Para 1
Production and what is genre
Para 2
Typical codes and conventions with a film similar to our own
Para 3
Text analysis of your own production...
Camera -
Framing
Angle
Movement
Editing -
Sfx
Transitions
Order of narrative
Pace
Screen time
Mise en scene -
Costume
Lighting
Actors
Makeup
Props
Setting
Sound -
Music
Contrapuntal/parallel
Dialogue
Off screen/on screen
Voiceover
Emotions
Diegetic/non-diegetic
Para 4
Theorists - how they subvert or conform to these with examples from your production.
Steve Neale - what a audience expects to see but how its different to other films of the same genre to make you want to buy it.
Rick Altman - argues that genres are usually defined in terms of media language and codes.
Para 5
conclusion - overall what genre taught you, how did your research influence your productions. Make production your own.
Monday, 27 February 2017
Friday, 24 February 2017
1b - Media Language
Camera - FAM
(Para 1)
Framing
Angle
Movement
Editing - STOPS
(Para 2)
Sfx
Transitions
Order of narrative
Pace
Screen
Mide en scene - CLAMPS
(Para 3)
Costume
Lighting
Actors
Make up
Props
Setting
Sound - MCDOVED
(Para 4)
Music
Contrapuntal/parallel
Dialogue
Off screen/on screem
Voice over
Emotions
Diegetic/non diegetic
Include the phrase "it creates meaning"
Include codes and conventions (everything is a code, e.g. the smudged lipstick shows she's deranged)
Ancillary task
(Para 5)
Talk about cross media branding.
Conclusion
(Para 6)
Was it effective?
(Para 1)
Framing
Angle
Movement
Editing - STOPS
(Para 2)
Sfx
Transitions
Order of narrative
Pace
Screen
Mide en scene - CLAMPS
(Para 3)
Costume
Lighting
Actors
Make up
Props
Setting
Sound - MCDOVED
(Para 4)
Music
Contrapuntal/parallel
Dialogue
Off screen/on screem
Voice over
Emotions
Diegetic/non diegetic
Include the phrase "it creates meaning"
Include codes and conventions (everything is a code, e.g. the smudged lipstick shows she's deranged)
Ancillary task
(Para 5)
Talk about cross media branding.
Conclusion
(Para 6)
Was it effective?
1b - Audience
Theories
Hydodermic Syringe - This is a instant hit/effect to make the audience go out and buy the song.
Cultivation Theory - This is a slow feed of information making you change your mind over time. The audience become desensitised.
Marxist Hegemony - Everyone just believes what the elite (top of the media) say. They bare passive consumers of media.
Liberal Pluralism - The audience chooses between lots of different media texts.
Uses and Gratifications - This audience is not used by the media. They go out and take what they want from it. Eg...
Water Cooler Effect - The idea of gathering around and talking about a programme. You watch a programme to not feel left pout when everyone is talking about it.
Mazlow - His theory was is the hierarchy of needs...
His theory comprises of a five tier model of human needs.
Reception Theory - 3 ways audience consumes media:
Hydodermic Syringe - This is a instant hit/effect to make the audience go out and buy the song.
Cultivation Theory - This is a slow feed of information making you change your mind over time. The audience become desensitised.
Marxist Hegemony - Everyone just believes what the elite (top of the media) say. They bare passive consumers of media.
Liberal Pluralism - The audience chooses between lots of different media texts.
Uses and Gratifications - This audience is not used by the media. They go out and take what they want from it. Eg...
- Diversion
- Escapism
- Information
- Pleasure
- Sexual stimulation
- Comparing relationships with your own
Water Cooler Effect - The idea of gathering around and talking about a programme. You watch a programme to not feel left pout when everyone is talking about it.
Mazlow - His theory was is the hierarchy of needs...
Reception Theory - 3 ways audience consumes media:
- Dominated/preferred - believe everything the media says.
- Negotiated - where the consumer challenges media views, they don't believe everything they here.
- Opposition - Completely doesn't believe the media.
Tuesday, 21 February 2017
Section 1a
We created a anagram to remember what could be asked in the question. It is NGRAM.
N arrative
G enre
R epresenation
A udience
M edia conventions
Narrative
Telling a story, plot and character. Need to include theorists within the answer...
Levi Strauss - binary oppositions
Todorov - equilibrium and how it is disrupted
Propp - typical characters. E.g. hero, villain, damsel, sidekick, dispatcher
Barthes - codes - action, symbolic and enigma
Weather its linear or non linear.
Genre
Representation
Audience
Media Conventions
N arrative
G enre
R epresenation
A udience
M edia conventions
Narrative
Telling a story, plot and character. Need to include theorists within the answer...
Levi Strauss - binary oppositions
Todorov - equilibrium and how it is disrupted
Propp - typical characters. E.g. hero, villain, damsel, sidekick, dispatcher
Barthes - codes - action, symbolic and enigma
Weather its linear or non linear.
Genre
Representation
Audience
Media Conventions
Question 1 Overview
OCR G325
- The exam is 2 hours long
- You spend 1 hour on each section
- Have to answer 2 questions from Section A
- And spend 30 minutes on each of these individual questions
- Section A is worth 50 marks (25 marks for each Q) and Section B is worth 50 marks
Section A- About our coursework
Section B- Collective Identity (representations of
British youth)
There are four possible subjects our Section A
questions could be about:
- Digital Technology
- Research and Planning
- Post-Production (editing, sound etc)
- Using conventions from research texts
- Creativity - E.g. 'How creative were you in your research and planning?'
This can be remember through the anagram DR PUC.
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