Audiences and Institutions

Audiences and Institutions 

In relation to the media area you have studied, discuss the ways audience consumption has changed over time.

     Over time audience consumption has changed drastically. The shooting business has a major job in the US today. The viewers have had the option to watch movies in an assortment of ways, for example, films, television, and in today’s day, you can even stream a film on a gadget in the palm of your hands. The most significant form of audience consumption is the internet. The internet has an assortment of streaming services for us to have the option to watch any motion pictures we want at any time.

  Since the late 1800s, film making has been occurring, according to the National Science and Media Museum, there was an organization named the Edison Company, that effectively made the kinetoscope, which was the principal gadget to show a moving picture. From that point forward a great deal has changed from what we have in today’s day. There are many films in the U.S that have been progressively become more improved, more popular, and more independent. For instance the movie series of Jurassic Park. This worldwide famous film was first created in 1993, it has gone a long way throughout the years when it comes to the distribution. The large company of Universal Pictures has played a big role in this movie, they distributed Jurassic Park for the world to see. A grand way they announced their more recent versions of the movie from the 21st century is by limited edition posters, created by art directors who show this to the media to catch everyone’s attention to watch their film. Trailers are also created to help with distribution on either cinemas, computers, and even phones. Another fascinating way of how the creators of Jurassic Park distributed their film was by creating a fully functioning theme park in Universal Studios. “The fifth film in the “Jurassic” franchise hit $1 billion at the global box office, making it the 35th movie to reach that milestone,” states article Variety. 

  Another movie who has also changed over time allowing more audience to watch their film is Fast and Furious, this is an action film that had surprisingly been involved in other things like short films, live shows, and theme park attractions. This film, as well as Jurassic Park, was distributed by Universal Studios. Fast and Furious is a series of movies and away all of these movies have been available to the public is because of movie theaters and the television. Once a movie has been out in theaters for about a month or two, it soon moves onto television which further leads on into streaming sites such as Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, and many more. The article Fandom claims this famous series has earned over 5 billion dollars at the worldwide box office in 2017. Over time, the more the movie became popular, the more features they wanted to add for the fans of the movies such as video games, rides, and shows.

  When it comes to audience consumption gradually changing over the years the Spider-Man series has the two movies I discussed beat. Spider-Man has had at least 16 films in over 20 years. Some big production companies that chose to work with this movie are Marvel Entertainment, Marvel Studios, Columbia Pictures, and Sony Pictures. “Homecoming‘s investment in marketing was a massive $140 million, which even tops Marvel Studios’ investment of $80 million for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, and may even top that of their last film in the franchise, The Amazing Spider-Man 2.” asserts MCU Exchange. The 2017 Spider-Man: Homecoming movie made it big, they made it even bigger once the film was able to be played in the comfort of many people’s homes. Thankfully to electronics we can watch the movie on many streaming sites. They released Homecoming on Xfinity for many people to watch since at this point not as many people go out to cinemas in 2020. The hero Spider-Man and his motion pictures have games, rides, merchandise, and a lot more things used to publicize this astounding film for the audience to receive.

     The last film that I think has a great impact on today’s film industry and has changed drastically over time is Walt Disney’s Beauty And The Beast. Disney has been creating princess movies since the late 1930s. According to Oldest.org The original Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was released in the Carthay Circle Theater in 1937, ever since the beginning, Disney has been successful in distributing their films on all platforms. Now Beauty And The Beast (2017) can be seen on the famous Disney Plus. “Disney Plus is an on-demand, ad-free streaming service with a growing collection of movies and shows from Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, National Geographic, and 20th Century Fox,” claims Business Insider. This streaming site has gotten huge in a few recent months, it is currently simpler for Disney's audience to observe any film like Beauty And The Beast on their television, computer, or phone. This princess movie has been seen by millions ever since it was first announced in 1991, a way the creators of this film can promote their film is by video games, merchandise, soundtracks, posters, and basic advertisements. According to Daily Mail, Walt Disney Pictures gained about 1 billion dollars at the global box office which made it the highest-paid film worldwide in 2017, this shows how much our film industry changed significantly over the years from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs gained about 418.2 million dollars (Oldest.org).

     All in all, over time audience consumption, has changed significantly. I for one feel it has improved since now it is so easy to watch one of your preferred movies at home which is as simple as a click of a button. I am excited about what the film business has coming up for future productions and I am sure glad to be taking this course which teaches me so much about this relevant industry we know and love today.

