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Thursday, 26 March 2015

Easter Homework + Digital Media

Potential Question for the Mock exam the first week back.

How do your three main texts use digital technology? (June 2013)

Easter Homework 1

You need to create the slides for Ed Sheeran & Taylor Swift! This is part of your Easter homework, the second part is below. Beyonce, I have helped you out with (because I am nice!). You can see the type of information you need. It would also be helpful to do some research into social media and how it is used as a marketing tool.

Easter Homework 2

Purchase one or two of the following magazines: The Big Issue, Glamour, Men's Health
Create a textual analysis of the front cover - if you are struggling to recall magazine conventions check out this post on the ASWCMedia blog (http://aswcmedia.blogspot.co.uk/search?updated-max=2015-03-02T06:38:00-08:00&max-results=7&start=3&by-date=false)
Read through the magazine and document the types of articles it features - link to uses and gratification PIES (Personal Identity, Information, Entertainment, Surveillance)
Discuss the target audience of the magazine GRASS (Gender, Race, Age, Sexuality, Socio-economic) and give specific reasons as to why you think this.
Do some background research into the magazine you have bought - when was it created, how often are the issues released, who runs the magazine, what is the circulation amount, what other mediums does the magazine run, what other magazines are included in the umbrella of the publication, how is the magazine global and any other information you think is relevant.

The issues may be different to the ones below, these are the current ones as of 26/03. It's fine if you have different ones.

Thursday, 26 February 2015

ISP Task: Ed Sheeran

Questions to answer (in response to the key text and your wider knowledge and understanding)

How has Ed Sheeran been constructed?
How could Ed Sheeran be considered a commodity?
What are the ideologies Ed Sheeran presents?
Extension A/B: How could Ed Sheeran be considered a global text?

Construction, Commodity and Ideologies are the core sections of Dyer's star theory!

Repsond to these points with information you have gained as well as evidenced from the key text: MTV's documentary 'Nine Days and Nights of Ed Sheeran'.

This is due on 03/03/15. It is essential you print this out for lesson (it will be checked) and then it will be placed in your folders as an tool for revision.

Video is attached below. Link is available here.

Sunday, 22 February 2015

March '15 - Karl's Group

ICT supported sessions will be held on Wednesday's from 16:20 - 18:20. This is the only guaranteed slot that will be supported. You can also work in the ICT room at lunchtimes independently.

Failure to submit coursework with the cover-sheets by the 27th will result in a failure to submit and your previously submitted coursework will be used.

Sunday, 8 February 2015

Infographics: Film Industry

Tuesday, 3 February 2015

Music Industry: Section A

Wednesday, 17 December 2014

Christmas Homework

Firstly, CONGRATULATIONS on completing MS3 Coursework! You will receive this back on the week commencing 12th January. If we think you have the potential for a resubmission to increase your grade, you will have automatically have the option to do so. If you have under performed due to a late submission or failure to hand in the work to a standard that reflects your ability, you will have to apply for a re-submission through our CTM. Full details will follow in the first week back.

Secondly, it's time to focus on the exam. You have a mock the first week back and this will test your current knowledge and what you have retained from MS1. This will give Louise and I a clearer idea of what areas to develop and what our focus should be on. Obviously we are not expecting you all to ace this, however it is paramount you do your best and this leads me onto the Christmas task.

The focus when studying these films is...

REPRESENTATION of gender (traditional/stereotypical or contemporary/positive?)
Conventions of the action GENRE (subvert or conform?)

There are three options to complete with option 1 being the best!

Option 1 <--- this is the one you want to do!

Watch all three key texts (Guardians of the Galaxy, Skyfall and Drive) and study the print-based media we have given you (complete a textual analysis!). Complete the pack for each film. Watching the condensed trailers would also be good as it gives a snapshot as to how the studio want the film to be viewed to the masses.

Option 2

Watch the trailers for all three key texts (Guardians of the Galaxy, Skyfall and Drive) and study the print-based media we have given you (complete a textual analysis!). Complete the pack for each film.

Option 3

Study the print-based media we have given you (complete a textual analysis!) for all three key texts (Guardians of the Galaxy, Skyfall and Drive). Complete the pack for each film.

During the first lesson back Louise and I will check the packs, failure to have completed this task to a good standard will result in a meeting with the CTM. It will also drastically limit your response in the mock exam?

Thursday, 18 September 2014

Block F Homework

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Glossary

Anchorage - how meaning is fixed, as in how a caption fixes the meaning of a picture

Audience – viewers, listeners and readers of a media text. A lot of media studies is concerned with how audience use texts and the effects a text may have on them. Also identified in demographic socio-economic categories.

Binary Opposites – the way opposites are used to create interest in media texts, such as good/bad, coward/hero, youth/age, black/white. By Barthes and Levi-Strauss who also noticed another important feature of these ‘binary opposites’: that one side of the binary pair is always seen by a particular society or culture as more valued over the other.

Catharsis – the idea that violent and and sexual content in media texts serves the function of releasing ‘pent up’ tension aggression/desire in audiences.

Censorship – Control over the content of a media text – sometimes by the government, but usually by a regulatory body like the British Board of Film censors.

Code – a sign or convention through which the media communicates meaning to us because we have learned to read it. Technical codes – all to do with the way a text is technically constructed – camera angles, framing, typography, lighting etc. Visual codes – codes that are decoded on a mainly connotational level – things that draw on our experience and understanding of other media texts, this includes Iconography – which is concerned with the use of visual images and how they trigger the audiences expectations of a particular genre, such as a knife in slasher horror films.

