Blob opera poster

I've created a 45 second tv slot on Blob opera in Arts and Culture and then created a tv poster in Powerpoint

First attempt  

Second attempt:

https://g.co/arts/afd137ECvepFsKT8A

Exam 1: MEDIA REVISION

TEE/A/A - full marks for question 1 

name the terminology

show an example

explain/analyse your answer

A birds eye view shot is a shot from very high up that shows the ground from a drone or a bird. For example the opening scene in Cuffs shows Brighton as a big bustling city packed full of lots of different things. 

Avengers is a comedy crime show whereas Cuffs is a police procedure 

Summer exam prep: cuffs mise-en-scene and other elements

Mise-en-scene

- A lot darker in side than it is outside

- bottles thrown across the ground

- the police are outnumbered

Other elements

Jake is afraid and can hear his own head louder than what is happening outside which is because he is overwhelmed and afraid.

There is fear and violence but nothing that is too gory and bad.

Benson is similar to the blacksmith in the Avengers

End of unit assesment

 1. This is a zoom shot

2. He is depicted as a British gentleman because of his bowl hat, how he treats Emma respectfully and how he is always dressed very respectfully.

3. Steed walking around the air force base brings out emotions such as sadness in people as they know that the man who played Steed was a retired war veteran and near the middle there is a grave to a war veteran who the Piggy Warren is claiming to be. In these scenes you can see that Steed is very emotional and very patriarchal. 

4. Emma peel is depicted as a modern woman because of her: catsuit which was the first of her time and shows her figure, she is also a modern woman because of how she acts in such tough situation and how she leans in when there are three guns pointed at her face. Finally she is also shown as a modern woman  because of how she made Steed go and get his own coffee at her apartment and says "the cream is in the fridge" to act bigger than going to make his tea.

5. Point of view shot to show that what Steed is seeing

6. In this shot Emma Peel has the hierarchy which is not normal for this time and gender roles are switched as you wouldn't usually have the woman in power.  She is shown as a teacher and Steed as a little boy. 

7. She has a flirtatious relationship with Steed. She is not the ordinary woman for the time. She is still overturned by steed. 

8.  As we see the start of the episode of cuffs we see a fight and we hear non-diegetic noise of a news conference that is happening elsewhere. This creates the feeling that the police at the news article don't understand what is happening down at the beach. 

9. Chief Vicars

10. Jake.     He is his son

11. Jake says he is gay and that would never be said in Avengers

Music Videos: Music language: Prep

 PREP Explain how music videos use media language to promote their artists. Refer to the pair of music videos you have studied from the list below in your answer.

Our music videos are Wheatus Teenage Dirtbag Avril Lavigne Sk8ter Boi

HOW TO ANSWER: Media language points to consider:

the prioritising of the star / the group; the privileging of the star / the groups in the frame

authenticating the star's performance / the band's performance to show their skills

the use of close ups; lip syncing to camera; eye contact with the audience

Music videos can use media language to promote their artists through many ways such as when they focus around one person for the video or a group of people who are all intertwined somehow such as in Wheatus's Teenage Dirtbag we mainly see the life of a boy who has been mistreated and bullied his entire life and we see the other main character, a popular cool girl who doesn't know he exists. Through out the video we see the roles change for the girl as she dumps the cool guy and she is now another teenage dirtbag with him. Everyone is then invited to a school dance or prom, he does not have anyone to go with so he ends up there alone on a table with some "nerdy" people who also could not find a date. As the night is continuing the band which has been practising throughout the video are playing up on stage and as they start to get onto the chorus "im just a teenage dirtbag baby..." she is shown in the shot walking up to him and she starts singing "and im just a teenage dirtbag baby, just like you". The two main characters then embrace as they are shown as now becoming a couple. Another example of a way that music videos can use media language to promote their artists is through the way that the main characters are always lip syncing everything that the person is singing about in the background. This is the case in Teenage dirtbag when the girl gets up for the first time and starts to sing. Finally, another way that music videos use media language to promote their artists is through eye contact with the audience, this can be shown in Sk8ter Girl by Avril Lavigne when she is always watching the camera as the she sings and it almost simulates being in an audience and having the singer stare at you while you are dancing. 

