Showing posts with label Reception Theory. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Reception Theory. Show all posts

Thursday, January 9, 2020

Radio






Radio


  • PBS (Public broadcasting service
    • paid through licensing fee
  • REMIT (set of rules for radios)
    • pluralistic ideological perspectives
  • However new technology has allowed audience to pick and mix their own music now and not needing to listen to the radio. This links to David Gauntlett's theory of pick n mix.
    • Digital technology has allowed audience to produce stuff
    • It also maximises accessibility
  • Thumbnailing images is a great way of categorising stuff 



Late-Night Women's hour

  • Broadcast on BBC radio 4
  • Spin-off of Women's hour
  • It broadcasts once every month/ an infrequent broadcasting schedule
  • Targets a female audience
  • was presented by Lauren Laverne
  • Usually 11pm on a Friday
  • Target Audience is middle aged feminists
    • Talk a lot about Feminists issues
  • Lexis are well-spoken and articulate and are educated
  • Apposition is when 2 things are placed side by side, similar to opposition except they're on the same side
  • Targeting an extremely specific target audience
  • Established 2015

Broadcasting is distributing a media product to a large audience easily
BBC was established in 1922

Women's hour originally was aimed for house work for women, this reinforced hegemonic norms, making it patronising

How have sociohistorical factors lead to a diversification of media output?

We have such a diversification of media now because of digital convergence

  • Stuart Hall: Reception Theory
    • Preferred
    • Negotiated
    • Oppositional
      • Cannot relate to what the radio hosts are discussing about at all and find it boring 
Vaginas/pockets radio episode
  • Female body odour 
  • Then they talk about fashion which is much more hegemonically safer

Clay Shirky
End of the audience theory

  • 'we are making our own stuff and using them instead'
  • Digital technology can now share (produce) music and videos and radio to others

Wednesday, November 21, 2018

Newspapers Industry

The Daily Mirror

The Times

A text is a media product <----------
 |       Decodes                                   \
v                                                         |
Audience                                            | Negotiation
 |       Encodes                                     |
v                                                         /
Producer--------------------------------/



Institution and industry are completely separate terms

Institution is the values and ideology of a media production




A more informal, high impact, sans-serif font
Smart casual highlights that Long is a bit formal but also laid back
The white background is a neutral, non threatening background
The different colours of the tabs are nicely coordinated and blend into the white but also connote to variety and choice.
The variety of student shows that everyone is welcome. Different hairstyles, ethnic groups, genders, clothing.
Institutions differentiates from each other to attract groups of people.
  1. Differentiation
  2. Competition
  3. Identification
  4. Ideology
Purpose of an logo is for it to be easily recognised as it's own unique company
Many logos can be simple, classic and clean

For Shell, the yellow symbolises energetic which correlates to Shell's energy for car infrastructure 

Image result for starbucks little mermaidImage result for Shell logo parody
Starbuck logo green symbolises growth and nature
White symbolises peace and tranquility
The crown symbolise power and the best but also loyalty
Stereotypically attractive female
Long wavy organic hair
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Image result for Trump on the gropes newspaper

Selection of images used in a newspaper reinforces a negative ideological perspective
"His own party deserts him", the use of the word "desert" makes him more isolated
"On the gropes" means that Trump is in a bad situation politically
Play on the words "hanging by the ropes", meaning that he's cornered and about to lose, pun
"Trump on the gropes", the headline is absolutely massive, taking up a third of the cover.
Aimed towards people with not high educational levels, potentially towards GCSE levels, around 14
The whole story is adverse
2/3 of the headlines are about TV shows, meaning that the target audience would be of working-classes
A lot of assumptions being made here like "Strictly" and "Corrie", quite informal for a mode of address and can be told by how the writers know what the target audience is on about
San-serif font has associations with informality.

Image result for the daily mail logo
Very Conservative, implying that the newspaper tends to be proud of it's own country, includes the UK coat of arms.
Very upper class and the font enforces this as we associate terribly neat handwriting with the upper-classes


Newspapers cover current news


  • Newspapers have a cluttered layout
  • Has multiple stories
  • Has multiple headlines

 Masthead
the title of a newspaper or magazine 

Barcode
a machine-readable code in the form of numbers and a pattern of parallel lines of varying widths, printed on a commodity and used especially for stock control.

Caption

a title or brief explanation accompanying an illustration, cartoon, or poster

Headline
The title of a magazine or a newspaper

Main Image
The big image on the cover of a magazine or newspaper

Page Numbers
The digits given to a certain page depending on how far into the magazine/newspaper/book it is

Target Audience
Which group of people the producers are trying to aim their products towards at

Pull Quote
a brief, attention-catching quotation taken from the main text of an article
 
Classified Ad
is a form of advertising which is particularly common in newspapers, online and other periodicals which may be sold or distributed free of charge

Skyline
this is an information panel on the front page that tells the reader about other stories in the paper to tempt them inside

Edition
Different versions of the newspaper

Stand First
a brief introductory summary of an article in a newspaper or on a website, typically appearing immediately after the headline

Byline
The line above the story that gives the author's name

Body Text
The written material

Standalone
A picture that can exist on it's own but usually on the front page

Centre Spread
One image that runs across two pages

 
Lead Story
The main story of the paper

Gutter
The blank space between two facing pages in the centre of a newsletter or magazine

Folio
Top label for the whole page

Page furniture
Everything on the page other than the stories and the text and the images
Image result for recent newspaper covers
Proairetic codes can be seen by the couple as if they are about to speak or are in the middle of getting a photo.


Wednesday, October 31, 2018

Stuart Hall- Reception Theory




Image result for adidas leg hair ad

Adidas Leg hair Advert

-Hegemony, the rules we follow in society
-We conform because it makes life easier

This advert is breaking gender stereotypes
This is breaking hegemonic norms
"distasteful"

Adidas was trying to put affront that girls having leg hair is normal but it didn't turn out well

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Stuart Hall- Reception Theory

When we receive something we are given something
Hall suggested that there are 3 different ways to view a media product

1. Preferred Reading: The right reading of a media product, which can be enforced by positioning

This concept has to be approached carefully often texts(media products) intentionally have multiple meanings.

1. Dominant Reading: The audience agrees with the dominant values in the text, and agrees with the values and ideology it shows.

2. Negotiated Reading: The audience generally agrees with what they see, but they may disagree with certain aspects

3. Oppositional Reading: The audience completely disagrees with what they see, and rejects the dominant reading

4. Aberrant Reading: When the audience completely misunderstands what the text is trying to present

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Con-Air
Image result for con airNicolas Cage in this movie was sent to prison because he killed a man, that might be oppositional reading because they would think he's a bad man but the movie suggests to be comedic and the preferred reading is that killing the really bad prisoners is a good thing.

A negotiated reading might be that it is action packed and ridiculous, even though in real life it would be a terrible thing to happen.


Image result for gucci guilty ad
Celebrity endorsement: Chris Evans encourages people to buy the product
Sexually suggestive, use of low key lighting connotes sex intertextuality, suggest romantic films
The dominant reading is the that we are meant to want this lifestyle, that the most important thing in the world is sex.
Oppositional reading is that such religious groups may not like how sex is presented in this way.
These people are stereotypically attractive, tanned skin, blond hair, blue eyes, people who are gay may not find this attractive. The connotations of tattoos are that you are rebellious.
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