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Radio  Started in 2015 Context - Late Night Women's Hour - 2016 ' Home ' is the title of the episode The Target Audience - Women - Cult Following, Middle Class and Sophisticated There was another played on midday called Women's Hour where it would play when the man was at work and kids were at school so it would talk about house work etc.  Each episode focuses on a completely different theme Late Night Woman's Hour is broadcast once a month, late at night and features a number of female panellists Quotes from this episode  "Are you creating a nest to hibernate this winter" "Socialist Cosiness" "Encouraged to se the outside as incredibly dangerous" "I'm using it as a metonym" The Lexis of the lady's talking are elegant, delicate and sophisticated, however, what they are talking about they are delivering with chest and confidence.  The level of sternest is juxtaposing to what they are talking about,...

Humans Key Scenes and What to Talk About Breakfast Scene Talk about how it talks about modern slavery Encodes Lisbet Van Zoonen's theory about the fact that Anita is only there to serve pleasure to men and serve in a male dominated household  Could talk about the Pick N' Mix Theory of David Gauntlett  Stuart's Theory of Representation and Reception and how the audience fit in with that Leo Enters The Brothel  Leo's body language and how it develops throughout the scene, challenging the hegemonic norm of men in that in environment and Stuart Hall's Theory & and how it challenges that How Women are presented - Lisbet Van Zoonen

Audience Theorists Pick N' Mix - David Gauntlet Henry Jenkins - Fan Theory  Industry Theory  Vertical integration - Media company that owns other companies that are in different stages of production  Horizontal integration - Media company owns other companies in the same industry  Multi-media Integration - Company that owns on a variety of digital technologies   Conglomerate - A company that owns other companies  Digitally convergent technologies - Using anything computer wise to watch a media product this allows the product to reach a wider target audience, this also allows producers to take bigger risks as the audience is so vast now that someone is bound to see it and share it, cult and niche audiences are going to share it Canal + (plus) was the company behind 'Les Revenant" Launched 4th November 1984 French and Spanish Channel - Multi National 1.4% audience  HQ is in Paris The owner company is Vivendi which was found...

Instrumentalist Band - No Singer Scottish Band All Men - Beardy Men Sludgy Deep and Dark Tones Black Cat - 6 minute songs Atypical bend, targeting a niche/cult audience  Mogwai are an example of Henry Jenkins -+ The soundtrack of Les Revenant is inappropriate so to have Mogwai's music in the show they had to tone it down so therefore to have a name with a cult following in France it allows more people to be attracted to them, this is called, addressing a pre-sold audience   The American Marketing Advert  The fast paced editing adds tension and drama to the advert Jump cuts, are symbolic of its horror genre, dramatically dramatised compared to the actual version  The Mes en Scene  There is a focused contrast between violence and sex The romanticised scenes of the Simon and Adele makes it also seem like a romantic film They do not show all 8 of the main retuned as it would take too long, focus on parts that would not be as inter...

Liesbet Van-Zoonen argues that media language encodes how male and female characters act in media products. Explore how representations position the audience in Humans and Les Revenants In this exam I will be talking about how you can apply Lisbet Van-Zoonen's theory to my case studies, Humans and Les Revenants when talking about how they encode how both male and female characters act in the two media product, I will be talking about how the representations of male and females position the audience and comparing them to one another. In Les Revenant, the sex scene between Lena and her boyfriend portrays the youth clutter of male and females.  You see the couple having sex for the first time which positions the audience in a voyeristic mode of address making it seem quite uncomfortable for the audience.  However, the male in the scene is seen as dominant one and takes the lead by closing the curtains, asking Lena is she wants to have sex and being the one to...

Jean Baudrillard (hyperreality)  suggested that “We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.” Evaluate the extent to which this postmodernist statement applies  Humans  and  Les Revenants I DISAGREE My 3 scenes:  Madam Costa's in the Kitchen Simon's at the door  Camille makes a sandwich How did she get here? It drives Mr Costa into thinking his is mad, there is more morning that information here in this scene  You get very little information from this, it is the meaning and and connotations of his costume and her costume that allow the audience into realising what is going on

Representation is a re presentation it demonstrates the producers ideologies.  Representation allows audience members to be targeted by producers and also allows producers to specifically target certain people for certain things for financial gain.  Producers use representation to manipulate a certain a certain group of people, using stereotypes, these help audiences to identify the certain characters.  It is also a shortcut for both the audience and producer, it allows the producer to save time, manipulating the audience to into change their beliefs to the producers one.  The reason the producer wants to manipulate and change he beliefs of the audience is to re write societal ideas on certain things.  THE STUDY OF REPRESENTATION LOOKS AT: The Group, Place or issue on which a media product is focusing on The Media Language that the media product uses in order to present the groups or issues  The ideological perspective about the group or issue b...