Practice Questions

Suggest two ways in which men have been represented in these adverts.

In the fosters advert the men at the hut on the beach are shown to be the dominant people, over the women anyway. This is shown as there are mainly women on the beach and one of the men is always looking at them and interacting with them whilst in a conversation, this gives the impression that he is a catch and all the women think that he is a god. Where the man in the pub in England is not sue what to do and calls them for advice as he is struggling to know what to do with his mate that is a 'space invader'. The angle shot when the man is playing with an Ozzy rules ball with the girl is looking up at the man and down on the women when they through it to each other. The expressions on the mans face when he is flirting with the women is a very expressive one as he is putting his whole effort into it, when he is clearly not.
In the KFC advert the women seems the dominant person (well in the household) even though she is cooking in the first shot of the advert you can see this as the camera is facing up at the the women and the facing down at the man. the man and the women are also in different parts of the house showing a mental barrier between them, the man is reading a newspaper almost like the women waits on him hand and foot yet when he annoys her the roles switch and the man ends up outside on the step at night. This is very different when they are in KFC as the person behind the counter is a women and when she hands him the food she does it so as she is almost kneeling down to him and he is standing there waiting with approval.

Choose one of the advertisements, explore how the representation of men in your chossen advertisment have been used to sell the product shown.

In the fosters advert the men are the main characters in it, this is because beer is a typical mans drink therefore if they had women presenting it, it would not look right. It also makes you think that if you drink foster you suddenly know the men on the beach who can give you advice when ever you need it. The men on the beach are also

What kind of world is being constructed by media texts?
That the 'reality' of the world presented by texts is constructed.
That audiences respond to texts according to their experience and knowledge of the world presented to them.

The world that is being constructed in the film 'murderball' is one of a person in a wheelchair and showing how they should not be treated any different even if people are being pitiful towards them. It shows people that do not treat them any different and shows how much happier they are when they are around those people. The world that they show you makes the audience feel a mixture off emotions depending on what the people in the wheelchair are talking about, most of the time you agree with what ever they are talking about although some of the time you do not agree with what they are saying, such as the words from Joe when he is talking about his son and how he would like him to be better at sports when he is really good at the academic side of life.

How are cinematic horror conventions challenged in Scream?

The victim is in connection with the killer so that his voice is heard and he devlops a sort of relationship with them before killing them. The killer does not have a motive in this film either he just picks anyperson who is by them selves in the middel of nowhere. The victim talks sudductivly to the killer this almost leads the killer on making him think that he is special altough when the killer says 'so i can see who im looking at' the victim gets really scared and doesnt know how to react.

His facial expressions is relaxed as if the product did this.

The model is jumping because the product is called 'joop jump'.

The models body move in one motion except from his face.

The green lettering stands out to show the product name clearly.

The colour scheme is blue being faded into white with the bright blue bottle in the white part letting it stand out.