Ashan year 12 exam MR Pall

1) Introduction to Media: 10 questions 2) Media consumption audit 3) Semiotics blog tasks 4) Language: Reading an image - media codes 5) Reception theory - advert analysis and factsheet 6) Structuralism: Factsheet questions and film trailer analysis 7) Genre: Factsheets and genre study questions 8) Narrative: Factsheet questions

Complete the following questions using the Media Factsheet resource available on the Media Shared drive.  You'll find them in our Media Factsheet archive: M:\Resources\A Level\Media Factsheets. You can also access them online here if you use your Greenford Google login . 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. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=761uRaAoW00  First 3 min  Setting: The opening uses locations, lighting, sounds and came...

Task 1: Genre factsheets 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? Somebody sitting behind a desk, adding in high key lighting,  mise-en-scene and props and screens, then we can see that it is a news caster.  Star wars and Star trek 2) What examples are provided of the importance of narrative in identifying genre? they have different production values and often use different narrative structures – there are certain elements within the genre that are shared that enables the audience to recognise a western regardless of...

Part 1: Media Factsheet reading Use our brilliant Media Factsheet archive to find Factsheet #90 Applying Structuralism and Post-Structuralism . Read the Factsheet and answer the following questions: 1) What is the definition of structuralism provided by the Factsheet?  It is a theoretical perspective that emphasises on the existence of universal structures, underlying the surface of differences of media texts. For example universal aspects of narrative and genre can can help us to understand cultural products.   2) What are binary oppositions and why are they important? Binary opposition are when concepts contradict each other, for example old vs young, good vs evil, light vs dark. They are important because Levi Strauss argues that we are all socialised by binary opposition and culture. It helps us understand the world based on the structures of society and media. It shows us what can be seen as right and wrong, for example we know that the hero is normally associate...