Analysis of the Opening Sequence to: Heroes, “don’t look back”

Episode 2: Don't Look Back starts with a shot of the Heroes' logo (the globe in a shot of a solar eclipse), many shows do not have there own logo; they might have an opening title but not a logo. The opening sequence gives an insight into what might happen. The world covered in an eclipse is an obvious hint that the programme is going to have dark times ahead. A narrator’s voiceover saying the words previously on Heroes followed by a shot’s of 5 different people, introduces them and tells the audience what previously happened on Heroes. An enigma is created through the narrator introducing the characters but not really naming or stating there powers, that creates mystery and as it is still only the second episode this adds to the effect of increasing the tension and results in making the audience much more eager to know the rest of the story. The voice doing the voice over is then found out to be one of the characters in the show - in this episode, it is Mohinder and he is a scientist with no powers.The scene where peter is on the roof about to fall off uses a wide range of camera angles and views , when he jumps off the roof the camera uses a panning motion to follow him, the camera then merges with peter and you see what he sees when he is flying. This image then quickly cuts into an image of Peter laying in a hospital bed this, along with the stop in voice over, emphasises the idea that Peter's destiny is out of his control. This scene, mainly coloured blue and white this creates an effect of flash backs However

CROSS MEDIA EVALUATION

Simpsons

1)the media text i have chosen to evaluate is simpsons becuase it has been a succsessfull tv series and that made them make a much awaited film (the simpsons movie)

2)

The opening scene is shown only for 25 seconds to 45 seconds.
firstly the long shotshowing the front of the house shows the satire of the urban household.
the simpsons are the typical nuclear familly, homer is shown coming back from work so he is the traditional breadwinner whereas marge is shown coming back from shopping with the baby at the supermarket. The kids are shown coming back from school. They all meet in a confusing manner in the living room which shows that the familly is a well functioning, and it also portrays the typical nuclear familly. this text is basically showing the day to day stuggles in the american working society. The way the simpson familly arrived: homer, marge, bart, then lisa. This shows the american fammily hierachy, and how the fammily arrives in order of importance.

3)

it is a Broadcast television network
the countrys it has headquarters in Country:
United States
Availability:
United States
Canada Mexico (some areas)
its was Founded by:
by Rupert Murdoch, Barry Diller
the company slogan is:
SO FOX
the Key people of the company:
Peter Liguori—Chairman, Entertainment:Kevin Reilly—President, Entertainment
Launch date:
October 9, 1986
Former names
Briefly abbreviated "FBC
http://www.fox.com/

Rupert Murdoch owns news corporation: news corporation bio:

Type:
Founded
Adelaide, Australia (1979)
Headquarters
New York City, formerly in Sydney, Australia
Key people:
Rupert Murdoch,Peter Chernin,David DeVoe,Lawrence Jacobs,James Murdoch
Industry:
Broadcasting, Publishing, Media, Internet, Entertainment
Products:
Films, Television, Cable Programming, Satellite Television, Magazines, Newspapers, Books, Sporting Events, Websites
Revenue:
▲$28.66 billion USD (March 21, 2008)
Employees:
64,000 (2008)
Website:
http://www.newscorp.com/
the institution has also produced various simpson games aswell as the simpson movie game, so this is an example of horizontal intigration.

4)


the trailer is odbiously an animated trailer of the simpsons and the trailer has many camera angles eg. the first look at homer is a extreem close up and the the next time we see homer it is a extreem long shot and the type of camera angle affects the type of mood the protagonist is in. the film producers spent alot of time trying to develop a movie quality film, because the simpsons is just a series shown on the tv, so they made the trailer look very movie like, they added a narrater to also give a very film like affect. the trailer shows every character in an order of most appearing, so that is why you see homer first then the rest of the characters.

5) www.sidereel.com/The_Simpsons_Movie

the poster shows something within springfield burning which conotates negative things eg. destruction deah ect. The poster shows the main familly(the simpsons) and they are striking a pose which is similar to that of a pose of a god for example, this shows the role they play in the whole movie. the text is bright and very attractive to the eye and therefore is a very good marketing stratagy.

6)the primary audience for the series is probably a middle to working class becuase they can relate more to the simpson familly, the primary audience for the film would be the simpson series viewers, the secondary audience is very open to everybody since thereis something for everybody.

title: the simpsons
primary audience: males and females aged 8-25
the typical 16 year old will now be able to understand the more adult jokes made and not just focus on the slapstick side of the simpsons.

title:the simpsons movie
primary audience:males and females aged 8-25
the typical sort of person who would watch this is the series viewers because they can always understand the characters and the enviroment that is set in.

