A-Level Media Coursework Blog 1

  1) State the  song  you have chosen for your preliminary exercise. The Script - Hall of Fame ft. will.i.am 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. Rocky III • Eye of the Tiger • Survivor   * The editing of this music video has the same feel as the one in Hall of Fame due to the match on action when the beat drops. *The use of the mise-en-scene such as the boxing ring and boxing gloves shows a relation to the Hall of Fame narrative as their music video is partly focused (along with other different narratives) on two boxers fighting and in this music video it shows off that same narrative. Imagine Dragons - Believer * Switches from the visuals  to the instruments itself. * Shows the narrative first before the music artists. Ed Sheeran - Shape of You *Same narrative in music video such as the use of the boxing gloves and set

 https://youtu.be/eK6gE8-OjlI  - Hall Of Fame Practice. 

  Radio Index 1) Radio: Introduction to Radio 2) Radio: BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat 3) Radio: War of the Worlds

  Y12 exam - Media Paper 2: Learner response Create a new blogpost on your Media  Coursework blog  called ' Media Paper 2 learner response ' and work through the following tasks: 1) Type up your feedback in full (you do not need to write mark/grade if you do not wish to).  WWW: This is a very impressive assessment: top level for Q1 and some excellent points in Q2. EBI: You now need to add the clarity and question focus for Q2. The opening about Walter Presents didn't really answer the question you needed more focus on Hall. We will practice this! Total: 20 = C  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 and identify  two  aspects of the poster that you could have written about in your answer. Q1 * The representation of youth as diverse in terms of gender and race   * The link between genre and stereotypes – the representation of victim in the thri

  1) Type up your feedback   in full   including the ratings out of five for each of the categories.  Research (through presentation and blog) - 5 Music video/ magazine concept - 4 Language: terminology and theory - 3 Representations - 3 Audience and Industry - 3 Delivery - 3 Total out of 30 - 21 *Nice introduction that lays out plan for presentation. *Clear justification for use of song and then quite detailed outline of narrative. Narrative disruption is clear but perhaps needs a bit more depth. *Matching lyrics to images a good music video convention but I'm not sure there is 3 minutes worth of shot/ narrative here.  *Performance element will help this. *What is the significance of taking the book? *Is there danger of narrative becoming repetitive? *Perhaps lack of slide content/ rehearsed in terms of timing and delivery. *Music magazine needs to be original- one to address with statement of intent.  *Good to see some theory - audience, representation. You'll want some more

  1) Research: music videos    You need to write a  150-word close-textual analysis  of  SIX  music videos that will inform your production work. The music videos you analyse are up to you but focus on a different aspect of media language for each one (see guidance below).   Music videos Music Video 1: Narrative How is narrative used in the music video and what impact does this have on the audience? Can you apply any narrative theories to the story in the music video? Panic! At The Disco - High Hopes Narrative used in this video is quite interesting as the opening is a man getting out of a car and then the music playing whilst he is lip syncing to the words and starts walking on the pavement with people budging into him and not caring about what's going on (normal equilibrium - Todorovs equilibrium theory) . This is unique as it shows that no one cares about no one else other than each other which links to the lyrics that "we wanted everything" which can create meanings t