Task 2

Task 1

Structuralism: Explore the ways in which audiences gain meaning from media texts

Semiotics: refers to the simplest level meaning of a sign. Eg: a word, image, object or sound

Auteur theory: When the director is viewed as the major creative force in a motion picture. Eg: Quentin Tarantino - Pulp Fiction

Feminism: Equality between both sexes; where woman are treated as equal to men

Queer theory: Queer theory includes both queer readings of texts and the theorisation of 'queerness' itself. Queer theory focuses on the mismatch between sex, gender and desire.

Marxism: The concept of class struggle plays a central role in understanding society's allegedly inevitable development from bourgeois oppression under capitalism to a socialist and ultimately classless society.

Psychoanalytic: a systematic structure of theories concerning the relation of conscious an unconscious
psychological processes.


Task 2

The Greatest Showman:
Genre: Romance, Drama, Biography and Musical
Director: Micheal Gracey
Entended audience: Teenagers and young adults how are interested in musicals and romance.

The Greatest Showman attracts a wide audience through its use of its mixtape that is now played on all music stations. The audience are drawn in by romance as they watch two young adults fall in love over their involvement with each other in the circus.


Baby Driver:
Genre: Action, Crime and Drama
Director: Edgar Wright
Entended audience: Teenagers and young adults

Baby Driver has a secondary audience of people who enjoy action and crime films. By having a secondary audience this allows the film makers to draw in a wider audience.