 

Music magazines: Media language

 QUESTION: How far do MOJO and RNR use different media language to create different connotations? (CONNOTATION meaning: an idea or quality that a word makes you think about in addition to its meaning.)

Answer on your blog. This is a high-value question and should take all lesson to answer. You can use the class blog search engine for more examples of how to analyse music magazines.

In your answer you should have 2 paragraphs:

• analyse the media language in MOJO and RNR magazine. 'Media language' includes the placement of the main image, the type of photography, lighting, colours, fonts, how busy or restrained the cover is, the layout (such as alignment to the margins), how serious or playful 
• make judgements and draw conclusions about how far the media language is used differently in both extracts to create different connotations. Are there similarities in both covers? What sorts of audiences are they targeting? You could think about MOJO's rock aesthetic of living loud and dangerously compared to RNR's folk, rock, blues vibe. 

The FOO Fighter is presented as a scary, angry person as he is reaching out grabbing the title with his fingers wrapped around it. He is also lit in a very complimentary way from above showing that he has no wrinkles or anything of the sort. The FOO FIGHTER is also shown as a bit crazy because of the font, this is a very out of the page font which almost leaps at you, it is also all in italics and capitals. His background is also more crazy than Christy Moore's, this is because his is showing him as the central point of focus and this is because of the explosion sort of thing behind him. On the other hand, Christy Moore is presented as a man who is calm and collected. He is also lit from the side which shows that he is embracing his old age and accepting the fact that he is getting older. Christy Moore's font is very calming and fits well with the rest of the calming, soothing background which is a nice whole colour. I believe that the red outline of the text shows that he is dangerous and crazy whereas the white of Christy Moore's shows that he is calm. For the covermount on Mojos magazine it is crazy and is a skeleton rocking out which shows how cool the magazine is and how crazy it is whereas on the other hand on the RnR magazine the covermount has a nice calm pun which will make the readers laugh when they buy the magazine. The pun is Un-Herd of which is a joke because there is a picture of a Zebra in the top right of the covermount which travel in herds. 

In conclusion, I believe that both extracts use a there space very similarly, this is shown by the fact that for both of them they have no space left on the covers and how they overlap everything with something more crammed into the cover. All of this but both also still have line which keeps it away from edge of the magazine. But on the other hand they I also conclude that they also do have a lot of opposites considering how one uses a colour scheme which is very dramatic and really screams "im dangerous" whereas on the other hand RnR uses a colour which is almost boring compared to MOJO. I conclude that in some aspects they use very similar techniques to captivate the reader most aspects of the magazines are very different and not at all similar.

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03/03/2022 notes

 Representation in music videos

Music video producers use representations to: convey the meaning of the song; promote the artist by representing the artist in a way that matches or changes their public image; and promote social messages that reflect well on the artist.

Representation in set videos

This includes:

• how the producers have chose to conduct a version of reality that represents events, social groups and ideas to fit their purposes
• how and why stereotypes have been used (e.g. to enable quick interpretation by audiences)
• which social groups are under-represented or misrepresented.
• the messages are values conveyed and issues addressed.

CUFFS: REAL LIFE

In this question you will be rewarded for drawing together elements from your full course of study, including different areas of the theoretical framework and media contexts.

How far does the extract try to create a sense that it is portraying "real life"?

In your answer you should:

- analyse aspects of the extract, giving detailed examples

- judge how far these aspects create a sense of watching 'real life'

The asterisk (*) is there to signpost that this is an extended response answer (see p.86 for more details on extended response answers).

