AS Media Studies: Half-Term Work

You should already have the following on your blogs:
–IPC Media
–Image manipulation task
–Questionnaire/analysis of questionnaire
–Mock-up of contents page

For over half-term: go to MediaFire>AS Media Studies>Codes & Conventions

BEFORE the 5th.November upload to your blog:

• Codes & Conventions Task (with accompanying analyses)
• Final Front cover of school/6th. form magazine (Preliminary Task)
  Completed versions to be finished and uploaded to blogs. If you are working in a group, you have to do different versions but use the same ‘house style’.
  

There must be an accompanying evaluation of how you have constructed your front cover using codes and conventions. (Why you chose what you chose and for what reasons)

Also discuss the software that you used to construct your front cover.

A2 Media & Communcation

Please go to MediaFire to access the half-term work.

It is on a Word document inside the A2 Media & Communication folder

Deadline: Tuesday 2nd. November

(If you want me to 'rip' your chosen plays for inclusion in your folder, email me ASAP with the titles)

YOU SHOULD ALSO NOW BE UPDATING YOUR BLOGS

AS Media & Communication: gender representation

An investigation into gender politics in the 1950’s

Half-term question:
What does this still image suggest about how men and women were generally represented in films during the 1950’s?

AS Media Studies

For next Friday...

• Blogs updated (IPC Media/Photo manipulation task/analysis of questionnaire)
• Mock up of contents page to be completed (below is a link to help you) and uploaded to your blog(s)

Have a great weekend and a productive week.

Please email blog addresses ASAP

http://www.ipcmedia.com/brands/brands.php

http://www.google.co.uk/images?um=1&hl=en&safe=active&tbs=isch%3A1&sa=1&q=contents+page+magazine&aq=f&aqi=g1&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=

http://www.ipcmedia.com/brands/brands.php

A2 Media & Communications

UNIT-4 CONTENTS

What is/was radio? (analysis of radio including timeline)
British Radio in the modern age (lasting appeal/developments-including annotated IRDP documents)
History of Radio Drama (what has changed/remained the same)
Radios 1-7 remits & responsibilities (+analysis)
Radio scheduling (locating a prospective text-+analysis)
What is the role of commercial radio? (written analysis)
Genre:
o Genre/Form (type)
o Content (subject matter)
o Structure (composition)
o Voice (1st. or 3rd.)
From Fact to Fiction exercise + Peer Assessment
A summary of the medium of Radio

A2 Media & Communications: From Fact to Fiction

From Fact to Fiction

As part of the process of generating ideas and ‘exploring the output in radio’, for next week please complete the following task.

Take a current story in the news and ‘fictionalise’ it.
•What genre will it be?
•How will you deal with the content / subject matter-how can you make it engaging for the listener?
•How will it be structured? (Start-middle-end)
•Which voice will you use?
You idea should be around 5 minutes long

Here's the link to the programme: From Fact to Fiction

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007lld4

AS Media: 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?

5. Why do you think this image was framed in this particular way? What was the film-maker trying to do?

AS Media: Lighting & Colour task

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

Now available also to download: scroll down the page to digital storage. This will take you to 'Podbean'. Here you can download the clip to your computer.

A2 Media Studies: Press Regulation

Case Study: Stephen Gately and the Daily Mail

If you were the PCC…

Would you:

A.Uphold the complaints made by Stephen Gately’s partner. (1. accuracy; 5. intrusion into grief or shock; 12. discrimination)
OR
B.Rule in favour of democratic (journalistic) free speech

YOU DECIDE!

You must be prepared to give reasons for your adjudication.