Tuesday, 5 February 2019

I Daniel Blake

I Daniel Blake was directed by Ken Loach, who is a famous English director, who specialises in political and independent films. He is expresses his social options and the films often discuss serious issues like poverty, homelessness and lower class and working class rights.

Dave Johns plays Daniel Blake, who is a middle aged white man who is in poverty and struggling to live in the modern society.  Dave Johns is a comedian , so is therefore stepping outside his comfort zone acting in a drama film.  The actors are newcomers and non- professionals, they are first time actors and some just play the role they play in real life. The film is funded by the public, it domestically earned $200,576.72 and $4,275,018 in the UK. The film was sponsored and created by BBC.

I, Daniel Blake  was more successful than expected, it won a Palme' d' or which is a fence award which highlights it has had global success. it won the BAFTA for best film and the leading actor Dave Johns won best actor.  

Steve Mc all- Job centre manger- 'I, Daniel Blake is a representation. I hope people don't think the film is a documentary, because it's a story that doesn't represent the reality we work in.' this published on the daily mail online, this indicates that the daily mail agree with this statement as published it on their website and promoted it., the daily mail are a right wing newspaper, where as Ken Loach is left wing. The director Ken Loach fought back and said that everything in the film is based on real events. The New York times gave a good review on the film saying that the film is powerful.


The main themes of I, Daniel Blake is poverty, injustice for older people and the difficult process of benefit applications in Britain. The film is a political drama, which is Ken Loach's speciality. The film is set in Newcastle, All the actors are from their and it is all realistic. The film also reaches to a global audience, and is unusual as most global British films are filmed in central London, because everyone globally knows it, but Ken Loach wanted to make it as realistic as possible. There are different hierarchies of people presented, the job centre managers and the police are presented as higher and more respected than Dan and Katie. Dan is represented as nice, distressed and confused middle-aged white man. The main target audience are British people who may be going through similar events, they also want to make people understand that this real and based on proper events.

There is scene where the managers and staff in the Job centre refuse to help Dan and Katie, they are then thrown out, after creating a scene, which implies that they do not care about people in difficult situations.

On the I, Daniel Blake poster, we have the main character Daniel Blake in a pose that is recreated in the film. In the film there is a scene where Daniel protests outside the Job centre and Starts with the film title 'I, Daniel Blake. This scene is recreated in the poster, but there is writing in the background of all positive reviews, and has the film title in the graffiti style. 




Friday, 14 December 2018

adverts

Rewards and punishment


  • Physical Reward- Buy 1 get one free



  • Physiological- i ams cat- persuades the viewer- if we don't buy it we will be poor and cat will die



  • Value messages in advertising

Maslow's Hierarchy of needs

5 needs: Esteem, Physiological, Self- actualisation, Safety needs, Love and belonging needs

1. physiological 
2. Safety
3. belonging and love
4. esteem
5. self actualisation







Emotional Appeal
A method of Persuasion that's designed to create an emotional Response.When an advert wants to appeal to the audience to persuade them to purchase a product, they will use Pictures and videos to catch the audiences attention. For example, The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC), which uses images and videos of children living in abuse and poverty, to draw in the audience and make them feel sympathy.        






Tuesday, 11 December 2018

Advertising Rules


  • Skittles- Taste the rainbow,    Mc donald's- I'm Lovin it,  Red Bulls- It will give you 'wings', Tesco- every little helps, Nike- Just Do it

