Haviyan's A-level Media Exam Blog

  1) Introduction to Media: 10 questions 2) Media consumption audit 3) Semiotics blog tasks 4) Language: Reading an image - media codes 5) Reception theory - advert analysis and factsheet 6) Structuralism: Factsheet questions and film trailer analysis 7) Genre: Factsheets and genre study questions 8) Narrative: Factsheet questions

  You'll find them in our Media Factsheet archive: M:\Resources\A Level\Media Factsheets. You can also access them online here if you use your Greenford Google login . 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 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. https://youtu.be/0SADBkpl60Q?is=gd4zw_eAGnZoqT2U The opening of the Simpson help establish the setting which is a small town called Springfield. Also the opening helps establish the focus of the series which is a family of 5 called the Simpsons. However since th...

  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 given is TV and Film westerns 2) What examples are provided of the importance of narrative in identifying genre? The examples given are the sci-fi movies Star Wars and Star Trek 3) What are the different ways films can be categorised according to Bordwell? • Period or Country • Director / Star • Technical Process • Style • Series • Audience 4) List three ways genre is used by audiences. . They use prior knowledge to anticipate whether they will enjoy the text or not. . They compare the text to other texts with the same characteristics . They use their knowledge to reject a text. 5) List three ways genre is used by institutions or producers. . Attracting an audience:  Some genres have loyal fan-bases. People will try out a new sit- com simply because it’s a new sit-com and this c...

  Part 1: Media Factsheet reading Use our brilliant Media Factsheet archive to find Factsheet #90 Applying Structuralism and Post-Structuralism . Read the Factsheet and answer the following questions: 1) What is the definition of structuralism provided by the Factsheet? "Structuralism is a theoretical perspective that emphasises the  existence of universal structures underlying the surface  differences and assumed randomness of various cultures, stories  and media texts". 2) What are binary oppositions and why are they important? Binary oppositions are related terms or concepts that are opposite in meaning and defined by their mutual contrast. They are important because they are the foundation of human language, culture ands story telling.  3) How do genre and auteur theory link to structuralism? Genre and auteur theory are examples of a structuralist way of analysing texts. Structuralist  approaches to genre emphasise  patterns that can be identified...