Analysis: News Bulletins

Here are TWO broadcasts celebrating Obama's first electoral victory. Analyse to look at:

• visual codes
• technical and audio codes
• genre

The first is from CBBC and celebrates his first victory:




The second is from the ITV and celebrates the same victory:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naHdBDWR6Zw

MS1 ANALYSIS CLIPS (JUNE 2010)

UNSEEN ANALYSIS - ADVERTS (FOR PAPER ABOVE) KFC, ADIDAS and STELLA

These clips were used in the June 2010 Exam and were used for analysis. You could use them to analyse how the ads use:

• visual codes
• technical codes
• audio codes

Revision

Here are various documents to help you revise - these include an overview of the exam, guidance on timing and technique, activities to help you revise for analysis, representation and audience, as well as a couple of exam papers, so you can familiarise yourself with them. Most of these can be downloaded and printed off.

Needless to say, these are all useless unless you do something with them and act on them. Revision should take a lot of time and involve a lot of time learning core ideas, terms, texts etc.

2012 ms1 summary of exam from smcmediastudies

2012 analysis revision from smcmediastudies

2012 representation revision from smcmediastudies

2012 ms1 audience revision from smcmediastudies

2012 ms1 audience qns from smcmediastudies

S10 1291-01a from smcmediastudies

Ms1 jan 2013 from smcmediastudies

National Identity - Scotland

Here is the ident sequence for the Six Nations Rugby coverage for 2013:





Here is an interesting link to an essay by a Scots girl discussing how she feels about how Scotland is stereotyped:

http://tracks1f.cappelendamm.no/c100338/artikkel/vis.html?tid=100979

TEXT 1: (DVD Cover and tourist advert)

Here is a copy of the Brave DVD cover that you will analyse from the 2012 Pixar movie:

Here is a link to see it full size - useful, as you will need to look at the image and text in close detail:

https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2RnsdUBmpWZmUKqO6RHcIsOL4Fo5FvY8kk-DjSxczFWYhjurDGQX9r7Zi18pHtjewEi5w5YBSd6vNP1Imd48U4fAHac1Gnd3iMWZiHRRcSdZY3uRsWHiOFZeokt0AIoj8qr8Qn1fwgQM/s1600/BraveBRCLTv2.jpg

And here's the trailer, just to see if your initial ideas about the way the film represents Scotland are accurate:





And now for the Visit Scotland tourist ad linked to the film:





TEXT 2: (Film and documentary)

Here is the trailer for NEDS:





Note: the director of this film is Peter Mullan - Mullan was born in Scotland, the youngest of eight. He was brought up on a rough council estate with an alcoholic father. He was briefly part of a street gang, before going ton to university. It is worth considering how this has influenced the way Scotland is portrayed in the film.

Here is a link to a plot synopsis on Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neds_(film)


Here is an American documentary on Teenage Gangs in Glasgow from 2012:





TEXT 3: (TV)

We looked at the opening of a New Tricks episode from October 2012 - you will need to track this down online and ask us for a copy. This offers a much more modern adn stylish image of Scotland.

Regional Identity 2012

Regionalidentity

View more presentations from smcmediastudies.

Attack the Block Trailer

Made in Chelsea (2010) Channel 4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfsFeqCesi4


 Be A Free Range Londoner - Tourist Board Advertising Campaign

Visit London: Tourist Board TV Advertisement

Isles of Wonder - Olympic Games Intro


OTHER


James Bond Clip - Happy and Glorious

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xW5abat5NEU


OTHER REGIONAL STEREOTYPES:

Mancunians:

Soccer AM: Manchester News

Shameless:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyB184qQX8U

GEORDIES (Newcastle)

SCOUSERS ( Liverpool)

Audience Topic

One of the three questions in the summer exam for MS1 will be about how audiences use and respond to media texts and how producers make texts with specific audiences in mind.

To tackle this topic, you need quite a range of theory and ideas and will need to apply them to some case study texts and, possibly, to the unseen text you will analyse in the exam....

Here are some PPs to support the work will be doing for this topic.

The first accompanies the Who Is Your Audience? topic and focuses on the different ways we describe and define the audience, as well as considering the advantages and disadvantages of these approaches:

 

2012 who is the audience targetaudience from smcmediastudies


The next PP covers a range of theories and ideas mainly linked to how media texts affect us - are we active or passive media consumers? You may need to go through this slowly and more than once to ensure you get the basic ideas. Please come and ask for help, if you are struggling with any of these!

2012 how do audiences read media texts from smcmediastudies


The next PP contains some texts that we will use to explore some of the key ideas about audience that you need to cover - use them in conjunction with the tasks in your worksheet...

Texts for audience topic work from smcmediastudies


And, finally, a PP with three key texts that you will analyse over the next few weeks and use as your case studies for the exam:

Ms1 audience case studies from smcmediastudies



Run the World (Girls)

Four Lions:

Representation of Age

Here are the two clips from TV SITCOMS that we will study to explore the way teenagers and old people are represented:










Here is a trailer for the BRITISH FILM,  Harry Brown:





We looked at the opening scene (first 10 minutes) to explore the way teens and old people are represented at the start of the film. After Harry's friend, Len  is assaulted by the local teenage gang and dies, Harry changes. We explored how his representation alters by looking at some key scenes - mainly the torture scene, where he tortures Marky, a gang member and then the scene in the subway, where he confronts Noel, the gang leader. Here is a link to a clip of the subway scene:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5al960HENuQ


Here is a copy of the PowerPoint with still we have used to explore how these representations are built up:

Harry brown age from smcmediastudies


And, finally, here are copies of the MAGAZINE COVERS we have looked at to explore how teens and older people are represented:

2012 magazine covers from smcmediastudies