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Reception theory focuses on how the audience perceives and interacts with a work of art or media. It was originally a method for literary criticism but can be applied to other art forms like film. Reception theory explains that meaning comes from the interaction between the audience and the work, not from the work itself. The theory is relevant when creating media for both passive and active audiences, who will have different levels of engagement. Uses and gratification theory also examines audience reception but looks at why people choose certain media and what needs they fulfill, such as identity, education, entertainment, or social interaction. Understanding audience reception is important for creating successful products targeted at both active and passive groups.
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Reception theory proposes that media texts contain encoded messages from producers but audiences decode texts in different ways based on their own experiences and perspectives. According to Stuart Hall, audiences may have a dominant, oppositional, or negotiated reading of a text. A dominant reading accepts the producer's intended meaning while an oppositional reading rejects this. A negotiated reading finds a compromise by accepting some aspects but not others. How a text is read depends on individual audience characteristics and context.
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This document provides an overview of Stuart Hall's reception theory, which proposes that media texts can be decoded or interpreted in different ways by audiences. It discusses the three main ways an audience can understand a text: the dominant reading, where the audience interprets it as intended; the negotiated reading, a compromise interpretation; and the oppositional reading, where the audience rejects the preferred meaning. The document aims to help students understand and apply reception theory by creating an advert and considering how different audiences may interpret it dominantly, negotiatively, or oppositionally. It provides examples and guidance for students to complete tasks analyzing their own and others' adverts through this theoretical lens.
4. audience reception
This document discusses key questions to consider when analyzing media audiences:
- How audiences process and make meaning from media texts, including Stuart Hall's theories of encoding/decoding as preferred, oppositional, negotiated, or aberrant readings.
- How audiences are affected by media texts according to media effects theories versus being active in using media to fulfill needs as per uses and gratifications theory.
- How audience consumption has changed from mass audiences of broadcast media to narrowcast and peer-to-peer sharing as audiences fragment across multiple platforms.
Reception theory
Reception theory proposes that media texts are encoded with meanings by their producers but are decoded by audiences in potentially different ways. Audiences may decode meanings in the dominant way intended by producers. However, audiences may also negotiate meanings that only partially align with producers or take oppositional positions that reject producers' meanings. Factors like life experiences, beliefs, age, culture, gender affect how audiences decode meanings.
Reception theory - Stuart Hall
Stuart Hall developed reception theory to explain how media texts are encoded by producers with intended messages but are subject to different interpretations by audiences. Audiences may have a dominant, negotiated, or oppositional reading: a dominant reading accepts the producer's message; a negotiated reading accepts and questions the message; an oppositional reading rejects the intended message and develops their own. Reception theory emphasizes that meanings are made through the interaction between texts and readers rather than being fixed.
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Reception theory states that media texts are encoded by producers with intended messages and values, but audiences decode texts in different ways based on their own experiences and perspectives, which may not match the producer's intended meaning. According to Stuart Hall, audiences can have dominant, oppositional, or negotiated readings. A dominant reading accepts the producer's preferred meaning, while an oppositional reading rejects this in favor of the audience's own interpretation. A negotiated reading is a compromise that incorporates some of both the producer and audience perspectives.
Audience reception theory
The document discusses different theories of audience reception, including the effects model which argues media has negative influence over passive audiences, and the uses and gratifications model which argues audiences actively use media for their own gratification. It focuses on audience reception theory developed by Stuart Hall, which proposes that media producers encode meanings in texts, while audiences can decode them in three ways: dominant/preferred if they agree with the producer's meaning, negotiated if they refine elements based on prior views, or oppositional if they recognize but reject the dominant meaning.
Audiance reception theory
Stuart Hall developed encoding/decoding theory to explain how audiences receive media messages differently based on their own experiences and viewpoints. Encoding refers to how media producers develop messages, while decoding is how audiences interpret and make meaning from those messages. Hall argued that the intended meaning is not fixed, as audiences can decode messages in preferred, negotiated, or oppositional ways depending on their sociological factors. Examples like Disney princess films often elicit a preferred reading where the audience agrees with the producer's encoding, while the Teletubbies television show decoding led to some oppositional readings that disagreed with the initial encoding.
