The Telegraph : Source Code review.

Source Code: Seven Magazine review, by Jenny McCartney

The first rule of Source Code is, don’t think too deeply about Source Code. Duncan Jones’s film belongs to the head-scrambler variety of thriller, in which scientists meddle with time and space for your viewing excitement, and its chief asset is its unflagging momentum.
Captain Coulter Stevens (Jake Gyllenhaal) – an ex army commander in Afghanistan – finds himself on a train, opposite a smiling brunette, Christina (Michelle Monaghan) whom he doesn’t recognise. She knows him, though, as a teacher who travels on her train every day of the week.
After eight minutes, a bomb on the train explodes, killing all the passengers. Coulter comes around in a dark chamber to a conversation with his handlers, who are using “time reassignment” technology to keep returning him to the train just before the explosion until he discovers the identity of the bomber: with each session, he will have precisely eight minutes to get as far as he can with his investigation. It’s Groundhog Day with dynamite.
The trick of this film is to keep the constant tick-tock of tension alive, and this it does with skill. For the viewer, there is something mesmerising about the perpetual return to the same situation, to which Stevens brings a different consciousness each time: pursuing false leads, yelling at the passengers, noticing freshly incriminating details.
Yet for all the hectic, claustrophobic weight of his character’s circumstances, Gyllenhaal retains some lightness of being, the occasional ability to crack open a radiant grin; Monaghan, too, has the movie gift of appearing at once ordinary and luminous, a girl unwitting of her fate even as disaster thickens around her. With each encounter, Stevens grows more attached to her, begging the question: how many eight-minute segments does it take a man to fall in love?
Only at the end, when the film tries to slow down, do things fall apart. There’s what looks like a perfect, poetic ending – and then the plot dully trundles on past it, layering soothing improbability on top of a working fantasy.

Film Industry

Film Industry

The main countries that are most well known for film industry today are the United States, Hong Kong and India. The main countries in Europe most well known for it's film industry are France, Germany and the United Kingdom.

The film industry first started in Australia 1906, with the first ever feature film, The Story of Kelly Gang.It was a completely silent film that lasted for 80 minutes. By 1911, Australia had made a total of 16 of these films, and it wasn't until this time that the other countries caught on.

In 1911, the first movie studio was founded in Hollywood. And in that same year, another 15 independents settled in Hollywood and it soon became very well known for its film industry. By 1930, there were five main Hollywood movie studios (Paramount, RKO, 2Oth Century Fox, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Warner Bros). And so, by the 1950's, the success of the television was established and was seen as a profitable source, and so the film industry invested in that and allowed their films to be played in the comfort of peoples homes. 

Institution

Institutional Research

TV PROGRAMME: The Jeremy Kyle http://www.itv.com/

The Jeremy Kyle show is a daytime television talk show that has been broadcast on ITV (aka independent television) since July 2005. ITV own a wide range of channels which hold a variety of different genres to suit every audience, and also it's the biggest commercial television network in the UK. ITV isn't owned by one company, but a series of regional companies that provide a regional service. There are 3 companies that own the entire network; ITV, STV and UTV.

ITV is best known for it's soap operas (such as Coronation Street and Emmerdale), sport, and reality TV shows (such as The Only Way Is Essex).

Their website is very high-tech with moving images and links to other channels (ITV2,3,4) and also the catch up alternative of Iplayer. This tells us that it is a very big and modernized company.

FILM: A Cinderella Story  http://www.warnerbros.com/

A Cinderella Story is an 2004 American teen, romantic comedy film. The film stars Hilary Duff, Jennifer Coolidge, Chad Michael Murray and Regina King and was directed by Mark Rosman. 

It is owned by Warner Bros; who are one of the main large film industries, but they also produce television and music entertainment. The brand identity for Warner Bros is that they are very professional and have a wide range of genres of films and other materials, (but this is mostly comedy and family friendly),  but also that they are very successful in the things that they produce.
They are obviously a very wealthy company, as they have produced extremely successful films such as Harry Potter and The Dark Knight. 

MAGAZINE: PICK ME UP http://www.ipcmedia.com/pickmeup
 Pick me up is a British weekly woman's magazine that is published through the IPC media group. IPC media is a consumer magazine and a digital publisher in the United Kingdom,with a large portfolio of selling over 350 million copies per year.Upon viewing the IPC media website, it is clear to see that they are in fact a very wealthy company, owning a wide variety of magazines including 'Now, Marie Claire and TVeasy'. All the magazines that they own tend to be of a cheaper price range, and therefore would probably be aimed at people of lower income.
The fact that Pick Me Up doesn't have it's own website suggests that the company is too large to invest in each of the magazines having a seperate website.

Boogie Nights Opening Scene

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpV4dDBkSDQ

How does the narrative engage the audience?

The first way that Boogie Nights engages the audience is through camera angles. There are a vast variety of camera angles used; this is due to the fact that the whole first scene is a continuous long take (which is quite unusual in films) and as a result, would grasp your attention. 

Also, symbolic symbols are quite important in the scene. It starts off initially with a medium shot of the nightclubs sign, 'Boogie Nights' which is brightly coloured in bubble writing. This symbolises the fact that the film is set in the 70's. Also, whilst there is a long shot showing the location, we see a lit up sign on another building showing a vinyl record and some older cars driving down the road; which helps us to determine the era.

It is structured so there are many long shots at the beginning; which again is to help the audience to engage the area and what the film is about. The long shots ease into more intimate shots as a car pulls up outside the nightclub, which engages the audience as it is the first time that we meet any of the characters.

How are women represented in the opening scene of Boogie Nights?

Woman are represented in different ways in this scene. Generally, the women are very feminine, but are objectified and treated as if they were a mans possession and not an equal partner. They did not have any power in terms of business; this is shown as the nightclub owner speaks to another man about their businesses and completely dismisses all women of this conversation. However, the woman that we see walking into the club with her husband at the start does have a sense of power; but this is perhaps just a reflection of her husbands power and authority. The assumption that the audience makes about women is that they are constantly dolled up and ready for a party; compared to the men who have a more serious tone about them.