A level media exam blog

  Read   Media Factsheet 03 - Genre: Categorising texts   and answer the following questions: 1) What example is provided of why visual iconographies are so important? Film  westerns will share codes and conventions with TV westerns. 2) What examples are provided of the importance of narrative in identifying genre? Someone sitting behind a desk is not genre  specific. However, add high key lighting, a modern mise en scene  and a screen behind the character at the desk and the combination of media language choices creates an image we associate with a news broadcast. 3) What is the difference between character representation in action movies and disaster movies? Certain stereotypes link to specific genres for example the 'lone wolf' character links to the action genre like James bond. However for the disaster movies, the heroic role lies with a group of people where all the members contribute a unique skill to reach a resolution 4) What are the different ways films can be categor

  Read   Media Factsheet 14 - Telling Stories: The Media's Use of Narrative   and answer the following questions: 1) Give an example from film or television that uses Todorov's narrative structure of equilibrium, disequilibrium and new equilibrium.  Wallace and Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit (Parks and Box: 2005) 2) Complete the activity on page 1 of the Factsheet: find a  clip  on YouTube of the opening of a new TV drama series (season 1, episode 1). Embed the clip in your blog and write an analysis of the narrative markers that help establish setting, character and plot. Starts of with disequilibrium with the man in distraught and running away in urgency. The man is the ('princess') that needs saving. Enigma codes are that we don't know who the man is running from which creates a scene of unease with he audience due to the mystery. Action codes is the man looking up and being taken away. The setting seems to be in a laboratory with passes to get in to cert

1) Introduction to Media: 10 questions 2)  Semiotics blog tasks 3)  Language: Reading an image - media codes 4)  Media consumption audit 5)  Reception theory - advert analyses 6)  Genre: Factsheets and genre study questions 7)  Narrative: Factsheet questions

  1) What are the preferred, negotiated and oppositional readings for the RBK 50 Cent advert? The preferred reading would be about 50 cent's redemption and remorse. An audience would also feel sympathetic towards him due to his past and encounter with gun violence. A negotiated reading could involve personal bias with 50 cent and may not agree with his past actions or controversial statements. An oppositional reading would be that part of the audience don't listen to rap music and aren't familiar with the music industry. The audience could also see this as a promotion of gun violence and support towards gang culture 2)  What are the preferred, negotiated and oppositional readings for the advert of your own choice that you analysed for last week's work? Preferred reading : This adve rt is a symbol of female empowerment and feminism as a whole. Supports women that choose to work and support their families Negotiated reading: Oppositional reading: The poster is army pr