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Stuart hall (1980) audience reception theory
Reception theory proposes that media texts contain encoded messages from producers but audiences decode texts in different ways based on their own experiences and perspectives. According to Stuart Hall, audiences may have a dominant, oppositional, or negotiated reading of a text. A dominant reading accepts the producer's intended meaning while an oppositional reading rejects this. A negotiated reading finds a compromise by accepting some aspects but not others. How a text is read depends on individual audience characteristics and context.
Stuart hall reception theory
This document provides an overview of Stuart Hall's reception theory, which proposes that media texts can be decoded or interpreted in different ways by audiences. It discusses the three main ways an audience can understand a text: the dominant reading, where the audience interprets it as intended; the negotiated reading, a compromise interpretation; and the oppositional reading, where the audience rejects the preferred meaning. The document aims to help students understand and apply reception theory by creating an advert and considering how different audiences may interpret it dominantly, negotiatively, or oppositionally. It provides examples and guidance for students to complete tasks analyzing their own and others' adverts through this theoretical lens.
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This document discusses key questions to consider when analyzing media audiences:
- How audiences process and make meaning from media texts, including Stuart Hall's theories of encoding/decoding as preferred, oppositional, negotiated, or aberrant readings.
- How audiences are affected by media texts according to media effects theories versus being active in using media to fulfill needs as per uses and gratifications theory.
- How audience consumption has changed from mass audiences of broadcast media to narrowcast and peer-to-peer sharing as audiences fragment across multiple platforms.
Reception theory
Reception theory proposes that media texts are encoded with meanings by their producers but are decoded by audiences in potentially different ways. Audiences may decode meanings in the dominant way intended by producers. However, audiences may also negotiate meanings that only partially align with producers or take oppositional positions that reject producers' meanings. Factors like life experiences, beliefs, age, culture, gender affect how audiences decode meanings.
Reception theory - Stuart Hall
Stuart Hall developed reception theory to explain how media texts are encoded by producers with intended messages but are subject to different interpretations by audiences. Audiences may have a dominant, negotiated, or oppositional reading: a dominant reading accepts the producer's message; a negotiated reading accepts and questions the message; an oppositional reading rejects the intended message and develops their own. Reception theory emphasizes that meanings are made through the interaction between texts and readers rather than being fixed.
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Reception theory states that media texts are encoded by producers with intended messages and values, but audiences decode texts in different ways based on their own experiences and perspectives, which may not match the producer's intended meaning. According to Stuart Hall, audiences can have dominant, oppositional, or negotiated readings. A dominant reading accepts the producer's preferred meaning, while an oppositional reading rejects this in favor of the audience's own interpretation. A negotiated reading is a compromise that incorporates some of both the producer and audience perspectives.
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This document discusses reception theory and the idea of an active audience. It explains that early theories viewed audiences as passive receivers of media messages, but research has shown that audiences are more active. Audiences selectively choose media texts for different purposes like entertainment, information, or identity exploration. Reception theory looks at how individual factors like gender, class, and ethnicity influence how audiences interpret and make meaning from media texts. The document also discusses Stuart Hall's encoding/decoding model and the idea that producers aim to position audiences to have a preferred reading through using recognizable codes and conventions, but audiences may decode messages differently than intended.
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The document discusses three ways that an audience can decode media texts:
1) Dominant/preferred reading: The audience decodes the text as intended by the producer.
2) Negotiated reading: The audience accepts the producer's views but also has their own interpretation.
3) Oppositional reading: The audience rejects the producer's intended meaning and creates their own interpretation, often opposing the producer's messages and ideology.
The Media Reception Theory:
This theory focuses on the idea that audiences are active in interpreting media rather than passive. Research in the 1980s and 1990s looked at how individuals receive and understand texts differently based on their personal characteristics like gender, age, class, and ethnicity. Stuart Hall's encoding/decoding model proposed that a text is encoded by its producer but decoded by audiences, who may interpret it differently. Hall identified three potential reception models: dominant/hegemonic readings that accept the preferred meaning, negotiated readings that modify the meaning somewhat, and oppositional readings that reject the preferred meaning using an alternative perspective.
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This document discusses key concepts about audience in media, including different audience types and theoretical approaches to understanding the audience-media relationship. It outlines effects theory, which views audiences as passive receivers, and reception theory, which sees audiences as active interpreters. The document focuses on Stuart Hall's encoding-decoding model, explaining that media producers encode meanings but audiences can decode meanings in preferred, negotiated, or oppositional ways based on their own experiences and perspectives.
