Reflection

In Interpreting Media, we were required to write 9 blogs. We were required to reflect on the ideas presented in class and also investigate our own ideas developed in order to produce these blogs. During this process we would have a progress check. For me, the most significant issue in the writing of these blogs [...]

Jurassic Park – How it should have ended and my favourite scene

In our first lessons of interpreting media we were given the chance to share our favourite scene from a film or television show. At the time I chose this clip from Death at a Funeral, however in this blog I will share my other favourite scene from a film and explain why. Jurassic Park, which was released [...]

Pop Culture

Popular culture can be defined as the “widespread, prevalent, and current trends or fads; arts, customs, beliefs, and all other products of human thought made by and favoured by large numbers of people in a society”  It is something that is constantly changing and developing it is anything but static. Films both cause and effect [...]

Product Placement

In class we watch clips from the film, Source Code; it was not however the film itself we looked at but the blatant use of product placement. Within the film we are ominously affronted in every single switchback with Dunkin’ Donuts in the form of a packet or later an entire shop on this small [...]

Wait…is this real?

To quote Reece “Verisimilitude, is when a film or TV show has the appearance of something being true. There are certain techniques that a film director would do to give that sense of reality, weather t would be from a sun flair, or shaky cam in movies.” To put it simply it is something  the quality of [...]

The Modern Tragic Hero

Shakespeare is one of the most daunting of playwrights for many school students and even adults who decided to read or study it. Plays were the original media that Shakespeare great stories were told – but since his stories have stemmed out into many films from traditional to not so traditional. In Shakespeare’s plays Macbeth [...]

The Night Of The Hunter

In Interpreting Media we have been watching the gregariously unsubtle film – The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton). This film  was unnerving because of its unsubtle use of Symbolics and lives as proof that subtlety is not always the most effective means of scaring people. “Like any great novel or play, a film becomes [...]

Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.

Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award. (Billy Wilder)  Subtitles, foreign languages, out of focus shots, brazen sexuality and second-class filming are just some things that are seen as been vital to a foreign film. But once you get use to the subtitles (if you choose to [...]

Dionysian struggle- Symbolism of The Joker

When we watch a film we often respond, not only to what the characters; do, say and how they react to a crisis, but we respond to underlining factors. These underlying factors we may even only notice subconsciously. One of these underlying factors is the semiotics of a film- symbols that underline the film leaving [...]

Audience Gratification in Fan Fiction

interpreting media Audience Gratification in Fan fiction Audience theory is the study how an audience reacts to media and why. Over time there have been many theory’s on why audience reaction differ from one to another and the effect media has on an audience. In this blog I will be focusing on the idea that [...]