Wednesday, 29 September 2010

Critical Investigation:

Possible Ideas:
Moving Image: Advert or Documentary

Possible questions:

WHY/HOW do celebrities influence their audience?
WHY is the media responsible for ‘’making’ and ‘breaking’ celebrities?
HOW do celebrities manipulate the media to gain fame? WHAT impact does this have on Society?
HOW do the media create the expectation/ characteristic of A-list celebrities?

Media Theories which be appeailed to these texts would be:

Hypodermic Needle Theory:Do audiences believe everything they see?

Todorov's Equilibrium Theory:Is there a clear typical narrative structure?

Propp's 7 Spheres of Action: What character roles are created through mediation?

Uses and Gratifications: Escapism, identification ect

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