Task 1:
Create an AS_Media folder in your home drive.
On a Word Doc. type the AS Media Studies Blog address and save it as 'Media Blog.doc'
Home work: Create a Media studies blog of your own and e-mail the url to me
(This should end in .blogspot.co.uk)
Task 2:
My e-mail address is: aealey@de-la-salle.co.uk
Send me an e-mail. Now.
AS Media Exemplar work. Print Based.
These documents are in the Media Folder shared drive. AS_2014_15. Copy them to your home area.
Learning Objectives.
To Name Genre conventions and recall how they are used to convey messages.
Key Words: iconography, props, set design, special effects, lighting, costumes, cast, shot types, camera angles
Genre
Create an AS_Media folder in your home drive.
On a Word Doc. type the AS Media Studies Blog address and save it as 'Media Blog.doc'
Home work: Create a Media studies blog of your own and e-mail the url to me
(This should end in .blogspot.co.uk)
Task 2:
My e-mail address is: aealey@de-la-salle.co.uk
Send me an e-mail. Now.
AS Media Exemplar work. Print Based.
These documents are in the Media Folder shared drive. AS_2014_15. Copy them to your home area.
To Name Genre conventions and recall how they are used to convey messages.
Key Words: iconography, props, set design, special effects, lighting, costumes, cast, shot types, camera angles
Genre
Genre is a French word for 'type.' 'Genre' is a means of classification for texts based on common elements/shared characteristics - the correct term for this is 'generic conventions/elements.'
Audiences can usually identify genre through recognition of the visual codes and the technical codes that have been used to create the text.
The visual codes we look for are:
Costume
Facial expression
Colour
Body language
Graphics
Setting
Technical codes also give audiences a clue to a text's content.
Technical codes that are used are:
Sound
Editing
Lighting
Framing.
Sound and editing are only relevant for live action texts but we can look for framing and lighting in print based texts.
Task 3:
Analyse the image below for visual codes which help to signify the content of the text and answer the following questions:
Who are the target audience for this text?
What sort of narratives would you expect from the series?
How are young people represented in this show?
Audiences can usually identify genre through recognition of the visual codes and the technical codes that have been used to create the text.
The visual codes we look for are:
Costume
Facial expression
Colour
Body language
Graphics
Setting
Technical codes also give audiences a clue to a text's content.
Technical codes that are used are:
Sound
Editing
Lighting
Framing.
Sound and editing are only relevant for live action texts but we can look for framing and lighting in print based texts.
Task 3:
Analyse the image below for visual codes which help to signify the content of the text and answer the following questions:
Who are the target audience for this text?
What sort of narratives would you expect from the series?
How are young people represented in this show?
When the audience works out what genre a media text is, the following 'generic ingredients' also need to be analysed (when you 'channel hop' the brain does this subconsciously because all genres have certain common characteristics the brain picks up on):
1) Mise-en-scene (iconography, props, set design, special effects, lighting, costumes, cast, shot types, camera angles etc.)
2) Typical narratives (historic/contemporary/medical/crime etc.)
3) Generic/stock characters e.g. doctors, police, stereotypical gender roles, different classes etc.
4) Themes e.g. police v criminals, affairs, youth v age, working class v upper class etc.
Mise en scene - An introduction
Task 4: What settings and props would you find in:
A Science Fiction Genre film?
A Horror Genre film?
A Romantic Comedy genre film?
Task 5: What meanings or emotions do the following images convey?
See slides 7, 8, 9.
Task 6: What does the positioning of the characters in the images reveal about the film?
See slides 11, 12, 13, 14.
Recap:
What is meant by Mise en Scene?
A French term meaning 'what is put into a scene or frame'
It is all the Visual information in front of the camera
It communicates essential information to the audience.
Made up of Visual and some Technical codes.
Genre
You can often tell from watching just a few seconds of a film or film trailer
what genre that film belongs to. What film genre do the following words
suggest?
• Explosions
• Car chases
• A tense challenge to defuse a bomb
You probably thought ‘action’ before you even read the second word.
Task 1:
Create a table in Word like the one below but with three more rows.
Choose three more genres and complete the rest of the boxes.
Use (thumbnail size) illustrations from the Internet.
Task 2: Lighting
Indicate the type of lighting used on slide 20 of the power point above.
Task 3:
Where are the key and filler lights in slides 23, 24, 25 and 26?
Task 4:
Write in orange books.
Indicate elements of Mise en scene in the images on slides 29, 30, 31, 32, 33 and 34
Some people still need to send me an e-mail.
My e-mail address is: aealey@de-la-salle.co.uk
Send me an e-mail. Now.
16th Sept
Recap:
What is meant by Mise en Scene?
A French term meaning 'what is put into a scene or frame'
It is all the Visual information in front of the camera
It communicates essential information to the audience.
Made up of Visual and some Technical codes.
Genre
You can often tell from watching just a few seconds of a film or film trailer
what genre that film belongs to. What film genre do the following words
suggest?
• Explosions
• Car chases
• A tense challenge to defuse a bomb
You probably thought ‘action’ before you even read the second word.
Task 1:
Create a table in Word like the one below but with three more rows.
Choose three more genres and complete the rest of the boxes.
Use (thumbnail size) illustrations from the Internet.
Genre
|
Typical setting
|
Typical characters
|
Typical plotlines
|
Typical props
and objects
|
Science Fiction
– a film which
has at its heart
some form
of science or
technology that is
not yet used, but
which is plausible
in the film
|
Other planets.
On a spaceship.
|
Captains
Aliens
|
Saving the
world from
alien invasion
|
Laser guns
Futuristic
technology
|
Task 2: Lighting
Indicate the type of lighting used on slide 20 of the power point above.
Task 3:
Where are the key and filler lights in slides 23, 24, 25 and 26?
Task 4:
Write in orange books.
Indicate elements of Mise en scene in the images on slides 29, 30, 31, 32, 33 and 34
Some people still need to send me an e-mail.
My e-mail address is: aealey@de-la-salle.co.uk
Send me an e-mail. Now.
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