1. QUESTION:
Find examples of Negotiated or Oppositional readings of the
film. Where have people understood what was intended but
feel has failed?

2. MS4: Media – Text, Industry & Audience
FILM Case Study: This is England
Today...
To know the criteria for the To evaluate the success of
success of a film the movie

3. Audience Success!
List all of the ways in which a film can be considered as a success – think
about Audience as well as Industry – we may have covered some already…
Preferred reading met
Target audience reached
Awards
How much of this
Box Office
information do you know?
Sequels
Write a fact file of all of
the successes you are Global Impact
aware of… Critical Acclaim
Positive audience response
Cultural impact

4. Slumdog Millionaire & Audience
Audience Appeals meets responses!
What do you feel are the most significant
successes of the film?
The examiner wants to know that you have
an excellent knowledge of the text but
doesn’t want you to reel off a list of facts.
Look at some of the more ‘fact based’
successes – can you analyse these? What are
or what have been the implications of these?
Write either the opening paragraph or the
concluding thoughts of an essay which discusses
the success of Slumdog Millionaire.