Institutional background
Use IMDB to find out the institutions behind Independence Day. Click on Company Credits and then look for the production company and UK distributor.

1) What was the film studio or production company behind Independence Day? E.g. Warner Brothers, Paramount etc. 
The production company behind Independence Day was Stargate.
2) Who was the distributor for the theatrical release of the film in the UK?
The distributor for Independence day was 20th Century Fox.
Genre and Media language analysis
1) What sub-genre of Science Fiction does Independence Day fit into? What issues or fears in society might be addressed in the film?

2) How can you tell it fits that sub-genre? Be specific with reference to specific clips or scenes from the film.

3) How does the narrative (storyline) of the film fit the Science Fiction genre?

4) Who are the main characters in Independence Day and why might they appeal to an audience?

5) How does the mise-en-scene in Independence Day fit the Science Fiction genre?


Release date and marketing campaign
1) What was the UK release date for your chosen film?

2) Find the trailer for Independence Day, embed it in your blog and explain why it might appeal to an audience. 

3) What other examples of marketing can you find on Google for Independence Day (film poster, teaser trailers, main trailers, newspaper reviews or TV interviews etc.)



Critical reception
1) What is the IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes rating for Independence Day?

2) What is the word-of-mouth like for Independence Day? Use the IMDB user review rating or the Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer rating to judge whether the public rate the movie.

3) Find three quotes (no more than 25 words each) from user reviews of Independence Day and post them on your blog.


Box office success
Use IMDB to find out the box office records for Independence Day. Click on Company Credits and then Box Office/Business. You may also want to use the excellent website Box Office Mojo to find out the budget and box office success for the film.

1) What was the original budget for Independence Day?

2) How much money did Independence Day make in the opening weekend?

3) How much money has Independence Day made in total? (Look for the subheading ‘Gross’ which has the total box-office earnings listed).

4) For a film to be considered a box office success, it needs to make at least two-and-a-half timesthe budget in box office takings. Using this method, was Independence Day a success at the box office? 


Stars and director
Research the stars and director for Independence Day.

1) What other films has the director made? Are they in the same or similar genres?

2) Who is the main star of Independence Day?

3) What other films has the main star appeared in? Are any of those films similar to Independence Day? Are any of them Science Fiction films?

4) Are the stars or the director or writer mentioned in the trailer for Independence Day?


Audience pleasures
1) What specific aspects of Independence Day would an audience enjoy?

2) Identify three key moments in the film that audiences would particularly enjoy and explain the audience appeal for these key scenes. Use media language in your analysis.

3) Which characters in Independence Day would particularly appeal to different audience types? Use specific examples from the film to support your points.

4) Write a detailed demographic breakdown of the possible target audience for Independence Day. Include age, gender, social class, education, job/earnings, where they live, what they enjoy in their spare time and brands they are attracted to.

Plans

1) Brainstorm ideas for a new Science Fiction film aimed at a family audience. Plan out the following:

1. Issue/fear that drives the storyline (e.g. alien invasion, contagious disease, overpopulation etc.) -My issue/fear that will feature/drive my movie is a contagious disease called The Flux.
2. Title and tag line - The Flux , Run before it gets you. 
3. Logline – summing up the film in one ‘hook’ sentence - As mad scientist Dave's experiment goes wrong , The Flux spreads across the Seven Seas infecting everything in its way. 
4. Other successful Science Fiction films similar to your idea - Other Sci-Fi films that are similar to my idea 'The Happening' and 'Outbreak'.
5. The narrative elements / plot and the sub-genre of Science Fiction it fits into - A narrative element for 'The Flux' is fear of contagion as there is an international fear that people near you might have the disease.Another narrative element is fear of mutation as the disease infects humans and the infected humans try to infect the people closest to them.The plot is a scientist experimenting on a dead corpse accidentally finds a horrible disease. The disease then becomes an international fear which drives peoples crazy and it becomes an every man for himself situation.The sub-genres that 'The Flux' fits into contagion and mutation.
6. Location: the setting of the film and how this fits the Science Fiction genre -This film starts in a science lab in Texas but then the disease spreads world wide and becomes an international disease. This ties in with the Sci-Fi genre as it is set in a crazy scientists lab.
7. The hero / heroine and their appeal to the audience - The protectionist is a student who is studying science in school and he thinks he can get raid of the virus. His appeal to the audience is that he is a young student who is still at school so the audience is able to relate to him.
8. The conflicts the hero / heroine encounters during the film (can be physical, moral or internal)
9. Other characters and their role in the film
10. Presentational style: The look, style and feel of the film e.g. will it feature 3D? Visual and Sound FX? CGI? 

2) Which of the aspects of the brief have you successfully included in your idea? (Note: you do not need to include all but must include at least two of these aspects.)

• Futuristic Earth setting
• Another planet such as Pluto or Mars
• Outer space or set on a spaceship
• Issues of genetic engineering, cloning or AI
• Changing people, robot technology or how people may develop in future through scientific advancement- The disease changes people by slowly killing them and nobody , but 1 person knows how to cure the disease

3) How will you make your film popular with a family audience?

