Creative Media - Level 3 BTEC Mitchell Dempsey

For the majority of my research i used Google Images to add to my own products below i will attach the following photos to my blog on the right. all the images provided were taken from Google.

Mitchell Dempsey  EVALUATION  For my task I had to create three media campaigns; the three media campaigns had to promote a chosen: Video game, TV/film, album or a product in the community. For my choice I decided on promoting the upcoming game Red Dead Redemption 2 by Rockstar Games. It  is an upcoming Western-themed action-adventure video game developed and published by Rockstar Games. It is scheduled to be released for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on October 26, 2018, the reason I chose this is because I enjoy the game series and thought it would keep my interest within the project. For my first product I created a social media page on Twitter, the reason I chose Twitter is because I believe that it is one of the most popular social media platforms across the world; I backed this up by creating a survey to see what social media common folk use, the research showed that over 50% of the survey used Twitter and the other half were divided into different parts o...

Unit 6 media campaign All platforms would launch on July 1st this would help build suspense by having 2 months before the games release.  For the use of photoshop i created my billboard, i took images from google and placed them into the photoshop document, i used the magic wand tool to remove the background on images and also the free transform tool so i could make the images larger or smaller. 

Crowdfunded film- Da Sweet Blood of Jesus   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n739-zHeooQ This was a film that was directed by Spike Lee; He took the decision to crowdfund fund as no film studios were interested in putting there time into it which . Around 6,400 people backed the funding of this film, helping raise a total $1,418,910. The funding took around a month to complete, starting on the 22 nd July 2013 through August 21 st 2013.   The incentives offered for crowdfunding included spending a day with Spike Lee and the film editors, signed merchandise, bumper stickers, tickets to the film premiere and vintage pins.   Crowdfunded  film- Veronica Mars   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iksrM_LNZ6s Veronica Mars broke the record for the amount of donors backing this film project, totalling around 90,000 backers overall. The film raised $5,702,153 and the whole movie was funded. After having such a huge backing, the film was eventually given the seal of approval b...

The male gaze is a theory suggested by Laura Mulvey, she suggested that the females portrayed in media all have a similar style of looks and a only there for the sex appeal of the heterosexual male audience; whether the viewer may be male or female the stars are always portrayed through the perspective of a heterosexual male.

The media reacted to Trump in different ways, some kept it quite serious like The Times.. unlike such newspapers The Sun or Liberation who took a more humorous approach to his election win, Liberation made a joke reference to the film American Psycho and stated that Trump was a "american psycho". The Sun also used the adult cartoon show The Simpsons to reference Trump, they stated that Trump was "predicted" to be President 20 years before it happened in The Simpsons.