CLASS ASSIGNMENT

CASE STUDY-GOLDFINGER (1964)

I had to do a movie case study as part of a class assignment, this was a group assignment  two of my other group mates and i chose the classic james bond movie, this was the third movie to be released in the britsh spy series,it was released in 1964
CAST;
The film has Sean Connery playing the pivotal role of M16 agent james bond he also played the role of bond in the previous two films, it also sees Honor Blackman, Gert Frobe and Shirley Eaton essay important roles of Pussy Galore, Auric Goldfinger and Jill Masterson respectively

PRODUCTION;
The movie was produced by EON Productions. It had a then considered large budget of $3 million and was the first bond film classified as a box office blockbuster

FILMIMG;
38 locations were used for the filming of goldfinger
principle photography commenced in Miami,Florida. Although the primary location was Pinewood Studios. The sequence where bonds aston martin crashes in a wall because of the mirror and the chase preceeding was shot on the rear of the pinewood studios the road is now called the goldfinger avenue  

CLASS ASSIGNMENT

HALLOWEEN EVENT COVERAGE
I took these images during a class assignment where we were asked to cover the schools annual halloween event for the junior section. Look at these beautiful angels having fun in their own little spooky world!!

CLASS ASSIGNMENT

PRACTISING PHOTOGRAPHY SKILLS AT THE MIRACLE GARDEN -DUBAI

Miracle garden is the worlds largest garden decorated with more than around 45 million natural flowers. Not only is this gorgeous garden a visual treat but capturing it through my camera was even more fun!!

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AS PRELIMINARY TASK

As part of the media studies AS preliminary task we have to design a magazine, that would include the magazines cover page, content page and double spread page

CLASS ASSIGNMENT

CASE STUDY-Page 3 (2005 film)

I carried out the case study of this 2005 Bollywood movie Page 3 as part of my class assignment

SUMMARY:

It is a drama film that talks about the page 3 culture and media in the city of Mumbai, India. The main protagonist of the film is Madhawi Sharma, who is a journalist by profession. Highly ambitious Madhawi has imagined life her life as a journalist to be glamourous and adventure filled, however the story revolves around how all her dreams are shattered by the harsh realities of life. The film spoke about a lot of important social issues such as child molestation, corruption, human trafficking etc.

CAST:

Here are the characters who were seen playing important roles in the film

Konkona Sen Sharma as Madhawi Sharma

Boman Irani as Deepak Suri (Madhawis boss)

Sandhya Mridul as Pearl Sequeira

Tara Sharma as Gayatri Sachdeva

Bikram Saluja as Rohit Kumar

Rehaan Engineer as Abhijeet Patnaik

Soni Razdaan as Anjali Thapar

Nasser Abdullah as Romesh Thapar

Atul Kulkarni as Vinayak Mane (partner in crime jounalism)

Jay Kalra as Tarun

DIRECTION:
Bollywoods well known director Madhur bhandarkar directed the film.

PRODUCTION:
The film is produced by Bobby and Kavita Kulkarni.

FILMING:
The film was shot in the state of Maharashtra, Mumbai, India

DISTRIBUTION:
The film was distributed by the Lighthouse Films Pvt Ltd. and Sahara One

MEDIA STUDIES KEY CONCEPTS

EXPLORING BASIC CONCEPTS
To understand and analyse the media products and decode the messages conveyed through them one has to understand the basic concepts. Once you understand the ideas and theories associated with these concepts you can figure out hoe a media text/product is constructed and recieved. Media studies revolves around seven key concepts:


MEDIA FORMS AND LANGUAGE:
A media form is the type of media text being studied whereas the language used to study these forms will be different from one another e.g while studying a movie clip the movie is the media form and the language will be talking about the camera angles, sound, editing and mise en scene.

INSTITUTIONS:                                                                                                                       

A media institution is a company that owns numerous companies in various mass media i.e television, radio, publishing, motion pictures and the internet, A media institution is an organisation that deals with production, marketing, publishing and regulation of a media product. Learning about institutions helps us have a better understanding about who produces media texts, what their set of codes and values are and their relationship with us as individual. some of the most famous media institutions are Disney, Sony, Viacom, Time Warner, 20th Century Fox, News Corporation

Here are some of the links to the sites of these media giants

https://thewaltdisneycompany.com/

http://www.viacom.com/Pages/default.aspx

http://www.timewarner.com/

GENRE:

It is a way of categorizing a media text through its style and form e,g film genres i,e horror, comedy, thriller, sci fi, romance, action etc. The codes and conventions of the media text in different genres varies in one another.

REPRESENTATION:

The features shown in a media product are never real, instead they are representations of the real thing, this means that the reality is intentionally altered by the media producers, and that they are completely artificial versions of the reality we percieve around us. The analysis of the representation of different social groups forms an important part of the Media studies i.e representation of  gender, race, ethnicity, disability, age. sexuality etc

     

AUDIENCES:                                                                                                                      

Before producing a media product one has to determine its destination i.e the target audience and what messages do you want to convey to them. 

IDEOLOGY:

Literally it means a set of beliefs and values which an individual or a society holds to be true and important and live their lives with a mindset based on these values. However in Media, it is the idea behind a media text, it is the hidden message within the media product that the producer is trying to convey to the audience. There are some dominant ideologies present in the society e.g family values and importance of marriage etc, however they shift and change in accordance with the changes in the society.

 

NARRATIVE:

In media terms Narrative means story telling, it is the way the media producer combines different elements in a meaningful way and convey the message he wants to.