I will offer visceral pleasures in my film such as letting the audience relate with the protagonist and featuring a family in the film.

4) Plan a marketing campaign for your film: trailers and video content, social media, apps, tied-in merchandising, franchise opportunities (e.g. sequels, spin-offs etc.)

5) Prepare for the creative task in the exam. Plan, sketch and draw the following:

• Logo and graphic identity for your new Science Fiction film
• Film poster
• Website homepage for your Science Fiction film
• Storyboard for a 30 second trailer for the film. Use this AQA storyboard sheet if you don't pick up a paper copy in class. 

Film trailer and poster analysis of 'Frozen'

Key Conventions-Poster

Release Date-This lets the audience know when the film is coming out, also it's coming out just before Christmas which connotes a family film.

Your chosen movie

1) What film have you chosen? I Have chosen the film 'Frozen'2) Why did you choose this film in particular?I have chosen this film in particular because it was a very successful film which reached audiences all over the world and it was highly marketed and advertised.
Institutional background

1) What was the film studio or production company behind your chosen film? E.g. Warner Brothers, Paramount etc.The production company for 'Frozen' is Walt Disney Pictures/Animation.2) Who was the distributor for the theatrical release of the film in the UK?The distributors for the theatricals release of 'Frozen' are Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures.
No brand loyalty

1) What genre does your chosen film fit into?The genre that 'Frozen' fits in is Animation,Comedy and Adventure.2) How can you tell it fits that genre? Be specific with reference to the trailer.

You can tell that 'Frozen' fits into the 'Adventure genre' as the

The Conjuring (2013)

Genre: Horror

Narrative: The storyline is based on a true story. It is about a family who are moving to  a new house.When they move house the realise that it may be haunted so they call 2 priests to investigate and they found out that the spirit of a a girl that dies there 30 years ago has possessed the wife in the family, they then go through exorcism to release the spirit out of the wife.

Character:The characters are dressed in an old fashioned attire. As this movie is based in an uncivilized area and is based in the early thousands. The 2 main characters are priests and the priests are dealing with a typical American family.The priests are 2 brave characters as one of them can see ghosts and the other performs exorcism.

Iconography: In this film                    

Reader profile

• Age: 12- 30
• 70% Male and 30% Female
• Normal school students/ Private Education, Students, Youtubers
• Medium class to working class
• All ethnicity's , mainly white people

Typography

Camera Work: Minority Report shot-by-shot analysis

First Shot:  Medium shot / Medium Close up

This a medium shot of a group of people. It is at a face to face angle which allows the audience to see the emotions and feelings running through the faces and bodies of these people. This shot also allows the audience to see a little bit of the background.The masks worn by the people show some form of dominance.

Second shot

PhotoWork Analysis dbhasy

Close up shot

Jason is a strong bully who is dominate and the shot shows that he is dominant position.

Also this is shot at a face to face angle.

In his shot Gus is a weak and less dominate guy. It is shot at a high angle to show innocence.

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Jason spots Gus and decides and looks him in the eye, Ella is an innocent bystander in this scene.

This a wide shot and a lower angle

'CHAPPiE' Analysis

Language

The text on top of the title shows that the Institution has made other big selling films.

The tag line and the release date are other expected codes and conventions. The effect created here is that the robot is humans only hope, you can imagine and make out that the human race is being over taken and this robot is either one of the robots taking over the human race or protecting it. Also it is subversive because it looks like it has mind of its own and is programmed in a different way to other robots, the 'reject sign shows that this its a different type of robot to its race.

Audience

The poster shows that the movie is targeted at people who enjoyed the movie 'District 9' because it mentions that they have the same director as 'District 9'.Also its for people into the Sci-Fi/Action genre.It looks like its directed towards men although some females could watch it.It is also a 15 age rating.

 Institution

'CHAPPiE' was produced by Columbia Pictures.They are associated with Sci-Fi and action film it was directed by Blomkamps and his wife Teri Tatchell. Chappie also grossed $31.6l Million to make.

This movie took 2 weeks to write and was shot in Columbia in 2014.The film was shop with Red Epic Cameras.Using Panavision anamorphic primes.

Representation

The picture shows half of a robots face with the clouds as a background it looks scratched and 

well worn.It also looks like its in a dominate position.

Summer research project: Science Fiction film - Terminator Genysis

The sub-genre of Science Fiction the film fits into: The sub genre is future based and time travel as their are many key features that show the two genres.
A brief summary of the plot - What happens in the film?: A man called John Connor makes a organisation called Skynet. Skynet sends a woman called back in time to save her mother from a 'terminator'  another terminator of the same programming from the future alters the time and the woman no known as kyle reese is stuck in 1984 with a terminator to protect her. Then skynet send another man to save the woman and the man knows as John Connor to fight against the evil terminators.
How are the characters linked the Science Fiction genre?:  In the movie there are characters called terminators which are chrome covered robots programmed to kill all of the human race.
Themes - What narative themes are linked to the genre? : The themes are the typical robot invasion and time travel.
A video clip embedded from YouTube of the trailer: 

The production company : Terminator Genisys was produced by Skydance productions.

