How is the representation of age constructed in this extract

Hotel Babylon extract - representation of ethnicity

Doctor Who extract - representation of gender

Spot Colour effects using Photoshop with video footage

Example Level 4 Digipack

This example of a level 4 Digipack comes from an OCR blog. It is a very good example of a design style being used for both an advert or poster and a digipack, creating design synergy.

The Editors Code site

The Editors' Code http://www.editorscode.org.uk/faqs.html

Cutting Edge part 1

Useful examples of editing terms

Some example A2 Blogs and products

High level Blog 1 High level blog 2 Low level blog

A great tutorial on Green Screen in Premiere Pro CS4

Ashes to Ashes practice clip TV Drama Representation of Gender

Ronnie Corbett - My Blackberry's not working

The Two Ronnies - Fork Handles

The Two Ronnies - Mispronunciation

The Two Ronnies - Mastermind

Editing Prezi by teacher James Baker

Editing and Cutting

Do it script

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Like a Virgin

Vogue

Who's that Girl

Material Girl

Like a Prayer

Great tutorial on 3 point lighting

Investigating Nat Tate - an attempt to prove hypereality? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nat_Tate:_An_American_Artist_1928-1960 http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9615000/9615267.stm

Adele - Rolling in the Deep

Weapon of Choice link

http://youtu.be/aZbckwYY9r4

http://youtu.be/8agiaT3SZQo

She's the Man trailer

Mean Girls Trailer

Target Audience Profiles

A Target Audience profile create a fictitious person who would be a typical audience member for your product. It is easier to create a media product with an particular individual in mind than when trying to address a large range of people.

Target Audience profiles also focus on the consumer and by considering what other products this person would buy (in the media and for entertainment) it helps the artistic director pitch the style that this person might like. This process also helps us identify the kind of advertising the magazine (or whatever product we are designing) would carry to reach the target audience.

Here is an example of a target audience profile for a High School Musical style film.

This is a target audience profile for a music magazine aimed at teenage girls.

A techno music magazine for teenage boys.

Radio discussion on how Sci-Fi films encode reality - or mask unreality.

Follow the link below to a discussion on Radio 4 where Alan Rutherford talks to Brian Cox, among other on how reailty is constructed by Hollywood Sci-Fi films. Being a science programme, the discussion considers how far scientists are involved with film and programme making in order to make the scientifically accurate - or 'real' in a scientific way. It is an interesting discussion to hear all the way through but the section beginning at 16 minutes, 45 seconds considers how film language has to distort scientific 'reality' in order for the audience to believe what they are seeing. how does this fit with Baudrillard's four stages of simulation? Is science fiction a form of hyperreality - or is the pact with the audience that this is more fiction than science and therefore automatically unbelievable?

Click here then click on the "Listen" button on the website. Move the programme slider to 16:45.

Newswipe Haiti - does the news present reality?

Volvo ad with post-modern self-reflexivity

Barclays postmodern ironic self-awareness - and a squirrel

OCR Jan 2009 extract G322 - Monarch of the Glen

How is the representation of age constructed in this extract through cinematography, sound, editing and mise-en-scene?

Fiske and referencing life to a scene from a movie

This article from a Daily Telegraph blog considers how and why we make comparisons between real life events as portrayed in news broadcasting and imaginary events portrayed in film special effects.

Does this challenge or re-inforce how we have interpreted John Fiske's theory about referencing a car-chase through intertextuality?

Read the comments left by readers. How do you react to them? Are they right to feel offended? does Fiske's theory apply to individuals or to large groups of people?

Thanks Josh for finding this image on funnyjunk.com, which is designed to show the power of cropping in news photography and war reporting.

What are the meanings of the three photographs?

What elements of the image have been manipulated to create these meanings?

Consider this in the light of Baudrillard's second and third stages of simulacra where signs reiforce the notion of reality or signs mask the absence of reality.

Comparing digital printing and offset printing

Thoughtful short film about offset printing machines

Old fashioned lithography

Conventions of Fragrance Adverts

Researching Magazine Publishers and Market share

To explore which magazines re published by which publishing houses, click here.

A useful article giving the top 100 of recent UK magazine sales appears here.

Here is a summary of the top publishers serving the UK market

If you scroll through the five different pages, you will find some publishers are very specialist in the titles they publish and some publish a much wider range of magazines. You will recognise the biggest publishers when you find them because they have so many titles.

Poem 'Disabled' by Wilfred Owen

Statistics about returning soldiers after the Great War.

Target Audience Profile for AS Coursework

A target audience profile for your magazine will include a random picture (not someone we recognise) and a description of the typical or average reader of your magazine. This will suggest a typical residential location, some lifestyle choices and hapits, some attitudes and planty of choices from other areas of the media. We have looked at examples of 'core buyer' profiles from real magazines and seen how they include attitudes, lifestyle choices and demographic information. They include gender and average age of the reader.

When you write about where your target audience/core buyer lives, try to include some demographic information. We have looked at the NRS ABC1 system, the ACORN Classifications and Types and we have considered how price and circulation numbers affect how much can be charged for advertising. How much will your magazine sell for, realistically, and how large will your circulation be from your target audience?

Galleries of interesting magazine cover designs

A recent top 20 American magazine cover designs

Demographic profiles of national newspaper titles

These are links to statistics available on the NMA UK website


Statistics for The Sun Newspaper

Statistics for the Daily Mail newspaper

Statistics for The Daily Telegraph newspaper

Statistics for The Guardian newspaper

Maya Deren's experimental film 'Meshes of the Afternoon' (1943)

Consider this as an example of what happens when all the genre and narrative conventions we are conditioned to use have been taken away. How do you approach interpreting or understanding this piece of film?



Look at this re-edit that claims to be in the style of David Lynch. Read the comments...who do you agree with?

What about this re-make? How does it make you feel about the original film?

Screen Printing T Shirts - as a business

Art of the Car Linoleum and Letterpress

Intaglio Printing stage by stage

Marks and Spencers Christmas intertextuality ad 2007

Interesting Advertising business websites

25 Most Creative Advertisements

30 Fantastic Shoe adverts

A good A Level student perfume advert analysis

Academic essay deconstructing a Diesel advertising campaign

Letterpress printing terms

Letterpress Printing

Dizzee Rascal and Jonathon Ross