  • A lot of adverts stereotype woman, a lot adverts sexualise and objectify woman, for example lots of perfume adverts show naked woman often celebrities performing the ad. This links into the campaign in how woman are sexualised. 
  • Galaxy used very popular scene in the famous film Breakfast at Tiffany's  to publish there ad, they also had a song from the popular film 'moon river' also playing in the  background. The actor performs the iconic scene but then sits in a car and gets out a galaxy chocolate bar. 
  • Music is used in adverts to prevent the advert from being boring, if there is no speech or music in an advert then the advert will be boring. The music always corresponds with actions and tone of the music. Often the song has the message of the advert in it. For example Sky used the 'wouldn't it be nice' by The beach Boys to portray the message that sky allow you to keep leftover mobile data
  • Celebrities are used in adverts to help promote the product and brand as it gives the brand a good reputation. George Clooney features in the coffee advert nespresso, this helps promote the brand. Also some companies use famous characters to promote their product, Mr Bean has featured in snickers adverts and Scooby Doo, Fred Flintstone and Top Cat have all featured in the bank Halifax. This idea helps attracts young people who are looking to join to join Halifax. 

Monday, 10 December 2018

Computer Game Covers

Grand Theft Auto five

This game is action and crime game, about a group of car thieves and criminals. in the game most of the female characters in the gems are sexulised  due their clothes and speech. we can tell that this game is an action game due to the weapons and veichles also the characters are in action positions.

This game cover shows 5 men in an action position, the only female shown is not in an action scene but has sexulised facial expression, in a cheeky pose. This game cover connotes that this game won't have women in an action role but will have them in a sexual role.  The woman is also blonde and taking a selfie, which is representing woman being self obsessed and narcissistic.

The genre audience for teenagers and young adults, this can be connoted by the action scenes and visual images. This Poster would attract a young adult game audience because it gives them an insight of the game play.

To conclude this game cover represents female negativity and attracts a young adult audience because of the insight of the game play.

Monday, 3 December 2018

Newspapers

Spurs face FA inquiry after fan throws banana skin at Arsenal’sAubameyang

The Guardian 

This news story represents  black people, it negatively supports the fact that racism is still around today, but still in football. To sum the story a Tottenham fan threw a banana peel at Aubameyung (Arsenal's top scorer, who is also an african Gabonese football player). The fan and Tottenham have been charged by the FA, and the fan was arrested and banned from games. 

The angle in the picture on the guardian website frames the banna skin and cuts the players heads of and we only see the banna and a dolly shot of Aubameyang's legs. The headline gets to the point and literally explains the main story at head, which adds the seriousness element. The article includes quotes from tottenham staff apologising on behalf of the fan.  The Guardian are a left wing newspaper so they are likely to hugely support anti- Racism.
Racism in football have been a big thing in football down the years. A number of Black football players have experienced racism in football.








Daily Mail

Tottenham fan arrested for throwing banana on the pitch as Arsenal forward Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang celebrates goal in North London derby

Daily Mail are a right wing newspaper, so they tend not care a lot about ethnicity equality and more about capitalism and politics.  This headline is more lighthearted than the Guardians. 
 The article doesn't accuse the fan as much as the guardian does. They are abrupt to make the point that it isn't confirmed that it was a racial offence. 
 They have identical images to the Gurdian, but they don't cut out aubameyangs legs as they show the full image, this connotes that they don't care that much about the banana. There is also another image of a banana in the air making its way to the players, the guardian also used this image. 


The Independent

The independent is an impartial newspaper it is both right and left wing.

Friday, 30 November 2018

Comtempary

David Beckham kissing his child

Last weekend David Beckham took his kids to winter wonderland for a christmas treat. 
He then posted a picture on social media of him kissing his youngster daughter Harper- seven on the lips. His post caused a huge uproar and debate on whether kissing your children on the lips is right or not. Lots of celebrities have got involved in the debate of this issue. Greg Rutherford, the olympic long jumper got involved and defended Beckham  by also posting a picture of him kissing his youngest on the lips. 


Leicester city Helicopter crash

After an exciting game with West Ham, the Leicester city Chairman carried on with his match day routine. He got in a helicopter in the middle of the pitch with his staff. A few minutes after a crash was heard and then seen by serval of leicester city players and Staff. The helicopter had crashed and 5 people had been believed to be dead. The next two games for lecisetr where the most difficult for all the leiscerte city players. They grouped together with the fans in 2 minute silence,.