Thursday 17th October

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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