December Poster Competition

Congratulations to: Jake Field (10 FSM) for correctly guessing the poster:
Paranormal Activity

Well done Jake-enjoy your cinema experience!

Year-13: Media Studies

Research the Consumer Protection legislation that is currently operating in the UK. How does the ASA fit into the framework of Consumer Protection legislation that exists in the UK and Europe?
You can begin by visiting the About Us section of the ASA website www.asa.org.uk and the Committee of Advertising Practice website www.cap.org.uk as well as www.tradingstandards.gov.uk and Ofcom’s website www.ofcom.org.uk

Year-13: Media Studies (Advertising Task)

Advertising Task
Carefully analyse the advertisement for the Vigor Horse-Action Saddle. Clearly it was made some time ago. It is very different from a contemporary advertisement.
1. You are a member of a well respected and successful advertising agency. You have been asked by the client, Vigor Health Products, to try to use some elements of this old advertisement in a new advertising campaign for a modern exercise bike. They want the idea that theirs is a long established and respectable company to be attached to the new advertisement.
In a PPT, bullet point the problems using this advertisement in a contemporary market. Think about:-
• the model – his age, class, gender and appearance
• the design of the product
• the language used
• the claims that are made for the product
• the image of the product
• the layout and use of colour
2. Produce a “modernised” advertisement that is in keeping with contemporary ideals of health and fitness . To help you, find advertisements for health products and suggest how you might use these devices to attract a contemporary audience of men or women.
What, essentially, are the major differences? How do modern advertisements make their appeal?

Year-12: Media & Communication (Cloverfield)

What other marketing techniques/devices were used to publicise and raise public awareness of Cloverfield?

Due date: Tuesday 8th. December (Period-3)

Year-13: Media & Communication

Useful for Radio scripting templates

http://www.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/scriptsmart/

Year-12: Media & Communication

Here's the link for Cinema Verite
http://www.parlez-vous.com/misc/realism.htm

Cloverfield filming techniques

Year 13: Media & Communication

Great documentary on Sunday Radio-4 about the search for a woman caught up in the Northern Ireland troubles. Good starting point for those of you who are thinking of taking realistic events and fictionalising them.

Tarred and Feathered



http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00p1f4x

Year-13: Media Studies

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/privacy

Lots of stories/info about PCC and issues of privacy
Worth downloading the case studies for future reference/exam practice

Year-13: Media & Communication

Friday play (last week): 'Vent'
Good for narrative structure and the use of non-diegetic sound
(Radiohead/ Kings Of Leon/ Patti Smith/ Crowded House etc)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00ny6r4

Year 12 Media Studies: Preliminary Task

Year 12 Media & Communications: War of the Worlds (1953)

Representations of gender in War of the Worlds (1953)

Analyses should include references to film language:

• Sound (diegetic & non-diegetic)


• Camera (framing & movement)


• Mise-en-scene (including lighting)


• Editing
  

Year-13 Media & Communication: Research

Generating ideas for a radio play (3)
A rough (but clear) outline of what each storyline will be in terms of:
Theme
Content
Form
Narrative Structure

Basic research
Conduct basic research into all of the ideas
Questionnaires
Surveys
Interviews

http://www.surveymonkey.com/

You should be aiming to reach a broad demographic.
Around 50 people will be enough for each person
Your research is due in on Monday 16th. November (P-5)

Y13 Media Studies: Contemporary Media Regulation

‘A brief history of moves to improve press standards’Richard Keeble

Investigate post Calcutt Report and then produce a timeline of significant events and occurrences to the PCC

What key developments have there been in the development of the regulation of the press?

Y10 Media Studies: Mise-en-scene

How have the elements of Mise-en-scene been used to create meaning in this still?

Y12 Media: Thriller Conventions

What conventions of the thriller genre can you identify at the beginning of Face/Off?
How are the roles of the protagonist and antagonist established?
How is film language used to create meaning?

Y13: Contemporary Media Regulation

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1220756/A-strange-lonely-troubling-death--.html
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/media/article6881055.ece

Contemporary Media Regulation: a free press?
•Which codes of practice did the newspaper(s) infringe?
•Does another newspaper have a right to create news by taking the so-called moral high ground?
•What ethical, moral or legal issues have been raised by the Stephen Gately story?

Y12 Media Studies: Shot reverse shot

Y12 Media Studies: how is meaning created using film language?

How is meaning created in the following clip from the TV programme Mad Men?

In your response, you should consider all aspects of film language:

• lighting


• sound (diegetic & non-diegetic)


• use of camera (framing & movement)


• mise-en-scene


• editing

Y12 Media: Camera Movement

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein: 'Victor's Experiment'

Y13 Media Studies: CD Cover Design

Create a CD cover for the track Ultraviolence by Mr. Moods.
Apart from the visual construction, you should include an analysis of the cover that addresses the following:

• Genre
• Composition (the balance between text and illustration)
• Signifiers used to create meaning (visual information/ font/ colour)

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Mr_Moods/

Y13 Media Studies: Poster Design

Create a poster for the short film 'Open Skies'. Apart from the visual construction, you should include an analysis of the poster that addresses the following:

• Genre
• Composition (the balance between text and illustration)
• Signifiers used to create meaning (visual information/ language choices/ font/ colour)

Y12 Media Studies: Framing and Angle Analysis

Look at the still from the film LEON:
1. What type of shot is it? (Think about both camera distance and angle.)
2. What parts of the image are emphasised by this framing?
3. The strongest shape in the image is that of the man's body. Does it follow a horizontal, vertical or diagonal line within the frame?
4. What effect does this have on the overall composition and balance? Why do you think this image was framed in this particular way? What was the film-maker trying to do?

Y13 Media Studies: Semiotics in a text

How can the following texts be deconstructed using semiotics (signs)?

Think about: visuals/linguistics/colour

Y13 Media & Communications: Research Project

RADIO 4: A Case Study
In-depth research and analysis into Radio-4 over a 5 day period:
Wednesday to Sunday
Schedules, programming, content, listener interaction.
(What is on offer for the listener?
How is Web 2.0 being used to change or enhance the broadcasting experience?)

What conclusions does your research reveal about the nature of PSB and Radio-4?


http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0089nbb

Y13 Media & Communications:Radio Drama

Last Friday, there was a very interesting (albeit) harrowing play on Radio 4.
We'll be discussing aspects of this method to narrative storytelling in a future lesson.
Worth listening to for another 'approach' for your text(s).

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00mrzrm/Friday_Play_I_Am_Emma_Humphreys/

Y12 Media: Relinquishing Junk

Y12 Media: Greenaway's use of lighting and colour.

How does Peter Greenaway's The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover make use of lighting and colour?