Setting
The setting of psycho is mainly in an abandoned motel in the middle of nowhere , the fact that it’s abandoned and hardy anyone goes their gives Norman Bates an ideal location for his horrific actions, no one will be around to see him hiding the bodies or hear the screams.
Character
Norman Bates the monster, crazy, mentally ill, he had two personalities his + his mothers.
Sound
Horror music it has like a heartbeat scenario to it, its like the sound of someones heart racing
Lighting
Dark with shadowy backrounds. But its a black and white film so the lighting doesn’t stand out much. when it’s day it’s light, when it’s night it’s dark, however most bad things that happen, happen at night.
Narrative Structure
The narrative structure of Psycho, follows the basic structure: an intro, then the inciting event where she steals the money and runs away, and act two she goes to the motel, meets Norman and gets murdered. The climax is when the sister and boyfriend go to the motel and look around and come across the mother/ or Norman pretending to be his mother, something no one ever expected, and then we see the epilogue of finding out what happens to Norman, he is captured however the ending is not what the audience expected.
Pace
The pace of the film is actually quite slow in almost all the shots, the bits with the stabbings, however, are quite fast paced, there are a lot of shots in such a short time, and this gives a certain dread, a chill to the scene, makes it cold, a simple murder with no emotional attachment.
SFX
Special effects in Psycho are definitely not a key feature, psycho is much more narrative based.
Saturday, July 10, 2010
Road to perdition- conflict chart
Road to Perdition: Conflict Chart.
At the funeral – Finn McGovern makes speech and is clearly upset. Begins to reveal something before he’s ushered off by Connor and Mike.
External conflict: This conflict showed that there was something that they didn’t want the guests to know about. The implications of this conflict are that no one would have had to go and talk to Finn McGovern and he wouldn’t have been murdered.
Michael Jr witness murder of Finn McGovern. Finn’s last lines “You’ve been spending so much time in Chicago”. A witness of an external conflict, leading to an internal one. This scene is the inciting event in the film. The implication of this scene is the what makes the rest of the film.
Michael Jr has a fist fight at school.
External conflict: This scene is that’s showing how the father’s life is affecting his sons life and how his son is following in his father’s footsteps (gang life)
Mike goes to the club, and discovers Connor wants him dead.
Internal/External Conflict: This is something that he can’t really do anything about accept try to get them before they get him. The implication of this is that Michael goes straight home to try and save his family them but he is too late.
Connor Rooney kills Mrs. Sullivan and Peter.
External conflict: This scene is the cause for Michael’s death, because he asks for permission to kill 007 and the gang hire the killer photographer.
Mr. Rooney confronts Connor about murder and curses the day he was born.
This is an external conflict. This tells the audience it was only connor that wasn’t loyal, that the rest of the gang wouldn’t have killed the family.
Michael Jr sitting amongst business men reading newspapers, crying.
Internal conflict: Mike expressing his feelings, grieving for his loss. Showing what’s been caused, and the result of his family’s murder.
Michael Sr meets Killer photographer at the diner, they pass conversation and then Michael escapes out the bathroom. The photographer shoots after them.
External conflict. It’s the the photographer trying to murder Michael. An external fight. This scene means that Michael now knows someone’s after him.
Mike Sr confronts the accountant and demands information about the accounts. The photographer comes in a kills the accountant, while Mike narrowly escapes with a gunshot wound and the box of files about Connor’s bank withdrawals
External conflict: This scene is what leads to Michael’s death; because if he hadn’t of injured the photographer, the photographer wouldn’t have had a reason to seek revenge. Also Michael getting injured gives Micheal a safe place to go when his father dies, as they go to the country house and make friends. This scene creates the happy ending.
Michael is getting ready to go and kill the Rooney’s, Mike is unsure about it but goes back to bed anyway. Internal: This scene leads to a deeper connection between father and son. This scene allows the two to realize how much they love each other.
Mr. Rooney and his men come out from a building to go home and Mike shoots them all dead from the shadows. He leaves Mr. Rooney until last.
External conflict: The implication of this scene is that it allows michael revenge on the man who killed his family. This scene, in making them feel safe, making them feel as though no one is after them.
Mike kills Connor Rooney in the bath.
External conflict. This is Michael getting revenge for his familys murder and also insuring safety for Michael and Mike. The implications of this scene is that they have killed off the last connection the two have to the gang life, freeing them and allowing them to move on with life.
Mike walks into his sister’s lounge in Perdition and the photographer shoots him from behind. Michael Jr walks in to find his dad lying in the ground. He picks up The photographer gun and tries to shoots him, but Mike Sr shoots him instead.
Internal/external conflict: Father not wanting the son to turn out like him, we see a major struggle in Mike when he’s trying to shoot the photographer to save his son from having to do it. This scene is an ending scene. This scene allows Michael to live his life freely; he knows now that he won’t be brought into the gang life.
At the funeral – Finn McGovern makes speech and is clearly upset. Begins to reveal something before he’s ushered off by Connor and Mike.
External conflict: This conflict showed that there was something that they didn’t want the guests to know about. The implications of this conflict are that no one would have had to go and talk to Finn McGovern and he wouldn’t have been murdered.
Michael Jr witness murder of Finn McGovern. Finn’s last lines “You’ve been spending so much time in Chicago”. A witness of an external conflict, leading to an internal one. This scene is the inciting event in the film. The implication of this scene is the what makes the rest of the film.
Michael Jr has a fist fight at school.
External conflict: This scene is that’s showing how the father’s life is affecting his sons life and how his son is following in his father’s footsteps (gang life)
Mike goes to the club, and discovers Connor wants him dead.
Internal/External Conflict: This is something that he can’t really do anything about accept try to get them before they get him. The implication of this is that Michael goes straight home to try and save his family them but he is too late.
Connor Rooney kills Mrs. Sullivan and Peter.
External conflict: This scene is the cause for Michael’s death, because he asks for permission to kill 007 and the gang hire the killer photographer.
Mr. Rooney confronts Connor about murder and curses the day he was born.
This is an external conflict. This tells the audience it was only connor that wasn’t loyal, that the rest of the gang wouldn’t have killed the family.
Michael Jr sitting amongst business men reading newspapers, crying.
Internal conflict: Mike expressing his feelings, grieving for his loss. Showing what’s been caused, and the result of his family’s murder.
Michael Sr meets Killer photographer at the diner, they pass conversation and then Michael escapes out the bathroom. The photographer shoots after them.
External conflict. It’s the the photographer trying to murder Michael. An external fight. This scene means that Michael now knows someone’s after him.
Mike Sr confronts the accountant and demands information about the accounts. The photographer comes in a kills the accountant, while Mike narrowly escapes with a gunshot wound and the box of files about Connor’s bank withdrawals
External conflict: This scene is what leads to Michael’s death; because if he hadn’t of injured the photographer, the photographer wouldn’t have had a reason to seek revenge. Also Michael getting injured gives Micheal a safe place to go when his father dies, as they go to the country house and make friends. This scene creates the happy ending.
Michael is getting ready to go and kill the Rooney’s, Mike is unsure about it but goes back to bed anyway. Internal: This scene leads to a deeper connection between father and son. This scene allows the two to realize how much they love each other.
Mr. Rooney and his men come out from a building to go home and Mike shoots them all dead from the shadows. He leaves Mr. Rooney until last.
