Auidence

Who creates what we watch?

Both the media and the audience create what we watch, the media creates it but the audience also puts their views across, and what they want so that the media can create it, the media publishes it and the audience sees it and tells there views.

Can the media exist/ Function without the audience?

I think that the media cant exist without the audience, if there is no audience the media will have no point, there wouldn't be a use for the media.

 Who is more powerful: the media or the audience why/how?

The audience is more powerful because they have a reactions and the media want to get a reaction. If they don't get reaction then there's no purpose for the film and less people would watch it.

Can the media control an audience?
Yes, I think the media can control an audience. I think they do this by influencing the audiences views and beliefs.

Uses and Gratifications

It is said in the gratification theory that each film has to have one of these 4 forms:

Identify-  to see the product/person in the film form.

Educate- being bale to get information, and knowledge from the film

Entertain- something that should be enjoyable for you to watch

Social Interaction- is an exchange between two or more individuals and is a building block of society.so for a film to make people talk and interact with one and another.

my experience:
Most of the films I watch are mystery and horror. so especially with these mystery films you ask people a lot of questions, so you can make a judgement. Like when I watched the film Dark Places, you ask questions to one another consistently ,about who killed this women's family.so there is a lot of social interaction going on between people.
Also

What do we mean when we use the word 'film'?

A film is a story or event recorded by a camera as a set of moving images and shown in a cinema or on television.

Do you think it means the same as the word 'movie'?
A movie is a film generally or the film industry

what about the word 'cinema'?
The word cinema  is a theatre where films are shown for public entertainment.


 








My top 10 favourite films:                                          

-The conjuring
-The hunger games                                               
-Harry potter
-The other women
-Insidious
-The sorcerers apprentice
-the lovely bones
-dead silence
- 22 jump street

As you can see by my favourite films I like the genre of  horror and action a lot, all these films are common to one and another because they are all something that wouldn't happen in your day to day life, and they all have an area of mystery.