Gratification Theory

In today's lesson we looked at uses and gratification theory. we used the film "SKET" as an example to analysis the poster. the uses of the colour pink tells us that it is a film targeted to women, the slogan with is "Man's world sisters' hood" with again tells the targeted audience and also the Aged target as well. The uses of the shot of the five girls acting violent with pipes and bricks shows that the film wants to contradicts the stereotypes of girls and women as women are.


we then looked at our main objective which was what is Uses and Gratification theory?
which is the understanding of why people look and seek out a specific media such as magazines like
"Take a break" most of their readers will be women and "Men's heath" where most of their readers will be Men.

The Magazine name

29/01/14

i have so far got the pictures for my cover ready and am currently photoshoping them

I have also finally got a name for magazine "Distortion" and have found 6 different fonts from dafont.

My audience

 

This is Josh Adams and PK fire, they are both 16 years old and live in the UK, London.

Josh likes to wear gloves, long trousers and shirts. PK likes bracelets, t-shirts, tight trousers and necklaces. Josh buys his clothes from H&M, Fenwick and Topboy. PK buys her clothes from H&M, Lonely Islands and Topshop.

Josh has hobbies are listening to rock and metal music like Black Sabbath, Billy Talent and Red hot chill peppers. he also likes to play instruments and watches action and horror films like Saw, The shining and night of the living dead. PK hobbies are listening to Rock and Metal like Blood on the dance floor, Lost horizon and Escape the Fate, Talking to her friends, watching comedy, action and sci-fi movies like The Avengers, Hangover and Aliens and gossiping about her favourite bands. 

He plays  first person shooters like Call of Duty,Gears of war and Halo. 

Josh's favourite shows are Game of thrones, The walking dead and American horror story. PK favourite show is Big bang theory, Misfits, Doctor who and Supernatural.

Josh's favourite channels are Fox and Sky Atlantic.  PK's favourite channels are BBC three, Entertainment or "E!" and ITV2.

Josh and Pk don't buy music because they don't like to spend money much but listen to it on Spotify and on Youtube. Both them also listen to Radio, their favourite channels are Rock planet, Classical Rock and Heart on the radio.

My audience would read and buy my Magazine because it  has the latest news on the greatest and newest of bands, gives freebies and has Chances of winning prizes such as signed t-shirts, instruments, CDs and chances to meet musicians.

School magazine Feedback

The feedback i got about my collage magazine cover wasn't to good.

i was told that i didn't have much structure and that what i did was really basic, for  example the positioning of my front cover picture wasn't placed very well and said that i needed to have put it in the middle. that the font sizes wasn't to good as my date was larger than my normal text and there was no need to underline the title. however he said that my choice of colour was every good along with the front cover picture its self as its shows he has pride in his college and with himself.

the feedback with my content's page while it was better than my cover wasn't to good either as it is not interesting, two of the images were not to good and could have been of better quality as the second picture is too dark to see and the bottom picture wasn't a very good exmaple of art and long with that there was no Ict picture with is a subject i mention a lot. while there are many problems with it there is some good as the top picture not only was good because of the angle but also looks good to look at and the font is controlled well.

the targets i have made for my next magazine is to:
1. have a varity of picture from different shots and angles
2. have a better struture of the magazine

Teen movies

 

Adulthood is a 2008 British drama film. It was directed and written by Noel Clarke, who also stars as the protagonist, Sam Peel. Adulthood is a sequel to the 2006 film Kidulthood, which Clarke also wrote, and depicts the main character Peel's experiences after he is released from jail. The film got many positive reviews. It grossed £1,203,319 at the UK Box Office during its opening weekend (currently 3,347,811) ranking above The Incredible Hulk, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and Sex and the City. The studios that worked on this film were Limelight and Cipher films.

In Adulthood teenagers are shown to be much seriously as the film has a lot of violent, teen pregnant, drugs and sex. This is different to the other two movies as they are more comedic and are less stereotypical than these only showing things like Boys having sex on their mind all the time and teenagers being depressed.

The film poster uses colours of black, red and brown which are more serious colours which is also shown by the actors staying in a more ghetto fashion, they are wearing mostly hoodies and tracksuits which is relating to the time to gangster culture. 

Submarine is a 2010 British coming-of-age comedy-drama film adapted from the 2008 novel of the same name by Joe Dunthorne. The film was written and directed by Richard Ayoade, and starred Craig Roberts, Yasmin Paige, Sally Hawkins, Noah Taylor and Paddy Considine. Submarine is Ayoade's directorial debut and was on a budget of £1.2 million the film got very positive reviews and got in box office of £2.03 million. The studios that worked with this film were film 4 productions, film agency of wales, red hour films and warp films.

 

 

Submarine is a 2010 British coming-of-age comedy-drama film adapted from the 2008 novel of the same name by Joe Dunthorne. The film was written and directed by Richard Ayoade, and starred Craig Roberts, Yasmin Paige, Sally Hawkins, Noah Taylor and Paddy Considine. Submarine is Ayoade's directorial debut and was on a budget of £1.2 million the film got very positive reviews and got in box office of £2.03 million. The studios that worked with this film was film 4 productions, film agency of wales, red hour films and warp films.

Submarine is a mixture of adulthood and the Inbetweeners movie as the movie has some serious moments along with some comedic ones as well, the comedy comes from the fact Oliver is an odd teenager who doesn’t want to fit in with society but wants to understand it which is similar to Inbetweeners movie but Inbetweeners is more childish.

The colours used are blue, white, yellow, black and red. Most of the colours are used well to represent something such as the blue on one half of the poster to show water referring to the title and Black on the character to show his gothic clothing and personality.

 

 

The Inbetweeners Movie is a 2014 British coming-of-age comedy film based on the E4 sitcom The Inbetweeners, written by series creators Damon Beesley and Iain Morris and directed by Ben Palmer. The film follows the misadventures of a group of teenage friends on holiday in Crete after the end of their final year at school together, and currently serves as an ending to the TV series. It stars Simon Bird, Joe Thomas, James Buckley and Blake Harrison. The film was released on 06 August 2014 in the UK and Ireland. Had a budget of £ 3.5 million and made £57,699,138 in box office. The studios that worked with this film were film 4 productions, young films and bwark productions.

 

The Inbetweeners movie lacks any real seriousness but is full of comedy so is more contrasting with adulthood than submarine

 

The colours used here are many bright colours like red, white, blue, yellow, pink and purple. This is done to show the party environment that these characters are in.

 

For this film there is a slogan used “this summer four boys become men” this referring to the characters having sex.