Reception theory
Reception theory proposes that media texts are encoded by their creators but decoded by audiences in potentially different ways. Audiences can have dominant, negotiated, or oppositional readings of a text based on their agreement, partial agreement, or disagreement. The theory sees audiences as active interpreters based on their own cultural backgrounds rather than passive receivers of meaning. Critics argue it gives audiences too much credit and does not consider the intentional encoding of messages by media creators.
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Stuart Hall developed an approach to audience analysis in the 1970s that considered how media texts are encoded with meaning by producers and then decoded by audiences. Hall identified three types of audience decoding: dominant/preferred, where the audience agrees with the producer's message; negotiated, where the audience accepts or refines parts of the message; and oppositional, where the audience recognizes but rejects the dominant meaning for their own reasons.
Reception theory
Reception Theory proposes that audiences are active interpreters of media texts rather than passive consumers, interpreting texts based on their personal experiences and characteristics. It was developed by cultural theorist Stuart Hall, who argued that meaning comes from the relationship between text and reader, not from the text itself. He introduced the concepts of encoding, where producers aim to create a preferred meaning, and decoding, where audiences make their own interpretations.
Reception Theory
This document discusses the history and development of reception theory. It covers early uses of reception theory from the 1970s-1990s to analyze media content, the expansion of the theory beyond text to include semiotics and the understanding that environmental context influences reception. More recent developments mentioned include incorporating neuroscience findings and how reception models have been used to understand celebrity reception. The meaning derived from media depends on the relationship between the text and the reader's own background and experiences.
Audience theories
The hypodermic needle theory suggests that media directly injects beliefs into passive audiences. However, this has been disproven as audiences are affected differently by media and can reject messages. Audiences are also aware of media attempts to influence them and make their own choices in media selection and interpretation based on needs like information, identity, and entertainment. The two-step flow theory further shows that opinions are influenced when people discuss media with others like opinion leaders.
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Audience reception theory was developed by British sociologist Stuart Hall in the 1980s and 1990s. It examines how audiences actively interpret and make meaning from media texts rather than passively receiving messages. Hall proposed that the same event can be encoded in multiple ways, messages contain multiple possible readings, and understanding is complex. He argued that media typically promote a "preferred reading" but audiences can also adopt "negotiated" or "oppositional" readings depending on their social positions and how the preferred reading relates to their lives. Audience reception theory focuses on qualitative audience research to understand active audience interpretations.
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This document summarizes several theories about media audiences:
- Cultivation theory suggests that repeated exposure to similar media representations can shape people's views of the world.
- Reception theory examines how audiences can interpret media messages in preferred, negotiated, or oppositional ways.
- Participatory culture theory describes how audiences actively engage with media texts by creating and sharing their own works.
- More recent theories argue that digital technologies have transformed passive audiences into active producers who can respond to and create their own media content.
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1. Reception theory examines how audiences receive and make meaning from media texts. It emphasizes that meaning comes from the interaction between the text and the reader/viewer, not from the text itself.
2. David Morley applied reception theory to television with his Nationwide Project, which found that people from different social groups interpreted the same program differently based on their positions.
3. Uses and gratifications theory posits that audiences are active in choosing media to fulfill certain needs, such as escape, social interaction, identity, and information.
Section A audience
The document discusses several theories of media audiences, including reception theory which states that audiences interpret media texts in different ways based on their own experiences and perspectives, rather than just accepting the producer's intended meaning. It also examines the hypodermic needle theory, which suggests audiences passively accept messages from media, and uses and gratifications theory, which proposes that audiences actively engage with media to fulfill various needs and desires.
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Audience theories examine the complex relationship between media producers and audiences. Producers aim to position audiences through encoded messages, but audiences can interpret these messages differently as active or passive receivers. Different factors like demographics, beliefs, and level of engagement influence how audiences decode media texts.
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This document discusses various theories of mass media and audience reception. It begins by introducing theories from the "dominant paradigm" like the hypodermic needle approach and two-step flow model, noting they assume passive audiences and direct effects. It then discusses uses and gratifications theory and its assumption of active audiences. The document outlines Hall's encoding/decoding model of preferred, negotiated and oppositional readings, noting encoded texts have dominant meanings but also room for interpretation. It analyzes the song "Born in the USA" as an example of a polysemic text open to multiple readings.
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2) Stuart Hall's reception theory which recognized that audiences could have negotiated, oppositional, or preferred readings of media texts based on their own views.