External conflict: The implication of this scene is that it allows michael revenge on the man who killed his family. This scene, in making them feel safe, making them feel as though no one is after them.
Mike kills Connor Rooney in the bath.
External conflict. This is Michael getting revenge for his familys murder and also insuring safety for Michael and Mike. The implications of this scene is that they have killed off the last connection the two have to the gang life, freeing them and allowing them to move on with life.
Mike walks into his sister’s lounge in Perdition and the photographer shoots him from behind. Michael Jr walks in to find his dad lying in the ground. He picks up The photographer gun and tries to shoots him, but Mike Sr shoots him instead.
Internal/external conflict: Father not wanting the son to turn out like him, we see a major struggle in Mike when he’s trying to shoot the photographer to save his son from having to do it. This scene is an ending scene. This scene allows Michael to live his life freely; he knows now that he won’t be brought into the gang life.
Freedom Writers
Freedom writers
Expository opening/set up:
We are introduced to Eva and she introduces us to her life you hear her story, about her father being taken away and drive-by shootings.
Then we are introduced to Miss G, very tidy, confidence,
Rich and Perfect.
A new teacher first time teaching and she is in for a surprise.The classroom/school. Looks Poor and Messy.
The class is rude and make it clear that they are not interested. The class is mix of African-American, Cambodian, Asian, and a white student. The class is racially divide and everyone hates each other!
The Class doesn’t function & they break out into fights in class.
All the students are part of a gang.
Inciting event:
A boy is shot.
A racist picture of the dead boy circulated the classroom; Miss G saw the drawing and compared it to pictures of the Jews during the Holocaust. The students responded with puzzled looks. Miss G discovered that many of her students had never heard of the Holocaust and when she asked how many of the students in her class had been shot at all of the students raised their hands.
Line game.
Intensification/complication/development:
When Miss G buys journals and gives them out to the class.
When all the kids in the class write in their journals, and leave them for Miss G to read.
The kids are ready to tell their stories.
Every kid has a different story
Eva’s story
her growing up her dad being taken away even though he is innocent and gang related violence. In the end, telling the truth, that one of her gang members done it. She lost all trust within her gang.
The boy’s story
seeing his friend kill himself and getting sent to jail because he looked guilt. Getting kicked out of the house because of it, growing up on the streets. In the end asking to live back at home with his mum.
The class goes to the museum and they learn about the holocaust.
The class meet the Holocaust survivors.
The class Toast for Change
The class reads the Diary of Ann Frank. The kids want to meet the lady who knew Ann
They raise enough money to get the woman to come and talk to them.
Climax:
The class finds out that Miss G can’t be their teacher for junior and senior year.
Miss G gets some organisation to donate computers to the school and makes the class type their journals up on computers. Even though they may not get published the class does it anyway and share their stories with each other.
Epilogue:
Miss G puts all the diaries together into a book and called it The Freedom Writers Diary
Miss G meets with the board and is allowed to continue teacher her class through junior and senior year
Miss G goes to meet up with the class, they’re all are together even though its after school and gives them the news and everyone is happy.
Freedom Writers: Conflict Chart.
Ms. Gruwell walks through school. Looks in to Honors Class and then walks into her class. Close Up of her face showing her expression becoming gradually more disappointed.
Internal/external. Environment not being what she wanted it to be is causing the disappointment. This is introducing the environment of the film and that it’s not what she expected.
Ms Gruwell and her class are interrupted by an alarm bell going off. Everyone runs outside to watch fight between Paco and guy in orange jumper, then a massive brawl breaks out amongst other students.
External conflict: This is setting the tone of the film.
Ms Gruwell Shifts Jamal, and then shifts the entire class around. “Is everybody happy with the new borders?”
External conflict: this scene the teacher realizing things, what situation these kids are in, it shows the development the students make later on in the film. We go from it being so hard to sit next to one another to the students hanging out with one another outside of school.
When Paco attempts to shoot Grant Rice, but instead shoots Asian guy, Cindy’s friend, in the convenience store.
External conflict: The implications of this scene are huge for Eva later on in the film. It’s one of the main developments we see and the danger in which Eva faces later on, it creates a bond between her and the asians later on, this scene allows the final door to be shut for Eva and the gang life.
Eva looking in the mirror doing her make-up. Voiceover: “...only I saw Paco, the others were turned away. So when the police questioned me, I knew I had to protect him”.
Internal conflict :it’s her asking herself will she do the right thing or not? At this point in the film she thinks she knows what must happen, what she must do, it isn’t such a conflict for her right now and she turns everything about herself around to do the right thing. This scene is like the set up for the development she would go through later on in the film. It shows she knows what she needs to do, what she should, according to her life, do. She should protect her people. It shows everything is resting on her shoulders for Paco. Will she do the right thing, or do what she’s been brought up to do?
Racist drawing of Jamal is passed around the class. Ms Gruwell is horrified and makes a speech about it’s similarity to the propaganda of the Nazis.
Shifts to a discussion about respect and race.
Ms Gruwell: “You know what’s going to happen when you die? You’re going to rot in the ground and people are gonna go on living and they’re gonna forget all about you...and no body, no body is gonna wanna remember you because all you left behind was this” (holds up picture of Jamal).
She then discovers only one person in class knows what the Holocaust is and that everyone else had been shot at.
External conflict: Shes mad because of what’s been done. This scene is the inciting scene in the film after this scene the students and teacher understand one another much more, there is a mutual knowledge after this of what their lives are like. The implications of it is that the teacher is beginning to know what to do to get everyone on her side, which in turn turns all the kids’ lives around, changes them all.
Ms Gruwell visits Ms Campbell at school to get more advanced books for her students, but is told to use the condensed version of Romeo and Juliet or buy books herself.
“You can’t make someone want an education. The best you can do is getting them to obey...” – Ms Campbell.
External conflict: the teacher needs the board on her side. The implications of this scene is that the teacher goes and gets two more part time jobs to buy books for the kids, showing her commitment and probably leading to her divorce. We also see the students get these books, which we see change their perceiving things; we see them respect the books. Such a small thing, but the fact that the kids get these proper books shows the teachers faith in them, which tells them that someone cares, that they can hope to hope for themselves that perhaps school isn’t so bad.
Ms Gruwell plays ‘The Line Game’ – note the eye line shots between characters – then she hands out their journals.
Internal conflict: Students coming to terms with their classmates, with what’s happened to them and, mostly, remembering bad times. They don’t want to stand on the same line so close to one another, yet they’re realizing their bond, their connections and they’re seeing everyone else has the same thing going on. The implications of this scene is that it creates a connection between them all and they aren’t as different as they thought they were.
Ms Gruwell sits in class and reads through journal entries – interjected with montage of flashbacks, voiceovers and students saying their entries.
Internal conflict: it shows the teacher what the kids have gone through in their lives, all the things that have happened, explains why they are how they are.
Montage of students reading The Diary of Anne Frank, while reading it out in voiceover.
Internal: This scene shows the students the outside world that they aren’t the only victims. It’s telling the students how to understand their situation.
Eva storms into classroom “Why didn’t you tell me she dies” (talking about Anne Frank).
Internal conflict: This shows that they wanted this book to give them hope; instead it gave them an unexpected, unwanted truth.
Miep Gies visits and tells the class “You are the heroes. You are heroes every day” .
