12A1 Homework Film Trailer Analysis

Find a trailer for a low-budget contemporary (within the last 5 years) British Independent film, post it into your blog and analyse how it creates enigma for an audience through: mise-en-scene, editing & sound. Remember to use all of your key concepts and the application of narrative theory (e.g. Propp's Spheres of Action and Todorov's theory of narrative structure). Use screen grabs to assist you but the written content should be equivalent to at least 1 side of A4.

12C2 Cover Work, P2 Mon 05.10

Stay in DF07 for the whole of the lesson (period 2). Work quietly and sensibly on the computers. Mr Babu will be monitoring you, and I may be back to check on you too....please sign in on a piece of paper and leave on my desk.

This work has to be done by everyone by the next lesson (Wed 7th), including the people who are on the English trip on Monday - no excuses!!

Watch a complete episode of Hollyoaks online. Everyone should choose a different one. Make notes while watching and then answer the following questions on your blogs...

1. Is it a linear or non-linear narrative? Is this typical of the genre? Give examples from other texts.

2. Is there an obvious protagonist in the narrative? How is it communicated to us that this is his/her role? How are we encouraged to identify with him/her?

3. What are the action codes? (The sequence of events that happen within the story).

4. What enigmas (mysteries) are suggested, developed and (perhaps) finally resolved?

5. What is the equilibrium, disequilibrium and new equilibrium?

12C2 Cover Work, P6 Wed 30.09

Stay in DF07 for the whole of the lesson (period 6). Work quietly and sensibly on the computers. Mr Babu will be monitoring you...please sign in on a piece of paper and leave on my desk.

On your blogs, in essay format, analyse the following newspaper front page, ensuring you include ALL the key media terminology you've recently learned...

headline, caption, anchorage, connotes, polysemic, dominant reading, negotiated reading, oppositional reading, myth, signifies, myth.

The very best answers will also include direct reference to...

font, colour, copy, framing, composition, type of shot, pose, lighting, verbal language techniques.

Highlight each keyword you include in your answer - credits for those who successfully include all 20. If you run out of time please finish for homework (for Friday's lesson). Make sure you also post the image up in your blog posting...

12A1 & 12C1 Cover Work Mon 21st September

Sign your names on a piece of A4 with class name and period to record your attendance and leave with the English office (DF11) then go to the sixth form LRA and continue with the following tasks:

a) Analyse the opening sequences of 3 films, each from a different genre) considering all aspects of the mise-en-scene.

Remember that this is not a scene by scene and moment by moment account of what you see. You must pick out some key images, lighting, camera movement/ framing, props, etc which signify what the genre of the film is, how the characters are represented, who the audience identifies with, what we think the likely narrative is etc (MIGRAIN) using relevant examples and the media language you have been taught.

Each analysis should be a side of A4 and work must be typed and printed off to be handed in next lesson. Work must be printed before you come to the lesson. Failure to do this will mean you will receive a detention. All work must also meet at least the standard set by your Minimum Target Grade. (Time spent on this task should be at least 4 hours).

b) You must each set up your own blog as follows.

Firstly sign up for a googlemail account. Once you have your googlemail address go to http://www.blogger.com/ and set up a blog titled MEST1 then select a url address e.g. yournamemest1.blogspot.com (check availability). You can then select how your blogpage will look. On the mediamacguffin homepage you will see the three yr 12 classes. Look for the blogs for your class name which you can see below (if on your timetable it says 12AMd1 then you are 12A). Click on the link that says comment for your class. In there leave your name and blogaddress and we will post up your link to your blog (once we do this there will be a permanent link to your blog in the left hand menu) which will be used for many homework/coursework tasks throughout the year. I will be checking that these have been set up on Monday evening.

12A1 Blogs

12C2 Blogs

12C1 Blogs