Harvinder Mudhar

1) Complete the questions in the first activity box (beginning with 'Do you play violent games? Are you violent in real life?')Do you play violent video games ? Yes I did play them when i was younger in my free time when i was felling stressed out, and also help escape from reality this help divert me from everything. However, some people take violent videos games into a different account which mean's they give a bad name to violent video games.  2) when i was younger yes, i had interest in games which had been advertised on tv I then went and bought it from the shop . 3) Not intentionally because of violent video games but games in general.    2) What are the four categories for different effects theories? Direct Effect theories Diffusion theories Indirect theories  the pluralist approach 3) What are the examples provided for the hypodermic needle theory - where media texts have been blamed for certain events? Child's play: this was blamed for the m...

1) List the  different people/groups represented  in the trailer (men/women/Americans etc.) One young Mixed raced american who is the victim in the clip.  The group of kids who have are bullying the victim "jaden smith"  The hero within this clip is jacie chan who stop them hurting the victim.    2) For each group, decide whether the representation is a  dominant  or  alternative  portrayal. As the child is the migrant in this scene the he is the alternative being bullied and picked on because of the lack of knowledge in Karate which has made the more older and knowledge students more dominate. However the second alternative is the fact that they have not mastered the technique of using this knowledge and are not being taught properly, this is because they are stopped by the hero "Jackie Chan" however the fact of the matter is they still try and fight him thinking that they will win which made him the alternative...

1) What example is provided of why visual iconographies are so important ? This helps provides the codes and conventions of the film the iconography works together to help communicate to the audience what type of genre it is.     2) What examples are provided of the importance of narrative in identifying genre?The importance of narrative is vital as they the genre can also be indicated by the story of the plot which is the plot.   3) What is the difference between character representation in action movies and disaster movies?From the example from the text of the film it is the fact that in action genre they isolat the hero from the other people however in contrast the disaster movie usually the hero has the heroic goal within the group of people.   4) What are the different ways films can be categorized according to Bordwell? From  Bordwell  theory he specifically said that each of the following categorizations had their own shared characteris...

Pineapple Express: Narrative Patterns: firstly the liner pattern from this opening scene is begging this is initially from the first segment being in black white which means its in the past therefore it is in black an white this main location said by the helper who is being who the test-dummie inside the glass both he is the helper because he was the founder of "item 9" which is weed in key terms then from the end of the clip we get the hero talking o the radio about making marijuana legal. Therefore the help helped make weed illegal in the past which has had impact in the future. Action/Engima code: Immediately greeted with a cough sound which was a enigma code someone in trouble or what or what ever is happening why is there cough in the background but then the action code was made to make the audience laugh  because its humors how they treat something which shows how things have evolved over years and technology. Another enigma code is when the helper conveys with t...