External conflict: This scene we see so much respect, so much want and need to be good, to do the right thing. This scene is ultimately a changing point. This is the reason Eva tells the truth in court. This is the reason that guy asks his mum if he can come home.
Ms Gruwell arrives home to her husband with his bags packed. Argue about her job.
This is an external conflict. The implications of this is she’s sacrificed her marriage, she cant give up now, it’s going to make her fight even more for her kids, now she knows pain, now she’s lost something to the gang life. She’s almost becoming one of them.
Expository opening/set up:
We are introduced to Eva and she introduces us to her life you hear her story, about her father being taken away and drive-by shootings.
Then we are introduced to Miss G, very tidy, confidence,
Rich and Perfect.
A new teacher first time teaching and she is in for a surprise.The classroom/school. Looks Poor and Messy.
The class is rude and make it clear that they are not interested. The class is mix of African-American, Cambodian, Asian, and a white student. The class is racially divide and everyone hates each other!
The Class doesn’t function & they break out into fights in class.
All the students are part of a gang.
Inciting event:
A boy is shot.
A racist picture of the dead boy circulated the classroom; Miss G saw the drawing and compared it to pictures of the Jews during the Holocaust. The students responded with puzzled looks. Miss G discovered that many of her students had never heard of the Holocaust and when she asked how many of the students in her class had been shot at all of the students raised their hands.
Line game.
Intensification/complication/development:
When Miss G buys journals and gives them out to the class.
When all the kids in the class write in their journals, and leave them for Miss G to read.
The kids are ready to tell their stories.
Every kid has a different story
Eva’s story
her growing up her dad being taken away even though he is innocent and gang related violence. In the end, telling the truth, that one of her gang members done it. She lost all trust within her gang.
The boy’s story
seeing his friend kill himself and getting sent to jail because he looked guilt. Getting kicked out of the house because of it, growing up on the streets. In the end asking to live back at home with his mum.
The class goes to the museum and they learn about the holocaust.
The class meet the Holocaust survivors.
The class Toast for Change
The class reads the Diary of Ann Frank. The kids want to meet the lady who knew Ann
They raise enough money to get the woman to come and talk to them.
Climax:
The class finds out that Miss G can’t be their teacher for junior and senior year.
Miss G gets some organisation to donate computers to the school and makes the class type their journals up on computers. Even though they may not get published the class does it anyway and share their stories with each other.
Epilogue:
Miss G puts all the diaries together into a book and called it The Freedom Writers Diary
Miss G meets with the board and is allowed to continue teacher her class through junior and senior year
Miss G goes to meet up with the class, they’re all are together even though its after school and gives them the news and everyone is happy.
Freedom Writers: Conflict Chart.
Ms. Gruwell walks through school. Looks in to Honors Class and then walks into her class. Close Up of her face showing her expression becoming gradually more disappointed.
Internal/external. Environment not being what she wanted it to be is causing the disappointment. This is introducing the environment of the film and that it’s not what she expected.
Ms Gruwell and her class are interrupted by an alarm bell going off. Everyone runs outside to watch fight between Paco and guy in orange jumper, then a massive brawl breaks out amongst other students.
External conflict: This is setting the tone of the film.
Ms Gruwell Shifts Jamal, and then shifts the entire class around. “Is everybody happy with the new borders?”
External conflict: this scene the teacher realizing things, what situation these kids are in, it shows the development the students make later on in the film. We go from it being so hard to sit next to one another to the students hanging out with one another outside of school.
When Paco attempts to shoot Grant Rice, but instead shoots Asian guy, Cindy’s friend, in the convenience store.
External conflict: The implications of this scene are huge for Eva later on in the film. It’s one of the main developments we see and the danger in which Eva faces later on, it creates a bond between her and the asians later on, this scene allows the final door to be shut for Eva and the gang life.
Eva looking in the mirror doing her make-up. Voiceover: “...only I saw Paco, the others were turned away. So when the police questioned me, I knew I had to protect him”.
Internal conflict :it’s her asking herself will she do the right thing or not? At this point in the film she thinks she knows what must happen, what she must do, it isn’t such a conflict for her right now and she turns everything about herself around to do the right thing. This scene is like the set up for the development she would go through later on in the film. It shows she knows what she needs to do, what she should, according to her life, do. She should protect her people. It shows everything is resting on her shoulders for Paco. Will she do the right thing, or do what she’s been brought up to do?
Racist drawing of Jamal is passed around the class. Ms Gruwell is horrified and makes a speech about it’s similarity to the propaganda of the Nazis.
Shifts to a discussion about respect and race.
Ms Gruwell: “You know what’s going to happen when you die? You’re going to rot in the ground and people are gonna go on living and they’re gonna forget all about you...and no body, no body is gonna wanna remember you because all you left behind was this” (holds up picture of Jamal).
She then discovers only one person in class knows what the Holocaust is and that everyone else had been shot at.
External conflict: Shes mad because of what’s been done. This scene is the inciting scene in the film after this scene the students and teacher understand one another much more, there is a mutual knowledge after this of what their lives are like. The implications of it is that the teacher is beginning to know what to do to get everyone on her side, which in turn turns all the kids’ lives around, changes them all.
Ms Gruwell visits Ms Campbell at school to get more advanced books for her students, but is told to use the condensed version of Romeo and Juliet or buy books herself.
“You can’t make someone want an education. The best you can do is getting them to obey...” – Ms Campbell.
External conflict: the teacher needs the board on her side. The implications of this scene is that the teacher goes and gets two more part time jobs to buy books for the kids, showing her commitment and probably leading to her divorce. We also see the students get these books, which we see change their perceiving things; we see them respect the books. Such a small thing, but the fact that the kids get these proper books shows the teachers faith in them, which tells them that someone cares, that they can hope to hope for themselves that perhaps school isn’t so bad.
Ms Gruwell plays ‘The Line Game’ – note the eye line shots between characters – then she hands out their journals.
Internal conflict: Students coming to terms with their classmates, with what’s happened to them and, mostly, remembering bad times. They don’t want to stand on the same line so close to one another, yet they’re realizing their bond, their connections and they’re seeing everyone else has the same thing going on. The implications of this scene is that it creates a connection between them all and they aren’t as different as they thought they were.
Ms Gruwell sits in class and reads through journal entries – interjected with montage of flashbacks, voiceovers and students saying their entries.
Internal conflict: it shows the teacher what the kids have gone through in their lives, all the things that have happened, explains why they are how they are.
Montage of students reading The Diary of Anne Frank, while reading it out in voiceover.
Internal: This scene shows the students the outside world that they aren’t the only victims. It’s telling the students how to understand their situation.
Eva storms into classroom “Why didn’t you tell me she dies” (talking about Anne Frank).
Internal conflict: This shows that they wanted this book to give them hope; instead it gave them an unexpected, unwanted truth.
Miep Gies visits and tells the class “You are the heroes. You are heroes every day” .
External conflict: This scene we see so much respect, so much want and need to be good, to do the right thing. This scene is ultimately a changing point. This is the reason Eva tells the truth in court. This is the reason that guy asks his mum if he can come home.
Ms Gruwell arrives home to her husband with his bags packed. Argue about her job.
This is an external conflict. The implications of this is she’s sacrificed her marriage, she cant give up now, it’s going to make her fight even more for her kids, now she knows pain, now she’s lost something to the gang life. She’s almost becoming one of them.
