Wednesday, 13 November 2019

mid market tabloids 1
typography - dramatic headlines in large bold upper case font  sometimes called a black top

traditional British news values - see daily mail and British royal mail family

headlines can explore moral panics nhs / knife crime / weather

still use a high impact tabloid style headline but higher ratio of text to photography than a tabloid

mid market tabloids 2

direct informal mode of address

use of pronouns "we" and "you" to imply shared beliefs and value

more subjective than objective language emotive representation
cross between a braodsheet and a tabliod
soft news and hard news

soft news 
celebrity gossip
sport 
entertainment news 
fashion news 
art and culture

hard news
politics
business and economy 
industry 
technology 
education 
health 

The Guardian and the Daily Mail

the guardian and the daily mail 
- one complete edition of both post September 2017 selected by the center 
social and participatory media 
linking front cover to online and social networking lead stones 
newspaper - still falling articulation but still followers 
daily mail - patriotic damaging 
broadsheet - quality tabloids - the guardian , the time 
tabloids - the sun daily mirror 
mid market tabloids - daily mail daily express
local newspaper - south London 
free sheets - metro 
Sunday newspaper - the observer the guardian Sunday times Sunday telegraph 
daily mail - rhetorical questions 
alliteration 
mix of hard and soft news 
typography 
mass appeal audience 
  

Friday, 18 October 2019

media revision notes for the test

what does LIAR stand for ?
language industry audience and representation

what does genre mean ?
genre means type .

genre can be dominated by repetition but also marked by different variation and change

who said about
Steve Neale

what does DISINCT stand for ?
describe in detail
setting
icons
characters
textual analysis

what is semiotics?
the study of signs , anything that wants to stand for something else

what does denotation stand for ?

what we see when we look at an image (what it is )
what does connotation stand for ?
what we understand from the image (other meanings )
what did Stuart hall discover?
Stuart hall discovered a theory that audiences can have different reactions to a media text weather it
be in a film documentary newspaper or even a film

what does preferred reading mean ?
how the creator wants the audience to view the media text

oppositional reading?
where the intended meaning of the text is totally opposed by the reader

what does mise en scene mean ?
what is put in the scene or frame

what is the acronym for mise en scene ?
costume lighting actor makeup props setting

camera acronym ?
frame angle movement

sound acronym ?
mcdoved , music contrapuntal /parallel diegetic non on screen volume voice over emotion , dialog

what does contrapuntal mean ?
sound that does not match the mood

what does diegetic mean ?
sound that the characters can hear

editing acronym?
stops , special effects transition order of narrative pace screen time

what does representation mean ?
anything is constructed the way in which people event and ideas are presented to the audience . the media then takes something that is already there and represents it to us the way they choose .

what is a sterotype ?
they are repeated so often that we assume they are normal or true ,they are often represented as a visual shortcut

what is a countertype ?
a representation that challenges tradition stereotypical associations of group or places

what does drcages stand for ?
disability regionalism class age gender ethnicity sexuality

what does letter code A stand for ?
higher management , bankers ,lawyers doctors ect

what does letter code B stand for ?
middle management teachers creative and media people (graphic designers)

what does letter code C1 stand for ?
office supervision , junior managers , nurses , specialists ,  white collar jobs

what does letter code c2 stand for ?
skilled manual workers plumber builders blue collar jobs

what does letter code D stand for ?
Semi skilled and unskilled manual workers

what does letter code E stand for ?
unemployed students pensioners casual workers

what are aspirers?
seek security ,tend to be domestic 

what are aspires
seek status , materialistic oriented to image and appearance persona and fashion typically younger people 

what are succeeders ?
seek control strong goals confidence work ethic organisation typically higher management and professionals 

what are resigned ?
seek survival right and authoritarian value. interested in past and tradition and typically older people

what are explorers?
seek discovery energy and individualism and experience , value difference and adventure they are typically younger demographic students
what are struggles?
seek escape , disorganized buys alcohol junk food and lottery tickets , typically lower demographics 

what are reformers ?

seek enlightenment , freedom of restrictions , social awareness and independant , aware of good taste

Tuesday, 15 October 2019

theories

theories 

George Gerbner
The idea that exposure to repeated patterns of representation over long periods of time can shape and influence the way which people perceive the world around .

Albert Bandura
media can implant ideas in mind of audiences . audiences acquire attitudes emotion Responses and new style of conduct through modelling . media represents of transgression behavior such as violence or physical aggression can lead member to bad behavior.

media affect
Bandura looks at the way media texts have a direct effect theory to Marilyn Manson and natural born killers .

Stuart hall - reception theory
the idea that communication is a process individuating encoding by producers and decoding by audience
the idea that there are 3 hypothetical positions from which messages are meaning may be decoded

the dominant hegemonic position- This is also known as the preferred reading . the encoders intended meaning is fully understood 

the negotiated position  - the legitimacy of the encoders message is acknowledged in general terms although the message is adapted pr negotiated to better fit the decodes own individual experiences or context.

the Oppositional position  - the encoders message is understood but the decoder disagrees with its reading . 

Steve Neale 
genre is made up of repetition and different variations and change . 
repetition - constantly dark , ghoasts horror
differences - unusual 

Saturday, 12 October 2019

representation notes

R E P R E S E N T A T I O

EVERYTHING IS CONSTRUCTED 

DENOTATIVE

CONOTATIVE

Stereotype 
A stereotype is a set idea that people have about what someone or something is like , especially an idea that is wrong . It is a visual shortcut 
Archetype 
This is a very typical example of a certain person or thing .
Counter type 
Challenges traditional stereotype. This is a positive thing and emphasises the positive features about that person. 
 D  - ISABILITY 
 R  - EGIONALISM
 C  - LASS
 A  - AGE
 G  - ENDER
 E  - THNICITY 
 S  - EXUALITY