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Monday, 10 December 2012
Monday, 3 December 2012
Five Ways Women are represented in the Media
Interesting article here from the BBC on representation of women in the media following the Leveson report.
Friday, 16 November 2012
Wednesday, 14 November 2012
Thursday, 8 November 2012
It's Movember
It's Movember and Raybloggs is hoping to raise some cash for worthy charities in the area of men's health concerning issues such as prostate cancer.
The mo is taking shape but it's early days yet. Clark Gable style, Bruce Forsythe or Jimmy Edwards may be yet to come.
Click here TO MAKE A DONATION
or
here to learn more about the charities supported by Movember.
Thursday, 25 October 2012
Wednesday, 24 October 2012
Cutting Edge - The Magic of Movie Editing
Invisible Editing -
Before editing - start at 2.29
Edwin S Porter: the first edit - Start at 3.21
Classical Editing D W Griffiths Start at 1.10
Russian Visible Editing
Man with a Movie Camera (dir. Dziga Vertov, 1929) - Start at 1.09 (video is in Spanish!)
Kuleshov effect - Start at 2.23 (video is in Spanish!)
Eisensteinian Montage - Start at 3.28 (video is in Spanish!)
Cutting Suspense - Nosferatu. Start at 0.40
Hitchcock - Start at 2.50
Sound - Start at 7.50
The Rules - 1950s editing rules. Start at 2.35
Breathless and Modern visible editing - Start at 4.39
Before editing - start at 2.29
Edwin S Porter: the first edit - Start at 3.21
Classical Editing D W Griffiths Start at 1.10
Russian Visible Editing
Man with a Movie Camera (dir. Dziga Vertov, 1929) - Start at 1.09 (video is in Spanish!)
Kuleshov effect - Start at 2.23 (video is in Spanish!)
Eisensteinian Montage - Start at 3.28 (video is in Spanish!)
Cutting Suspense - Nosferatu. Start at 0.40
Hitchcock - Start at 2.50
Sound - Start at 7.50
The Rules - 1950s editing rules. Start at 2.35
Breathless and Modern visible editing - Start at 4.39
Thursday, 18 October 2012
Fantastic Storyboarding site
This site is the work of a professional storyboard artist. It is amazing and well worth reading both for storyboarding and for any aspect of planning to hit the production criteria.
Many thanks to Miss Long for finding this.
Click here
Monday, 1 October 2012
Sunday, 16 September 2012
Wednesday, 12 September 2012
Sunday, 9 September 2012
Friday, 13 July 2012
Film Education Site on Trailers - to help you with the summer task
This site should help you research your summer task. It is aimed a little below A Level but there is plenty to help guide your thinking. Check the Analysis page carefully for theory.
Thursday, 28 June 2012
Thursday, 14 June 2012
Monday, 11 June 2012
Thursday, 31 May 2012
Monday, 28 May 2012
Friday, 25 May 2012
Tuesday, 1 May 2012
Jonathon Blow talking about Braid and other games
Also follow this link for an article on pricing and marketing Braid
Sunday, 15 April 2012
The fate of GAME
Interesting discussion on the High Street retailer for video games: GAME. Follow this link. Read the comments at the end as well because they make points debating pros and cons of High Street vs. online shopping for video games.
Wednesday, 11 April 2012
Thursday, 29 March 2012
Tuesday, 27 March 2012
Wednesday, 21 March 2012
Tuesday, 20 March 2012
When film posters get the genre wrong
Interesting article about someone suing a film poster because what they saw in the cinema was not what they expected from the poster.
Parody - The Muppets Trailer parodies Hunger Games
Thank you to Mediaknowall for this example.
This link is the The Hunger Games official trailer
G325 Question 1b - useful site for the basics of key concepts
The Mediaknowall site has some good information and it is worth exploring some of the links to understand the debates around key media issues.
Meanings of camera shots, positions and movements
This is a great page for giving both the names and the media meanings of camera shots, positions and movements.
Saturday, 17 March 2012
Interesting discussion of meanings in media
This writer is a campaigner against climate change who examines the irony of adverts that seem to deny climate change.
Tuesday, 13 March 2012
History of Music Magazines
Here is a useful link to a timeline of UK music magazines with profiles of all magazines published in the UK, including titles long since closed. Good for masthead ideas and content ideas. Circulation figures from 2008.
Monday, 12 March 2012
Top of the Pops magazine
Article about mentioning the music magazine sector containing 'Top of the Pops and how it is in decline here.
Ashes to Ashes BBC 2009
Three clips from the opening of the BBC series Ashes to Ashes from 2009. these clips link to the analysis that can be accessed here.
Sunday, 11 March 2012
Links to example student blogs at Levels 2 - 4
These examples are taken from the OCR Media Studies A Level support http://ocrmediastudies.weebly.com/g321-as-coursework.html.
Level 4 - this blog and product has been awarded grade A
Level 3 - this blog and product would be grade C or B
Level 2 - this blog and product would have been awarded grade D or E
Both the blogs at level 3 and 4 are a good source of planning and research ideas that you could add to your own work to improve it.
Finally, this is a link to a school where the board has commended their magazine work as worth seeing. It is a little confusing in layout but if you click on the first few links - AS Group 01, AS Group 02 etc, you will soon see come excellent student magazine design ideas.