Boy
Boy- what the movie was about
Boy is obsessed with Michael Jackson in particular, his dance moves and his little brother Rocky possibly possesses 'powers'. The pair are trying to find their potential (and the meaning of the word "potential").
In Boy's eyes, his dad is a hero: a deep-sea diver, war veteran, rugby captain and close relation of Michael Jackson. But in reality his dad is doing jail time and is a member of the three-man Crazy Horses gang. While his nana is at a funeral, the dad returns home and Boy is confronted with the man he thought he remembered.
Boy
Expository opening/set up: Boy is at school, Boy introduces his family. The end of the school scenes where Boy is doing the detention and the teacher walks out of the classroom, and the fact that Boy doesn’t know what potential means shows the tone of the film exponentially, then how the teacher doesn’t tell boy what it means as the school day has ended is showing the culture where they’re living. We see Boy in the car alone with Leaf talking to him intimately, we see this as Leaf being one of the closest friends, we also see as boy is making up what happened at school, he’s living a fantasy world, the life he wishes he was living.
Inciting event: while boy’s nana is away at a funeral. The father turns up.
Intensification/complication/development: father isn’t looking to be a dad, but simply to get what he wants and leaves.
The next we see of Boy’s realization when his father asks him to call him shogun instead of dad.
Climax: when we see Boy beating up his father. Boy realizes what kind of man his father is. When the gang is at the pub and Boy and Rocky are in the car we see Boy putting his father’s glasses on, and he’s imagining his father as Michael Jackson , yet the vision ends before the fight is over and Boy sees his father getting beat up, we see Boy seeing his father for who he is, he isn’t the hero Boy thought he was, then when his father runs over Leaf. He decided he isn’t going to forgive him for killing the most important thing to him.
Epilogue: When the father and two kids are sitting around the mother’s grave. This scene is the closing scene; it signified a new beginning
Boy is obsessed with Michael Jackson in particular, his dance moves and his little brother Rocky possibly possesses 'powers'. The pair are trying to find their potential (and the meaning of the word "potential").
In Boy's eyes, his dad is a hero: a deep-sea diver, war veteran, rugby captain and close relation of Michael Jackson. But in reality his dad is doing jail time and is a member of the three-man Crazy Horses gang. While his nana is at a funeral, the dad returns home and Boy is confronted with the man he thought he remembered.
Boy
Expository opening/set up: Boy is at school, Boy introduces his family. The end of the school scenes where Boy is doing the detention and the teacher walks out of the classroom, and the fact that Boy doesn’t know what potential means shows the tone of the film exponentially, then how the teacher doesn’t tell boy what it means as the school day has ended is showing the culture where they’re living. We see Boy in the car alone with Leaf talking to him intimately, we see this as Leaf being one of the closest friends, we also see as boy is making up what happened at school, he’s living a fantasy world, the life he wishes he was living.
Inciting event: while boy’s nana is away at a funeral. The father turns up.
Intensification/complication/development: father isn’t looking to be a dad, but simply to get what he wants and leaves.
The next we see of Boy’s realization when his father asks him to call him shogun instead of dad.
Climax: when we see Boy beating up his father. Boy realizes what kind of man his father is. When the gang is at the pub and Boy and Rocky are in the car we see Boy putting his father’s glasses on, and he’s imagining his father as Michael Jackson , yet the vision ends before the fight is over and Boy sees his father getting beat up, we see Boy seeing his father for who he is, he isn’t the hero Boy thought he was, then when his father runs over Leaf. He decided he isn’t going to forgive him for killing the most important thing to him.
Epilogue: When the father and two kids are sitting around the mother’s grave. This scene is the closing scene; it signified a new beginning
Horror Conventions
Darkness: is used in horrors as it can hide so many things and everything is always more scary during the night, darkness is needed in horrors in order to fully scare the audience.
Token screamer: is used to unsettle the audience, show the character is scared by screaming. it tells the audience bad things are happening
• Victims: Victims are needed in horrors to scare the audience and let them feel as if they could be the victim. we need victims, people to die or go through intense horror in order for the audience to know the horror is out there, if no one dies, the audience won’t be scared of an evil force who just chases people, the characters existence has to be in danger.
• Teenagers/Young adults :
Horror films use young characters for many reasons:
o In order to make the stupid decisions that horror film characters make, they really need to be young and stupid. An older person would be wise enough to realise the danger and not let it get to a point where it will be a real danger to them.
o Horrors often include chase scenes and the threat of physical life, characters need to be young in order to be physically fit enough to ward off this danger.
o The threat of life is what horrors are all about, and if someone’s life was almost over anyway, what would be the point, whereas a twenty year old still has their entire life ahead of them, they need to protect this, the most important thing to them, whereas an old person couldn’t really say the same, they’ve already lived, already made the mistakes and redemptions.
• Evil people/forces: An evil force or evil person/people to terrify the audience and characters. Films also need to have someone the audience can hate and hope to lose, which is what the evil character is in horrors.
• Blood/gore: Horrors use blood and guts in a way of releasing horror to the audience, they will see the blood, see the damage to the human bodies, and get scared.
• Death: Death is needed in horrors as that can be one of the most horrifying things there., and it’s the deaths that bring the fear into the climax. If the audience hadn’t seen people lose their lives at the hand of the evil force/ The audience wouldn’t fear it, the audience need to know what threat they are in, in order to fully grasp the point of the film, to fully feel the fear.
• Big black guy (dies): Someone who is strong, powerful, as how could someone over power them, is murdered in horrors to show the evil force’s power and strength.
• Shadows: to represent the danger or shadows could be used to let the characters know that someone’s coming, that danger is imminent.
• Hero: We need someone to love when we watch a film; we need someone who will be there to defeat the evil force.
• Running/chase scenes: To show that the characters are in danger, the fact that they need to run away shows that evil is present. This also adds suspense of whether or not the evil will catch up to the good guys or not.
• Attacks: Like deaths, attacks are needed to show the threat the characters are in and the power of the evil power, how things are serious and people could lose their lives.
• Isolation: This is one of the worst fears, as the fear of being alone, of never having someone to save you if something goes wrong.
• Empty streets: Streets are usually quite busy, and in no one being there shows how the characters are alone and whatever they face they face it alone.
• Insanity: The loosing of the mind for the good guys shows what can happen to the characters with the evil force around, and often there’s a good character who goes insane and becomes the evil force ( like jack from the shining)
• Eerie lighting (blue/cold lighting): Sets the tone of the film, makes the audience feel the cold and fear the characters in the film are feeling.
• Spooky/suspenseful music: Adds to the feel of the movie, puts the audience on edge, gets them ready for the bad which is about to happen.
• Stairs: Going down stairs in horrors is like asking for something bad to happen to you.
• Close up shots: Close up of face shots allows the audience to see the characters emotions, to see the fear on the good characters, or the threat on the evil force’s face.
• Masks: Fear is the unknown, and so when an evil force is in a mask, we can’t see him, he could be anything, and undefeatable.
• Audience expects to feel fear: The whole point of horrors is to scare the audience, and so the audience expect to feel fear.
Token screamer: is used to unsettle the audience, show the character is scared by screaming. it tells the audience bad things are happening
• Victims: Victims are needed in horrors to scare the audience and let them feel as if they could be the victim. we need victims, people to die or go through intense horror in order for the audience to know the horror is out there, if no one dies, the audience won’t be scared of an evil force who just chases people, the characters existence has to be in danger.
