Thursday, 10 March 2011

Everything we have learnt in our Media lessons so far...

As well as everything we have done so far in my past 2 blogs, we have also learnt...

  • Ideology
    - the way in which people think about the world and the ideal concept of how to live in the world. (single)
    - shared beliefs of a group of people (everyone)
  • Newspapers
    how to analyse
    - headline - puns; comical words, headlines, joke in headline
    - font
    - images
    - quotes
    - exaggeration
    - target audience
    - stereotypes
    - who/what/where/when/why
  • Jobs in the media industry
    - Broadcast journalist
    - Radio Traffic Manager
    - Radio Presenter
    - Camera Operator
    - Editor, etc.

  • Stereotypes - an assumption made that people are the same as each other rather than different .i.e. drink beer to act like a man or look presentable and have your legs crossed to be lady like.

  • Richard Dyer
     - an ordering process (helps us make sense of society)
    - a short cut (macho man; strong, muscles, tall, brave etc.)
    - a way of referring to the world (identify with a group of people they don't know)
    - an expression of "our" beliefs

  • The definition of 'news' and understand what makes a good story.
    - Current events presented to the public
    - Breaks stories to the public
    - "A report of a current event given by a newspaper, TV channel, radio show etc."

  • Broadsheets
    - The Guardian
    - Telegraph
    - Independent
    - The Times
    - Financial Times
    - Sunday Times
  • Tabloids 
  • Black Tops
    - Daily Mail
    - Daily Express
    - Evening Standard (regional)
    - Sunday Express
    - The Mail on Sunday
  • Red Tops
    - Daily Mirror
    - Sun
    - Star
    - Sport
    - News of the World
    - Sunday Mirror

  • Movie Genres
  • Movie Dramas
    - Comedy Drama (Shameless)
    - Sci-Fi Drama (Torchwood)
    - Fantasy Drama (Queen's Nose)
    - Supernatural Drama (Trueblood)
    - Horror Drama (Vampire Diaries)
    - Soap Drama (Eastenders)
    - Medical Drama (Doctors)
    - Documentary Drama (Taking The Prince Harry)
    - School Drama (Waterloo Road)
    - Crime Drama (The Bill)
    - Teen Drama (Veronica Mars)
    - Kitchen Sink Drama (everything in it) (Coronation Street)
    - Political Drama (State of Play)

  • Magazine Covers  
  • Masthead - the category, the name of magazines
                    - big letters, colour etc for the audience to remember
                    - to fit the audience of the magazine
     
  • Main Image - the important of the magazine .i.e. the main subject - who will star in it etc.
                       - centerpoint
  • Selling line - brief of what the magazine is. "The magazine is for..."
  • Main cover lines - the main topic of the magazine
                              - the selling point
  • Bar code - it has to be there.
  • Dateline - date

  • Genre Conventions
    - Camera shots
    - Camera angles - (close ups, bird's eye view, pov view)
    - Camera Movement
    - Sound - diegetic
                 - non-diegetic
    - Sound effects
    - Editing
    - Mise en scene (everything you see in the scene; props, costumes, location etc in the shot

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