SELF EVALUATION

attainment-3

i think my attainment is just ok, becuase at gcse i got a B however i think i could of tryed alot harder to get a better grade, and i will try to achieve this in my as level.

effort-2

i think my effort is good, becuase i try relativley hard and i hope that it shows in class

punctuallity-1

my punctuallity is excellent, i attend every class

submission and quality of h/w-3

the quality of my homework is ok but i personally dont think it is any more than ok

abillity to work independently-2

i can most deffinatley work by my self, and do very well

quallity of writting-2

i belive that my quallity of writting is quite gd but still needs improvement

quallity of media folder-2

the qualitty of my folder is not evidential becuase i do not have one, but my books are upto date and complete with handouts from the media teachers.

oral contributions-1

i always contribute to the topics covered and allways make sure my opinions are heard.

1st) A Rapper's Ambition: becuase they didnt just except what they had to use, no, they researched even more to find new software to be able to use speacial effects. the use of different angle's and shot's and the music background they used made this the best production

2nd) saving faith: becuase the production was very life like and gleemed with originallity

3rd) face of fear: becuase the production was very well set out, i thought it engadged the audience and really made the audience feel like it was showing at the cinema, due to the affects and just the amount of time that was put into it it really should have won best horror.

ANTHROPOLOGICAL LOOK INTO YOUTUBE

the third network that started broadcasting in 1948 , which was 60 odd years ago.
if you put together the 3 networks multiplied by 60 years multiplied by 365 days a year multiplied by 24 hours a day= over 1.5 million hours of programming.
Youtube did that within 6 months of broadcasting; youtube puts out 9232 hours a day, this is the equivalent of 385 always on channels, which is also equivalent to 200000 3 minute videos(not mass media) and 88% of that is new and original programming.

Numa Numa song. in 2003 it was released it became a massive hit in italy, then in 2004 it spreads to the whole of europe, then it goes all the way to japan, where they started making animation videos to go with the song. It reached new jersey suburbs this man caled Gary made a webcam video about the song. this video was watched 600 million times by the public, it then was featured on hbc and other news programs.

youtube was luanched in april 23rd 2005, then all web based video's became easier to watch, Gary unknowingly stated a craze.

mark waslchk put a tester video on youtube, within 2 days he got 253 views, then a day afterward it got 1,154 views, the count was speeding up dramtcally without a puase. User generated organization it has been given out to everyone now it is called user generated distribution.

25% of people on youtube are aged 35+, that is the same as the amount of 12_18 year olds. 18_24 has 50% and the same 24_35. a certain domestic videowas viewed over 30 million times, then people started making remakes.

You can drag and drop audio clips and edit theese massivley. Soulja boy made his first version of his videoin april 2007 it was a massive hit with everybody around the world; in august 2007 he signed a major record label, the company actually featured youtube videos to show that it made a much bigger hit than what they have done.

community was in decline however when thay made youtube and othermedia interactuall programms, community has grown and become more independent.

Participant observation: is where you see what happens on the net , then you become involved in that act.

the classes first vlogs: a webcam is used to record yourself and let others view that vlog. it gives the person a sense of privacy in the mind of the webcammist, but it is the total opposite.

Recognition: shows people insecurities as wellas their strenght of character.

anonymity+physical distance+dialogue=hatred as public. new forms of community forms new forms of self understanding. The 'free hugs' video shows that the net has provided a community to people all over the world, also the emo guy and the girl turned into a love story, and as the equation says (hatred) their story is being twisted by other youtubers.

WEB 2.0

web 2.o is a upgraded version of web 1.o.
web 1.0 consisted of a few sites and they were only available to view, whereas the web 2.0 is much much more interactive and allows consumers to do multiple things at once.
this affects everyone because now web 2.0 allows me as a student to be able to do work and research on different platforms and allows acsess to info much more easier and faster.

In our initial brainstorming, we formulated our sense of Web 2.0 by example: Web 1.0 Web 2.0DoubleClick-->Google AdSenseOfoto-->FlickrAkamai-->BitTorrentmp3.com-->NapsterBritannica Online-->Wikipediapersonal websites-->bloggingevite-->upcoming.org and EVDBdomain name speculation-->search engine optimizationpage views-->cost per clickscreen scraping-->web servicespublishing-->participationcontent management systems-->wikisdirectories (taxonomy)-->tagging ("folksonomy")stickiness-->syndication