A2 Media Studies

Last Week, we went on a trip to Knole House in Kent. The day was based on Virginia Woolfs novel - 'Orlando' who changes sex in different time frames (centuries). When we first arrived, we were taken on a tour of Vita Sackville-West's house in the style of a performance. Each room of the house we entered represented a different time zone and that time zones' view on gender identity. During the afternoon we completed a workshop in which we learnt the definition of binary opposition. Following this we watched a film of the novel - Orlando in which gender was clearly represented throughout.

Today in our media lesson we read a news article reviewing Wonder Woman. The article discusses the film and how it raised £180million at the box office in the first week of the release - which is the biggest opening for an film by a female director ever! The article also discusses how Wonder Woman was designed to appeal especially to women and that if you build a film for women, women will come and watch the film. This is shown through the audience of the film on its opening weekend as 52% of the films audience was female.