my big issue case studies

 

- typical BI cover - split masthead - popular person on the front - represents social change

- use of dwayne fields - ex British explorer new promotion to chief scout - referred to the role model we need right now

- wearing typical no tech british explorer gear

- immigrated from Jamaica to England at aged six

plus heading near bottom shows other features being Matt Gross and corpse flowers - range of cultural references that an ABC1 audience would be familiar with

Big issue picks Paralympics as they like to represent minorities whenever possible and try to shine a light on those who may typically be unrepresented as they may not be as commercially viable in privatized and for profit magazines.

French colorway with Eiffel tower in background in front of a French flag - Roland Barthes semiology

cover lines ABC1 

White men

white sans serif text - cant ignore - allows the disabled to be the focus

wearing each others colors - collaboration - communal feeling - united in competition - allure of the Paralympics 

barcode shows it is also sold in selected shops such as Sainsburys - shows adaptation since Covid

masthead frames the photo

film rev

 3 new techs in shang chi Used Skywalker sound - a company Disney owns for sound effects

Weta for their visual effects - who use layers for each scene to add their effects - VFX/CGI - Bluescreen - combines real life with CGI and is derived from green screens - sound stage - artificial sets to record scenes - where the 2 busses were filmed in the Shang-Chi fight scene and is often a large warehouse

3 new tech for snow white - technicolor(3 colours of film that can combine to make any other colour to give bold colourful scenes), rotoscoping (film irl and draw over it for animation), multi plane camera(multilayered camera where different layers of fore and background can be moved) - 

Analogue to digital from snow white production to Shang-Chi - shows change in the Disney company and its evolution - 

What is the biggest change in the Disney company since Snow White - In my Opinion it is how they can be watched - furthermore their increase in inclusivity and diversity across the company - this change is shown in Snow Whites beauty being relative to her skin tone, a trait that would not be used in todays Disney however at the time the Disney staff were almost entirely white and had a very non diverse company (however they did employ women for the ink and paint department). In the new live action remake, they changed the meaning of her name to describe the day she was born (when it was snowing) -  Shang-Chi however has a much more diverse setup with a famous Asian American actor in Simu Liu - and a Japanese-American director Destin Daniel Crettin - DJ Snake a hip hop producer as well being used in the soundtrack for a Disney film. Snow White uses opera singers and wants exclu8sivity (gave the 15 yr old singer sign a contract to ever sing for a non Disney film again) and now they use Hip-Hop and even put Simu Liu in the music video. 

Captain America : Brave New World 

New Captain America - now a black man - statement from Marvel and Disney especially with the current persecution of minorities with the new American government.

Happened before in film - Spiderman - Peter Parker to Miles Morales - not Disney's doing however as Sony bought the rights to Spiderman 

The similarities of this film to previous Marvel iterations such as The Winter Soldier are coherent with David Hesmondhalgh's theory of cultural industries where media have a typical capitalist pattern relying on repetition

Stars repeated - Anthony Mackie - Harrison Ford (Indiana Jones - can acquire him as Disney owns Star Wars)

genres - Marvel has a history of action and fantasy films

Franchises - MCU

narratives - Happy birthdayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy love holza (ps when u sending the 2.50

Disney+ is promoting the new film by headlining their film Falcon and the Winter Soldier - a film with the same characters

Shang chi has many options on Disney+ such as IMAX enhanced with better quality 

They also have a deleted scenes option such as one called 'pep talk' where characters settle their differences and bond over similarities - 'just  a valet driver' and an 'amputee from Romania' - furthers the diversity with European representation as well as representing his disability - tech used in this film includes visual digital painting for backgrounds - unfinished visuals are called pre-vis - 

theorists

 semiology - 7/10

narratology - 9/10

genre theory - 6/10

structuralism - 9/10

postmodernism - 8/10

representation - 8/10

identity - 7/10

feminist - zoonen - 7/10

feminist - bell hooks - 7/10

gender performity - Butler - 6/10

post colonialism - 10/10 

power and industries - 8/10

regulation - 6/10

cultural industries - 6/10

media effects - 8/10

cultivation - 8/10

reception - 10/10

fandom - 8/10

end of audience - 9/10

Animal Crossing rev

 NINTENDO SWITCH 2 IS IMMINENT 🥳🥳🎉🎉

• First one released in 2017 - getting old now - fans wondering if the new switch will usher in many sequels and will fans NEED to update the console which is irritating to spend money on - it will be backwards compatible (will the new tech play the old games) - Animal crossing players may not be worried about a new switch as unlike games with yearly installations or have limited playability - ACNH doesn't run into these problems
• ACNH don't need graphic updates as its not a taxing game - doesn't need the realism that games liek Fifa needs or the processor speed

top 10 bestselling games of 2024

1. EA Sports FC 25
2. Hogwarts Legacy
3. COD BO 6
4. EA Sports FC 24
5. MK8 Deluxe
6. Super Mario Bros Wonder
7. Minecraft
8. Nintendo switch sports
9. Legend of Zelda echoes of wisdom
10. Super Mario party jamboree

Palworld-

rip off of various Nintendo games such as Pokémon, Zelda, and Animal Crossing.

Made lots of money due to being cheaper than Nintendo games (30<50+) as well as copying various features from different games.

