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Coursework: Pre-production planning

  1) TikTok  video treatments You may already have THREE detailed TikTok video treatments from your summer project and/or preliminary exercise - definitely use or develop those if it works with your project.  However, you may need to update your treatment or even change it completely now you have finished your preliminary exercise.  Remember  the brief  lists the following possibilities: interviews/AMAs with band members  content created by band members  performances, live shows or personal appearances  band members taking on a TikTok challenge  the band interacting with fans  fan-made content  merchandise or promotion of the band’s music  any other content or combination of content you think would be appealing to the audience and  promote the band effectively. 1st video: My first video will be an interview on the band members talking about the song and explaining the lyrics while being asked questions by an interview...
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Preliminary exercise: Research and planning

  Now complete the following tasks: 1) State the  song  you have chosen for your preliminary exercise. For my preliminary exercise I will use the song starlight Dave same song used in my coursework  2) Choose at least  three  music videos similar to your concept and watch a clip or more from each. Make  bullet-point notes  on everything you watch, commenting on camerawork, editing and mise-en-scene Dave: Starlight - use of multiple shots using long and close ups  - focusing on main subject matching the tempo of the song  -long angle shots showing Dave as powerful  - use of handheld camera shots relating to Tiktok and new digital conventions  -multiple locations being filmed while maintaining being the main subject  - fade at the start and fast paced editing keeping the audiences attention  On E: Visualizer  -fast paced editing with multiple shots of the subject -use of cars and petrol garage to show multiple...
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Coursework: ignite LR

  1) Type up your feedback  in full  including the ratings out of five for each of the categories.  WWW:                                                                               EBI: -good intro                                                                        -pictures on every slide -looked at audience                                                          -include more detail -clear concepts            ...
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Summer Project: coursework planning

  1) Research: TikTok videos You need to write a  150-word close-textual analysis  of  SIX  TikTok videos that will inform your production work. The TikTok videos you analyse are up to you but focus on a different aspect of media language for each one (see guidance below).   TikTok videos TikTok Video 1: Narrative How is narrative used in the TikTok video and what impact does this have on the audience? Can you apply any narrative theories to the story in the TikTok The fast paced and quick editing grabs the audiences attention and can create a trend . Uses and gratification can be applied here through diversion as the audience might listen and watch this tiktok for entertainment. Barthes   enigma code can be applied through the graffitis in the setting that could be having a symbolic meaning this can create the audience to care about the character or the situation. Propps character theory can be applied through the transition between th...
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Postmodernism in music video

 1) How does the article define postmodernism in the first page of the article? ‘what is postmodernism?’                                   you will most likely come away with an answer you’ll only understand with the aid of a dictionary and a reading list as long as your arm. 2) What did media theorist and Semiotician Roland Barthes suggest in his essay ' The Death of the Author '? The Death of the Author is the next step after Nietzsche’s ‘God is dead’ statement and with it comes a need to test the boundaries of what a text is. 3) What is metatextuality? Metatextuality is where a text draws attention to the fact that it is a text. 4) What is the repeated phrase on the cartoon on postmodernism on page 28? post modernism is a cultural movement that distrusts all established philosophies and frequently experiments with the medium it is presented in  5) How does postmodernism link to media r...
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Radio: final index

  1)  Radio: Introduction to Radio 2)  Radio: BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat 3)  Radio: War of the Worlds
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Y12 exam - Media Paper 2: Learner response

  1) Type up your feedback in full (you do not need to write mark/grade if you do not wish to).  Good attempt to link audience to consumption but need more on distribution and industry information  grade:c 18/34 2) Read  the mark scheme for this exam carefully , paying particular attention to the 'indicative content' for each question. Firstly, focus on the unseen question (Q1) and identify  two  points that you could have written in your answer. • the title as a sign anchors the possible meaning of the image – white-collar professionals as gangsters • an ideological reading might suggest that capitalism is a corrupt system which only benefits the few. 3) Look at the indicative content for Q1 again and make a note of any  theories  or examples of  media terminology  you could have used in your answer. • the skyline of contemporary/futuristic skyscrapers are signifiers of the city, banking/finance etc; this is reinforced by the costumes w...
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