• Teenagers/Young adults :
Horror films use young characters for many reasons:
o In order to make the stupid decisions that horror film characters make, they really need to be young and stupid. An older person would be wise enough to realise the danger and not let it get to a point where it will be a real danger to them.
o Horrors often include chase scenes and the threat of physical life, characters need to be young in order to be physically fit enough to ward off this danger.
o The threat of life is what horrors are all about, and if someone’s life was almost over anyway, what would be the point, whereas a twenty year old still has their entire life ahead of them, they need to protect this, the most important thing to them, whereas an old person couldn’t really say the same, they’ve already lived, already made the mistakes and redemptions.
• Evil people/forces: An evil force or evil person/people to terrify the audience and characters. Films also need to have someone the audience can hate and hope to lose, which is what the evil character is in horrors.
• Blood/gore: Horrors use blood and guts in a way of releasing horror to the audience, they will see the blood, see the damage to the human bodies, and get scared.
• Death: Death is needed in horrors as that can be one of the most horrifying things there., and it’s the deaths that bring the fear into the climax. If the audience hadn’t seen people lose their lives at the hand of the evil force/ The audience wouldn’t fear it, the audience need to know what threat they are in, in order to fully grasp the point of the film, to fully feel the fear.
• Big black guy (dies): Someone who is strong, powerful, as how could someone over power them, is murdered in horrors to show the evil force’s power and strength.
• Shadows: to represent the danger or shadows could be used to let the characters know that someone’s coming, that danger is imminent.
• Hero: We need someone to love when we watch a film; we need someone who will be there to defeat the evil force.
• Running/chase scenes: To show that the characters are in danger, the fact that they need to run away shows that evil is present. This also adds suspense of whether or not the evil will catch up to the good guys or not.
• Attacks: Like deaths, attacks are needed to show the threat the characters are in and the power of the evil power, how things are serious and people could lose their lives.
• Isolation: This is one of the worst fears, as the fear of being alone, of never having someone to save you if something goes wrong.
• Empty streets: Streets are usually quite busy, and in no one being there shows how the characters are alone and whatever they face they face it alone.
• Insanity: The loosing of the mind for the good guys shows what can happen to the characters with the evil force around, and often there’s a good character who goes insane and becomes the evil force ( like jack from the shining)
• Eerie lighting (blue/cold lighting): Sets the tone of the film, makes the audience feel the cold and fear the characters in the film are feeling.
• Spooky/suspenseful music: Adds to the feel of the movie, puts the audience on edge, gets them ready for the bad which is about to happen.
• Stairs: Going down stairs in horrors is like asking for something bad to happen to you.
• Close up shots: Close up of face shots allows the audience to see the characters emotions, to see the fear on the good characters, or the threat on the evil force’s face.
• Masks: Fear is the unknown, and so when an evil force is in a mask, we can’t see him, he could be anything, and undefeatable.
• Audience expects to feel fear: The whole point of horrors is to scare the audience, and so the audience expect to feel fear.
The Hays Code
What is the Hays code?
What was acceptable and what was unacceptable content for films produced for a public audience in the United States.
What are the principles of this code?
No picture shall be produced that will lower the moral standards of those who see it. Hence the sympathy of the audience should never be thrown to the side of crime, wrongdoing, evil or sin.
Correct standards of life, subject only to the requirements of drama and entertainment, shall be presented.
Law, natural or human, shall not be ridiculed, nor shall sympathy be created for its violation
What are the implications of each principle?
Nakedness and suggestive dances were prohibited.
The ridicule of religion was forbidden, and ministers of religion were not to be represented as comic characters or villains.
The depiction of illegal drug use was forbidden, as well as the use of liquor, when not required by the plot or for proper characterization.
Methods of crime (e.g. safe-cracking, arson, smuggling) were not to be explicitly presented.
References to alleged sex perversion (such as homosexuality) and venereal disease were forbidden, as were depictions of childbirth.
The language section banned various words and phrases that were considered to be offensive.
Murder scenes had to be filmed in a way that would discourage imitations in real life, and brutal killings could not be shown in detail. Revenge in modern times was not to be justified.
The sanctity of marriage and the home had to be upheld. Pictures shall not imply that low forms of sex relationship are the accepted or common thing. Adultery and illicit sex, although recognized as sometimes necessary to the plot, could not be explicit or justified and were not supposed to be presented as an attractive option.
Portrayals of miscegenation (inter-racial marriage and procreation) were forbidden.
Scenes of passion were not to be introduced when not essential to the plot. Excessive and lustful kissing was to be avoided, along with any other treatment that might stimulate the lower and baser element.
The flag of the United States was to be treated respectfully, and the people and history of other nations were to be presented fairly.
The treatment of vulgarity, defined as "low, disgusting, unpleasant, though not necessarily evil, subjects" must be "subject to the dictates of good taste." Capital punishment, "third-degree methods", cruelty to children or animals, prostitution and surgical operations were to be handled with similar sensitivity.
Why was a code created originally?
It was an attempt to censor all potential threats to public morality in the American film industry.
How to the restrictions of the code impact on the film industry?
As filmmakers, they weren’t allowed to show things that society at the time weren’t used to. By following the code they weren’t able to shock the audience or show reality. The code restricted filmmakers in not only what they could physically show on screen but also the themes the films could hold, even the messages in the films had to be censored. The code effected films in every way, from mise en scene and diegesis to the theme and meaning of a film.
Hays Code and Censorship
1. Think about the Hays Code. What types of restrictions did it place on film makers between the 1920’s and 1960’s?
As filmmakers, they weren’t allowed to show things that society at the time weren’t used to, they could only show the innocence of life, from the code they weren’t able to shock the audience as they just weren’t able to put it on film. The code restricted filmmakers in not only what they could physically show on screen but also the themes the films could hold, even the messages in the films had to be censored. To a point filmmakers couldn’t show the truth, they couldn’t express their films how they wanted to, they couldn’t show the real world as society hadn’t been exposed to it The code effected films in every way, from mise en scene and diegesis to the theme and meaning of a film.
2. In what ways might Psycho have flouted these restrictions?
They showed the lead girl taking a shower this would flout the restrictions and the murder scenes.
3. The Hays Code merged into the types of ratings we have today. How does our ratings system differ do you think
Although a film may be given a rating of 18, this is the worst that can happen, not everyone can see it but filmmakers can put whatever they want in films.
4. We often talk about desensitisation of violence. What do we mean by this?
Society now is very different to society around the Hays code. It is much less shocking to audiences now because we’re used to violence and it doesn’t affect us as much. Although violence of some extent is still very shocking, we are much less sensitive to it.
The idea of the monster
1. Give reasons why Norman Bates was so scary to audiences when this film was released. Think about why it might be scarier than the previous monsters.
Norman Bates was scary to audiences because he appeared to be a normal/regular man. No one would have suspected him of being crazy or a murderer. Norman Bates was just an ordinary guy, and when one examines what he did, its quite terrifying. The fact that he looks like an ordinary person was scary because he wasn’t identifiable.
