Media language

Media language 

Q1 (b) 'Discuss how you used Media Language in one of your coursework production to create meaning for the audience


CODES = MEANING 

State what you made for A2 production 

Media language across your production - digipak, website and video.


Youth is our meaning - teenage bucket list, all about girls having innocent fun.

- Specific costumes and locations
- largely static stills to show performance
- Describe your song in terms of chorus, build up etc but begin with genre
- thought beats, parallel to the images, link with narrative and bucket list

What theories - narrative, audience mainly GOOD LUCK type it up!!!!!!

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Friday, 17 February 2017

QUESTION 1B

- requires candidates to select one production and evaluate it in relation to a media concept. The list of concepts to which questions will relate is as follows:

1. genre
2. narrative
3. representation
4. audience
5. media language

GENRE

How the film opening/MV fits the genre you chose.

DISTINCT (describe in detail - setting, themes, icons, narrative, character, textual analysis)

NARRATIVE

linear narrative for film opening = two narratives... Tez's POV & my POV

Don't talk about MV as doesn't have narrative

REPRESENTATION

CAGES (class, age, gender, ethnicity, sexuality)

Film opening - white, upper class, female, twenties & white, lower class, male, teen

Music video - white, middle class, female, 18

AUDIENCE

uses & gratification theory = in 1977 film makers started thinking about what their audiences would enjoy watching

Personally identify with character or situation

Information, teaching the audience something

Entertainment

Social interaction

remember PRIMARY and SECONDARY

MEDIA LANGUAGE
Camera - FAN
Mise en scene - CLAMPS
Editing - STOPS
Sound - MCDOVED