Preparation for the first presentation.

So, the artefact I have chosen to research about is the world wide phenomenon that is Harry Potter. I have chosen to do Harry Potter simply because there is so much to talk about and there are so many different related media products in different media genres in which I could talk about.

Anyway, the preparation for the presentation that I have to present to the class will be taken from the internet and magazines which end up talking about the Harry Potter series. Recently, I bought the 'Empire' magazine which is jam packed full of Harry Potter interviews and cool stuff like that. This is where I will be getting any intertextual references or ideas about how other films/programmes use Harry Potter in their own programmes/films.

Audience theory should come into this quite easily as the fan base and target audience for Harry Potter is massive. This could be due to a number of things which I will research about and end up putting on my blog for all of you to see. The 'Empire' magazine and other magazines which I shall trek out to find about Harry Potter will target the audience in a specific way. The same goes to the websites as well, because different websites will market the information about it in different ways. Research to do with this will follow shortly.

Leading on, the two-step flow concept is all about how one person who has either read the books or seen the movies will end up telling friends or family about the media they have just seen/read. This will be put up in a more detailed way in another post where I will explain to everyone what the two-step flow concept is about in detail and how Harry Potter has used this in a very successful way.

In the last final post about the first presentation, I will talk about how exhibition and distribution has been used in a positive and effective way for the film company who produced, distributed and exhibited the film. The film company is called Warner Brothers and I will put a separate post about Warner Brothers on my blog as well so that I have more research about the way they do all those things successfully.

So, to summarise, I am going to write a separate post about intertextuality, borrowed interest, audience theory, the two-step flow concept and the exhibition and distribution processes used and talk about how Harry Potter has used them in the 3 or more related products in different media genres which I have chosen to talk about.