Media Blog 1 - Mr Halsey Amari

1) Introduction to Media: 10 questions 2) Semiotics blog tasks - English analysis and Icon, Index, Symbol 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

  There are areas of this video where non-diegetic sound has been added on top of the video, but the majority of it is diegetic sound coming from the video itself. For instance, in the beginning of the video, the sound effects are not diegetic, but later, when the game is actually playing, the sound is diegetic. When the protagonist is contemplating something joyful, a diegetic sorrowful soundtrack is playing in the background.

  1) Give an example from film or television that uses Todorov's narrative structure of equilibrium, disequilibrium and new equilibrium.  Pulp Fiction 2) Complete the activity on page 1 of the Fact sheet: 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. https://youtu.be/KzRdb61Skyk The scene is surrounded in a rural area and background  with increased suspense as the audience wonders while the huntee be caught. We see the main protagonist running away from hunters and it builds a lot of tension and suspense throughout the extracts.  We see the main character who clearly is a runner based on his outfit and choose of clothing and we can establish is the disequilibrium as the scene carries on we see more running creating an enigma code as to how did this happen. 3) Provide  three  different examples from film or television o

  Complete the following tasks using the  Media Factsheets  available on the Media Shared drive.   Y ou'll find them in our  Media Factsheet archive : M:\Resources\A Level\Media Factsheets or can  access them online using your Greenford Google login here . Create a new blogpost in your Exam blog called 'Genre blog tasks' and complete the following: Read  Media Factsheet 03 - Genre: Categorising texts  and answer the following questions: 1) What example is provided of why visual iconographies are so important? It usually provides the antagonist with a wild facial expression which makes it important because you wonder why t here face is like that. 2) What examples are provided of the importance of narrative in identifying genre?   There is an large importance because in a regular comedy you wouldn't expect the antagonist to randomly become a nasty murderer, however in a horror comedy you can expect something like this which highlights the importance of narrative through t

  WWW: I like your answers to the media consumption audit and particularly your plan to watch the news even if it’s boring! It’s also great to hear that you’re considering a media-based course at university – that will be one to discuss later in the year when we start the UCAS process. In the meantime, keep up the organisation and quality in your blog work to aim for those top grades. EBI: Two key areas to improve here: firstly, some of your work is unfinished and it’s so important to make sure you are organised and fully completing work. For Semiotics you haven’t answered the questions on the ‘English’ short film (I know we discussed this but I think you should have updated this by now). Secondly, over the next few weeks try and add to the depth and detail of your blog posts. If you take your ‘Reading an image’ work for example there is a lot more you could say about both adverts and you also need to be using the media codes we learned in the lesson. Without the depth and media term

1) What are the preferred, negotiated and oppositional readings for the RBK 50 Cent advert? The preferred reading for the 50 cent campaign and advent was to make the audience assume their target demographic was aimed at a younger audience who were surrounded amongst “crime”. The use of 50 Cent in this advertisement makes Rebook come across as “cool” and diverse with the use of using someone with a rather controversial background and history. The oppositional reading would be that reebok is highlighting and glorying gang life and culture which could be taken out of context and used as a negative for the company. 2)  What are the preferred, negotiated and oppositional readings for the advert of your own choice that you analysed for last week's work? The preferred reading would be losing weight and mass and becoming a vegetarian. This advertisement has good connections but it was designed very badly. The oppositional would be that this is fat shaming at the highest level. This also pr