Kaya's media blog 1

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

  1) Give an example from film or television that uses Todorov's narrative structure of equilibrium, disequilibrium and new equilibrium.  • Equilibrium – the balanced normality of the world of the story • Disequilibrium – the unbalanced world between the problem  and the climax  • New Equilibrium – a return to normality at the end – returning  the world to balanced state 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. At the start there are multiple cuts to show him at different moments. They all randomly wake up in a room full of people unexpectedly. They then start their first game which results in death meaning there is an action code. They carry on playing games and whoever loses dies but whoever wins at the very end wins all the money.  3) Provide  three  differen

  1) What example is provided of why visual iconographies are so important? Sometimes these iconographies are enough to act alone,  e.g. the mise en scene of deep space, usually indicates the genre of  sci-fi. Sometimes, however, the iconographies work together to  indicate the 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. 2) What examples are provided of the importance of narrative in identifying genre? When you are watching a film or the TV or reading a  newspaper or magazine you will probably find it very easy to  identify genre. You will need to look in more detail and identify  what media language options have been made to enable you  to recognise the genre so easily. These choices will usually be  the ones that are shared by the majority of texts within this  genre,

WWW: It’s brilliant to see your Exam blog is 100% up to date which shows how well you’ve stepped up to A Level and independent working. Keep up this level of organisation alongside using media terminology consistently (and highlighting it!) and I’m sure you will make great progress.  EBI: The key challenge now is adding depth and detail to our blog work and also expanding our media consumption. If you look at your Semiotics or Reading An Image work then you’ve completed the tasks but often answer in one sentence. The more you engage with the questions and explore a range of possible answers or interpretations that better you will do in Media. Similarly, if you broaden your media consumption to include newspapers (via websites is fine!) and podcasts then this will help you target those top grades. LR: Reflect on your work in A Level Media so far. What is your strongest piece of work? What is your weakest? What specific skills or knowledge do you need to develop over the rest of the co

1. Preferred:  Make every second count like there's no tomorrow     Negotiated: It could be gang affiliated     Oppositional: Amount of times he was shot 2. Preferred: Smoking is bad and could kill you by causing cancer     Negotiated: It's a timer till death     Oppositional: It's harmless 3. Most advertisements are seen as a myth meaning we all interpret it in the same way as that's all we know and as it's been engrained into us that way as that's how we've learned it to be. Saying that we also have our own opinions about the advertisement which is possible if you read between the lines and analyse it deeply. For example some people may take smoking as bad where some people don't see a problem with it and take it as being fine and a stress coping mechanism however some say it causes stress. Overall it depends how you see things which is what the reception theory is I believe.