Josh May GCSE Blog 2017

This blog post summarises the 4 main key concepts Institution-a media business sometimes not primarily there to entertain us  and produce media they are not always a profit organisation such as BBC Media production  is done by organisations these organisations make the product, sell it and then advertise and distribute it. The type of institution can influence the media product    Audience-the type of people viewing a media source the people who consume it  eg: children, adults and elderly Audience study turns attention on how people receive these communications and how audience are targeted by what they read, see or listen to Media Language-is the way that media texts communicate with people that use them eg:miss en scene  Representation-the media products presented to us with information selected for us for example in the media football fans are represent as aggressive and violent starting fights with their shirt off a cockney a...

Sound diegetic and non-diegetic diegetic refers to the world of text eg: dialogue ,sound effects ,music with a source within a text and radio Non-diegetic refers to everything outside the world of the text examples: voiceover ,soundtrack ,caption ,titles and subtitles gun shot Sound: on/off-screen on-screen sound-the audience can see the source of the sound off-screen sound-the audience can`t see the source of the sound parallel sound matches the action contrapuntal sound: does not match the action starts off slow and then when the shark attacks the cuts massively increase   Sound: Sound bridge a sound bridge helps create a smooth transition between two scenes     used in the Matrix Mise-en-scene a french term meaning: in the scene or frame elements are 1)settings and props 2) facial expressions and body language 3)costume, hair and make-up 4)lighting and colour 5)   positioning of characters...

                          Camera and Editing cinematography is split in to two the way it moves and the way it shoots extreme close(ECU) -up to really emphasise an object close up (CU)-to emphasize how important the character is long shot (LS) the whole of the body is visible   wide shot (WS) shows a vast area medium shot (MS) from the waist up point of view (POV) allows us to see through the eyes of the character low angle -puts the character power making the viewer feel venerable high angle- makes the character seem venerable and the viewer feel powerful Over the shoulder (OTS) shows what the character sees but not through there eyes (often used in conversation) https://youtu.be/3Aqk4I4zmG8 Camera movement pan-moves from left to right   eg: used in a race tilt-moves up...

                            The Propp Theory Vladimir prop created the propp theory which focuses on character types He analysed hundreds of folk tales and defined all of the main characters into 8 main character types Although these were applied to folk tales they are now applied to film and media                        8 Main character types  Hero-who goes on quest and ends up with the princess Villain-who is against the hero Dispatcher-helps the hero and sometimes has a magical power/object to help Princess-is usually a prize for the hero the hero deserves her through the story and must overcome a task/defeat the villain to get her Her farther-Rewards the hero usually identifies the false hero The false hero-Takes credit for the hero’s actions and tries to...