The extract tries to portray real life throughout the show in sections such as when they were having lunch and it takes ages for Jake to receive his food. This portrays real life in the fact that everyone has lunch and some places take ages for food to come and that there is no special treatment for police. This shows them having normal lives and living a normal part of society because they aren't getting food quickly and it is a daily part of life to have lunch. Also when they have to rush off and leave can be shown as "real life" as many people do not have the time to take out of there day to take a break and eat lunch.

Another way that this extract portrays "real life" is through the part when they rush off into action leaving whatever they're doing behind. This can be contrasted to real life because the police are often in a rush and don't get much time to focus on what they're doing. In this scene when they are chasing the digger drivers Josh, seems to do something which anyone can do, anyone that has not had the proper police training and it is just a normal thing to do. He misses the road sign and they place the car spikes on the wrong road meaning they have to continue the chase. 

CUFFS: MEDIA LANGUAGE, REPRESENTATION OF CHARACTERS, SOCIAL ISSUES AND CONTEXTS

 We watch Cuffs using ClickView and work from the OCR GCSE text book starting at page 5

- Arc pan: Circular shot around the people, can be used to show people in distress or just to show the main subject

- Diegetic sound: not happening in the sound

- Bloomer and Cats: Escapism, diversion, entertainment, surveillance 

- Two shot used so that Ryan can convey a message to Jake, then a focus pull is used when Jake realises that it was meant for him.

- Motivated edit, edit motivated by the scene before

Characters in Cuffs:

Jake, Ryan, Simon, Donna, Lino, Srg Vickers, Jo Moffat

Popcorn prep

 In what way is Cuffs a realistic police drama?

Cuffs is a realistic police drama in the way that before lunch Jake the new guy has been spat on, bled on and hurt all within his first morning. In this way it is realistic because it is very crazy and there are a lot more criminals compared to the amount of cops.

The Observer posts

 https://twitter.com/observeruk/status/1487728316538703872?s=21

https://twitter.com/observeruk/status/1487728308963868675?s=21

https://twitter.com/observeruk/status/1487708925604425728?s=21

https://twitter.com/observeruk/status/1487701629197455361?s=21

https://twitter.com/observeruk/status/1487699491293515779?s=21

MOJO: MEDIA LANGUAGE

 

Main Splash

who is it and does it celebrate the person? John Lennon 

How is it lit? It is Lit to show the singer as strong and big

Is the singer made to look important? Yes as he is the only person there

How many other images are there? One in the top right a lot smaller

How 'busy' is the cover as a whole? Very busy as there is not much space 

Are there cover lines (additional articles)? Yes

How organised are they? Very organised each having there own little section on the right

Do most music magazines have a similar number of cover lines (additional articles)? no, MOJO is a big company and there fore can afford more

What are the main colours and is there an accent colour? Blue and Yellow

Is there a cover mount and is this typical of MOJO? Yes there is a freebie and MOJO do often give out freebies

LEGO INDUSTRY TERMS

• franchise - a group which many spin off brands can come off. e.g. star wars the biggest franchise of all time
• synergy - refers ti the way in which different areas of the movie work together to promote the same product. The LEGO MOVIE uses synergy through linked products like superhero cast from DC comics and minfigures
• tent-pole production - a really successful film like the lego movie makes such large profits that warner can afford to fund other projects, as well as tie-in merchandise, which will prolong the profit stream from the film
• ensemble cast - A large cast 
• conglomerate - A large business organisation that owns a number of different companies
• vertical integration - Is the process whereby a single company controls both the production and the supply. So TT fusion, owned by Warner Bros, makes thee video game while warner bros distributes the product to audiences

Task 3, The Lego movie

 Task 3: Go to the BBFC site and research age ratings. Why was The Lego Movie (2014) given a PG rating?

BBFC has given The Lego Movie a rating of U because it is a animated film. There are lots of fight scenes but very few which actually show anything happening to the lego characters which is why it has not been given a higher rating.

Go to the PEGI site and research what age ratings are about. Why is The Lego Movie video game classification 7+?

