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Magazines and Music Video assessment: Learner response

Grade= 4+  Mark= 13 WWW-you clearly know CSPs well and you use relevant evidence and engage with question Great effort! good use of media terminology EBI-your evidence needs to be as specific and detailed as possible. consider effect on audience more (the why). use as much media terminology as you can always. Q1)2/2-Typical features Q2)4/8 -point answering question first-what meaning? brand identity. careful your phrases make sense be specific! Excellent effort! needs a clearer point answering the question before evidence. Q3)2/6-Good ideas/ evidence but need to be specific with examples and consider effect on reader. Q4)2/3-only shade in 3 boxes so lose a mark :( Q5)3/6-some good ideas need more detail from music video link it to audience identity.  be specific: young men/friends/indie music.

Audience and Industry: blog task

   Audience 1) Who is the target audience for Doctor Who? Do you think it has changed since 1963? From 1970-2010 the female audience grew by 22%. More diverse representation over recent years (gay characters, black central characters, strong female characters and of course the new female doctor) have all encouraged a wider audience. Doctor Who is one of the most iconic franchises that the BBC has 2) What audience pleasures are offered by Doctor Who - An Unearthly Child? Apply Blumler and Katz's Uses and Gratifications theory to the episode. Make sure you provide specific examples from the episode to support your ideas.   Doctor Who - An Unearthly Child offers various audience pleasures that can be analysed through Blumer and Katz's Uses and Gratifications theory. 1. Personal Identity: The episode allows viewers to identify with the characters and their struggles, particularly with the Doctor and his mysterious nature. For example, viewers may find pleasure in exploring the Doct

Language and Representation

  Language and contexts 1) Write a summary of the notes from our in-class analysis of the episode. You can use your own notes from the screening in class or  this Google document of class notes  (you'll need your GHS Google login).  Camerawork and sound: Mise-en-scene: Narrative and genre: 2) How can we apply narrative theories to this episode of   Doctor Who ?  Todorov: equilibrium Todorov suggested that all narratives follow a three part structure.They begin with equilibrium, where everything is balanced, progress as something comes along to disrupt that equilibrium, and finally reach a resolution, when a new equilibrium is restored. Equilibrium > Disequilibrium > New equilibrium This can be applied to most media narratives. Propp: character types Vladimir Propp stated that there were seven basic character roles when he analysed classic fairy tales and that these were present in most narratives. Media products still use these recognisable character types today: Hero, Villai

Introduction to TV drama

  1) How does this  His Dark Materials  trailer meet the conventions of a TV drama series? it has a plot and a type of problem that's has happened that need to be resolved at the end just like TV drama series and it has characters and a narrative and a setting. 2) What genre (or genres) are suggested by this His Dark Materials trailer? mystery, action and thriller  3) What kind of characters and narratives are introduced in this trailer? Villain, Hero, friends, business men and women, workers, priests   4) What settings appear in the trailer? Jungle, Forest, Street, Shed, Office, Lab, Beach/Sea, Church, Prison, Mountains 5) Who do you think the target audience for His Dark Materials is? Give reasons for your answer. Although His Dark Materials has been marketed as young adult fiction, and the central characters are children, Pullman wrote with no target audience in mind. The  fantasy  elements include witches and armoured polar bears; the trilogy also alludes to concepts from physi

Music Video: Final index

  1)   Music Video: Introduction 2)  Music Video: BLACKPINK - How You Like That CSP 3)   Music Video: Arctic Monkeys - I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor CSP

Arctic Monkeys - I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor: Blog task

  Arctic Monkeys: Audience 1) What do we know about the Arctic Monkeys audience? Think demographics, psychographics and how they got into the band. Arctic Monkeys' audience are likely to be white, middle class and reasonably young. Psychographic groups might include Reformers and Explorers. Recent global success pushed the band into bigger psychographic groups such as Mainstreamers. Audience pleasures would include diversion - the song is upbeat and fast-paced. 2) What audience pleasures are offered by the music video for I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor? Audience pleasures would include diversion - the song is upbeat and fast-paced. Fans who followed the band from the early days might find a sense of personal relationship while many young people would get a sense of personal identity from the lyrics to the song (about going out to a club and drinking). 3) Pick out three particular shots, scenes or moments in the video that would particularly appeal to Arctic Monkeys fans. Why

Introduction to Music Video: Blog tasks

 1) What are the key conventions of music video? The most general codes and conventions within music videos include: The style (performance, concept, narrative) The camera. The editing techniques (transitions, fast, slow) 2) What is intertextuality? Media intertextuality, by definition, seeks and theorises links and connections between media texts and textualised social life while global media discourse analysis shows how the globalised political economy of late capitalism influences the content and format of a wide range of media products. 3) When did music videos first become a major part of the music industry? By the late 1980s, 97% of songs on the Billboard music chart had accompanying videos and the US record industry alone was spending upwards of $150 million per year on their production. 4) What launched in 1981 and why  were music videos an important part of the music industry in the 1980s and 1990s? First, let's go back to where it all started. Back in 1981, the idea of st