Media Question

In what way do the institutions involved in Trance try to connect with and empower their audience?

One method that I found was that the producers of Trance have released the soundtrack for it in a seperate digital format, allowing the audience to download it and listen to it very easily.
Another method is on the official Trance website where you are given the oppurtunity to listen to Danny Boyle talk about his film and about the finer details regarding it, it is easily found on the main page of the site as is the rest of the links.

http://www.trancethemovie.com/

The site interacts with the part of the audience that has already seen the film by adding references and images from within the film itself, the main website uses this as its opening command, it shows small white dots that progressively light up, this is presumably a reference to a particular scene within the film.

Danny Boyle has also made a Sub-Reddit, allowing him to be asked questions from fans and the audience to which he is easily able to respond, this shows that he likes the feedback and reviews given by said audience.

http://www.trancethemovie.com/movieposter.php

Another interactive part is during the video with Danny Boyle, it allows you to piece together 6 pieces of a puzzle, once completed it creates a movie poster for Trance, one that can only be accessed by this method, unless you copy link like I have above.

Media

http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-04-11/news/38459031_1_danny-boyle-rosario-dawson-james-mcavoy

http://filmmusicreporter.com/2013/03/01/trance-soundtrack-details/

http://www.contactmusic.com/press/rick-smith-composes-film-score-for-trance-danny-boyle-s-new-film

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv-movies/danny-boyle-talks-trance-filming-nyc-article-1.1303785

http://moviefilmblog.tumblr.com/post/47200081117/trance

http://movies.msn.com/movies/movie/trance.6/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trance_(2013_film)

Year 12 Lesson - finish these sentences and write your own exam questions:

1. Do you believe that....
2. Do the products in your case study....
3. In your opinion, and based on your case study, do you think that audiences....
4. In what way do the institutions from your case study....

Next up - you need to think about developing your answers. Based on what we did yesterday about Trance, brainstorm the answer to this question.

1. Do you believe that 'violence in movies has had an adverse effect on the general public?'
2. Do the products in your case study ''
3. In your opinion, and based on your case study, do you think that audiences 'have managed to influence the decisions of todays media surrounding a film?'
4. In what way do the institutions from your case study 'try to widen its audience range and how?'

Jumper Research

http://www.fanpop.com/clubs/jumper

http://www.fanfiction.net/movie/Jumper/

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/jumper/

Django Unchained

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2013/jan/17/django-unchained-review

http://www.fanpop.com/clubs/django-unchained

http://www.tarantino.info/

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1853728/plotsummary

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/django_unchained_2012/

Set in the South two years before the Civil War, Django Unchained stars Jamie Foxx as Django, a slave whose brutal history with his former owners lands him face-to-face with German-born bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz). Schultz is on the trail of the murderous Brittle brothers, and only Django can lead him to his bounty. Honing vital hunting skills, Django remains focused on one goal: finding and rescuing Broomhilda (Kerry Washington), the wife he lost to the slave trade long ago. Django and Schultz's search ultimately leads them to Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio), the proprietor of "Candyland," an infamous plantation. Exploring the compound under false pretenses, Django and Schultz arouse the suspicion of Stephen (Samuel L. Jackson), Candie's trusted house slave. -- (C) Weinstein

Law Abiding Citizen Research Help

When a home invasion robbery turns deadly, the lone survivor will stop at nothing to avenge his lost loved ones in Law Abiding Citizen, an explosive examination of blind justice from the director of The Italian Job.
Clyde Shelton (Gerard Butler) is an upstanding family man whose wife and daughter are brutally murdered during a home invasion. When the killers are caught, Nick Rice (Jamie Foxx), a hotshot Philadelphia prosecutor, is assigned to the case. Nick offers one of the suspects a light sentence in exchange for testifying against his accomplice.

Fast forward ten years. The man who got away with murder is found dead and Clyde Shelton coolly admits his guilt. Then he issues a warning to Nick: Either fix the flawed justice system that failed his family, or key players in the trial will die.

Soon Shelton follows through on his threats, orchestrating from his jail cell a string of spectacularly diabolical assassinations that can be neither predicted nor prevented. Philadelphia is gripped with fear as Shelton’s high-profile targets are slain one after another and the authorities are powerless to halt his reign of terror. Only Nick can stop the killing, and to do so he must outwit this brilliant sociopath in a harrowing contest of wills in which even the smallest misstep means death. With his own family now in Shelton’s crosshairs, Nick finds himself in a desperate race against time facing a deadly adversary who seems always to be one step ahead.



http://www.fanpop.com/clubs/law-abiding-citizen

http://filmreviews.gerardjamesbutler.co.uk/2009/11/23/law-abiding-citizen-film-review-film-trivia-and-movie-trailer-starring-gerard-butler-2009.aspx

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL39A3ECC1790627A7

Quick Media Speech Summary

2. How people and/or places are represented in the media products in your case study?

Research Characters + Backgrounds, history, etc

Discuss how the Media has made good use of land marks and other well known locations (I.E Why choose New York over ____?)

How character stereotypes are applied and portrayed

How they produce personal links that allow the audience to relate to the characters/do the same with locations, how they show a certain location to create a sort of link with the audience

Lifestyles of all the characters are rather simple, maybe to create a personal bond between the audience or maybe to show that the situation in the film could happen in real life

How advertising has changed the viewing point of certain characters (Merchandise for Law Abiding Citizen for example, it may change the audience from thinking the main character is a bad guy and make them think that he is actually trying to do good)

Quizzes and questions that allow people to find out what character they are most like, having a more interactive approach to portray characters

Official websites containing information about characters that wasn't shown/portrayed in the film