I have reached the stage of my production where I have but a few things left to do.
· Filming*
· Final Editing
· Collate my storyboards onto this blog
· Create Soundtrack
· Design poster campaigns for advertising and subliminal use in trailer
· Directors Interview
· Evaluation of my work once completed.
*This part of filming is subject to requirement within the trailer. G325 Question 1B
For question 1B of my A2 exam, I need to know about the following areas of Media. Here are their definitions. They are: Representation, Narrative, Media Language, Audience and Genre.
Representation - Representation refers to the construction in any medium (especially the mass media) of aspects of ‘reality’ such as people, places, objects, events, cultural identities and other abstract concepts. Such representations may be in speech or writing as well as still or moving pictures.
Narrative- In media terms, narrative is the coherence/organisation given to a series of facts. The human mind needs narrative to make sense of things. We connect events and make interpretations based on those connections. In everything we seek a beginning, a middle and an end. We understand and construct meaning using our experience of reality and of previous texts. Each text becomes part of the previous and the next through its relationship with the audience.
Genre- genre is a way of categorising a text through style and form. It is vital to be able to categorise texts in this way - both for production and analysis. Most students associate genre with film, and indeed this is where categories can be most easily identified.
Media Language - The vocabulary we use when discussing a Media Product is known as Media Language - in order to succeed in my examination and coursework units I will need a strong understanding of these terms and their meaning.
Audience - Audience theory provides a starting point for many Media Studies tasks. Whether you are constructing a text or analysing one, you will need to consider the destination of that text (i.e. its target audience) and how that audience (or any other) will respond to that text.
