Media language Essay plan

Apply the concept of media language  to one of your media productions.

Music video

begin each paragraph with theorist then link to production.

ANALYSE NOT DESCRIBE
discuss how you created meaning for audience.

intro- explain what text you are analysing, what is media language.

main- include all 4 key ares

camera- shot size, farming, angles, pans, zooms.
sound- diegetic, non-diegetic, sound effects, music.
editing- fades, cuts, dissolves,
Mise-en-scene- costume, lighting, location, body language, acting,make-up.

conclusion- how well do you think you used media language to communicate meaning to an audience?

Narrative Essay plan

Apply the concept of narrative to one of your media productions. 

intro-

what is the traditional narrative for your product type? how do you know this is the traditional type? what other real texts did you look at?
have you used linear/ non linear narrative? where? why?

main- 
how have you used the following to show the narrative?

camera
editing
sound
mise-en-scene

where have you used narrative enigma?

conclusion-
explain what audiences thought of your narrative was it clear? how could it have been better?

include theorists- 

Todorov- several stages to a narrative
equilibrium
disruption
resolution
equilibrium
did you include these stages why? why not?

strauss- binary opposites

propp- texts need a particular character to develop narrative
hero
villain
princess
helper
dispatcher
do you have these? why? why not?

goodwin- music video narrative matches lyrics and tempo

Audience Essay Plan

Apply the concept of  audience  to one of your media productions.

Music video

Three questions:

why do audience chose to consume certain texts?
how do they consume texts?
what happens when they consume texts?

There are three theorists of audience that we can apply to help come to better understanding about the relationships between texts and audience.

1. the effects model or the hypodermic model.
2. the uses and gratification mode- 
3. reception theory

PIES

personal identification 

Information- newspaper, news, documentaries 

Entertainment 

Social Interaction- 

reception theory 

decoding/ encoding 

preferred reading 

negotiated 

oppositional