Unit 6 - Critical Response

Task 2 - Understand how media producers create products for specific audiences. In modern media there are many ways that a company, business or franchise will lure in people to buy their product. Using different tactics companies have been able to grow using things like images, symbols and language to persuade people to buy.  Symbols Symbols are types of images that aren't directly linked to what they mean but mean it. For example if you go to public bathroom there will be symbols of a man for the men's toilets and there will be a symbol of a female for the women's toilets, theses aren't pictures of actual men and women and so are only symbols. When used correctly symbols can be a very effective and powerful tool to sell a product. Symbols are usually displayed to show a deeper meaning or a message in a particular brand. In a lot of adverts that have diamonds or jewelry you may see water surrounding it because water symbolizes purity and that's what ...

Task 1 - Understand how media producers define audiences for their products Quantitative Quantitative data is data that has a numerical answer. A question that is answered with a number like 'What would you rate the game out of 10?' would be considered a quantitative question or any answer that can't be put into a chart. An example of this would be in the form of ratings like if a game has been rated 8/10 then this is Quantitative data. The upside to this would be that it is easier to record the data and it would be easier to put into categories whereas, on the other hand, you can't compare two games fully with just a rating. If a game has been reviewed and rated by IGN or another source and the majority of reviews are good then a lot of the time this can dictate whether the game has a sequel or even goes on to have multiple follow up games. An example of this is Titanfall, after its release in 2014, Metacritic gave it a rating of 86 out of 100, this ...