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theaudiencegeek · 5 years

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A few of my friends and I started watching a popular series on Netflix called Top Boy that shows drug-dealing gangs from London’s housing estates. They seemed to be really enjoying the show. I personally think that the crime genre has shown its fair share of crime organization oriented shows. Nothing came out at me as revolutionarily new. Similar storylines have been depicted in shows such as The Wire , Breaking Bad, etc… However, Top Boy did have its own unique associations with the show such as its own soundtrack that was released by OVO Sound and Warner Records. Various UK drill, Grime, and Hip Hop artists are featured on the album that depict gang lifestyles from London and various other regions. The most popular artist among the artists featured is Drake. In fact, it was his disapproval of the Topboy Summerhouse series getting cancelled that sparked the following for the show and eventually lead to the release of this new Topboy series that dropped this September. Drake went on to Twitter and tweeted his objections to the show's cancellation. His thirty-eight million followers were being sold a television series from a celebrity persona that has clearly established a huge following. I have a close friend named Rav that is a Drake fanatic. He invests time and money into his music, clothing merchandise, shows, social media, even his brand of whisky named Virginia Black. When Drake dropped the name of Topboy in various tweets, he took notice. When he found the show trending on his Netflix, he decided to watch the show. When I talk to friends, I usually take their television show preference very seriously. I assume that Rav has taken his relationship with Drake so seriously that his recommendation for a television show guaranteed the chances of Rav watching the show. This is referred to as worship because of Rav’s excessive amount of time and energy spend with Drake products.

When a celebrity has many followers on a social media, it seems as though they may be prone to having more parasocial interactions with that particular persona of the celebrity that is portrayed in the products that they consume. These products that sell the celebrity’s persona could be songs, albums, music videos, interviews, social media posts, documentaries, etc. They are all available for consumption on the internet. The consumer does not have to leave their house. They could be consuming the product twenty four hours a day if they wanted to. The possibility for worship are always there.

According to Brown, there are four processes of audience involvement with media personae including, transportation, parasocial interaction, identification, and worship. Parasocial interaction is one such process that can occur when interacting with media texts. According to Brown, “Parasocial interaction is the process of developing an imaginary relationship with a mediated persona both during and after media consumption, which begins with spending time with the persona through media or participation in mediated events, and is characterized by perceived relational development with the persona and knowing the persona well”.Brown explains how a persona that captures the attention of a person can stimulate one’s imagination to create a perceived relationship with that person. In other words, Rav sees Drake as a person he knows although, he has never met him in person before. His mind wanders to fantasies of knowing him based on portrayals that have etched a unique perceived persona, created continuously by the consumption of various cultural products of the persona. The relationship between persona and consumer can develop into a very active one way bridge of communication. Worship is on the extreme end of the spectrum where, “making one’s relationship with a media figure (is) the primary focus of one’s time and attention that evolves out of a strong love for that persona” (Brown, 2015, pg. 266). In other words, worship is the act of focusing on a media figure to the point where they bring in consistent contributions of time and energy that in turn blossom into a perceived good relationship with the media figure. In reality, it is really just a carefully constructed image that is being sold to a consumer audience. Not only that, but this image has the ability to sell other products to its audience members. It could be that the stronger the relationship between the persona and its consumer, the more likely they are to think about purchasing the product. Rav sees Drake as a person that has similar interests as himself. Therefore, Whatever he sees Drake consuming or promoting to consume, he thinks of consuming himself. This is why Rav said that he started watching Top Boy. Drake had lured him into invest in the advertised product. Rav’s worship relationship with Drake lead him to become invested into the personas of the characters on the show. This includes the persona of one of the main characters of the show named Jamie. Rav described identifying with Jamie’s persona as similar to his own. According to Brown (2015), “Identification occurs from this perspective when an individual adopts the attitudes, values, beliefs or behavior of another individual or group based on a “self-defining” relationship… media consumers search for personae with whom they want to identify and when they find them, they adopt the attitudes, values, beliefs and behavior of these personae that are already similar to their own or that they are already predisposed to adopt” (pg. 264). Rav has identified with Jamie’s role as a strict older brother that takes care of his siblings as a parent would. Rav had described to me that he looks at his little sister as a child that he needs to take care of. These shared attitudes of family has strengthened the identification between Rav and Jamie. Now, it may be easier to establish other traits of Jamie as his own since he already identifies with him. It got to the point where he would talk to us in a British accent, pronounce words differently, and even use the slang that is found in the dialogue of Top Boy. This is an example of how media personas can be used to influence consumer audiences to buy into brands and products through advertising. Drake has brought a dead television series back into the limelight through promotion and association.