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Reception theory focuses on how the audience perceives and interacts with a work of art or media. It was originally a method of literary criticism but can be applied to other art forms like film. Reception theory explains that meaning comes from the interaction between the audience and the work, not from the work itself. When creating media, the theory emphasizes considering both passive audiences who encounter media without seeking it, as well as active audiences who intentionally seek out and engage with particular media.
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Reception theory focuses on how individual readers and cultural contexts shape the interpretation of artistic works like paintings, novels, and films over time with changes in economics, lifestyle, beliefs, and technology. Uses and gratification theory proposes that people actively seek out specific media to fulfill needs like knowledge, relaxation, social interaction, diversion or escape. It assumes people are not passive media consumers but actively interpret and integrate media. Unlike other theories, it holds that audiences choose media to meet desires and needs for gratification, and different media compete for viewers in this way.
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This document discusses reception theory and the idea of an active audience. It explains that early theories viewed audiences as passive receivers of media messages, but research has shown that audiences are more active. Audiences selectively choose media texts for different purposes like entertainment, information, or identity exploration. Reception theory looks at how individual factors like gender, class, and ethnicity influence how audiences interpret and make meaning from media texts. The document also discusses Stuart Hall's encoding/decoding model and the idea that producers aim to position audiences to have a preferred reading through using recognizable codes and conventions, but audiences may decode messages differently than intended.
Stuart Hall’s Reception Theory
The document discusses three ways that an audience can decode media texts:
1) Dominant/preferred reading: The audience decodes the text as intended by the producer.
2) Negotiated reading: The audience accepts the producer's views but also has their own interpretation.
3) Oppositional reading: The audience rejects the producer's intended meaning and creates their own interpretation, often opposing the producer's messages and ideology.
The Media Reception Theory:
This theory focuses on the idea that audiences are active in interpreting media rather than passive. Research in the 1980s and 1990s looked at how individuals receive and understand texts differently based on their personal characteristics like gender, age, class, and ethnicity. Stuart Hall's encoding/decoding model proposed that a text is encoded by its producer but decoded by audiences, who may interpret it differently. Hall identified three potential reception models: dominant/hegemonic readings that accept the preferred meaning, negotiated readings that modify the meaning somewhat, and oppositional readings that reject the preferred meaning using an alternative perspective.
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This document discusses key concepts about audience in media, including different audience types and theoretical approaches to understanding the audience-media relationship. It outlines effects theory, which views audiences as passive receivers, and reception theory, which sees audiences as active interpreters. The document focuses on Stuart Hall's encoding-decoding model, explaining that media producers encode meanings but audiences can decode meanings in preferred, negotiated, or oppositional ways based on their own experiences and perspectives.
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Reception theory proposes that media texts are encoded by their creators but decoded by audiences in potentially different ways. Audiences can have dominant, negotiated, or oppositional readings of a text based on their agreement, partial agreement, or disagreement. The theory sees audiences as active interpreters based on their own cultural backgrounds rather than passive receivers of meaning. Critics argue it gives audiences too much credit and does not consider the intentional encoding of messages by media creators.
The reception theory
Stuart Hall developed an approach to audience analysis in the 1970s that considered how media texts are encoded with meaning by producers and then decoded by audiences. Hall identified three types of audience decoding: dominant/preferred, where the audience agrees with the producer's message; negotiated, where the audience accepts or refines parts of the message; and oppositional, where the audience recognizes but rejects the dominant meaning for their own reasons.
Reception theory
Reception Theory proposes that audiences are active interpreters of media texts rather than passive consumers, interpreting texts based on their personal experiences and characteristics. It was developed by cultural theorist Stuart Hall, who argued that meaning comes from the relationship between text and reader, not from the text itself. He introduced the concepts of encoding, where producers aim to create a preferred meaning, and decoding, where audiences make their own interpretations.
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This document discusses the history and development of reception theory. It covers early uses of reception theory from the 1970s-1990s to analyze media content, the expansion of the theory beyond text to include semiotics and the understanding that environmental context influences reception. More recent developments mentioned include incorporating neuroscience findings and how reception models have been used to understand celebrity reception. The meaning derived from media depends on the relationship between the text and the reader's own background and experiences.
Audience theories
The hypodermic needle theory suggests that media directly injects beliefs into passive audiences. However, this has been disproven as audiences are affected differently by media and can reject messages. Audiences are also aware of media attempts to influence them and make their own choices in media selection and interpretation based on needs like information, identity, and entertainment. The two-step flow theory further shows that opinions are influenced when people discuss media with others like opinion leaders.
