Skins

Skins is a British drama series which involves lots of drug use, alcohol consumption, and reckless behavior while following the lives of a group of teenagers. It is a teen-drama and every episode happens in chronological order whilst focusing and seeing things from each character point of view.

Skins engages audiences whether they watched every episode so they always know what's happening anyway, or someone who occasionally watches it as it tells people whats been happening without actually showing them again. For example, Tony was hit by a car and if you missed that then the fact that he is all broken and scared of cars now shows that his injuries came from a car accident. Then he shouts about how it's horrible not being himself after being hit which then makes people who occasionally watch it realize what's happened to him.

Within each series of Skins it shows relationship problems, problems with a parent, the stress of school, and issues like peer pressure within a group of friends. Skins never represents teenagers as the problem, it shows parents acting even more childish than the teenagers and shows how it affects the teens individually because of their problems at home.

Skins is aimed at teenagers the most as they could relate to these teenagers lives as they too are teens who have relationships, school, alcohol and drugs are always around them and many probably have family issues so they might find it very interesting to see how others cope.

Rio

Rio is a film which is made by Disney. The production is the actual shooting and recording of a film. In Rio they do not need to shoot anything, it's all animated which means every move that every character made would've had to be made manually.

The audience of a film is the people who the film is aimed at and who the film is suitable to watch. The main audience for Rio is children. Its rating is U meaning that anyone can watch it!

Marketing is the business promoting and advertising their film so people want to watch it! Disney did this by making trailers for Rio.

Here's the trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1GRO31ve5Q

The trailer has a voice-over each of the scenes shown in the trailer which describes what's happening. Blue is the last bird of his kind and he cannot fly, and he's living with humans, doing human activities so because it's already unusual people would be interested. Then he gets sent to Rio to find the only other female bird of his kind so they can fall in love (with the help of the humans) and they get chained together. Blue then falls in love with the wild and although he misses his life with the humans he wants to stay with his new family!
The trailer shows funny moments in the film making people want to watch it as the whole film might be funny!

In the trailer they mention the other films they have created: 'Ice Age' so people watching the trailer have a film they can compare it to and if they enjoyed the film Ice Age they might want to watch Rio because the film would have the same qualities.

The impact of new technology would benefit Disney when they're advertising their new films as advertising is everywhere on the internet now and if someone shares a link or something to do with their new films then all their friends or followers will see meaning even more people then know about the film!

Magazine Annotation

The masthead is big and white on top of a dark background to catch your eye and so you know which magazine it is. The fact that there are two girls o the front with nice figures would instantly attract a young girl. Then there's the title which says 'HOW THEY GOT THEIR BODIES BACK' so straight away anyone who would like to regain their good bodies would be attracted to this magazine. There are then two images (one under each woman) which shows them when they were pregnant. This shows that the magazine is attractive towards mum's who feel as if their bodies aren't quite what they were before. Then there is a banner across the bottom of the page which mentions that celebrities trainers have given tips which everyone would want to hear because they think that if a celebrity has this person to train them, that they must be good! This would give women hope that they can regain a wonderful figure and they have then sold the magazine to a certain market of people instantly.

Then in the top right hand corner, it shows gossip and feuds which once again would appeal to younger women or teenagers. the bar code is in the bottom right hand corner as you see that last.

About Myself

My name's Chloe Stephenson, I'm 16 and making this blog for media studies A-level. This is because I feel it will help me to pursue the job I would like to do. I did ICT for GCSE and ECDL and passed both. ECDL is equivalent to a B grade and I got a C in ICT.