Media

A fanzine (zine is short for magazine) is a nonprofessional/nonofficial publication that is produced by the fans that have a certain interest in something, this is viewed by people who share the same interest, it allows them to discuss this certain interest. The most popular ones are sport and music genre fanzines. It was first popularized in science fiction fandom (October 1940 by Russ Chauvenet), then it became more popular within other genre's on interest.

http://www.johnnycashfanzine.com/index.html
This website is a fanzine that is dedicated to Johnny Cash, it provides links to sites that you can purchase DVD's, CD's and books and viewing e-books and everything else that pretty much involves Johnny Cash. This is one of the many fanzines that has been created, this is quite a basic one. Fanzine websites can either be set up in the style of an online magazine, or a blog type webpage.


















You also have some science fiction, sports and other music artist based fanzines. On further research of fanzines, I found a book fanzine, for free you can download 44 pages of this collection of fanzines all put together by a group called 'Boy's Own'. This book contains 440 pages of the acid house culture – the slang used, some of the parties in this culture, the tunes that were played (maybe even named and shamed as some people would look back in complete shame), the humor of these events and everything surrounding it. It is dated from 1986-1992. It has also been called "The village newspaper of acid house!" http://www.djhistory.com//books/boysown

Game reviews are where the game is played by you and make sure notes are taken during main parts of the game. A short paragraph (maybe 3-4 sentences) that will catch the readers attention, but not give away the actual game. The other main parts of a game review are:

• Making sure that you define what features you disliked and the things that you liked.
• You need to make sure that in your review you include the graphics, music, cinematics, the content of the game, the basics of the story, the actual game play itself and the controls that are used.

A film review is something that a certain individual will receive permission to post on a website, if they gain the permission they will then rate the film out of 5, 1 star is the lowest rating a film can be given, therefore 5 stars will be the highest one. The person who rate's the film will then explain the plot and give an overall summary of the whole film. Film reviews are very useful for the creators of the movie, the ratings alow them to look back on what they had produced, therefore they can now comment and decide on what needs to be improved in the making of the film.  

This film is an account of a young white rapper named Jimmy "B-Rabbit" Smith Jr who is played by Eminem who is living in inner city Detroit, Michigan. The film was a critical and financial success. Eminem won the Academy Award for Best Original Song for "Lose Yourself," the song which was iconic to this film. A decade after its release, Vibe magazine also called the film a "hip-hop movie masterpiece". 
Here are 3 reviews of 8 mile, the reviews were completed by Rotten Tomatoes, IMDb and Metacritic. The reviews from Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic are both 4 stars, but the review from IMDb is 3 and a half stars.

1. 8 Mile, Reviews
2. 2002 Film
   1. 76%
      Rotten Tomatoes-205 votes
   2. 6.9/10
      IMDb-148,105 votes
   3. 77%
      Metacritic-38 reviews

Rank	Title	Country of Origin	Weekend Gross	Distributor	% change on last week	Weeks on release	Number of cinemas	Site average	Total Gross to date
1	Gone Girl	USA	£3,064,545	20th Century Fox	-25	2	563	£5,443	£9,827,252
2	The Maze Runner	UK/USA	£2,041,229	20th Century Fox	-	1	491	£4,157	£2,041,229
3	Annabelle	USA	£1,939,963	Warner bros	-	1	381	£5,092	£1,939,963
4	One Direction: Where We Are - The Concert Film	UK	£1,021,527	Arts Alliance	-	1	390	£2,619	£1,021,527
5	Dracula Untold	USA	£847,958	Universal	-51	2	448	£1,893	£3,519,514
6	The Equalizer	USA	£620,025	Sony Picture	-49	3	411	£1,509	£5,558,555
7	The Boxtrolls	USA	£576,772	Universal	-41	5	515	£1,120	£6,774,389
8	What We Did on our Holiday	UK	£342,594	Lionsgate	-53	3	361	£949	£2,858,496
9	The Rewrite	UK/USA	£324,889	Lionsgate	-	1	364	£893	£324,889
10	Dolphin Tale 2	USA	£292,472	Warner bros	-46	2	417	£701	£919,605
11	Macbeth - Met Opera 2014 (Opera)	USA	£205,937	By Experience	-	1	174	£1,184	£205,937
12	'71	UK	£205,116	Studiocanal	-	1	123	£1,668	£205,116
13	Bang Bang	Ind	£161,035	20th Century Fox	-73	2	78	£863	£989,686
14	Pride	UK/Fra	£94,959	20th Century Fox	-62	5	140	£9	£3,545,826
15	Guardians of the Galaxy	UK/USA	£76,181	disney	-73	11	196	£389	£28,326,152
	Total		£11,815,202				5,052	£2,339	£68,058,136

In this table, there are a list of 10 artists and it shows the figures of how many of each of their CD's were bought in a few different countries, these are the four main listed countries. Cd and DVD sales are also important as are box office figures, it gives people an idea of what is most popular and what is not so popular, this can also be helpful for media producers as this means they can see clearly what would need to be improved and what is more of a success than another DVD/CD they had previously released. 





http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/9775680/CD-and-DVD-sales-plunge-as-downloads-surge-to-1billion.html

Here is an article on the telegraph about CD and DVD sales, according to the telegraph the sales of CD's and DVD's are dropping, it seems that people are preffering to download them onto a smart phone or tablet rather than having the actual physical copy, This has to affect CD and DVD producers as this means they are losing money because people would rather have a copy that has been downloaded instead of physically.

Programme ratings are used for seeing which programmes are the most and least popular, also they show how many people are watching the show. The media producers use this information to see which programmes are doing well and which are not doing as well. The information is used to determine which shows can be re aired or cut from the channel after the finished series. 

Programme ratings are also used by media producers also use this information to gain knowledge about certain audiences preferences and dislikes about the channels they watch, don't watch and what programmes are preferred to be watched on these channels also.

BBC1

w/e 5 Oct 2014

		7 day data (000s)
1	THE GREAT BRITISH BAKE OFF (WED 2002)	10,666
2	STRICTLY COME DANCING (SAT 1823)	9,926
3	STRICTLY COME DANCING: THE RESULTS (SUN 1920)	9,354
4	EASTENDERS (MON 2001)	7,751
5	EASTENDERS (FRI 2001)	7,692
6	EASTENDERS (TUE 1925)	7,647
7	EASTENDERS (THU 1928)	7,470
8	DOCTOR WHO (SAT 2029)	6,914
9	COUNTRYFILE (SUN 1819)	6,314
10	CASUALTY (SAT 2116)	5,747

MTV (was MTV One)

w/e 5 Oct 2014

Circulation figures, are the amount of something (for example the amount of copies made of something) that are being distributed per day/week or month, they are a good example of measurable data. The highest circulation figures for reading material are newspapers. Circulation is one of the main factors that is used to set rates for advertising. Circulation is not always the same as the copies sold, since some newspapers are sold without cost to the reader. Readership figures are usually higher than circulation figures because the typical one copy of a newspaper is read by more than one person. These figures are used for seeing the most and least popular news papers in a certain area, then the media producers can determine the reason why this newspaper did better than the other, for example in the table below a media producer could determine why the sun has done better than the daily mail since 2010.

The presentation above is a good example of quantitative research as it involves readership circulation figures.