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  Television: His Dark Materials - Language and Representation : His Dark Materials: Language and Representation blog tasks Create a new blogpost called 'His Dark Materials: Language and Representation blog tasks' and work through the following tasks: Language and close-textual analysis 1) Write an analysis of the episode - using  your notes from the screening in class .  Make specific, detailed reference to moments in the text using media terminology (e.g. media language - camera shots and movement, editing, diegetic/non-diegetic sound, mise-en-scene etc.) -  Settings - cave into forest, ‘city in the sky’ Storm/rain - connotations of danger but also reminding audiences her friend Roger died in season 1 Representation of age - children are in charge, grown ups are in danger.  Subversion of gender roles - girls about to fight, Will breaks it up.  Religion - references to dust and sin. You can currently  watch His Dark Materials on BBC iPlayer here . Cam...

  Television: His Dark Materials - Audience and Industry : His Dark Materials: Audience and Industries blog tasks Create a new blogpost called 'His Dark Materials: Audience and Industries blog tasks' and answer the following questions: Audience 1) Read this  audience rating guide for His Dark Materials . Based on the screening and this article, who do you think the target audience is for His Dark Materials and why? What about psychographic groups?  You can  revise Pyschographics here . - I think that the target audience is for people who like fantasy such as time travelling etc. For psychographic groups, i feel like they would be related to science fiction because it does have some science fiction in the episodes 2) What audience pleasures are offered by His Dark Materials - The City of Magpies? Apply Blumler and Katz's Uses and Gratifications theory to the episode. Make sure you provide specific examples from the episode to support your ideas. Personal Identity...

  Doctor Who: Audience and Industries blog tasks : Audience 1) Who is the target audience for Doctor Who? Do you think it has changed since 1963? The target audience is for people that like sci-fi or into science. I feel like it has changed because less people have been less interested into science and rather more into comedy or action etc. 2) What audience pleasures are offered by Doctor Who - An Unearthly Child? Apply Blumler and Katz's Uses and Gratifications theory to the episode. Make sure you provide specific examples from the episode to support your ideas. Personal Identity:   personally relating to something - seeing your lifestyle on screen. Think about how different audiences may identify with Susan, her teachers or the Doctor.  Personal Relationships:  caring about characters and wanting to find out what happens to them. This is the first episode of four - which characters do you think the audience will want to follow on their journey?    ...

  Magazines and Music Video assessment: Learner response Well done on completing the latest Media assessment - it's another great opportunity to revise the CSPs and develop your exam technique. The first part of your learner response is to look carefully at your mark, grade and comments from your teacher. If anything doesn't make sense,  ask your teacher  - that's why we're here!  Magazines and Music Video assessment learner response: blog tasks Create a new blog post called ' Magazines and Music Video assessment learner response ' and complete the following tasks: 1) Type up your  WWW/EBI feedback in  full  (you don't need to write the mark and grade if you want to keep this confidential).  WWW = this is progress on your last assessment and your heat/celebrity answer makes a good point. Now we need to build on this EBI = revise terminology / CSPs          - Exam technique: question focus 2) Read  the mark scheme for ...

  Doctor Who: Language and Representations : Language and Representation: blog tasks 1) Write a summary of the notes from our in-class analysis of the episode. You can use your own notes from the screening in class or  this Google document of class notes  (you'll need your GHS Google login).  Camerawork and sound:  Music - theme tune to Doctor Who. Very science-fiction - sets genre from beginning. Mise-en-scene:  Susan - first introduced dancing and dressed as 1960s teenager (costume). Seems to be both typical teenager and alien. Narrative and genre:  Enigma codes: mystery of Susan’s home. French Revolution book - “I’ll have finished it” “That’s not right”... suggests time trave     2) How can we apply narrative theories to this episode of   Doctor Who ?  Todorov's Equilibrium:      Todorov suggested that all narratives follow a three part structure Propp's character theory: Vladimir Propp stated that there were ...