News websites compared with print

• Compare top news stories in print and online (DM/Guardian) discuss news values and hard/soft news. Find a news story they are both reporting on and comment on the way it's being reported.
• The news story that you've chosen, look on social media and see how it's being reported and compare
• Look at the various links, choose a couple to look at that may not be part of the print editions
• Look for audience comments
• Click on the social media and scan over any interesting comments on articles

What the exam board want you to be able to discuss is:

Detailed discussion of the role of print and online technology and news consumption and response by comparison of the audience address and possible audience needs met by the differences in the print and online editions and social media feeds of the Guardian and Daily Mail/MailOnline 

Find examples from today's website:

 • Research into differences in audience responses to, uses of, and needs fulfilled by online and print news, with special reference to the Guardian and Daily Mail/ MailOnline 

 • Investigation of specialist, perhaps global, audiences served by online news (e.g. news for groups defined by a special interest, e.g. birdwatchers, or a shared identity, e.g. Britons living abroad). 

• Researching contemporary examples of citizen journalism and participation

Once you've recorded the videos, upload onto youtube channel. 

Online newspaper task

Have a look at the Daily Mail and Guardian front pages (you will also record these)

This activity looks at online newspaper generic conventions. Compare the print and online editions of a number of newspapers – see whether or not they fit the description of the similarities and differences in the table below:

Broadsheet newspaper print conventions also followed in online home pages	How broadsheet newspaper online editions are different to the print editions
·         the home page of the website prioritises hard news stories towards the top of the home page ·         the same traditional masthead is used as in the print edition ·         most home pages use a four column layout which fills the homepage with news, connoting seriousness ·         most typography is serif, connoting formality.	·         more extensive use of colour ·         opinion, lifestyle and sports pieces appear on the home page, these would not appear on print broadsheet front pages ·         some use of sans-serif fonts.
Tabloid newspaper print conventions also followed in online home pages	How tabloid newspaper online editions are different to the print editions
·         lifestyle, ‘showbiz’ and human interest stories are prioritised towards the top of the home pages ·         fonts are sans-serif ·         use of saturated colour, especially red ·         photography dominates the home pages ·         the language register is more informal ·         the red-top tabloids all use the same red masthead as the print newspaper.	·         little use of banner headlines ·         the larger number of headlines connotes more ‘newsiness’ than the print front page ·         most headlines are not capitalised (except in the Sun) ·         the home page layout is generally less photograph/image and headline dominated than the print front page ·         the large number of headlines means that some hard news stories are covered on the home page that would not appear on the front page of the print newspaper.

Note why you think there are differences between the print and online editions of the newspapers. How much is due to the technology itself?    

Semiotic Analysis of a front cover

Advert constructions

Newspaper language

News intro and language from Great Baddow High School Media

Advert reflection

What was the task you were assigned?

What programme did you use to complete your task?

What tools did you use from your programme to create your task ie font websites, crop, colour changes etc?

What were the biggest obstacles to completing your task?

Describe your production and why you chose the various text headings and images?

What was your initial feedback? What did others say about your production?

Identify what went well and with hindsight what would you do differently?

Adverts due on your blog - Nov 8

Practical assessment autumn 1a from Great Baddow High School Media

Industries presentations

Audience

Intro to audience from Great Baddow High School Media

Industry presentations

You will be assigned groups and particular area of industry and share the research and presentation. Create a google slide you can share in each group and add the following information.

Overview of  Film, LFTVD, Radio, UK Newspapers, Video Games 

1. Overview of the industry
2. Largest companies that run the industry
3. Top 2018 films, lftvd, video games, newspapers, radio
4. Who are the target audiences? Look at ages
5. What pleasure does it offer its audiences?
6. How can audiences access this media?
7. Look at websites/social media/ fan sites and give egs of audience interaction
8. Narrow down to the topics we're studying - Disney, Stranger Things/D83, Radio 1, Guardian and Daily Mail, Minecraft
9. How is your industry regulated?

Representation

Representation from Great Baddow High School Media

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-48628678

Camera, Mise En Scene, Sound and Editing

Lots of good in depth textual analysis of film language from Yale university

http://classes.yale.edu/film-analysis/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFUKRTFhoiA



Film language Analysis hwk

BOYZ IN THE HOOD AND GHOST SHIP

 

This clip is excellent for all the areas you have studied up until now - symbols, denotation and connotation, narrative, representation and audience. It is also great for DISTINCT. Write an intro on these for Boyz in the Hood and then:

Please analyse in terms of how camera, mise en scene, editing and sound give meaning to this clip.

