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100
Suggests each viewer is different and many people in the audience will question the film and react to it in different ways to others, not just blindly accepting the messages.
What is Active Spectatorship?
100
The idea that the audience is made up of individuals who all read and interpret films differently from each other. Factors such as age, class, ethnicity, education and even past experiences will all have some bearing on the way people read and interpret a film.
What is frameworks of interpretation?
100
effects of exposure to explicit sexual or violent content; censorship debates.
What is Audience effects?
100
17th May and 24th May
What is the draft deadline date and final deadline date for the article?
100
Many viewers will watch a film just to get away from the problems and reality of their own lives. Escapism.
What is 'Diversion'? (Pleasure in watching films)
200
the fans of a particular person, team, fictional series, etc. regarded collectively as a community or subculture.
What is fandom?
200
the ability to access, analyze, evaluate and create media in a variety of forms. Basically having an understanding of the media/ film like you lot do as film students.
What is Media Literacy?
200
how people react when watching films
What is audience responses?
200
at least two audience members were treated by paramedics following the film’s graphic depictions of cannibalism
What effect did the French film Raw have on its audiences?
200
Some people may use films as a substitute for personal relationships. A classic example of this is a viewer choosing to go and see a romantic comedy because they are single. The idea of a relationship or finding a happy relationship is played out in the film. Similarly films that are about groups of friends may help a person to feel like part of a group.
What is personal relationships (Pleasure in watching films)
300
the interpretation of a media product that was intended by the maker. Viewer being in agreement with what they are viewing.
What is preferred reading?
300
Where you watch a film and who with e.g. alone at home, in the cinema, on a plane...
What is conditions of reception?
300
active spectatorship; pleasure; frameworks of interpretation; pre- and post-viewing experiences; conditions of reception
What are the factors that can affect how audiences respond to films?
300
the idea that the media can ‘inject’ ideas and messages straight into the passive audience. This passive audience is immediately affected by these messages. Used in advertising and propoganda, led to moral panics about effect of violent video and computer games.
What is the hypodermic syringe theory?
300
This is where a viewer watches a film because they see themselves reflected in it, whether it be one specific character or a certain subculture of lifestyle.
What is personal identity? (Pleasure in watching films)
400
an interpretation of a film by a reader whose social position puts them into direct conflict with what they are viewing.
What is oppositional reading?
400
What you do before and after viewing a film. Or what you know before. Also refers to being influenced by the film after viewing or influenced by another person after viewing.
What is pre and post viewing experiences?
400
Active spectatorship, fandom and types of readings Frameworks of interpretation and media literacy Conditions of reception, pre and post viewing experiences Potential audience effects of the two films (with reference to audience theory if applicable)
What are the terms you MUST include and discuss in your article?
400
is looking at how audiences can ‘interact’ with film
What is interactivity?
400
Pleasure of film watching that means finding films that might contain information that is useful for living. For example watching documentaries such as Michael Moore’s Bowling for Columbine or Fahrenheit 9/11 might educate the viewer about the current state of America.
What is Surveillance (pleasure in watching films)
500
the ‘compromise’ that is reached between the preferred reading offered by a text and the reader’s own assumptions and interpretations
What is negotiated reading?
500
ideas about how people use the media and what gratification they get from it. It assumes that members of the audience are not passive but take an active role in interpreting and integrating media into their own lives.
What is the Uses and Gratifications Theory?
500
A 1500 word article that can include pictures.
What are you required to hand in for your assessment?
500
the relationship between texts, This is when one film references another film.
What is intertextuality?
500
protect the public, and especially children, from content which might raise harm risks
What does the BBFC aim to do?
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