media exam 1 Jasneet

  WWW: Jasneet, your start to Year 12 Media Studies and your blog work is off to a great start, keep up the good work. Your own media consumption demonstrates your ability to be reflective where you state you want to widen your exposure through exploring more newspapers and podcasts - let me know how you get on with that. Prison Break is one of my all-time favourite TV shows too! What is your strongest piece of work?   my strongest piece of work would be my reception theory as i clearly identified the preferred reading,negotiated reading and oppositional reading for the rbk 50 cent poster and i also analysed the readings using my own type of poster What is your weakest piece of work? my weakest piece of my work would probably be my media consumption as currently I don't consume a wide variety of media which limits the task and I think that's my weakest work What specific skills or knowledge do you need to develop over the rest of the course? I need to do extra readings so tha...

  Hypodermic needle model 1) Read this  Mail Online article about the effects of videogames . How does this article link to the hypodermic needle model? The mail online article links to hypodermic needle theory as children who are consuming these violent videogames have experienced a change in their behaviour such as results which demonstrate that those who played these violent games had an increase in their hostile expactations meaning that they would think they act like the characters and aggresive in their behaviour 2) How does coverage of the Talk Talk hacking case (see Daily Mail front page below) link to the hypodermic needle model? Why might someone  criticise  this front page?  This links to the hypodermic  theory as there is evidence of an violent videogame usage and that has led him to becoming an hacker and the media that he had consumed has made him more violent and go against the laws and become a hacker and someone might criticise the front p...

  1) How is audience defined in the Factsheet? Audience is the general term for all the individual people who consume a media product 2) What does the infographic for Gen Z in the age of Covid-19 suggest about the media Gen Z consumes?  The media that gen z consumes is mostly through online videos and online videogames and this shows they are quite an passive audience and get most of their media through the internet 3) How do media companies target and measure their audience in the digital age? Media producers use data which may be simple or complex to target their audience where there is thought of platform,scheduling or algorithm 4) What did the NRS used to do and what does PAMCO do now?  The NRS is used to to collect demographic information about the audience of newspapers and the PAMCO now collates information on traditional newspapers and and magazines in print form 5) How are demographics and psychographics defined in the factsheet? Demogographics at its simplest in...

 1) Introduction to Media: 10 questions 2) Media consumption audit 3) Semiotics blog tasks 4) Language: Reading an image - media codes 5) Reception theory - advert analysis and factsheet 6) Structuralism: Factsheet questions and film trailer analysis 7) Genre: Factsheets and genre study questions 8) Narrative: Factsheet questions

  1) Give an example from film or television that uses Todorov's narrative structure of equilibrium, disequilibrium and new equilibrium.  One example that uses Todorov narrative structure is Wallace and Gromit in the curse of the Were-Rabbit 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. The opening  establishes setting, character, and plot. The visuals of prison bars, corridors, and guards ground the viewer in the confined world of Fox River State Penitentiary, while the cold colours and strict routines convey a sense of control and danger. We are introduced to Michael Scofield, whose calm, calculated nature contrasts with his brother Lincoln Burrows’ vulnerable situation on death row, immediately creating empathy and tension. The central plot who...

1) What example is provided of why visual iconographies are so important? Genres are categories or types of media text. Genres are recognisable through the repeated use of generic codes and conventions. e.g. the mise-en-scene of deep space, usually indicates the genre of sci fi 2) What examples are provided of the importance of narrative in identifying genre? Visual and aural iconographies are not the only way that genres can be identified. Genre can also be indicated in the way the story is told via its narrative (the structure of the story telling) and plot (the events and occurrences within the story). Good examples of this are Independence Day (1996: dir. R. Emmerich), Deep Impact (1998: M. Leder) and, more recently, The Day After Tomorrow (2004: dir. R. Emmerich). In The Day After Tomorrow a father has two goals: to persuade the government to act on his advice and then to rescue his son. 3) What are the different ways films can be categorised according to Bordwell?  • Period o...