Publishing House Bauer Media
The two links here give a way in to the website of Publishing House 'Bauer Media'.
This link connects to a page with links to all their magazine tiles. there is also a clear table showing how many of the titles are multi-platform, illustrating Crossmedia synergy (eg Kerrang! has the same design, brand identity and content values on several media platforms including magazine, radio, digital TV and internet)
This link goes directly to the Kerrang! page and you will see a brief concept summary, platforms and a short target audience profile. these pages exist for every title that Bauer publishes.
It is interesting to note that all Bauer's music magazines are found in the 'Men's Entertainment' section. Did you notice such a gender bias in reading them?
Sunday, 4 March 2012
Friday, 2 March 2012
Thursday, 1 March 2012
Saturday, 11 February 2012
Product Placement in Films
Have a look at this blog called Brands and Films, run by a Slovenian marketing professional and focussing specifically on product placement in film. Some very interesting articles - try clicking Louis Vuitton on the TAG cloud and read the article about how they sued a Danish artist.
Skylanders and Wii U
Two interesting blog entries and radio broadcasts about Video Games targeting families and young children with their marketing.
Skylanders http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/youandyours/2012/02/void_overspending_on_skylander.html and http://www.gamepeople.co.uk/familygamertv_fgtv_1.25.htm on 'Family Gamers TV'.
Nintendo's next generatioin Wii - the Wii U
Friday, 10 February 2012
Baudrillard and 9/11
The Dove 'Real Women' Advertising Campaign
These print and TV commercials challenge accepted or even hegemonic stereotypes and hyperreal concepts of female beauty.
TV Advert
American CBS News article
Link 1
Link 2
Tuesday, 24 January 2012
Saturday, 21 January 2012
Postmodernism summarised by Dr. Giles Fraser
Link to this item on the BBC website
DURATION: 03:10
According to the architectural theorist, Charles Jencks, Modernism died at half past three on the 15th March 1972 when a notorious modernist housing estate in St Louis, Missouri was detonated to rubble. This estate had become a by-word for crime and social depravation. It represented the modernist dream that order and progress would create for humanity a rational space for human flourishing. But for Jencks, the dream was over. Technology had become an end in itself and modernism had spectacularly failed to appreciate that architecture must have a human scale.
What came next was called Post-Modernism, a period of design currently featured in an exhibition at the V&A. Beginning in the world of architecture, Post-Modernism replaced order with disorder. It was suspicious of the grand plan and the big story. Throughout the seventies and eighties, design turned playful, ironic, kitsch. It celebrated impermanence and ad-hoc juxtapositions. Post-modernism was like broken mirror, with shards of glass reflecting in all sorts of crazy directions. But by the end of the 1980’s, many were despairing of all this cultural chaos. And so the exhibition ends with the wistful lyrics of a song by the 80’s band New Order: “Why can’t we be ourselves like we were yesterday?” It’s a question that expresses a longing to reclaim something bigger than individualism and impermanence. But what on earth might this look like?
As if to answer that very question, the first art work you bump into when you leave the exhibition is a 16th century sculpture of three women weeping over the body of Christ. It’s a reminder of when Christianity provided the European imagination with a big story that bound people together and from which ethics and aesthetics drew their inspiration. This is precisely what it was like to be ourselves yesterday. But can we really have it back again? Which is just what I wondered when I heard the Prime Minister celebrating this country’s Christian inheritance, as he did before Christmas. Is this anything more than nostalgia for a lost world that was united by a common Christian story - that is, a world that existed before multiculturalism and religious diversity?
Maybe, maybe not. Nonetheless, the desire to be a part of something bigger than oneself seems to be bubbling up all over the place. After all, what is the resurgence of Scottish nationalism but a desire to be a part of, and loyal to, some larger story – the story of the Scottish people. Indeed, nationalism does not have to be chauvinistic, but can grow out of a profound need to set one’s life within a wider picture. Likewise with religion. The exhibition at the V&A tells us that the age of impermanence and individuality failed. And so we are struggling once again to find a new big story to live by. Or could it be an older one? Little wonder that religion is back on the cultural and political agenda
Kim Novak defies intertextuality
Follow this link to an extract from the BBC Radio 4 programme PM 11th January 2012 where the actress Kim Novak who starred in Alfred Hitchcock's film 'Vertigo' complains that the exact score from the film was used in the 2012 film 'The Artist'. The use of the music was credited in the film and represents what Media academics describe as 'intertextuality' - where a borrowed reference to another text can mean different things to those who don't recognise it from those who do. Unusually and controversially Kim Novak objects strongly to this piece of intertextually and has taken out a full page advert in the actors' magazine 'Variety' describing the intertextual use of music from her famous scene in Vertigo as a'rape'. She goes on to describe herself as an 'original' artist. How do you feel about this use of the word rape? How would structuralist theorists like Barthes view her opinion?
Friday, 20 January 2012
The Pruitt-Igoe Modernist Housing Estate
The Pruitt-Igoe Myth: an Urban History – Film Trailer from the Pruitt-Igoe Myth on Vimeo.
Article from the Guardian about the demolition of Pruitt-Igoe Estate as referred to by Giles Fraser.Sunday, 15 January 2012
Tuesday, 10 January 2012
Thursday, 5 January 2012
Good example of Contents page analysis
Good example of Contents page analysis from another school here
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