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Index

1) First blog task - 10 questions 2) Denotation and Connotation 3) Introduction to Photoshop: fruit bowls 4) Mise-en-scene: Stranger Things 5) Camerawork: shots and angles 6) Camera movement and editing 7) Blog feedback and learner response

Demographics and Psychographics

1) What information do media companies use to create a demographic profile of their audience? Class: Your area your  from  Age: viewing habits Gender: look at stuff they brought Ethnicity/Race: Looking at what they would watch or eat   2) Why are media companies and advertisers increasingly using audience profiling and not just demographics? Media companies use audience profiling to create a more detailed   picture of the audience. 3) What are the seven different Pychographic groups?  4) Write a brief summary of what each Psychographic group is seeking or motivated by. 5) What psychographic group or groups do  YOU  belong in? Think about your own interests and lifestyle and explain your decision. Remember, you may fit into two or three different groups! 

Media assessment 1: Learner response

  1) Type up your feedback in  full  (you don't need to write the mark and grade if you want to keep this confidential). WWW: Harun,some attempt at applying denotation connotation to the unseen media products. Ebi: Ensure you are reading the question carefully as you tend to drift off. revise camera shots and mise-en-scene a s you struggled to respond to these question. 2) Read  the mark scheme for this assessment  carefully. Write down the mark you achieved for each question:  10/30 3 Q1: 1 Q2: 1 Q3: 3  Q4:2 Q5: 2 Q6: 2 3) Identify one of your  stronger  questions. Why did you do better on this question? Use the mark scheme to help you with this. I done well in question 1,2,4 because I know what denotation and connotation  4) Identify one of your  weaker  questions. Why did you score lower on this particular question? Use the mark scheme to help you with this. I didn't add enough detail in my paragraph. 5) Finally, write a...

Blog feedback and learner response task

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WWW:  Your fruit bowl is creative and well designed and showcases your technical ability, we need this same level of detail for all your other blog posts. EBI:  You are not focused or productive when we are completing independent blog work. Ensure that you meet submission deadlines – there is some work missing from your blog please complete this for homework and use all blog lessons to catch up on any missing work. Please complete the following blog work: Camera movement and editing – Minority Report Blog index so far LR:  Create a new blogpost on your Media blog called ‘Blog feedback and Learner Response’. Copy and paste this WWW/EBI feedback into your blogpost then complete the LR tasks/questions below: 1. What do you feel is your strongest piece of work so far?  Fruit Bowl 2. What is your weakest?  Camera Movement. 3. What specific skills or knowledge do you need to develop over the rest of the course?  To know how to use camera

Camera movement and editing

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1) Pick  three   aspects of  camera movement  in the Minority Report clip. Identify the  type  of camera movement and write about why the director chose to use that camera movement in the scene and what effect it has on the audience.  This camera movement is a pan as it moves from left to right following the subject. This camera movement is a zoom in as we see the headline clearly.   This camera movement is a cut as we see it change direction quickly . 2) Pick  two  aspects of  editing  in the Minority Report clip and write about what effect it has on the audience.  .One would be fade. .One would be camera drop. 3) Finally, revise last week's work on camerawork by picking out  two   shots  or  camera angles  in the clip that communicate meaning to the audience.

Camerawork: shots and angles

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  1) Pick  three  camera   shots  from the Doctor Who scene and explain what type of shot it is and what meanings or effect they have on the audience.  Two shot Meduim shot Close up  2) Pick  one  camera  angle  that is used in the scene and explain the effect it has on the audience.    This is a example of high angle which makes the character look weak low. 3) Pick one aspect of  mise-en-scene  from the scene and explain what connotations are being communicated to the audience.  You can see theirs old artefact in the backrougnd and that the lighting is quite dim.

Mise-en-scene

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1) Choose  THREE  aspects of mise-en-scene (e.g. costume, lighting and setting) and write a short paragraph for  each  about the  denotation  and  connotation  and what is communicated to the audience. For example:  Costume: The character at the start is wearing a white lab coat. This suggests to the audience something might of happend he might of made that creature. Lighting: Dark/Evil/Scary  Setting: Night Props: Bikes Actor placement/movement/expression: terrfierd because he's getting chased with some dark energy