Anime Life Sim-

Blatant Animal Crossing ripoff on the PlayStation store

Similar avatars and actual game features such as fishing and house design

BIG NEWS -

Switch 2 release - not many physical changes except connection of controller and color - launching in big wealthy cities - generate excitement while marketing the product for free by inviting people

NINTENDO NES LAUNCH - 

first advert - https://youtu.be/jbijYdtApRg?si=u06jwhw0dI09Lok1 - launched in 1985

came with revolutionary accessories such as guns for duck hunts - It was first released in Japan on July 15, 1983, as the Family Computer (Famicom). It was released in US test markets as the redesigned NES in October 1985, and fully launched in the US the following year. The NES was distributed in Europe, Australia, and parts of Asia throughout the 1980s under various names. - cost about 199 on release which adjusts to over 400 in todays money - similar to switch

Gameboy - 1989 - market for handheld games - low marketing - knew it would be high in demand

PlayStation - 1994 - pre release video - bragging about tech specs and showed 3 guys playing the game

PS2 - 1999 - First labelled as dark and mysterious and aimed at 18-24 year old males

DS - 2004 - released on black Friday and aimed at all genders and age groups

Xbox 360 - 2005 - had a 0 hour release party in a airport hanger in a California desert

PS3 - 2006 - lots of manufacturing problems at launch had to delay in UK - Had to drop the price by 50%

Xbox 1 - 2013 - got lots of backlash - advertised for its integration with TV and not gaming

lupin revision

• Non diegetic opening titles sound like prison door after protagonist is shown as a cleaner at the Louvre
• Omar Sy - famous French actor is the main character and after the opening scene he was described as 'you look like shit' in the first line post opening scene - this also reveals either this or his janitor name is false. shot and reverse shots used during this convo
• many binary opposites during scene - past vs future as Assane has a job now however the woman doesn't believe it will last due to past examples - male female - black white - soft vs blunt
• rejects his money and tells him to buy a present for son - French kiss lingers for a bit too long
• slips her the money and origami rose which she notices after she leaves
• different - more gritty music as Assane walks through French project housing - hoodie clad Assane knocks on a door using his name of Perrena as a large man opens the door
• Assane tells two criminals he cant pay them back while a third plays a car game - Assane is held over a balcony until he announces plans to make lots of money
• Assane reveals his weak act by restraining large man that tries to throw him over and makes statements representative of Paris about how higher class don't see him
• montage as Assane describes whole plan however 

AROUND 36 MINS IN - new series of establishing shots - fllashback to 2 weeks earlier understated class - too nice a house for a cleaner - shows him splicing together his identity after finding out about the necklace going on auction - shows him getting the fake necklace, getting the janitor job and getting the loan from the criminals - paired with a monologue about arsene lupin and who assane is - room has many bookshelves cohesive with the Pellegrini household

Despite his hard upbringing and difficulties with Frances xenophobia - he has embraced french culture as he listens to music while drinking coffee -apartment has a view of Montmartre museum

Furthermore Paris is the second most expensive real estate in the world

Appeals to a western/global audience - In his apartment, Assane plays an English language song

Gender performity - Assane adapts the masculinity he displays between scenes when it is required - submissive and weak around the gangsters to make them seem in charge - idea that you can only represent your gender if you have money - Julliette - rich and appears promiscuous and uses her femininity to get her way such as to get Assane swim for her - Claire - Assanes ex wife - represented as poor and has little to no makeup, eye bags 

Refers to himself as a lone wolf - gender stereotype however can slip into a more feminine stereotype by caressing the jewelry replica however offsets this by giving his friend a friendly hit

Industry - reason onkly a streaming platform and not a public broadcasting company - dont have to worry about what people think in the sense they are self regulated - Netflix can also afford famous actors in ways BBC or French equivelant couldn't

Paul Gilroy - post colonialism - people scattered around world trying to rebuilt culture and identity across the world - Senegalese immigrant in France tries to steal Marie Antoinette necklace -  a hated person during the French revolution and described as ignorant to lower class - just like the Louvre in Paris

Flashback - Assane represents France and Senegal - Rich and Poor - Babakar offers his bosses wife a lift home but she doesn't know who he is so locks her door due to his race

Graphic ,atching - one scene editing into the next with one strong parralel between the two scenes such as a charectar

Marie Antoinette Factfile - 

• blamed for lots of Frances problems - simply enjoyed luxury but did lots of charity work but the people hated them

necklace props - usefulness in Lupin - Levi-Strauss - binary opposition - rich and poor - comparison to ST props - less relevant but shows social difference - nerdy games vs sports props or classwork for nanci and lack off for Steve

Gilroy - postcolonial melancholia - the blaming of Babakar Diop represents the anger France has of loosing its colony - uses an object that symbolizes their wealth and power to blame him. FOR ST - not really applicable - 

Baudrillard - post modernism - necklace no longer means jewelry to wear - hyperreal symbol of wealth and French power - for ST - the games and posters no longer are just a fun game but are now symbols of being an outcast

MEDIA PAPER 1 NEWS

 TASK CHANGE THE HEADLINES - 

• house prices plummet across the country
• football fans storm onto the pitch
• train seats left unrecognizable after a group of youths tore them up
• shortage of funds crippling school

what makes the sun a red top tabloid and the guardian a broadsheet

the Sun - 

• low price
• high image to copy ratio
• large advert - typical of a working class readership
• red top
• informal mode of address
• soft news
• sport discussion

The Guardian -

• high copy to image
• lower case headline - informative
• hard news
• aimed at educated audience
• no ads
• serif - formality and tradition
• art discussion

news social media - facebook

the sun

• reaching out to fans - asking who they want to run this morning
• older target audience

twitter

• producer led platform - less interaction
• entertaining videos, less stories

The Guardian no longer posts on twitter - Elon Musk takeover - not fair news sharing

THE FOURTH ESTATE - pillars of society - church - political/monarchy - civillians - press

EXAM SPEC

 A Level Media Studies H409 Specification (ocr.org.uk)

op - messages in media

paper 2 blans - evolving media