Audiences
1. In what ways have the audiences of horror film changed?
The audiences of horror films, once, when the Hays Code was in practice, were very sheltered and innocent didn’t know alot about cruel reality. The audience of horror films have become much less sensitive, harder to scare, used to violence which would once shock and audience. Society now sees much more and is sheltered from much less than they once were.
2. Think about how might this influence how horror films are made.
Horror films need to advance; they need to be worse than the audience. And so when made the violence has to be shown, it can’t be skipped over as simply allusion.. Filmmakers now have to think up reasons for the terror, they can’t just say it’s there as that won’t be enough, every detail has to be told and has to terrify the audience.
The Hays Code
What is the Hays code?
What was acceptable and what was unacceptable content for films produced for a public audience in the United States.
What are the principles of this code?
No picture shall be produced that will lower the moral standards of those who see it. Hence the sympathy of the audience should never be thrown to the side of crime, wrongdoing, evil or sin.
Correct standards of life, subject only to the requirements of drama and entertainment, shall be presented.
Law, natural or human, shall not be ridiculed, nor shall sympathy be created for its violation
What are the implications of each principle?
Nakedness and suggestive dances were prohibited.
The ridicule of religion was forbidden, and ministers of religion were not to be represented as comic characters or villains.
The depiction of illegal drug use was forbidden, as well as the use of liquor, when not required by the plot or for proper characterization.
Methods of crime (e.g. safe-cracking, arson, smuggling) were not to be explicitly presented.
References to alleged sex perversion (such as homosexuality) and venereal disease were forbidden, as were depictions of childbirth.
The language section banned various words and phrases that were considered to be offensive.
Murder scenes had to be filmed in a way that would discourage imitations in real life, and brutal killings could not be shown in detail. Revenge in modern times was not to be justified.
The sanctity of marriage and the home had to be upheld. Pictures shall not imply that low forms of sex relationship are the accepted or common thing. Adultery and illicit sex, although recognized as sometimes necessary to the plot, could not be explicit or justified and were not supposed to be presented as an attractive option.
Portrayals of miscegenation (inter-racial marriage and procreation) were forbidden.
Scenes of passion were not to be introduced when not essential to the plot. Excessive and lustful kissing was to be avoided, along with any other treatment that might stimulate the lower and baser element.
The flag of the United States was to be treated respectfully, and the people and history of other nations were to be presented fairly.
The treatment of vulgarity, defined as "low, disgusting, unpleasant, though not necessarily evil, subjects" must be "subject to the dictates of good taste." Capital punishment, "third-degree methods", cruelty to children or animals, prostitution and surgical operations were to be handled with similar sensitivity.
Why was a code created originally?
It was an attempt to censor all potential threats to public morality in the American film industry.
How to the restrictions of the code impact on the film industry?
As filmmakers, they weren’t allowed to show things that society at the time weren’t used to. By following the code they weren’t able to shock the audience or show reality. The code restricted filmmakers in not only what they could physically show on screen but also the themes the films could hold, even the messages in the films had to be censored. The code effected films in every way, from mise en scene and diegesis to the theme and meaning of a film.
Hays Code and Censorship
1. Think about the Hays Code. What types of restrictions did it place on film makers between the 1920’s and 1960’s?
As filmmakers, they weren’t allowed to show things that society at the time weren’t used to, they could only show the innocence of life, from the code they weren’t able to shock the audience as they just weren’t able to put it on film. The code restricted filmmakers in not only what they could physically show on screen but also the themes the films could hold, even the messages in the films had to be censored. To a point filmmakers couldn’t show the truth, they couldn’t express their films how they wanted to, they couldn’t show the real world as society hadn’t been exposed to it The code effected films in every way, from mise en scene and diegesis to the theme and meaning of a film.
2. In what ways might Psycho have flouted these restrictions?
They showed the lead girl taking a shower this would flout the restrictions and the murder scenes.
3. The Hays Code merged into the types of ratings we have today. How does our ratings system differ do you think
Although a film may be given a rating of 18, this is the worst that can happen, not everyone can see it but filmmakers can put whatever they want in films.
4. We often talk about desensitisation of violence. What do we mean by this?
Society now is very different to society around the Hays code. It is much less shocking to audiences now because we’re used to violence and it doesn’t affect us as much. Although violence of some extent is still very shocking, we are much less sensitive to it.
The idea of the monster
1. Give reasons why Norman Bates was so scary to audiences when this film was released. Think about why it might be scarier than the previous monsters.
Norman Bates was scary to audiences because he appeared to be a normal/regular man. No one would have suspected him of being crazy or a murderer. Norman Bates was just an ordinary guy, and when one examines what he did, its quite terrifying. The fact that he looks like an ordinary person was scary because he wasn’t identifiable.
Audiences
1. In what ways have the audiences of horror film changed?
The audiences of horror films, once, when the Hays Code was in practice, were very sheltered and innocent didn’t know alot about cruel reality. The audience of horror films have become much less sensitive, harder to scare, used to violence which would once shock and audience. Society now sees much more and is sheltered from much less than they once were.
2. Think about how might this influence how horror films are made.
Horror films need to advance; they need to be worse than the audience. And so when made the violence has to be shown, it can’t be skipped over as simply allusion.. Filmmakers now have to think up reasons for the terror, they can’t just say it’s there as that won’t be enough, every detail has to be told and has to terrify the audience.
What was acceptable and what was unacceptable content for films produced for a public audience in the United States.
What are the principles of this code?
No picture shall be produced that will lower the moral standards of those who see it. Hence the sympathy of the audience should never be thrown to the side of crime, wrongdoing, evil or sin.
Correct standards of life, subject only to the requirements of drama and entertainment, shall be presented.
Law, natural or human, shall not be ridiculed, nor shall sympathy be created for its violation
What are the implications of each principle?
Nakedness and suggestive dances were prohibited.
The ridicule of religion was forbidden, and ministers of religion were not to be represented as comic characters or villains.
The depiction of illegal drug use was forbidden, as well as the use of liquor, when not required by the plot or for proper characterization.
Methods of crime (e.g. safe-cracking, arson, smuggling) were not to be explicitly presented.
References to alleged sex perversion (such as homosexuality) and venereal disease were forbidden, as were depictions of childbirth.
The language section banned various words and phrases that were considered to be offensive.
Murder scenes had to be filmed in a way that would discourage imitations in real life, and brutal killings could not be shown in detail. Revenge in modern times was not to be justified.
The sanctity of marriage and the home had to be upheld. Pictures shall not imply that low forms of sex relationship are the accepted or common thing. Adultery and illicit sex, although recognized as sometimes necessary to the plot, could not be explicit or justified and were not supposed to be presented as an attractive option.
Portrayals of miscegenation (inter-racial marriage and procreation) were forbidden.
Scenes of passion were not to be introduced when not essential to the plot. Excessive and lustful kissing was to be avoided, along with any other treatment that might stimulate the lower and baser element.
The flag of the United States was to be treated respectfully, and the people and history of other nations were to be presented fairly.
The treatment of vulgarity, defined as "low, disgusting, unpleasant, though not necessarily evil, subjects" must be "subject to the dictates of good taste." Capital punishment, "third-degree methods", cruelty to children or animals, prostitution and surgical operations were to be handled with similar sensitivity.
Why was a code created originally?
It was an attempt to censor all potential threats to public morality in the American film industry.
How to the restrictions of the code impact on the film industry?
