A2 HOME STUDY FOR WEEK 4

It is vital that you are all up to date with your work on the blog by Wednesday am. Please ensure that you are prepared with storyboards, scripts, schedules and detailed breakdowns as per last week's Homework. We will be using this in class.

You also need to ensure that your essays are completed and that I have either your book OR that they are uploaded to the blog. As some of you have been put into Prep already you are aware of how vital it is to stay on top of your studies.

This weeks G325 task is to research the representation of black people in media especially young black men.

I would like this research presented in the form of a PREZI with short video clips embedded, images, quotations and analysis.

Here are your individual research areas:

How are black people - especially young black men represented in/by:

• Rebecca - Newspapers and online news (current and recent)
• Lauren - Music videos (all genres - with some history)
• Hodo - UK Movies (all genres)
• Rana - Advertising (TV ads, wed ads, posters, magazine ads)
• Josh - UK TV (focus on drama)
• Yasmin - US movies (romance/comedy/musical - with some history)
• Habiba - US movies (drama/crime/action - with some history)
• Jessica - UK TV (focus of documentary, reality etc.)
• Valeriya - International Movies (especially from Europe, African countries and middle east)

What is being tested is your ability to find good source material and explore how meaning is created.

Examples:

Please see below a presentation made by a previous A2 class whose focus was the representation of teenagers in US movies.

Cinema of the United States (Edel)

A2 - short film made on iPhone

Watch the film below. Think about the construction of the film, narrative and how the camera has been used. This was shot on an iPhone!

Bamboozled - Spike Lee

The above embedded film (removed) is very controversial but well worth watching when considering the representation of black people, in particular black men, in America and is deeply satirical as well as hilarious. Be warned though it can offend and does use the 'N' and 'F' words frequently. The film is made by Spike Lee the pre-eminent black FIlm maker in the US who also participated in an episode of Who do you think you are? This is the stimulus for today's exploration of Representation and Cultural Identity with reference to black History month. The essay you will write will be explorative and focussed on the representations of black men in the media.

AS Media SEMIOTICS

HW

Semiotics

• Revise terminology of semiotics.

Pre-liminary exercise

• Plan for Preliminary exercise by writing a short script in a genre of your choice, which involves someone coming through a door, two people having a conversation in which the 180 degree rule is observed.
• Storyboard this exercise

Rules

• 5 lines of dialogue only
• Must be no more than 2 minutes when edited
• No more than 4 characters
• Any genre
• Must have signifiers and create meaning
• Must have a narrative and characterisation

Opening sequences

• Find one of your favourites, embed and analyse using semiotic language

A2 Collective Identity - Teens

Collective Identity L2 Teen How Do the Dominant Representations of Teenagers Reflect the Collective Identity Complete essay for HW for Monday 1st October.

AS Lessons Thursday 20th September

AS media L2 FP

A2 Monday's lesson

Ensure that you have completed the G324 tasks set by the dates required. In order to meet the production schedule of 22nd October start you will need to work fast and in a focussed way. The G325 essay is due Wednesday and it is essential that you have completed it or you will be put into prep. The links to the question and resources are all there fore you. Please refer back to previous posts for other deatils. Rana, though you missed last weeks lessons, I still expect something from you. A2 Media - L2 G324 Production

Media Magazine login & Media Edusites

Media Magazine login

YOu will find above that a new pages has appeared, if you click on it it will take your straight to Media Magazine where you can login.

Username - mediamagazine10
Password - ly957mp

You will need to write this login down TODAY because I will be removing it from the blog for security reasons.

In addition, you will receive an individual login to the Media Edusite too, this will also support your studies and provide invaluable information which you can use.  AGain you can click on the page above to go to the site directly.

AS MEDIA STUDIES - WELCOME

Today

Learning the ropes of media.

Setting up your blogs
Joining edmodo
Understanding the course
getting to know each other
audit of skills







Homework due next Thursday

Complete analysis of Children of Men opening if not completed
Find another opening sequence to a movie of your own choice (must be appropriate to your age) embed in your blog and write an anlysis of the mise en scene, camera, sound and editing. How do these techniques reveal the narrative and target a specific audience.

New Term - Beginning of A2 course

Welcome back.

Here is a brief run down of what we will be doing this year though as you know detail regarding this is on other pages of the BLOG.

• Autumn 1:
• G324 Research, development, planning and production of ADVANCED PORTFOLIO main product
• G325 Media and Collective Identity for exam - concepts and theory, research techniques, essay practice
• Autumn 2:
• G324 Complete production, post production of main product and prepare ancilliary products 1 & 2 draft and final versions
• G325 Media and Collective Identity for exam - independent reserach project and presentation
• Spring 1:
• G324 Complete all products for ADVANCED PORTFOLIO. Make creative evaluations of AP.
• G325 2nd independent research project AND/OR Contemporary Media Regulation
• Spring 2:
• Exam testing and revision course
• AP snagging
• Vivas
• Summer 1:
• Exam final preparation

The point as you can see is that the AP is completed early allowing more time for exams preparation. This loading of the beginning of the year is to ensure that you are working with the necessary intensity from the start.

TODAY'S LESSON



Collective Identity L1 Dis

Some links to use

OCR exam paper
Exemplar essay (look for June 2010 G325 section B CI)
BBC Ouch
BBC report by Peter White
BBC Paralympics - Seize the moment
4OD paralympics



Theory

A2 Media eBook
Stuart Hall - Cultural Theorist