Monday 3 June 2013

Last Min Revision:

AMC's Mad Men S5E11 - ' The Other Woman' Directed by Phil Abraham and Written by Matthew Wiener. Attracts its audience by use of enigma codes , ensemble cast and relatable plots.

 ABC'S Lost S1E2 - ' The Pilot Part 2' Directed by J.J Abrahams ,story by Jeffery Lieber. Attracts is audience by use of a polysemic narrative, complex character roles and lack of non diegetic sound.

 BBC's Louis Theroux - ' The Most Hated Family In Crisis' Directed by Emma Cooper. Attracts is audience by keeping to the BBC's permit of Inform ,Educate and Entertain. Theroux attracts a niche subject matter and his presenting styles.

 Sin City (2005) Directed by Frank Miller is a neo noir graphic novel adaptation (hybrid genre) . Uses conventions of voice of via non diegetic sound. Superhuman strength and reoccurring motifs of depression , paranoia and Corruption.

 District 9 (2009) Directed by Niel Blomkamp is a hybrid genre of Sci/Fi - Part Mock Document. This conforms to its genre via the uses of interviews holding time codes and on screen graphics allowing breaking the fourth wall (acknowledgement of the camera) Aliens and humans coexisting with body gore.Similar films: The Fly(1986) , Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (1956) and Avatar (2009)

  Fish Tank (2009) Directed by Arndrea Arnold. Lies within the social realism genre.Conforms to its genres conventions by the use of hand held camera cinematography , shallow depth of field, no non diegetic music, evolving around the representation of the under represented ( working class)
Similar films : Saturday Night And Sunday Morning (1960) A Taste Of Honey (1961)

 Nirvana - Nevermind (1991) Produced by Butch Vig and signed to Geffen Records after leaving Sub Pop. ' helped popularize the Seattle grunge movement' 'changed the ideologies within mainstream music.Smells like teen spirit replaced MJ'S 'Dangerous' at no1# on the billboard. Has had over 107,000,000 views on youtube. Over 30,000,000 hard copies were released worldwide. They used PR stunts to gain more fans by the two step flow theory of T.V shows. Given producers such as Andy Wallace who did Slayers 1990's album more job opportunities.

 Lady Gaga - The Fame (2008) Interscope records.Hold Para social relationships with fans. ' Product Placement' a 1/3 of her income is via product placement.Huge success in global sales.Is the most followed person on twitter with 37mil+ followers. She used her para social to answer her fans questions via youtube. 

Radiohead - The King Of Limbs (2011) Self released via the internet. ' changed the mindset of distribution and record companies' 'DIY music marketing' . Was the 8th studio album and released as MP3 and WAv formats before hard copies of Vynil and Cd. The album was one of the most successful selling albums as they allowed fans to pay what they felt should be paid for the work.