As filmmakers, they weren’t allowed to show things that society at the time weren’t used to. By following the code they weren’t able to shock the audience or show reality. The code restricted filmmakers in not only what they could physically show on screen but also the themes the films could hold, even the messages in the films had to be censored. The code effected films in every way, from mise en scene and diegesis to the theme and meaning of a film.
Hays Code and Censorship
1. Think about the Hays Code. What types of restrictions did it place on film makers between the 1920’s and 1960’s?
As filmmakers, they weren’t allowed to show things that society at the time weren’t used to, they could only show the innocence of life, from the code they weren’t able to shock the audience as they just weren’t able to put it on film. The code restricted filmmakers in not only what they could physically show on screen but also the themes the films could hold, even the messages in the films had to be censored. To a point filmmakers couldn’t show the truth, they couldn’t express their films how they wanted to, they couldn’t show the real world as society hadn’t been exposed to it The code effected films in every way, from mise en scene and diegesis to the theme and meaning of a film.
2. In what ways might Psycho have flouted these restrictions?
They showed the lead girl taking a shower this would flout the restrictions and the murder scenes.
3. The Hays Code merged into the types of ratings we have today. How does our ratings system differ do you think
Although a film may be given a rating of 18, this is the worst that can happen, not everyone can see it but filmmakers can put whatever they want in films.
4. We often talk about desensitisation of violence. What do we mean by this?
Society now is very different to society around the Hays code. It is much less shocking to audiences now because we’re used to violence and it doesn’t affect us as much. Although violence of some extent is still very shocking, we are much less sensitive to it.
The idea of the monster
1. Give reasons why Norman Bates was so scary to audiences when this film was released. Think about why it might be scarier than the previous monsters.
Norman Bates was scary to audiences because he appeared to be a normal/regular man. No one would have suspected him of being crazy or a murderer. Norman Bates was just an ordinary guy, and when one examines what he did, its quite terrifying. The fact that he looks like an ordinary person was scary because he wasn’t identifiable.
Audiences
1. In what ways have the audiences of horror film changed?
The audiences of horror films, once, when the Hays Code was in practice, were very sheltered and innocent didn’t know alot about cruel reality. The audience of horror films have become much less sensitive, harder to scare, used to violence which would once shock and audience. Society now sees much more and is sheltered from much less than they once were.
2. Think about how might this influence how horror films are made.
Horror films need to advance; they need to be worse than the audience. And so when made the violence has to be shown, it can’t be skipped over as simply allusion.. Filmmakers now have to think up reasons for the terror, they can’t just say it’s there as that won’t be enough, every detail has to be told and has to terrify the audience.
Review of term 1
I’ve been studying media studies for about a month.
I’ve gained an understanding about the narrative and how the narrative creates the film and all about the different acts.
I also learnt about the VALS (values and Lifestyles) & TAGS (target audience grouping system) and which ads and programmes they appeal to and different ways of calculating audiences and the pros and cons of each.
I’ve found myself analyzing which VALS AND TAGS that different programs and its ads are appealing to. I also have found that when I watch movies, I look at the structure a lot and try to figure out the different acts.
I’ve gained an understanding about the narrative and how the narrative creates the film and all about the different acts.
I also learnt about the VALS (values and Lifestyles) & TAGS (target audience grouping system) and which ads and programmes they appeal to and different ways of calculating audiences and the pros and cons of each.
I’ve found myself analyzing which VALS AND TAGS that different programs and its ads are appealing to. I also have found that when I watch movies, I look at the structure a lot and try to figure out the different acts.
Footnoting worksheet
2. BOOK
b. “I’m basically a girl named John. If I lived in France, anyway.” c.I. Name of book: Jinx
ii. Name of author: Meg Cabot
iii. City of publisher: London
iv. Publisher: Macmillan Publishers Limited
v. Date of Publisher: 2007
vi. Page number: 1
3. NEWSPAPER b. “Dane Rumble is playing at the wave bar in Whangaparaoa on Saturday, April 24th.” c.I. Name of newspaper: North Harbour News
ii. Date of newspaper article: 16th 0f April
4. ENCYCLOPAEDIA
b. “The soviet far east is easily the largest of the major economic regions.”
c. I. Name of encyclopaedia: Encyclopaedia of The world and its people.
ii. Edition of encyclopaedia: 20
iii. Topic heading: The soviet far east
5. WEBSITE
b. “The school delivers an innovative curriculum with intensive use of modern technologies within an environmentally aware site.” c.iii. Title of Web site: Whangaparaoa College NZ
iv. Site path (http): http://www.wgpcollege.school.nz/
v. Date site was accessed: 16/04
b. “I’m basically a girl named John. If I lived in France, anyway.” c.I. Name of book: Jinx
ii. Name of author: Meg Cabot
iii. City of publisher: London
iv. Publisher: Macmillan Publishers Limited
v. Date of Publisher: 2007
vi. Page number: 1
3. NEWSPAPER b. “Dane Rumble is playing at the wave bar in Whangaparaoa on Saturday, April 24th.” c.I. Name of newspaper: North Harbour News
ii. Date of newspaper article: 16th 0f April
4. ENCYCLOPAEDIA
b. “The soviet far east is easily the largest of the major economic regions.”
c. I. Name of encyclopaedia: Encyclopaedia of The world and its people.
ii. Edition of encyclopaedia: 20
iii. Topic heading: The soviet far east
5. WEBSITE
b. “The school delivers an innovative curriculum with intensive use of modern technologies within an environmentally aware site.” c.iii. Title of Web site: Whangaparaoa College NZ
iv. Site path (http): http://www.wgpcollege.school.nz/
v. Date site was accessed: 16/04
Calculating Audiences
ACNielsen is a global marketing research firm, with worldwide headquarters in New York City.
People meter
A people meter is a tool used to measure the viewing habits of a TV audience.
The People Meter is a 'box', about the size of a paperback book. The box is hooked up to each television set and is accompanied by a remote control.
Each family member in a sample household is assigned a personal 'viewing button'. It identifies each household member's age and gender.
If the TV is turned on and the viewer doesn't identify themselves, the meter flashes to remind them
5 ways of calculating an audience
People meter data: pro: its honest data and it gives extra information like the age and gender of the viewer and it gives constant results. Cons: not a very wide range of data because only 470 people have it, can get annoying.
Web surveys: pro: it’s private, measures clicks, and saves money because it’s free to set up. Cons: need to have access to the internet, might not be accurate, and doesn’t give extra info like age and gender.
Phone: cons: a lot of people find it annoying so you wouldn’t get so many results and people could easily lie. Pros: simple way to find out who is watching what and you can get a wide range of results.
Polls:
Pros: Easy to set up, doesn’t take up much time.
Cons: People lying about their opinion, limited results.
TV Competitions:
Pros: Attracts people to the show, shows who watches TV at that time, attracting a lot of people because they're keen to win stuff.
Cons: People may only watch the show for the competition
People meter
A people meter is a tool used to measure the viewing habits of a TV audience.
The People Meter is a 'box', about the size of a paperback book. The box is hooked up to each television set and is accompanied by a remote control.
Each family member in a sample household is assigned a personal 'viewing button'. It identifies each household member's age and gender.
If the TV is turned on and the viewer doesn't identify themselves, the meter flashes to remind them
5 ways of calculating an audience
People meter data: pro: its honest data and it gives extra information like the age and gender of the viewer and it gives constant results. Cons: not a very wide range of data because only 470 people have it, can get annoying.
