AS MEDIA: October 2013

Wednesday, 23 October 2013

If you are struggling to get into the Media Magazine website it is probably down to keyboard error.

Once you are in goo to the bottom centr of the page and click on:

downloadable pdfs of each issue

This will take you to the relevant page where you can select the magazine to read.

The deadline remains midnight tonight.

Sunday, 20 October 2013

Wednesday, 16 October 2013

Do to the industrial Action on Thursday the 17th of October there will be no Media Studies lessons.

However, this does not mean that I have no expectations of you for this week.

Here is what I want you to do:

Reading and considering

Read Media Magazine issue 33 (login below)

Creative Film Making article
Post on your blog the five top tips you have taken away from reading this.

Read Media Magazine issue 29

Representations Genre and Wider Contexts
Consider how you will think about who is represented and how they are represented in your synposis HW below.

Watching and analysing

Watch the clips below and choose two to analyse in detail

identify genre and sub-genre
focus on technical codes: editing, sound, camera, mise en scene
focus on narrative: enigma codes, Theory of equilibrium (Todorov), Character Archetypes (Propp), Binary Opposition (Levi Strauss)
discuss representations of the Vampire

Writing and Creating

Write a brief synopsis for a new vampire movie which you would like to make - this can be presented any way you see fit - HOW CREATIVE CAN YOU BE?

All work must be posted on blogs using SCRIBD or other suitable means.

The login for Media Magazine subscribers site is:

L: mediamagazine11
P: qp726zr

Deadline for work: Midnight on Wednesday the 23rd of October

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