Introduction to Media: Final index

1) Introduction to the subject and you
2) Key concepts (LIAR) and analysis of Film Poster
3) Denotation and Connotation: Advert analyses (WaterAid)
4) Mise-en-scene: Stranger Things
5) Blog feedback and learner response
6) Camera shots photo storyboard (photos and captions) (not completed sadly)
7) Camerawork and editing blog tasks
8) October assessment – feedback and learner response
9) Reception theory – Harry Brown trailer analysis
10) Audience effects theory - Blue Planet analysis
11) Industries - Ownership and control (Facebook and Instagram)
12) Audience and Industry - impact of internet essay
13) Film Industry: Introduction to Marvel
14) Film Industry: Doctor Strange
15) Film Industry: I, Daniel Blake
16) Audience and Industry internet essay - feedback and learner response
17) Representation: Kidulthood film poster analysis
18) January assessment learner response

January assessment learner response

1) Type up your feedback in full (you don't need to write the mark and grade if you want to keep this confidential)

Q3) you need to apply the reception theory when you analyse the advert.

Q4) This is a company that have used vertical integration.

Q6) revise both csps in detail.

2) Read the mark scheme for this assessment carefully. Write down the mark you achieved for each question:

Q1: 1
Q2: 0
Q3: 1
Q4: 0
Q5: 1
Q6: 0

Where you didn't achieve full marks, write WHY you think you missed out on the extra marks. Use the indicative content suggestions in the mark scheme to help with this.

3) Did you get any media terminology wrong in the assessment? Make a note of it here for future revision:

yes for question 2, 4 and 5

4) Look specifically at question 3 - did you successfully write about both the preferred and oppositional readings? Did your answers match any in the mark scheme?

kind of but yes.

5) Now look at question 4. Write a definition of vertical integration to revise this key industry terminology.

the combination in one firm of two or more stages of production normally operated by separate firms.

6) Finally, look at your 20-mark essay - question 6. Write a four-paragraph essay plan for this question, using the suggested answers in the mark scheme to help you. Use this format:

Paragraph 1: 
Paragraph 2:
Paragraph 3:
Paragraph 4:

Representation

1) List the people, places and groups represented in the poster. E.g. men, women, teenagers etc.

There are 4 boys and 3 teen aged girls.

2) Are there any stereotypes you can identify?

They like do violence because they are dressed in a particular way that depressed people would wear.

3) What is the preferred reading of this poster?

the text is sans-serif because the text is kind of a bold text 

4) What is the oppositional reading of this poster?

Extension: What does this poster suggest about British society? 

I, Daniel Blake: blog task

1) What is independent cinema and how is it different to Hollywood blockbusters?

Blockbuster. “Independent cinema is cinema produced outside of big studios with a small to medium budget” – such is the definition of independent cinema.

2) What is I, Daniel Blake about?

Daniel Blake (Dave Johns) is a 59-year-old widowed carpenter who must rely on welfare after a recent heart attack leaves him unable to work.

3) Who directed I, Daniel Blake and why is this important?

ken loach

4) How was I, Daniel Blake promoted to an audience? List at least three different methods used by the film's marketing campaign.

It was released to cinemas in UK like Vue and more. 

5) What unusual or creative marketing methods were used to get audiences talking about the film?

1) facts and quotes

2) story behind Daniels past

6) What was the estimated production budget for I, Daniel Blake and how much did it make at the box office?

Probably around £659.

7) How can independent films like I, Daniel Blake compete with Hollywood blockbusters like Doctor Strange?

The I. Daniel Blake movie budget is low and its considered a low budget film and the hollywood film doctor stranger has a high budget so its considered a blockbuster film.

8) In your opinion, was I, Daniel Blake a success? 

Yes because it has a story and a moral behind it and explain a lot about him and his life.