Web surveys: pro: it’s private, measures clicks, and saves money because it’s free to set up. Cons: need to have access to the internet, might not be accurate, and doesn’t give extra info like age and gender.
Phone: cons: a lot of people find it annoying so you wouldn’t get so many results and people could easily lie. Pros: simple way to find out who is watching what and you can get a wide range of results.
Polls:
Pros: Easy to set up, doesn’t take up much time.
Cons: People lying about their opinion, limited results.
TV Competitions:
Pros: Attracts people to the show, shows who watches TV at that time, attracting a lot of people because they're keen to win stuff.
Cons: People may only watch the show for the competition
The breakfast show essay
Breakfast takes an in depth look behind the day's headlines, with interviews and information about issues and events that affect New Zealanders. They also take a look at the latest sports action, with highlights and analysis of overnight events and issues that make the news, while ONE News Correspondents bring you up to date with health and politics. Breakfast is hosted by Paul Henry and Pippa Wetzell. Peter Williams and Ali Mau read the Breakfast news. Francesca Rudkin tells us about the entertainment news, and reports on the latest art and drama from here and around the world. The show is aired at 6:00 am on TV 1.
The breakfast show audience would include:
Innovators those with large disposable income, and they are people who enjoy
The finer things in life. They are successful and sophisticated, Thinkers the category of people who are motivated by ideals. Order, knowledge and responsibility are important to them. They are well educated. With reasonable incomes, Achievers those that are motivated by the desire to succeed and are goal orientated, Strivers those who want to be something, but can’t quite get there, they are active consumers (as much as allows), The Next Generation those from the age of 10-14, this category accounts for 9% of the group above the age of 10, Comfortable Full Nesters Those with a higher income, older and are family orientated, Affluent Acquirers Young people between the age of 15-39 they’re active consumers in all forms and Liberal Sophisticates those that are well off and informed.
The ads are to suit a more older, mature audience. The fact that the advertising and the network pays their salaries means that everything that every word said has to be carefully planned not to offend the network, the companies advertising during the breaks etc.There was one time when a news reporter made a comment about going off and making a coffee during the ads, and not watching them, and then after the next ad break, came back on and made a formal apology for saying that, making the remark that "You watch the ads, because the ads pay my wages" Showing just how much influence the 2 aspects have over each other
In conclusion I think Breakfast is a good show to watch to see what's going on here and around the world. And start the day informed and entertained. I also think that breakfast attracts a wide range of audience because there is something in it for everyone wheather its breaking news, sports, entertainment or current affairs.
The breakfast show audience would include:
Innovators those with large disposable income, and they are people who enjoy
The finer things in life. They are successful and sophisticated, Thinkers the category of people who are motivated by ideals. Order, knowledge and responsibility are important to them. They are well educated. With reasonable incomes, Achievers those that are motivated by the desire to succeed and are goal orientated, Strivers those who want to be something, but can’t quite get there, they are active consumers (as much as allows), The Next Generation those from the age of 10-14, this category accounts for 9% of the group above the age of 10, Comfortable Full Nesters Those with a higher income, older and are family orientated, Affluent Acquirers Young people between the age of 15-39 they’re active consumers in all forms and Liberal Sophisticates those that are well off and informed.
The ads are to suit a more older, mature audience. The fact that the advertising and the network pays their salaries means that everything that every word said has to be carefully planned not to offend the network, the companies advertising during the breaks etc.There was one time when a news reporter made a comment about going off and making a coffee during the ads, and not watching them, and then after the next ad break, came back on and made a formal apology for saying that, making the remark that "You watch the ads, because the ads pay my wages" Showing just how much influence the 2 aspects have over each other
In conclusion I think Breakfast is a good show to watch to see what's going on here and around the world. And start the day informed and entertained. I also think that breakfast attracts a wide range of audience because there is something in it for everyone wheather its breaking news, sports, entertainment or current affairs.
The Simpsons Essay
The Simpsons, created by Matt Groening is an animated TV Programme That Airs on channel 3 between 7-8 and it is watched in over 60 countries. The Simpsons is much more realistic than the typical American family comedy, despite the fact that it is a cartoon. The show has its own particular brand of humour they take the problems we have every day and turn them into laughter. It's one of the few shows that the family can sit down together and watch, and there's something in it for everyone.
Beginning with Homer, he’s the lazy dad, unmotivated with a love of beer and anything fried. He represents a nation of fast-food obsessed people who hate their office jobs. Homer is referred to in more than one episode as a sort of "everyman," a representation of American men. He rarely cleans or cooks. Homer's life revolves around the television. In fact, the whole family's lives do.
Marge is a typical housewife but she does work a few jobs over the course of the show, Marge is mainly seen cooking, cleaning, and taking care of the kids, typical housewife chores.
Bart is a misunderstood 10 year old, who is a rebel and a troublemaker. Who is always looking out for his sister, Lisa.
Lisa is only 8 and can't wait for college. Her favourite activities include playing her saxophone and attending school. She is a vegetarian and if she could have one thing (besides world peace), it would be a pony.
Maggie is the baby in the family but has done a lot in her one year of life.
The Simpsons Audience would include: Strivers, those who want to be something, but can’t quite get there. Also Survivors People with few resources are considered survivors; they are loyal to familiar brands. Young Hopefuls, Half of 15- 24 years, with low incomes. Struggling Young Families that are centred around family. Affluent Acquirers, 15-39 years of age and The Next Generation those between the ages of 10-14.
In conclusion, The Simpsons are one of the most popular shows on TV because it is so easily adaptable to most people. Many people would agree that The Simpsons is easily one of the funniest shows on television, as it has been consistently since its debut in 1989. It answers life's most difficult situations summed up in two simple sounds "Mmm ... " and , "D'oh!"
Beginning with Homer, he’s the lazy dad, unmotivated with a love of beer and anything fried. He represents a nation of fast-food obsessed people who hate their office jobs. Homer is referred to in more than one episode as a sort of "everyman," a representation of American men. He rarely cleans or cooks. Homer's life revolves around the television. In fact, the whole family's lives do.
Marge is a typical housewife but she does work a few jobs over the course of the show, Marge is mainly seen cooking, cleaning, and taking care of the kids, typical housewife chores.
Bart is a misunderstood 10 year old, who is a rebel and a troublemaker. Who is always looking out for his sister, Lisa.
Lisa is only 8 and can't wait for college. Her favourite activities include playing her saxophone and attending school. She is a vegetarian and if she could have one thing (besides world peace), it would be a pony.
Maggie is the baby in the family but has done a lot in her one year of life.
The Simpsons Audience would include: Strivers, those who want to be something, but can’t quite get there. Also Survivors People with few resources are considered survivors; they are loyal to familiar brands. Young Hopefuls, Half of 15- 24 years, with low incomes. Struggling Young Families that are centred around family. Affluent Acquirers, 15-39 years of age and The Next Generation those between the ages of 10-14.
In conclusion, The Simpsons are one of the most popular shows on TV because it is so easily adaptable to most people. Many people would agree that The Simpsons is easily one of the funniest shows on television, as it has been consistently since its debut in 1989. It answers life's most difficult situations summed up in two simple sounds "Mmm ... " and , "D'oh!"
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