Monday 30 November 2015

The devil wears prada China.

This devil wears prada poster is one which was made for the release in china. The thing I like about this poster is that it is different to most of the other posters for this film. However, it does still include the devil's tale and the colour red to reinforce the devilish and evil side to the film.

Although this film poster is very eye catching, it would not be able to be used in all countries. For example, places like Syria and Egypt this poster wouldn't be allowed to be used as it would be deemed as to explicit.

The target audience for this poster would be women and men above the age of 18 as the poster is quite explicit and could be classed as quite sexual from the way the lady is standing and the fact that she has no clothes on.

Another way we can tell this film will call out to women is by the fact that the lady on the front is wearing heels. It's like if a film poster had a tie on it, this would call out to men as they are usually associated with suits and having high-paid jobs.

Friday 27 November 2015

Voldemort.

This edit of Voldemort form harry potter really caught my eye. Although, it's just a drawing of his face the other side, it could possibly mean that he has two sides to him, that the other side is empty and lost as the drawing is not very detailed.

I also like this idea because it shows two different styles of pictures.  If i was to use this for the devil wears Prada, I would draw marble streets face to show her emptiness but i would only draw the last 2cm of her face (roughly) to show how strong she is by having the real picture as most her face.

The target audience for this poster would be females/males aged between 10 and 28. this would be because the audience for harry potter itself is anything from children to adults, however Voldemort is a dark character and was made to be hated by the viewers of harry potter so this would manly be aimed at adults the fact there is a drawn image as well as a picture image would also be a reason that this image is targeted for children as well as adults, the drawn image is not to complicated and will stand out for the younger generation.


Wednesday 11 November 2015

Target Audiences.

What is an audience?
An audience is usually a group of people that watch/ listen to an event (a play, film, concert etc). An audience can also be people who you're attempting to sell something to as well.

Why are audiences important?
In terms of selling a product to an audience, it is very important that you have the correct audience for this. To do this you have to find your target audience by getting an audience of the right age group, right gender and an audience that is actually going to be interested in this product.

What is the impact of new technology on audiences?
Technology has advanced a huge amount over the past few years and this has had an enormous impact on audiences. For example, films are a lot easier and cheaper to make now which means cinemas are able to improve the viewing of the films for the audiences and make them more exciting (4D effects used in some countries cinemas now). Also, people are now able to advertise their films and products in a much more exciting way by using flashing billboards and having their films and products being advertised on television programmes in the background as well which makes this more intreuging for the audience.

Quantitive Audience Research-
BARB- Many households are chosen to be on the barb panel to then represent an overall average of house in the uk. Once chosen on the barb panel, the media will set up to sets with a metre into each of the homes then each person in the house (over the age of four) have to press a button on the remote to indicate they have entered the room when the tv is on and then press it again when they leave the room to indicate they they are no longer watching the tv. There is an audio matching process as well which helps them tone able to know what programs people are watching.

RAJAR- Rajar uses the method of basically using a continous diary survey which takes a measurement of 100,00 adults (children aged 15+) listening time a year. The diary takes a quarter hour of one weeks listening, drawn from a representative sample of each radio station and the nation as a whole.


Qualitative Audience Research-
Focus Group- A focus group is a group of people giving their views, opinions and beliefs on a product. These people will be in a situation where they are able to talk to other group members.

Questionnaires- Questionnaires are usually a piece of paper with different questions about the product on it and will be given to people through the post or in the streets etc. and they will answer the questions in their own opinion.

Face-to-face interviews- Face-to-face interviews are where the owner of the product will usually ask the people questions from their own questions and will get the people to answer them.

Social Classes:
Social class is important when promoting a product because you will want the right class for your product.
AB- Higher class, high occupations and professional occupations.
C1- Supervisory and junior occupations.
C2- Skilled manual occupations.
DE- Semi skilled and unskilled occupations, unemployed and lowest grade occupations.