Monday, March 07, 2011

12B - Film Review HW Due 14/3/11

Each student must produce 2 features/reviews on the release of your new hybrid film (rated 15, £30 million budget). You should produce at least 1 A4 page for each piece including images and text. The pieces should be speicific to a named publication such as a newspaper, lifestyle magazine or specialist film magazine.

For HW this week:

Find the 2 magazines/newspapers that you will write your feature/review for and bring them to school on 14/3/11. Make sure that the target audience of these magazines/newspapers would be interested in your film.

Write the first draft of your first feature. Remember to use an appropriate writing style for the magazine you have chosen.

Email your first draft to lwigley@greenford.ealing.sch.uk by 14/3/11

Thursday, March 03, 2011

12B Textual Analysis: Slumdog Millionaire Trailer - Due 11/03/11




1. Media Forms:
What techniques does the trailer use to persuade its audience to see the film?

2. Media Representation:
How is ethnicity represented in this trailer?

3. Media Audiences:
Who is target audience and how does the advert attempt to persuade this audience to watch the film?

4. Media Institutions:
What is communicated about the institution?

For homework: Complete your answers in detail (at least 300 words per question) and email to post to your Blog before next week's lesson: Friday 11th March 2011

Tuesday, March 01, 2011

12C HW - DUE 6/3/11

Redraft the following essay considering carefully your EBIs and the advice in this powerpoint

'Audiences are becoming increasingly powerful in shaping media output'
With reference to your case study, how far is this true?
In your answer you should:
- provide a brief outline of your case study
- evaluate the roles of audiences in the creation of media products from your case study.
- support your answer with reference to a range of examples from the three media platforms.

Remember to include audience theory.

Email your essay to lwigley@greenford.ealing.sch.uk by Monday 6/3/11

Thursday, February 17, 2011

12B Cross Media Case Study Exam Question - Due 03/03/11

Using the essay plan that you designed in this weeks lesson, answer the following question:

"Audiences are no longer just consumers of texts, but producers too" - To what extent is this true of the media products in your case study?

Remember to reference your case study research throughout, and provide a number of specific examples across all 3 platforms for each of your texts.


Half Term Homework: Complete the essay (at least 1500 words)

Due: Thursday 3rd March

Friday, February 11, 2011

12B Textual Analysis: Kidulthood Trailer - Due 18/02/11

Kidulthood Trailer




1. Media Forms:
What techniques does the trailer use to persuade its audience to see the film?

2. Media Representation:
How is gender represented in this trailer?

3. Media Audiences:
What target audience would be attracted to this film?

4. Media Institutions:
What low budget values and characteristics can you indentify in this trailer?

For homework: Complete your answers in detail (at least 300 words per question) and email to post to your Blog before next week's lesson: Friday 18th Feb 2011

Thursday, February 10, 2011

12B Cross Media Case Study HW - Due 17/02/11

Research Assisgnment

Create a section in your Case Study PowerPoint that looks at User Generated Content (UGC) and Interactivity within your texts

  • Explain how these devices work and exist within the platform.
  • Explain why these deveices are effective.


Remember that all you work on the Blog MUST BE UP TO DATE by Monday 3pm!

Mr N Unugur

Monday, February 07, 2011

12C Work for 8/2/11 + HW

By 15/2/11 you must have completed a detailed Case Study PowerPoint for ALL THREE of your primary texts.

You need to include:

Detailed information on how your primary texts are promoted across the 3 platforms

The codes and conventions of your 3 primary texts and all the other texts you have researched across the 3 platforms.

Audience Profiling (Socio-economic group, Age, Gender, Psychographics)

Uses and Gratification Theories and how they relate to your case study

Audience Theories and how they relate to your case study

Detailed information about all the institutions involved in producing all your texts.

Product Placement - Explore in detail the product placement deals for your case study texts and detail the benefits for the institution and the audience.

Due 15/2/11