Consumer – purchaser, listener, viewer or reader of media products.

Context – time, place or mindset in which we consume media products.

Conventions – the widely recognised way of doing things in particular genre.

Denotation – the everyday or common sense meaning of a sign. Connotation – the secondary meaning that a sign carries in addition to it’s everyday meaning.

Diegetic Sound – Sound whose source is visible on the screen

Non Diegetic sound – Sound effects, music or narration which is added afterwards

Enigma – A question in a text that is not immediately answered and creates interest for the audience – a puzzle that the audience has to solve.

Feminism – the struggle by women to obtain equal rights in society

Gaze – the idea that the way we look at something, and the way somebody looks at you, is structured by the way we view the world. Feminist Laura Mulvey suggests that looking involves power, specifically the look of men at women, implying that men have power over women.

Genre – the type or category of a media text, according to its form, style and content.

Hegemony – Traditionally this describes the predominance of one social class over another, in media terms this is how the controllers of the media may on the one hand use the media to pursue their own political interest, but on the other hand the media is a place where people who are critical of the establishment can air their views.

Hypodermic Needle Theory – the idea that the media can ‘inject’ ideas and messages straight into the passive audience. This passive audience is immediately affected by these messages. Used in advertising and propoganda, led to moral panics about effect of violent video and computer games.

Ideology – A set of ideas or beliefs which are held to be acceptable by the creators of the media text, maybe in line with those of the dominant ruling social groups in society, or alternative ideologies such as feminist ideology.

Indexical sign – a sign which has a direct relationship with something it signifies, such as smoke signifies fire.

Image – a visual representation of something.

Institutions – The organisations which produce and control media texts such as the BBC, AOL Time Warner, News International.

Intertextuality – the idea that within popular culture producers borrow other texts to create interest to the audience who like to share the ‘in’ joke. Used a lot in the Simpsons.

Media language – the means by which the media communicates to us and the forms and conventions by which it does so.

Media product – a text that has been designed to be consumed by an audience. E.G a film, radio show, newspaper etc.

Media text – see above. N.B Text usually means a piece of writing

Mise en Scene – literally ‘what’s in the shot’ everything that appears on the screen in a single frame and how this helps the audience to decode what’s going on.

Mode of Address – The way a media product ‘speaks’ to it’s audience. In order to communicate, a producer of any text must make some assumptions about an intended audience; reflections of such assumptions may be discerned in the text (advertisements offer particularly clear examples of this).

Montage – putting together of visual images to form a sequence. Made famous by Russian film maker Eisenstein in his famous film Battleship Potemkin.

Moral Panic – is the intensity of feeling stirred up by the media about an issue that appears to threaten the social order, such as against Muslims after 9/11, or against immigrants, or against ‘video nasties’ following the Jamie Bulger murder.

Multi-media – computer technology that allows text, sound, graphic and video images to be combined into one programme.

Myth – a complex idea by Roland Barthes that myth is a second order signifying system ie when a sign becomes the signifier of a new sign (2^nd years only this one!)

Narrative code – The way a story is put together within a text, traditionally equilibrium- disequilibrium, new equilibrium, but some text are fractured or non liner, eg Pulp Fiction.

News values – factors that influence whether a story will be picked for coverage.

Non-verbal communication – communication between people other than by speech.

Ownership – who produces and distributes the media texts – and whose interest it is.

Patriarchy – The structural, systematic and historical domination and exploitation of women.

Popular Culture – the study of cultural artefacts of the mass media such as cinema, TV, advertising.

Post Modernism – Anything that challenges the traditional way of doing things, rejecting boundaries between high and low forms of art, rejecting rigid genre distinctions, emphasizing pastiche, parody, intertextuality, irony, and playfulness. Postmodernism favours reflexivity and self-consciousness, fragmentation and discontinuity (especially in narrative structures), ambiguity, simultaneity, and an emphasis on the destructured, decentered, dehumanized subjects! This is tricky!

Propaganda – the way ruling classes use the mass media to control or alter the attitudes of others.

Reader – a member of the audience, someone who is actively responding to the text.

Reception Theory (Hall) - Preferred Reading the interpretation of a media product that was intended by the maker or which is dictated by the ideology of the society in which it is viewed. Oppositional Reading – an interpretation of a text by a reader whose social position puts them into direct conflict with its preferred reading.Negotiated Reading – the ‘compromise’ that is reached between the preferred reading offered by a text and the reader’s own assumptions and interpretations

Regulation – bodies whose job it is to see that media texts are not seen by the wrong audience (eg British Board of Film Censors) or are fair and honest (EG Advertising Standards Association)

Representation – The way in which the media ‘re-presents’ the world around us in the form of signs and codes for audiences to read.

SFX – special effects or devices to create visual illusions.

Shot – single image taken by a camera.

Sign – a word or image that is used to represent an object or idea.

Signifier/Signified – the ‘thing’ that conveys the meaning, and the meaning conveyed. EG a red rose is a signifier, the signified is love (or the Labour Party!)

Sound Effects – additional sounds other than dialogue or music, designed to add realism or atmosphere.

Stereotype – representation of people or groups of people by a few characteristics eg hoodies, blondes

Still – static image.

Sub-genre – a genre within a genre.

Two Step Flow theory - the idea that ideas flow from mass media to opinion leaders, and from them to a wider population.

Uses and Gratifications – ideas about how people use the media and what gratification they get from it. It assumes that members of the audience are not passive but take an active role in interpreting and integrating media into their own lives.