, like for example in a romantic film you expec...

Cassandra Rodgers Btec Media level 3, unit 45 commercial radio Fay Stowe Introduction In this essay I will be talking about three different purposes of commercial radio and I will be giving  examples. 1.  One of the main reasons of radio commercials is to make money for other radio stations, " Commercial radio stations, as the name suggests, are funded by the sale of advertising"   (2015) Another purpose is to attract a target audience.  The advertise curtain radio commercials which are targeted at their audience like for example they would advertise Nike on the radio or new pop songs to attract teenagers and people that love Nike or pop songs. Another good example would be a radio channel that advertises spots, which would attract people that have a deep love for sponsor would like to know the winners of a curtain game. By radios advertising it also makes their target audiences go out and buy the products that are being advertised and to also let th...

Task 1 WONDER WOMAN Wonder woman is a hybrid genre, it contains several different genres such as action, fantasy, science-fiction and the sub genres are war, adventure and superhero. Wonder Woman is targeted at audiences that are into DC, superhero films and targeted at 12+ audiences. What parents need to know ( secondary audience) is  that the  Wonder Woman film, which is   part of the DC superhero film universe, is the highest-profile comic book adaptation to date featuring a female superhero. As in most other comic-based movies, there's lots of explosive, destructive action violence, as well as fierce hand-to-hand fighting and it takes part during world war two  It was released on the 15th of may 2017, the director was Patty Jenkins and the budget was $120 to $150 million. The narrative of Wonder Woman is titled as Goddess, she is on a quest to eliminate the god of destruction.  Genre means type in French e.g Horror, fantas...

key words task 1-2 Auteur Theory When producers use similar ideas in every movie they make and sometimes actors. Reception theory provides a means of understanding media texts by understanding how these texts are read by the audience. E.g  Tim Burton  who  was the  director of Scissorhands and Charlie and the chocolate factory 2005 Reception Theory reception theory provides a means of understanding media texts by understanding how texts are read by the audience. Fan Study When a group or a person is deeply into a film and buys their merch, and also knows everything about the film and characters. Film Theory Film theory  is a set of scholarly approaches within the academic discipline of  cinema studies. Feminism     A  conflict theory and theoretical perspective which observes gender in its relation to power, that women have rights and can do anything men can. Psychoanalytic  film theory...