media essay- personal use of media

Media essay- personal use of media

I go to the cinema about once a month depending on what films have been realised and what feedback they have been given. Millions of people go to the cinema each year yet most of the cinemas get the majority of their profits not through ticket sales but through people buying food such as popcorn which they sell as it is estimated that is has a mark-up of 700%. Food and drink at the cinema can make up 85% of the cinemas I do buy popcorn sometimes when I go to the cinema but anything such as drinks I bring from home. To increase profits cinemas are now offering seats which moves with the film itself, the ticket price is higher than an average seat but due to the experience not being possible at home many people choose to have these seats. Personally I don’t because I feel like cinemas are expensive enough without adding more for a ticket especially when a normal ticket isn’t that much less than getting the DVD when it is first realised which I might get anyway. I normally go with my friends as it is quite often too expensive to go as a family as it can quite often go way above £50.

In our household we have 4 TVs which are all digital. The average household has between 3-5 TVs and often has more TVs than people in one house. On all of the TVs at home we can get around 50 TV channels as we have Freeview TV and we also get around 24 different digital radio stations. About 76% of UK households have Freeview o either their main or secondary TV set. In 2014 95% of households in the UK have a TV. On my personal TV I can get some TV channels where I can watch films such as Film 4 but not as many as people who have other TV providers. My TV and the lounge TV have an in built DVD player but the only person to have a Blu-ray player is my brother as he has a game console which can play them on. We do buy a lot of DVDs, me especially as I tend to watch them instead of TV, even f it is a DVD of a past TV programme. My brother does buy some Blu-ray disks but not many because he mostly plays video games on his TV. I don’t have a hard disk recorder like every other TV in the house but I do catch up by using catch up websites such as BBC iPlayer.

I have access to the Internet most of the time on many devices such as my phone, laptop, Wii and sometimes a tablet at both my mums and my dads house. Other members in my family use a netbook, their phones, tablets, the computer and other video game devices. In 2013 68.6% of Europe had the Internet, compared to North America, which had 84.9% that is considerably smaller. I’ll sometimes watch films on YouTube, catch up TV and Netflix on either my phone when I’m out, Wii if I want to watch it on my TV and also my laptop but not on my tablet as it doesn’t always load properly and the picture and sound quality is very poor. Websites like Netflix have a huge amount of subscribers; in 2013 29.2 million people here subscribed and in the same year made 3 million in profit. I do sometimes watch non-professional films on Vine or YouTube on my phone or laptop. YouTube is one of the biggest websites for people to upload their on films, in one month more than 1 billion people use it, 80% of the people who use it are in the US. I watch films with friends and family but I also sometimes watch them by myself. When I watch it with someone else its nice because the atmosphere of the film is shared between you just like it is in the cinema but on the other had its nice to watch a film by myself as it means I can really get into the film and the storyline. I do have a video camera but I only use it for special occasions, I use my video recorder on my phone more as I always have my phone on me even though the quality isn’t as good. I don’t upload videos on the internet as many of them are of family events which means that they are meaning less to anybody else and personal but many people do, in just on minute 3 days worth of videos are posted o YouTube.