Thursday, 11 June 2015

Key Terms for Film Analysis


Camera Shots: establishing shot, master shot, close-up, mid-shot, long shot, wide shot, two-shot, aerial shot, point of view shot, over the shoulder shot, and variations of these.

Angle: high angle, low angle, canted angle.

Movement: pan, tilt, track, dolly, crane, steadicam, hand-held, zoom, reverse zoom.

Composition: framing, rule of thirds, depth of field – deep and shallow focus, focus pulls.

Editing: Includes transition of image and sound – continuity and non-continuity systems.

Cutting: shot/reverse shot, eyeline match, graphic match, action match, jump cut, crosscutting, parallel editing, cutaway; insert.

Other transitions, dissolve, fade-in, fade-out, wipe, superimposition, long take, short take, slow motion, ellipsis and expansion of time, post-production, visual effects.

Sound: Diegetic and non-diegetic sound; synchronous/asynchronous sound; sound effects; sound motif, sound bridge, dialogue, voiceover, mode of address/direct address, sound mixing, sound perspective.

Soundtrack: score, incidental music, themes and stings, ambient sound.  
Mise-en-Scène: Production design: location, studio, set design, costume and make-up, properties.

Lighting; colour design.

Monday, 27 April 2015

Case Study Facts to Support Your Essay


Case Study Facts to Support Your Essay

DJ Mag

  1. Pioneered the idea of covermounted music – still delivered every month
  2. 19479 average monthly circulation
  3. Average age of 26.4 – 94% male – 74% employed (disposable income)
  4. Translated into 10 languages
  5. DJmag.com is updated hourly for the latest information – 512,503 unique monthly users
  6. DJ Weekly is a video led completely interactive emagazine for the Ipad generation 500,000 weekly subscribers.
  7. 1,905,644 facebook likes – highest engagement stats in the industry
  8. DJ Mag TV – 88,212 youtube subscribers

Kerrang

  1. 37,603 average weekly circulation
  2. Average age of reader – 27
  3. Cross-media convergence – Magazine, online, TV, Radio, Kerrang Podcasts
  4. Kerrang.com – 240,000 unique users
  5. 431,000 twitter followers
  6. 729,000 facebook likes

 

Vice

  1. Launched in 1994 as a monthly magazine in Montreal
  2. Offices in 31 cities around the world
  3. Average age – 27.6
  4. 63% male readership
  5. 62% spend 3 hours online per day
  6. Print Magazine is FREE and has 1,239,000 global circulation in 25 different countries
  7. 15 million unique visitors to Vice.com every month
  8. Create 180 minutes of new video content every day

Wednesday, 4 March 2015

A2 work for when you finish your note taking on the concepts - Question 1a

Read through the following exemplar of a 1a response.



 
  • Write your own detailed timeline / flow chart of your media skill development from year 12 to year 13.
  • You must identify clearly the skills you had and the skills you acquired and developed at EVERY stage of your Media Studies experience.


  • PHOTOSHOP to ADOBE PREMIERE
  • RESEARCH to PRODUCTION to EVALUATION


Be detailed and specific when writing the stages of your timeline.

Tuesday, 3 March 2015

AS Level Year 12 - Institutions and Audience Task

Once you have completed your prezi share it so that everyone else in the class can be a viewer.
  • Critique each others and suggest additional knowledge.
  • Begin to map out connections, comparisons and links between the case studies.
  • Begin revising and putting this knowledge to memory as you will be asked to create complex arguments that reference these case studies.
 
Read the following TOP BAND exemplar response that links to the June 2011 question in your folder.
  • Consider how this person discusses the question drawing upon carefully chosen case studies.
  • Type up what you think is the best paragraph in terms of showing understanding of a complex argument.
  • Highlight the Point Evidence Evaluation of this paragraph.
  • Write a detailed plan of how you would respond to the June 2011 question.
  • Write your own response to the question.