Media blog 1 - Mr bush

  1) Media Factsheet 1) How is audience defined in the Factsheet? 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 presence of covid led to majority of the media we consume being digital. with over half of us consuming WAY more than before the outbreak, our consumerism has been unimaginably altered. 3) How do media companies target and measure their audience in the digital age? through choice of platform,scheduling or algorithm. 4) What did the NRS used to do and what does PAMCO do now?  NRS used to collect demographic info about audiences of newspapers from 1956 to 2018.Its classification system of people into broad social grades based on the type of work they did was very well known and widely used. PAMCO now collates information on traditional newspapers and   magazines in print form but also their...

1) intro to media 10 questions 2)  my-media-consumption 3) semiotics-blog-tasks 4) reading an image media codes 5) reception theory Blog tasks 6) genre blog tasks. 7) Narrative blog tasks

  Read   Media Factsheet 14 - Telling Stories: The Media's Use of Narrative   and answer the following questions: 1) Give an example from film or television that uses Todorov's narrative structure of equilibrium, disequilibrium and new equilibrium.  Wallace and Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit (Parks and Box: 2005) 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. location (geographical marker),  the time or era the text is set in (temporal or historical marker),  the genre of the text (generic marker)  information about the characters (character marker). The opening scene to Attack on titan does a great job of using narrative markers to establish the main premsise of the show through its choice in how the markers are represe...

  Task 1: Genre factsheets Read   Media Factsheet 03 - Genre: Categorising texts   and answer the following questions: 1) What example is provided of why visual iconographies are so important? The example provided to show why visual iconographies are so important is in the differences between star trek and star wars in the sci-fi genre  2) What examples are provided of the importance of narrative in identifying genre? The examples provided to show the importance of narrative in identifying genre are Soap operas and Sit-coms versus action storylines 3) What are the different ways films can be categorised according to Bordwell?  Period or Country, e.g. US films of the 1930s •  Director / Star, e.g. Ben Stiller Films • Technical Process, e.g. Animation • Style, e.g. German Expressionism; • Series, e.g. Bond; • Audience 4) List three ways genre is used by audiences. prior knowledge of the genre to anticipate  whether or not they are likely to enjoy a text,...

  P art 1) A p plying Reception theory to adverts Look back at the adverts you have been analysing in  last week's lessons on Reading an Image and media codes  (RBK 50 Cent and one of your choice).  1) What are the preferred, negotiated and oppositional readings for the RBK 50 Cent advert? Preferred: buy shoes because a famous artist also wears them and its cool  Negotiated: biblical quote rubs me the wrong way but ill still buy the shoe Oppositional:      this is glamorising gang life and crime as the guy who's showing off these shoes was almost shot 76 times 2)  What are the preferred, negotiated and oppositional readings for the advert of your own choice that you analysed for last week's work? Preferred: burgers are gummy and should be eaten  Negotiated: Oppositional: glorifying killing animals Part 2) Reception theory factsheet #218 Use our extremely useful A Level Media Factsheet archive to find  Factsheet #218  Spotlight ...