Binary Opposites and True Blood (12E)

Intro to Narrative Theories (12E)

12D 13.11.12 p1

How could these products be gendered through advertising? Find one print and one moving image advert from each category and upload onto your blog. Explain which gender is being targeted/associated with the product and why you think this is the case…

• ·         a sports car?
• ·         a diving watch?
• ·         bottled beer?
• ·         toilet paper?
• ·         deodorant?
• ·         cigarettes?
• ·         a hi-fi system?
•        a domestic cleaning product
• ·         trainers?
• ·         a games console ?
• ·         an airline?

How might you represent these products in a different/alternative way that would appeal to the other gender?

Pitch an idea for each one, arguing how you think it would be successful. Complete for homework (Monday 19/11).

Storyboard Sheets/Practical Exercise

Use these storyboard sheets for the preliminary exercise (you may need to print out several in DF06). 

For 12E they need to be worked on in the lesson on 13.11.12 p1 and completed for homework (for Monday 19.11.12).

Here are the details of the task...

Preliminary practical exercise: continuity task

Your preliminary exercise involves filming and editing a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with whom she/he then exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue.

This task should demonstrate match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180-degree rule. 

You are advised to work in the group that you will work in for your MEST2 coursework project.

12D Half-term homework: coursework prep

You've got plenty of Media work to do over half-term with your Fish Tank work for Mr Bush. However, you will also be starting your MEST2 coursework (worth 50% of the overall AS level) next month and need to start thinking about the following:

1) What will you create to meet the brief?
2) Who are you planning to work with?

Due: Tuesday 6 November

Both of these may change when you return after half-term - so be flexible. However, the more you think about things now, the better position you'll be in later.

Well done on a strong first half-term in Media and have a well-deserved break (as well as completing the homework, of course!)

Mr Halsey

12E - Half Term H/W (Miss Rodden)

1.

1. Complete all learner response tasks on your blog.
2. Finish the FISH TANK institutional research (on your blog - use the questions).
3. Finish your magazine cover mock up (on paper - see PPT).
4. Take a photo that could be used on your front cover and write a short analysis of why it appeals to your target audience. Upload this onto your blog.

12E Preparing for the print coursework: research and design tasks (Miss Rodden)

1.

1. Read the ‘12 conventions of a magazine cover’ worksheet 
2. Find a front cover from an existing magazine the appeals to the target audience you chose last lesson (i.e. Tween Girls, Lads, Independent Women, Teen Boys)
3. On PPT, annotate that cover with the 12 conventions from the sheet and write a paragraph that analyses how it appeals to it’s target audience (using media language from the sheet) 
4. Using your magazine title and reader profile from last lesson, create a (hand drawn) mock up of your own front cover that includes the key conventions and appeals to your target audience 
5. Annotate the key conventions (in a different colour pen) and write a paragraph (on the back of your mock up) on how your front cover appeals to your target audience (using media language from the sheet)