PEGI has give the lego video game a 7+ because it contains violence but nothing which is too violent to scare or harm viewers in any way. There are multiple scenes where the lego characters fight and the person controlling has to fight which is why they have given it a 7+ and not a 3+

Task 1 The lego movie

 Task 1: how does Emmet come across? Emmet comes across as an ordinary guy who isn't special and doesn't have many characteristics of a superhero or the special one

How effective would this trailer be in promoting the film? This trailer would be very good at promoting the film as it looks like it is for all ages and has some jokes which could be for older people and has some people in it which could be recognised by older people like Abraham Linken. It is also comedic appealing to all ages but usually younger kids.

Film Making

At the very end we made the production company and used stop motion to show a car moving along a green fluffy piece of cloth and it crashes into letters from a board game. We used some tape to keep a word in place and In stop motion we managed to capture the letters falling over and leaving the taped word Jazz as are productions name is Jazz productions. Later in iMovie we added productions which comes up with a gravity effect.

 In media we originally made the start to the film about a a communist Russian and communist Chinese man who are trading drugs. In the movie we start by taking a video of everything that would be used in the movie and then go across it showing the props such as a leather bag which was also used in a later scene, some photos and a Russian communist flag which was also used later.

While doing our live action filming we had a main scene which was purposely not lit very well and in a dark and dingy tunnel with only a dark red light for lighting, we filmed Alex pulling a gun out on someone trading giving a bag to him and shot. We also got a clip of Alex waving the Russian communist flag high above his head in slow motion. 

For the production company logo we used a gravity effect to bring productions into the shot in a slow fashion. We also used a car screeching noise as the car hit the letters. We used the song Imagine by John Lennon. It makes the film slow and makes it not too fast pace which is what we needed. Are film title was communist clash. We added all the credits such for all the positions in the film

Finally I think that the film turned out quite well and that making the film was very good and went very smoothly without many bumps in the road, apart from people being ill quite a bit.

Christmas advert mise-un-scene

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dlem-MOMZOs

In this the light is focused on Percy as he has just come out of a box and it almost looks as if Percy is scared as he has just "been born". In the background the Christmas tree lights create a warm glow and make it seem calm and peaceful. The Christmas ball balls also reflect this warm glow.

This shot has comedy involved because Percy says "ive never seen anything so beautiful in my 23 seconds of life" which is funny because you can't see much in 23 seconds

In this final shot it shows golden sparkles falling down and landing on the food, this shows that the food is so exquisite that it practically has gold on it. The food is also a rich food that looks very nice.  ]

FILM TASK 1: OPENING SEQUENCE

 In media today we focused on opening film sequences and different ways to use them. We even filmed a movie trailer. At the very start we used our phones to create little shorts of a table which had items on top and looked very good. Then we had to go outside and do an action shot, it consists of a shoulder camera shot. It is also about A Russian communist who fights a Chinese communist. Alex played the main role as the Russian communist. We also used another phone to get lighting and make the people look good. After getting multiple clips and getting 1 minute 6 seconds of footage we brought it all back to the media block and edited part of it into a trailer. Then in the next lesson we continued to edit again and almost finish our trailer.

The cold war

 

The Cold War was a period of tension between the United States, Great Britain and the USSR vs Japan and Germany. The Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, which began following World War II. It was waged mainly on political, economic, and propaganda fronts and lasted until 1991. It was called the Cold War because neither the Western Bloc or the Eastern Bloc officially declared war on the other. The cold war was a scary time for the citizens in each party because the governments were both threatening each other with nuclear weaponry which was the first time it had been thrown around so easily and if something was too happen it could be very dangerous. 

The alliance of the USA and the USSR both had different ideas of how life should be though. Politically Britain and USA both believed in Capitalism an idea that you should have to work for your hierarchy but the USSR believed in Communism an idea that everyone is equal even if some people put more work in than others everything is equal. Communism means that there is a one party state rather than an election for who runs the country every so often. Despite the fact that the USSR had been on Germanys side throughout the war that changed when Germany started to attack USSR as they wanted more land.