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Audience reception theory was developed by British sociologist Stuart Hall in the 1980s and 1990s. It examines how audiences actively interpret and make meaning from media texts rather than passively receiving messages. Hall proposed that the same event can be encoded in multiple ways, messages contain multiple possible readings, and understanding is complex. He argued that media typically promote a "preferred reading" but audiences can also adopt "negotiated" or "oppositional" readings depending on their social positions and how the preferred reading relates to their lives. Audience reception theory focuses on qualitative audience research to understand active audience interpretations.
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This document summarizes several theories about media audiences:
- Cultivation theory suggests that repeated exposure to similar media representations can shape people's views of the world.
- Reception theory examines how audiences can interpret media messages in preferred, negotiated, or oppositional ways.
- Participatory culture theory describes how audiences actively engage with media texts by creating and sharing their own works.
- More recent theories argue that digital technologies have transformed passive audiences into active producers who can respond to and create their own media content.
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1. Reception theory examines how audiences receive and make meaning from media texts. It emphasizes that meaning comes from the interaction between the text and the reader/viewer, not from the text itself.
2. David Morley applied reception theory to television with his Nationwide Project, which found that people from different social groups interpreted the same program differently based on their positions.
3. Uses and gratifications theory posits that audiences are active in choosing media to fulfill certain needs, such as escape, social interaction, identity, and information.
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The document discusses several theories of media audiences, including reception theory which states that audiences interpret media texts in different ways based on their own experiences and perspectives, rather than just accepting the producer's intended meaning. It also examines the hypodermic needle theory, which suggests audiences passively accept messages from media, and uses and gratifications theory, which proposes that audiences actively engage with media to fulfill various needs and desires.
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Audience theories examine the complex relationship between media producers and audiences. Producers aim to position audiences through encoded messages, but audiences can interpret these messages differently as active or passive receivers. Different factors like demographics, beliefs, and level of engagement influence how audiences decode media texts.
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This document discusses various theories of mass media and audience reception. It begins by introducing theories from the "dominant paradigm" like the hypodermic needle approach and two-step flow model, noting they assume passive audiences and direct effects. It then discusses uses and gratifications theory and its assumption of active audiences. The document outlines Hall's encoding/decoding model of preferred, negotiated and oppositional readings, noting encoded texts have dominant meanings but also room for interpretation. It analyzes the song "Born in the USA" as an example of a polysemic text open to multiple readings.
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1) The Hypodermic Needle Model from the 1920s which viewed audiences as passive receivers who were easily manipulated by media creators.
2) Stuart Hall's reception theory which recognized that audiences could have negotiated, oppositional, or preferred readings of media texts based on their own views.
3) Uses and gratifications theory from the 1960s which saw audiences as active consumers who use media texts to fulfill different personal needs and purposes like diversion, social interaction, or learning behaviors.
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A look at different ways of categorising audiences and how different groups use different media texts
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This document discusses the difference between active and passive audiences and provides examples of communication theories that assume each type of audience. An active audience questions media messages and develops their own interpretations, while a passive audience uncritically accepts the intended message. Theories like Uses & Gratification and Postmodernism assume an active audience, while theories like Hypodermic Needle and Agenda Setting assume a passive audience. The document instructs the reader to analyze two opposing communication theories, how they view audience influence, and apply them to sample advertisements.
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This document summarizes several theories about how audiences interact with and are influenced by media:
1) The Hypodermic Needle Theory suggests that media can directly influence audience opinions and feelings if presented in a certain way using imagery and context.
2) Uses and Gratifications Theory explains that audiences use media for different purposes like diversion, social interaction, identity exploration, and information gathering.
3) Cultivation Theory proposes that prolonged exposure to certain media portrayals can desensitize audiences or influence their perceptions over time. However, this theory is difficult to prove conclusively.
4) Two Step Flow Theory describes how audiences form opinions through interpersonal communication after initial exposure to media messages.
Audience Theory Research
This document summarizes several theories about how audiences interact with and are influenced by media:
1) The Hypodermic Needle Theory suggests that media can directly influence audience opinions and feelings if presented in a certain way using imagery and context.
2) Uses and Gratifications Theory explains that audiences use media for different purposes like diversion, social interaction, identity exploration, and information gathering.
