Tuesday, October 22, 2019

OCTOBER HALF TERM HOMEWORK: UNIT 1 LO3, LO4 - complete all up to end of page 20

In lesson you should have completed up to page14 - digetic/ non-digetic sound - Life On Mars clip that we watched and analysed in class.

Answer all 4 questions in full - watch the clip again from blog link or youtube/ you may have to set up a BBC iplayer account.

From Tuesday 22nd to 3rd November you must complete all work in purple booklets up to the end of Page 20. (All of Learning outcomes 1, 2, 3 and 4.)

You must also complete all blog posts for Mr Dougan and myself.
All work to be fully completed to a high standard and ready for assessing 1st week back.

You must write all notes down in your exercise books and complete all activities on each page - listed below.   Answer in full sentences.

All KEY TERMS to be written down and box highlighted.

Read carefully and ensure you use the information  and graphics, tables etc. In some instances you will write/draw these down too.

Now to complete pages 14 - 20 over the next week and a half:

Denotation/ Connotation - Roland Barthes (Theorsit)
Print and Web - Based Media 
3.2 - Critical and theoretical analysis of media and texts (P.15)
Laura Mulvey (1975) Objectification of Women in the Media (Theorsit)
Activity - Applying Mulvey and Wiliamson
Narrative Theories
Tzvetan Todorov - (Theorsit)
Claude Levi-Strauuss (Theorsit)
Activity - Applying Todorov and Levi-Strauss
Genre Theories
Rick Altman (1999) Audience Pleasures
Know It - answer the 3 questions in full based on LO3.

Learning Outcome 4 - Understand the Target Audiences of Media Products.
Getting started activity - complete in full
4.1 - Mainstream audiences - niche audiences
4.2 Demographic Profiles and profiling audiences
NRS, RAJAR, BARB, Demographics all key terms
Think about it? Case scenario - answer 3 questions based on small machines article
4.3 How products fulfil audience needs: 
Escapism, Surveillance, Personal relationships, personal identity
Activity - Applying the uses and gratifications model (Theory). X factor website link in booklet - complete table
Know it - 3 questions

Rest 

Sunday, October 20, 2019

Unit 1 LO3. Understand how Meaning is Created in Media Products

Today:  Pages 11-14
  • Mis-en-scene: Deadwood (2006 - Trailer. Season 1 Episode1)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylD-2j5VK9k
  • Codes and Conventions - 10 mins 
  • Audio Visual Media 
  • Shot types - hand out
  • Transition types
  • Diegetic and Non-digetic sound - Life on Mars 2006
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0074scz/life-on-mars-series-1-episode-

Thursday, October 17, 2019

Unit 1. LO2 and LO3 - Distribution - in lesson

Date in books:    Today complete :

All of LO 2.3 Distributing media products to audiences/ key terms.

Group activity in pairs: Your media consumption: Q1 & Q2 (pages 9 and 10) answer in full. started as homework. - 15 minutes

Write out all of Impact of online distribution page 10 & 11 plus key terms. 20 minutes

KNOW IT  - write out the three questions and answer in full. 10 minutes

Learning Outcome 3
Pair up and complete Getting Started - create a simple chart in your exercise books and complete - 15 minutes.

Why codes and conventions are important write out all on page 11- (not 1st paragraph).    Include all key terms.

Homework in class exercise books - 
Take purple booklets home and complete up to the end of 
page 11.

Books will be marked on Monday evening




Tuesday, October 8, 2019

IMAGE INTO TEXT AND DEFINE BRUSHES AS TEXT

I NEED TWO MORE POSTS ( THAT MAKES MINIMUM OF FIVE SO FAR

IMAGES INTO TEXT AND THEN DEFINE THE WORD MASTHEAD AS TEXT

BE CREATIVE A SINGLE PAGE IS THE MINIMUM BUT IF YOUR LOOKING FOR A MERIT OR DISTINCTION YOU'LL DO MORE

REMEMBER A COMMENTARY.

Tuesday, October 1, 2019

Special Pasting into Text

Using the work you started in class make a 4th post for DG on creative text

Show successful examples and post with a commentary which tells me what you actually did?

 - what the effects where like?
- which ones did you like and why?
- what combinations worked best and why?
- what was difficult?
- what problems did you have to overcome?

New deadline is 8th October.

Unit 3 Lessons 7 & 8 (Task 4) Post Production Techniques and Processes

  Virtual Tutor:  https://youtu.be/FySvJ8EtQFE EXAMPLE: https://eleighdigitalmedia.weebly.com/unit-3.html Go to Learning Outcome 4 on above ...