Monday, 19 February 2018

Collective Identity

British 
Youth up to 24 
Research from the last 5 years post 2013 

Introduction 
3/4 historical context for teenager 
Everything in the future 

Past, present and future 
Only way to get level four is to include the future 

Positives 
- Educating yorkshire 
- BGT, X Factor, Voice Kids 
- Sports - Tom Daley 
- University challenge 
- Charities 
- Protests 

Millennials - Snowflakes 

British representations 
Historical context 
Theories 
Own analysis 

Cinema 
TV representation 
Magazine and gender 
Representation of youth and youth cultures 

Awareness about the world 






Friday, 9 February 2018

Media Language

Discuss how you use Media Language in one of your coursework productions to create meaning for the audience. 

Camera - FAM
Editing - STOPS 
Mise-en-scene - CLAMPS 
Sound - MCDOVED 

Introduction 
Talk about media languages what they are
State your A2 production  
Music video, digipak and website 


3 example of each area


Conclusions 
Effective use of media language 
Codes and conventions must be used consistently 

Representation

Intro 

Main 
DRCAGES, settings, characters, themes 
   -Disabiliy 
   -Religion 
   -Class 
   -Age
   -Gender
   -Ethnicity 
   -Sexuality 
Conform/subverts 
Camera/miss-en-scene/editing/sound 

Levi Strauss 
Propp 

Tuesday, 6 February 2018

Genre plan

Daniel Chandler - Type/Audience expectations 
Steve Neale - Repetition/Difference 
                     - Settings/Themes/Icons/Narrative/Characters/Textual Analysis 
Enigma - Who done it?

Paragraph 1 
1. Define the concept - Genre 
    Outline the production (Film)
    (Subvert and Conform)

Paragraph 2 
2. Use theorist 
    Relate to own production 
    
Paragraph 3 
3. Apply the concept 
    Making close reference to your product 

Paragraph 4 
4. Production/Exchange/Distribution - how they could be applied/challenged 

Paragraph 5 
5. sum up returning to the question 
    

Monday, 5 February 2018

Audience

Who is your target audience? 
Psychographic profiling 
Explorers 

Analysis 
Understanding 
Demograpics 
Interest 
Environmental 
Needs 
Customisation 
Expectations 

Effects/Hypodermic Needle 
Uses and Gratifications 
     -Personal identification 
     -Information - Newspapers/News/Documentary/Question time 
     -Entertainment 
     -Social interaction - Website/Interviews/Magazines 
Reception theory - Stuart Hall - Decoding/Encoding - Preferred/Negotiate/Oppositional   


                                                                        

1B

- Last question you answer 
- Choose one production and theory 
- Narrative  -  Todorov, Balthes, Levi Streuss 
  Genre  -  DISTINCT - Steve Neale/ Daniel Chandler (repetition/difference)
  Representation  -  DRCAGES 
  Audience  -  uses+grats, effects, encoding/decoding 
  Media language  -  Any theorists from above (camera, editing, mise en scene, sound)

Narrative (film) 
Genre (film) 
Representation (film) 
Audience (Music Video)
Media Language (Music Video)

Paragraph 1 
1. Define the concept 
2. Define what you made 
3. discuss a few ideas about the concept and apply them to your production 

Paragraph 2 
4. Use the theorists and link to the production 

Paragraph 3 
5. Start to apply the concept 

Paragraph 4 
6. production, distribution and exchange 

Paragraph 5 
Conclusion - subverts and conforms 

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