Remember:

Camera - FAM
Mise En Scene - CLAMPS
Sound - MCDOVED
Editing - STOPS



Watch the first six minutes and apply your knowledge of camera, sound, editing and mise en scene to textually analyse the clip and the meaning that it created.
In your answer consider:

• semiotics/symbolism in a lot of the shots for eg the Stop sign
• Sound / music, dialogue and sound effects
• What is the clip saying about race, how?
• What have these children seen that you wouldn't expect them to have seen at their age?
• How does the shot go from street to classroom?
• What are the pictures on the wall?

Matrix  opening sequence consider: - colour, binary oppositions, male/female - good vs evil



UP Consider how they show the passage of time, sound, mise en scene and camera.



CAPE FEAR - camera and mise en scene

Sound

Media key terms sound new from MissConnell

Adverts to analyse

Mise En Scene

 Try these body language and facial tests. Are you any good at reading facial expressions and body language?

https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/quizzes/take_quiz/ei_quiz

https://testyourself.psychtests.com/bin/transfer

MISE EN SCENE ACRONYM - CLAMPS - costume, lighting, actors, makeup, props, setting

You are going to create a new presentation account with emaze. Go to www.emaze.com and analyse 

Now try it with these print adverts:

Adobe Premiere practise

Once you have completed your practise edit, you shall be exporting it and uploading it onto your blog. Add an explanation of the process and tools used to achieve your final product.

Camera

Semiotics

Semiotics from Great Baddow High School Media

Genre

Genre task from Great Baddow High School Media

Steve Neale says - genres may be dominated by repetition, but are also marked by difference, variation and change the idea that genres change, develop, and vary, as they borrow from and overlap with one another (Hybrid genre for eg. Scary Movie, Hot Stuff, Zombieland...)

Blogger

Get a gmail address

Go to blogger.com ( I will do a presentation to show you)

Please upload the following: summer tasks (you may have to take pictures), media moodboard show pics of your favourite media and a youtube video where you apply LIAR to it. 3 things on your blog. 

Add the label intro onto your blog on the right where it says label

Intro to media

Summer tasks

Introduction to the course:

Welcome to Media Studies! Over the 2 years of A Level Media Studies course you will be studying the following subject areas:

Language

Industries

Audience

Representation

Each of these areas covers a range of different skills. You will be looking at these areas and learning how:

• The media represents events, issues, individuals and social groups in different ways.

• To create your own media products, using industry standard software.
• To develop your research and analysis skills through the study of a range of media forms such as magazines, posters, film and television.

• To analyse how the media uses conventions and techniques to create meaning for an audience.

Different media are targeted to specific audiences.


To evaluate professional media to understand how the producers and directors aim to make an audience think or feel.

Summer Tasks:

Summer Task 1 - Media Language (how the media through their forms, codes, conventions and techniques communicate meanings)

Analysis of why a director/producer has made certain decisions in creating a product is a key part of Media Studies. Write a 500 words analysis of ONE aspect of the Deutschland ‘83 trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eb0yFr2jVAU and discuss the director’s use of camera, editing, sound and mise en scene (costumes, lighting, actors, makeup, props, setting) etc

Summer Task 2 - Media Industries (how the media industries’ processes of production, distribution and circulation affect media forms and platforms)

Research Task:

When talking about the film industry, what do we mean by the 'Big Six'? Why might this become the Big 5.

Who are the 'Big Six'? What other companies do they own?

Find an example of a major media product that each of the 'Big Six' have produced within the last year, and research key information about these productions (budget, cast (if relevant), advertising campaign, release dates etc.)

Summer Task 3 - Audience (how the media forms target, reach and address audiences, how audiences interpret and respond to them and how audiences become producers themselves)

Choose any magazine front cover or film poster - annotate and analyse how the product is tailored and targeted for a particular audience.

Summer Task 4 - Representation (how media forms portray events, issues, individuals and social groups)

One of the key principles underpinning the A Level Media Studies course is the concept of representation and the role the media plays in shaping our understanding of the world. Media theorist David Gauntlett argues that:

"Popular media has a significant but not entirely straightforward relationship with people's sense of gender and identity." ('Media, Gender and Identity', 2002)

Find a front cover of the Guardian and the Daily Mail from a major event, for eg the Trump visits or Boris this past week that show the role the media plays in shaping our views and opinions on any one group in our society. Is this representation positive or negative? https://www.thepaperboy.com/uk/uk-top-10-newspapers.cfm


Look at advertising analyse the banned Are you beach body ready and compare with This Girl Can advertising campaign.

(e.g. specific groups within gender, age, disability, regional identity, ethnicity, sexuality, class/status etc.)

REMINDERS:

If you need help – there are countless tutorials on the internet, and the research skills you develop whilst finding information will also be invaluable for your Media A Level! Feel free to email with any questions kbr@gbhs.co.uk