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Audience classification

  Audience classification: blog tasks  1) Media Factsheet Read  Media Factsheet 232 -  Approaches to Studying Audiences.  You'll find all our factsheets in our Media Factsheet archive: M:\Resources\A Level\Media Factsheets. You can also  access them online here if you use your Greenford Google login .  Read the factsheet and a nswer the following questions: 1) How is audience defined in the Fact sheet? The audience is the general term for all the individual people  who consume a media product. 2) What does the infographic for Gen Z in the age of Covid-19 suggest about the media Gen Z consumes?  It shows how Gen Z consumes media more using online resources and digital streaming sites such as online videos rather than the use of print and physical press such as newspapers, explaining the increasing use of technology. 3) How do media companies target and measure their audience in the digital age? Media producers use data which may be simple or c...

INDEX

1) Introduction to Media: 10 questions 2) Media consumption audit 3) Semiotics blog tasks 4) Language: Reading an image - media codes 5) Reception theory - advert analysis and factsheet 6) Structuralism: Factsheet questions and film trailer analysis 7) Genre: Factsheets and genre study questions 8) Narrative: Factsheet questions

Narrative: blog task

  Narrative: blog task Complete the following questions using the  Media Factsheet resource  available on the Media Shared drive.  You'll find them in our Media Factsheet archive: M:\Resources\A Level\Media Factsheets. You can also  access them online here if you use your Greenford Google login . Read  Media Factsheet 14 - Telling Stories: The Media's Use of Narrative  and answer the following questions: 1) Give an example from film or television that uses Todorov's narrative structure of equilibrium, disequilibrium and new equilibrium.  Star Wars:  The initial state of equilibrium is the peaceful galaxy under the Galactic Empire's rule.  This is disrupted by the events of the film, including the Death Star attack and Princess Leia's capture, which throws the galaxy into disequilibrium.  The rest of the film is dedicated to the attempt to repair this disruption, culminating in the final battle and the destruction of the Death Star, ...

Genre: blog tasks

  Genre: blog tasks Work through the following tasks on your Exam blog. There is a lot of work here - factsheets to read and questions to answer before carrying out your own in-depth blog case study on a moving image text of your choice. Task 1: Genre factsheets Complete the following tasks using the  Media Factsheets  available on the Media Shared drive.   Y ou'll find them in our  Media Factsheet archive : M:\Resources\A Level\Media Factsheets or can  access them online using your Greenford Google login here . Read  Media Factsheet 03 - Genre: Categorising texts  and answer the following questions: 1) What example is provided of why visual iconographies are so important? The example is science-fiction e.g. the mise en scene of deep space, usually indicates the genre of sci-fi (the visual iconography such as repeated codes and conventions allow us to recognise genres). 2) What examples are provided of the importance of narrative in identifyi...