Allie's Contribution

I really enjoyed this project and had a good time researching about this topic. For this project I was responsible for researching the dominant ideologies during the time and portrayed in the movie, the media effects that were present in the movie, the making of our own trailer, and the team meeting reports, and then presenting on the information that I found. I found it somewhat difficult to find what the dominant ideologies were and this was where I spent most of my time, but by watching and re-watching the movie I was able to pick up some of the ideologies portrayed and decided to focus on two main ideologies that I thought were most important to the movie: Capitalism and the popularity of tobacco. With the media effects   research, I focused mostly on framing and gatekeeping because I thought that those were the two effects to most adequately evaluate a film with. It was interesting with looking at framing and making my own trailer to kind of be in the directors spot and see how certain shots are used to influence the viewer. It gave me a new perspective and I learned quite a bit from it.