3) Cultivation Theory proposes that prolonged exposure to certain media portrayals can desensitize audiences or influence their perceptions over time. However, this theory is difficult to prove conclusively.
4) Two Step Flow Theory describes how audiences form opinions through interpersonal communication after initial exposure to media messages.
Audience research
This document summarizes several theories about how audiences interact with and are influenced by media:
1) The Hypodermic Needle Theory suggests that media can directly influence audience opinions and feelings if presented in a certain way using imagery and context.
2) Uses and Gratifications Theory explains why audiences consume certain media to fulfill needs like diversion, social interaction, identity exploration, and information gathering.
3) Cultivation Theory proposes that heavy, long-term exposure to certain media portrayals can influence audiences' beliefs about social reality. However, it is difficult to prove this effect on individuals.
4) Two Step Flow Theory describes how media messages are filtered through opinion leaders in social groups before reaching a
Theoretical research
This document discusses postmodern theory and its application to a student poster project. Some key points:
- Postmodernism rejects hierarchies and suggests that reality is constructed through images and representations rather than existing independently.
- The poster project represents creativity and the creative industries in a postmodern style by using a chainsaw, an unconventional symbol that requires more thought than typical representations.
- Applying effects to documentary-style photographs in the poster differentiates it from reality, reflecting postmodern ideas about the relationship between media and reality.
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Question 1: Part 2: Digipak & Music Magazine Advertisment
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Shooting schedule
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Shooting schedule
The shooting schedule outlines 30 shots over 3 days filming outdoors and at night in a house. During the daytime shots, the filming will take place in a wooded lane, with scenes including an establishing shot, close-ups of a lighter and faces, medium shots of actors smoking and chatting, and wider shots of them walking and sitting together. Night shots will film inside a house and bedroom, including shots of actors on a bed with a guitar, laughing while eating pizza, kissing and being intimate, and laying beside each other holding hands. The majority of shots involve the main actors Sarah, Alysia and Kobey.
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Star image
Pop stars have personas designed to appeal to wide audiences and make money for record companies. They cultivate brand awareness through their image, which record companies help mold and promote through different media to represent shared cultural values. To maintain popularity, pop stars must constantly nurture and adapt their persona over time using motifs that establish their brand.
Project pitch 2 (1)
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Project pitch questionnaire
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Project pitch 2
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- The digipak should feel personal to fans while also being interesting visually and not overly complex. Reference digipaks are analyzed.
- Sketches and trials incorporate natural imagery, sketchy fonts, and artwork to achieve the desired aesthetic.
- Research on typical indie/acoustic designs informs the process, aiming for a balance between simplicity and visual interest.
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Evaluation
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Evaluation
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Reception theory (1)
- 2. • Reception theory is the idea that recognises that the audience are an essential element in the creative process. It was originally a method of literary criticism. Reception theory explains that the meaning does not lie in the work of art itself but the meaning is part of the process of interaction between the audience and the artwork. It can be applied to many art forms such as drama, film and painting. • In literary studies, reception theory originated from the work of HansRobert Jauss in the late 1960s. • Reception theory focuses on how the audience will perceive what they are looking at and this applies to my work as I will have to focus on two different audiences, passive and active. • The active audience will apply to my digipak as it is something the audience will go out looking for whereas the magazine advert has a passive audience where it will have to grab the audiences attention because the audience aren't looking for it it’ll be there and have to make them want to stop and look at it.
- 4. • Uses and gratification theory is a way of understanding why and how people seek out specific media to satisfy specific needs. Uses and gratification is an audience-centered approach to understanding mass communication. Unlike other media effect theories that question “what do media do to the people?”, uses and gratification theory focuses on “what do people do with media?” • It is suggested that uses and gratification theory has o fulfil one of the following when we chose a form of media: Identity, being able to recognise the product or person in front of you, role moels that reflect similar values to yours, aspiration to be someone else. Educate, being able to acquire information, knowledge and understanding. Entertain, what you are consuming should give you enjoyment and also some form of ‘escapism’ enabling us to forget our worries temporarily. Social interaction, the ability for media products to produce a topic of conversation between other people, speakers debates. • This theory links to our work because we need to understand how our audience is going to react to our work it also is going to shape our planning due to the fact that we’re working towards two different audience receptions: active and passive. Therefore our focus groups for the ancillary tasks will vary to represent the different active and passive audience types. Without this our products will not be successful meaning our video would also fail its purpose.