Katerina Angelides HNC Creative Media

 Although the film "The Goodfellas" is not directly related to Freud you can see evidence of Freud's theory of the Id, Ego and Superego within the production. Throughout the film the idea of society is skewed, we do not see good and bad in a way that it exists in real life however, we see the rules of gangster society instead. Throughout the film the most powerful gangster, Paul Vario Sr. was a symbol of society, he made the rules and everyone else abide by these rules. The main three cast members in the film include Henry, Tommy and Jimmy, these three members all represent a part of a persons consciousness, although their characters experience moments where they show more resemblance to a different part of the consciousness overall throughout the movie their roles stay the same.  The film starts with a scene of the three main characters all in a car together on a deserted road. Henry is driving the car whilst Jimmy sits next to him in the passenger seat with Tommy laying...

 What is a Questionnaire ? A questionnaire is a research method that allows us to collect data using a range of different question which we ask a range of people. "Surveys often measure respondent's self-reported attitudes, opinions and behaviours; they are used frequently in social science to measure what psychologists call constructs." (Morrison, Accessed 2020)  There are many different uses from questionnaires and many different types of questionnaires which all prove useful in data collection. The primary form of questionnaires is one intended for self-completion by a survey participant, these forms of questionnaires are used in many situations; magazines use them to fill space and allow audiences to engage themselves with the task, they can be used for gathering opinions on a new untested product, they could also be used to gather opinions on a certain topic for example a  questionnaire could be created to gather the UK's opinion of homelessness in their area. Th...

 What is the Male Gaze Theory? Mulvey argued that the most popular movies are filmed in a way to satisfy male scopophilia (Simmons, 2016). The theorist uses psychoanalytic theory as a "political weapon, demonstrating the way the unconscious of patriarchal society has structured film form" (Mulvey, 1975). Mulvey theorises that most mainstream cinema is run by a patriarchal society, heterosexual males produce the films for a heterosexual male audience. During the time in which the film industry was monopolised by male directors, writers and cinematographers Mulvey noticed that women in film and many other media products were often a subject of sexualisation and objectification. Mulvey states that "In a world ordered by sexual imbalance, pleasure in looking has been split between active/male and passive/female. The determining male gaze projects its fantasy onto the female figure who is style accordingly in their traditional exhibitionist role, women and simultaneously look...

What is Psychoanalysis? Psychoanalysis is a set of psychological theories and therapeutic methods which are used to release repressed emotions and experiences (ie. making the subconscious, conscious). Many of these theories were derived from Sigmund Freuds work (McLeod, 2007). The main assumption within psychoanalysis is that human beings possess unconscious thoughts, feelings, desires and memories. A main area of study in psychoanalysis is dreams, our dreams can reflect a lot about each individuals subconscious mind which could be key to understanding ourselves and society around us. How does Freud use Psychoanalysis? Freud is the founder of psychoanalysis, over the course of his career he came up with some of the most ground-breaking theories to date, many of these theories have had a great impact on western culture making their way into films, tv shows, and society as a whole (Burton, 2015). Even though a media product may not have been directly influenced by Freud's methods we ...