Blog 5

1. Progress report - How many interviews did you do so far? And/or how many materials (i.e. media texts) did you research, and how did you research on the texts – textual analysis, genre study, etc.?

In my project, I have completed my interviews with two interviewees; those two people also are hobbyist of Hollywood film. They not only love to watch Hollywood film but also they bought some products about Hollywood film and imitate the character of the film.

Form those two Hollywood film hobbyists I got some information about the attractive of Hollywood film, such as the heroism, they are also proud of the heroes of the Hollywood film, they think heroes not only have a righteous image but also they can gave reader a hope, because of that they love to imitate the hero of the film.

In other side, I also found some article to talk about the impact of Hollywood film, those impact are involve about film industry, society and economy, form those article I can found out more attractive of Hollywood film and the impact of Hollywood film on different group.

2. Preliminary findings – What do you discover up till now? (For example, what are the commonalities amongst the texts/interviews?) How do your findings help you answer your research question?

After the interviews, I discovered that heroism is one of the attractive of Hollywood film, also this is the common theme of Hollywood film, those film also are famous film of the world such as “Avengers” and  “Xmen”, we can see that no mater American society or Hong Kong society also support heroism, they think the society need a hero to solve some problem, because of that some people love to imitate the hero of Hollywood film to increase self-esteem.

In encoding and decoding model, those findings can relate to decoder’s “framework of knowledge”. In society some people think there was a problem that has existed for a long time, and they also want a hero can help them to solve those problem.

Student Name: Ma Shun Hei

Student id: 10551590