Unit 26 film study

Ozan Kurt

Story plot This story is about a undercover agent who works for the MI5 in London. He has been given the hardest job in the world and he has to complete the mission so he can get his revenge from the biggest mafia who had killed his brother.

In the story the undercover agent meets on of the mafia’s girls and straight away falls in love with her. What he did not no was the girl was the head of the mafia’s wife. She tells the mafia boss who is played by Sylvester Stallone and he gets his men and goes after the agent who is played by Jason Statham. When he was caught by the mafia and got drugged and if he did not do as he was told he would die so he got given another job which was by the mafia too kill the MI5 boss.

7 characteristics of blockbuster- It’s a star vehicle

- A large production budget E.g. £100,000,000

- A large marketing budget

- A range of merchandising

- A wide demographic

- A holiday release date

- Worldwide release

Todorov's Theory - Equilibrium

- Disequilibrium

- Equilibrium

Todovov’s theory relates with my story a lot. This is because the story starts of everybody's happy and doing whatever they want. Later the story goes all bad because the agent gets caught by the mafia. Towards the end the goodies defeat the baddies and this performs the theory.

Vladimir Propp's Theory • The villain who usually creates the narrative disruption. • The donor gives the hero something, it may be an object, information or advice, which helps in resolution of the narrative. • The helper aids the hero in the task of restoring equilibrium. • The princess (the victim) is usually the character most threatened by the villain and has to be saved, at the climax, by the hero. The father's (who in fairy tales was often the king) role is usually to give the princess away to the hero at the narrative's conclusion. He may also dispatch the hero. • The dispatcher sends the hero on her or his task (who can typically be the princess father) • The false hero appears to be good but is revealed, at the narrative's end, to have been bad

Vladimir propp's theory also relates to my story. This is because my story contains a hero, villain, the donor and the dispatcher. Although some of the characters are missing, the story has got the most important ones.

Roland Barthes Theory

-The hermeneutic code

- The Enigma code

- The symbolic code

- The cultural code

- The semantic code

Roland Barthes's theory relates to my story. The code that my story links to is the enigma code and this is because my story is an action film and throughout it creates a lot of tension. The other code that my story links with is the hermeneutic code and this is because at the beginning the audience does not know how the agent plans his mission.

Levi Strauss Theory -Good - Evil

- Earth - Space

- Humans - Species

- Past - Present

- Normal - Strange

- Known - Unknown

Binary oppositions

Levi Strauss’s theory doesn’t relate to my story. This is because there are only one binary opposition which is included in my story and its good and evil. The other ones are not related.

The hypodermic needle modelThe hypodermic needle is the information that suggests of it passing into a mass consciousness. This theory suggests that as we are the audience we will be manipulated, so this means that whatever we see within the media platforms we will copy which will make us passive. This theory was first attempted in the 1930s as a practice to see what the audience would do.

Research about the negative media effects focus on the individual’s physiology, emotion, attitude and cognition. The media can create violence, fear and arouse sentiments. The content can make and unmake the decisions of people. People can kill depending on the effect.

Two step flowThe mass communication theory of the two-step flow model describes how firstly, certain individuals considered to be “opinion leaders” receive and interpret information directly from mass media. They in turn pass on their interpretations along with the media information itself, thus influencing their subject’s interpretations.

Also known as the Multistep Flow Model is a theory based on a 1940s study on social influence that states that media effects are indirectly established through the personal influence of opinion leaders. The majority of people receive much of their information and are influenced by the media second hand, through the personal influence of opinion leaders.

Uses and gratifications

Beginning in the 1940’s, researchers began seeing patterns under the perspective of the uses and gratifications theory in radio listeners. Early research was concerned with topics such as children's use of comics and the absence of newspapers during a newspaper strike. An interest in more psychological interpretations emerged during this time period.

Uses and Gratifications Theory is an approach to understanding why people actively seek out specific media outlets and content for gratification purposes. The theory discusses how users proactively search for media that will not only meet a given need but enhance knowledge, social interactions and diversion .

It assumes that members of the audience are not passive but take an active role in interpreting and integrating media into their own lives. The theory also holds that audiences are responsible for choosing media to meet their needs. The approach suggests that people use the media to fulfil specific gratifications. This theory would then imply that the media compete against other information sources for viewers' gratification

Reception theoryA basic acceptance of the meaning of a specific text tends to occur when a group of readers have a shared cultural background and interpret the text in similar ways. It is likely that the less shared heritage a reader has with the artist, the less he/she will be able to recognise the artist's intended meaning, and it follows that if two readers have vastly different cultural and personal experiences, their reading of a text will vary greatly.

Reception theory is a version of reader response literary theory that emphasizes the reader's reception of a literary text. It is more generally called audience reception in the analysis of communications models. In literary studies, reception theory originated from the work of Hans-Robert Jauss in the late 1960s

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