The Main Cast : Emilia Clarke, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jason Clarke , Jai Courtney, J.K Simons,Dayo Okeniyi and Matt Smith. 

What year the production was released : The move was released in 2015

What the production company is known for : Skydance Productions is known for making The Terminator films.

Budget and box office information: The move budget was $155,000,000 and in total it made a whooping $435Million Dollars. Critical reception: Movie reviews mentioned the move as a 'messy sequel' and was graded a 'B+' on A to F scale,Terminator won no official awards but was nominated for the 2015 Teen Choice Awards. 

Target Audience : Skydance Productions hoped to target a much a younger audience as the movie has less slurs and bad language which is suitable for the younger audience.Its also directed to male audiences as there is a female actress who is featured as the main star in the film.

Photoshop HSBC Adverts

I created this image by getting 3 images from the internet,Then i cropped them to fit the template and i put the text 'water' over them.These 3 images all interpret water in different ways.The first one is people who don't have water and are drinking different water to the second image;The second image shows water represented in a good way and it represents water in a beautiful way. I would improve the text and try and get the images to look more clearer by cropping them in a less compact way.This specific image is aimed at younger people who don't understand the word water in a way that is much more than just a drink.

This is 3 images that are the same but 3 different words that represent different ways someone would interpret this image.The first word shows that someone can use this as a gaming device to entertain themselves with.The second image 

My science-fiction film

Key details

Your group members: Abdullah, Gus, Rashida , Tariq 

Film title: The Real EarthLanders 

Science Fiction sub-genre:Alien Invasion,Dystopia 

Brief narrative (plot) - max 50 words:Humans dig a hole underground and expand it so that all people that live on earth are underground. Aliens come along suddenly and a approximately 5 million find the hole and nuke it. Then it turns into a brawl between the humans and the aliens.

Budget breakdown

Director:A list 10million

Cast:B List 5million 

Filming locations:USA 20million Medium set 8million

Cameras:4k Hd cameras 5million

Editing:Heavy Cgi 5million

CGI/Special effects (SFX):

Sound:3million 

Marketing:10million 

Total cost: 100 million 

Textual Analysis: Science Fiction

Film 1: The Leviathan
Sub Genre: The beginning shows space ships and humans travelling around space, then an extra terrestrial creature comes up and it tries to eat the humans , this suggests that it is Man vs Alien film and comes under action and gory.

Key Conventions: There is a typical storyline of humans travelling through a dystopia land  where they find extra terrestrial creatures and they get eaten by these creatures.

Target Audience: This is aimed at 16+ viewers that are mostly male because it contains action and violent.

Film 2:Interstellar
Sub Genre:It has space ships so it shows that is a typical Space time travel movie.

Key conventions: it conceeds of an astronaut traveling acros space and communicating with another dimension .

Target Audience: this is a family film as it has no violence.

Film 3 : Jurassic World

Sub Genre: it has dinosaurs which are unusual creaturesit is a man vs monster film.

Key conventions: it has alot of dinosaurs which are typical extra terrestrial creature.

Target Audience: It is a family film since there is a family in the movie

Introduction to Media

1. Why did you choose GCSE Media Studies? I chose Media Studies because i enjoy editing i wish to explore the world of media and learn how to use different programs and film videos of my own,also a friend recommended it to me .I also use Sony-Vegas 
2. Which part of the course are you looking forward to most? I am looking forward to filming a music video and editing it using Photoshop and other editing software, i am looking forward to this because i have seen examples of other people filming videos and i wanted to try it .
3. What knowledge and skills do you hope to learn in Media? I hope to learn about  using photoshop to an extent and also learning further about how to edit videos.
4. What grade are you realistically hoping to achieve in Media? I am hoping to achieve an A by the end of year 9.
5. What was the last TV programme or film you watched? The last film i watched was Fast & Furious 7, i had seen it before but i wanted to see it again.
6. Why do you think that TV programme or film appealed to an audience? Fast And Furious 7 was appealing to an audience because people in the movie were pre-famous and it was coming from a big franchise.
7. What technology have you used to access the media in the last 24 hours? (Radio, TV, phone etc.)? In the past 24 hours i have used a PlayStation4 , a PC (gaming pc to play pc games such as CS:GO , Dota2 , League Of Legends, Minecraft and more ) and also a Television.
8. What device do you use most to access the media? I use a PC and a Mobile Phone the most to access media because i have a Twitter application on both devices. 
9. Find the trailer for Jurassic World on YouTube and embed it in your blog. What film genres would Jurassic World fit into? Jurassic World  would fit into a Sience-Fiction genre because it contains extra terrestrial creatures (dinosaurs) and it is not realistic.
10. Why does Jurassic World appeal to a family audience? Jurassic world will appeal to a family because it is not too violent so it is suitable for kids.