24 Essay Extract

     In every movie, the director’s role is to express their vision. The director wants to make every single person watching have a special emotion to their film. The person who created the film, 24 wants to convey to the audience that during stressful moments filled with tension, people will react differently, especially aggressively. Sometimes, when angered people do things they do not mean which results in negative actions. Throughout this extract the director includes the emotion of suspense and now I will go in deeper and explain how camera angles, movements, music, sounds, and Mis En Scene will be used in this film.
     In the first scene of film 24, it starts in the location of a interrogation room, in this room there is low/dim lighting. The reason for this the dramatic lighting is to give a sense of mystery as to what is going on in the film or scene. During the first scene there is no sense of dialogue to create curiosity. The beginning scenes introduce the two main characters in the extract, the women that is being interrogated and a man who has authority. The actors is important for a film because its all depending who they are and how they will act making the film interesting to the audience. The women actor is making it seem like she doesn't care, she also seems like she really doesn't know how to act under the pressure of being interrogated. Man actor seems to get aggravated more and more by her responses. Next in the topic of sound, is dialogue. There is no dialogue within the first minute of the extract. I think the reason why the director does this is to first establish what will be going on in this part of the film, like a women is about to be questioned and the man is setting up preparing to speak with her. The woman begins to talk, she has a demanding tone asking him to take her some place so she can set off the bomb. He does not think her idea is the right choice because he claims she is not credible enough yet. Lastly, there is two shot in the beginning scenes. Two shot of the man and woman representing they are the most important people during that time of the film. The actor wants to express the relationship between the two people, in my opinion I think the man worked with the women before but she ended up being a liar and put herself in a bad position.
      Now to break apart the second half of the extract I want to discuss the incidental music. The music played in the background really enhanced the atmosphere of the characters in the film, what they were doing, and where they were. The reason for the suspenseful music they included was to give the audience an understanding of what was taking place and what was about to happen, overtime when someone spoke the music became more dramatic to add more of the suspense the director wanted to build. Next we have a type movement the director included which is a wide shot. The reason why the director wanted to include a wide shot and a wide angle between the two characters was to show everything that was going on, to show the full view. They want everything to fit in to show all the details like the chair, the table, the camera, and the door. The director also included multiple editing factors, one that really caught my eye was the split screen. Once the man started getting aggravated with the women’s responses he really held back from putting hands on her because he knew he had eyes on him watching his every move. The man soon became aggressive and started choking the women because he was so angry. The split screen appears of the people watching him running to the interrogation room to take him off her because they need her for information. The purpose for the split screen was to create suspense and to see what is happening on either sides. The last form of editing I want to talk about is jump cut. The director included multiple jumpsuits throughout the whole extract, the reason behind this was to make the audience eager to what was going to happen next. The jump cuts went from the man, to the woman, to the people watching them and back to show what the film was focusing on in that point in time of the extract. Suspense was the main emotion the director wanted to convey throughout the film.
    Overall, the director included multiple factors of editing, camera shots and movements, sound, and Mis En Scene which helped establish want he/she wanted to convey. They wanted to show how people don't act correctly under pressure and how people don't know how to act when they are angered, either way it will result into something negative. The director of the film 24, included so many more methods of these things but the mainly wanted to express suspense in this extract and with the power of filming, editing, sounds, and Mis En Scene it worked flawlessly.

My CCR

Here is my CCR, I have had several complications filming and publishing this because the video was so long, sadly it took up post of my storage so I had to delete several things. I worked hard on my CCR so I hope Cambridge enjoys it. Thank you for following along this journey with me.

Commercial Blog

My group mates and I were probably having the most trouble with this commercial because for the longest neither of us could not open it nor access it. We have emailed our teachers and not even they had access to it. Getting to embed this video to blogger was extremely difficult. But thankfully my partner found the clips of it somewhere deep in his google drive and we just had to re edit the whole thing to turn it in on time. Thank you for your time.

The Millionaire Film Blog

This is my final project, The Millionaire. My partner and I put in a lot of hard work for this film. We spent weeks on it trying to perfect it. We are so happy with the results. We hope Cambridge enjoys it as much as we enjoyed creating it. I also want to thank my teachers for helping us create a masterpiece.

Music Video Blog

Here is my music video project that I have created with my group mates. I am thankful that my AICE media class taught us how to make this, we worked so hard on it. Thankfully to embed this it was a smooth and easy process. I learned that while editing there are so many features we can use to make our video as best as we can possibly make it.

Extra Filming Blog

     This blog will be a general summary of all of the filming that my group member and I worked on together. I strongly believe my partner and I have worked extremely hard on our filming process even under the difficult circumstances. To start, we had to look for locations. Before this corona out break when we were allowed to go outside and film; we went to two different parks. The first one, there was too many people and we did not want there to be an issue with people being on camera. We arrived to a next park which was in front a church so we had to ask for permission from a worker if we can film. They allowed us, so we began with our journey. My partner and I spoke to our actors to explain to them what they will do and how they will be in our film. We stayed for a while, until it got almost dark. Since we are teenagers it took us longer than expected to film because a few of the actors got distracted and started messing around. We soon got back on track and continued. Right when it got dark it started drizzling. We thought it was luck because right before that we finished filming for the day. The next day of our filming took place in a plaza. We decided to go somewhere nice, yet quiet with not much people around. We also tried to find the best location with the best lighting. Thankfully our friend came along to help us film. He was a really big help because without him we would have struggled big time. We continued filming there for about 2-3 hours. In the beginning it was kind of stressing since we did not have a camera man in that moment but soon enough we figured it out. We could not re-shoot a lot of our scenes due to the pandemic that is why there was not a variety of angles, we did not get a chance to contain as much as we wanted

. To conclude, I am extremely proud of our hard work and I do think it all paid off in the end because my partner and I are both very happy with the end results.