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fmn24 · 4 years

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#bluestory (15) Director: #andrewonwubolu Cast: #khalibest #stephenodubola #michealward #kadeemramsay, Junior Afolabi Saloku Andrew Onwubolu, otherwise known by the alias Rapman and for creating the YouTube musical drama #shirosstory makes his feature directing debut. Blue Story is produced by Damian Jones #goodbyechristopherrobin #brotherhood Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie) and stars newcomer Stephen Odubola, Micheal Ward #topboy and #karlasimonespence #wannabe. Timmy (Stephen Odubola) and Marco (Michael Ward) are two best friends who go to the same school in Peckham, despite the fact Timmy lives in a different London borough: Deptford. A fact that could set them at violent odds. At first, Timmy’s days are filled with school, finding love with a girl named Leah (Karla-Simone Spence) and joking around at school with Marco. But all this is torn apart when one of Timmy’s friends from primary school beats up Marco, causing his older brother and #peckham gang leader, Switcher, to retaliate. The once-brotherly friendship is split as Timmy and Marco are dragged into different sides of the postcode gang war in London, filling their world with guns, knives and lost lives. MY FINAL THOUGHTS Overall I gave this remarkable film a outstanding 5/5 stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Wow I'm speechless this film is a sensational I'm definitely going to #rewatch this masterpiece. This movie has everything you can imagine you'll go through a emotional roller-coaster throughout. Apart from the high-tension, disturbing confrontation scenes, there're many humorous parts which had the audience and I in tears of happiness. Hopefully this film will give a positive message to various #london #communities and around the globe. I see now why people are calling this the British #boysndahood it's equally groundbreaking it stand out heads and shoulders from what we've seen in the past. This film is soul-searching, heartbreaking #reallife a #mustsee #movie. Last most importantly I must #congrat #rapman on his brilliant directorial debut rapper-turned-director. #cinema #entertainmentnews #movienews #soundtrack #outnow https://smarturl.it/1unhc6 #song 🔊 #southeastlondon @raye #kamaras_reviews (at London, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/B5Cope9Fe7C/?igshid=1rsaugosbbqhs

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debutfilmjournal · 7 years

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21st June 2017

STORY TIME: Last December of 2016 I was out drinking. For what reason I was out drinking I could not tell you. After stumbling in at 4am, for some strange reason I ran a bath and decided to have a bath. Like a brain dead doughnut I am and intoxication I then proceeded to fall asleep in the bath.

It could have been one maybe two hours later I woke up naked in the bath tub to find my iPhone 6 underwater like a shipwreck. As you can imagine the phone was fucked. Gonzo. Tried it all : the radiator, rice and time to let is set. After going phone-less for a while and then onto the Nokia I forgot about this iPhone completely. So 6 months later after drowning my iPhone I took it down to the phone repair shop I used to frequent often.

I have previous convictions with abuse of phones. Mainly for GBH to iPhone which resulted in me paying penalty fines to repair the screen. Due to my bad reputation and convictions I ended up getting to know Alex and Suni in the phone repair shop.

The whole point of this pointless story is that today they have fixed the iphone. But mroe importantly... There is a scene in the phone shop that I have written. He said he is bang on letting me film for the summer film in his shop in the summer time in this hot summer weather. BINGO. Topboy Suni. It’s all about the small victories.

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