HUDA GCSE MEDIA BLOG

  Blog Feedback and Learner Response With a Learner response   WWW: It’s great that your blog is set up and you’ve posted a really good film poster analysis. The fact you are picking up on studio details, target audience and also issues of representation (and gender stereotypes) so early in the course is brilliant. The challenge now is to make sure we are publishing ALL our work on time and fully complete. EBI: Currently, you don’t have anything published aside from the film poster analysis. I’m sure most of this is in draft form so simply needs checking and publishing. The first priority is to make sure the following is completed and posted to your blog: Reflect on your first month of Media. What do you feel is your strongest piece of work so far? What is your weakest? What specific skills or knowledge do you need to develop over the rest of the course? The denotation and connotation is my strongest piece of work so far.My weakest is the camera work task on Doctor Who.I need to develo

Blog Feedback and Learner Response   WWW: It’s great that your blog is set up and you’ve posted a really good film poster analysis. The fact you are picking up on studio details, target audience and also issues of representation (and gender stereotypes) so early in the course is brilliant. The challenge now is to make sure we are publishing ALL our work on time and fully complete. EBI: Currently, you don’t have anything published aside from the film poster analysis. I’m sure most of this is in draft form so simply needs checking and publishing. The first priority is to make sure the following is completed and posted to your blog: Reflect on your first month of Media. What do you feel is your strongest piece of work so far? What is your weakest? What specific skills or knowledge do you need to develop over the rest of the course? The denotation and connotation is my strongest piece of work so far.My weakest is the camera work task on Doctor Who.I need to develop on analysis.

  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. a) Birds view 3:33 shows the top of the screen b) medium close up 3:17 shows the startleness c) close up 2:32 shows her feelings and reaction 2) Pick  one  camera  angle  that is used in the scene and explain the effect it has on the audience.  One camera angle is the close up i chose this because it reflect Sarah Jane's face and how worried she looks. 3) Pick one aspect of  mise-en-scene  from the scene and explain what connotations are being communicated to the audience. There seems to be a recurring flickering bright light this could suggest the building is low funded or not state of the art technology as the quality seems to be not recently filmed.

  STRANGER THINGS OPENING SCENE In   the beginning of the first scene we see a man wearing a lab coat from this we can suggest he is a scientist of some sort.There is a shaky light in the elevator this could illustrate that the building is low funded.He is urgently running to the elevator as he might be scared or worried.The character at the end was running away so ran into a shed which looked abandoned or not in use often.It was dark you can receive  from this that something sinister is going to happen.

Denotation This image presents a boy who is poor wearing a light blue shirt.As we can see there is a text that says 'dig toilets Not graves'.The text is written in bold,white letters,which is a neutral colour. Connotation The boy is wearing rough and worn out clothes to show in this advert that his guardians are not able to afford or purchase quality clothes.Therefore shows he has the support of water aid for the basic necessities of life.This then leads to the background which looks like a desert in Africa with no available water nearby. Analysis The effect is created for the viewers to feel sympathy and guilt for the boy in the advert and the  statement is showing that there are other people living in harsher conditions and need your help. Denotation This image is an 1914 advertisement of Lord Kitchener who was a coloniser of Sudan and South Africa he also built Britain's first mass army.In this poster he is wearing dusty lifeless colours.The text here says "YOUR COU

  1)  Which part of the course are you looking forward to most? doing coursework 2) What knowledge and skills do you hope to learn in Media? filming 3) What grade are you realistically hoping to achieve in Media (5-9)? highest possible 8 4) What was the last TV programme or film you watched? gimore girls 5) Why do you think that TV programme or film appealed to an audience? Why would an audience like it? it shows life challenges and how they overcome them 6) What technology have you used to access the media in the last 24 hours? (Radio, TV, phone etc.) phone 7) What device do you use most to access the media? Phone 8) Watch this clip from acclaimed BBC drama series Doctor Who: 9) Why was the casting of Jodie Whittaker a significant moment in the history of Doctor Who? She was the first female doctor 10) What aspects of this scene do you think an audience might enjoy? List at least three things and explain why the audience would enjoy each aspect.  The setting