Easter homework

Answer the following: "Media production is dominated by global institutions which sell their products and services to national audiences." To what extent do you agree with this statement?

You should spend about an hour on this and hand it in in the first lesson back on 24 April.
You also need to revise all your notes on TV Drama and Audiences and Institutions.

Exam practice due on Tuesday

Discuss the ways in which media products are produced and distributed to audiences in film industry.

Spend about an hour on this and refer to case studies.

Must be handed in on Tuesday.

Evaluation tasks to complete for Tuesday 18 March

Each of these should be on your blog with the question number as your title for the post.

Evaluation questions

Answers to these questions are worth 20 marks of your overall coursework mark.

1.In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

2.How does your media product represent particular social groups?

3.What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

4.Who would be the audience for your media product?

5.How did you attract/address your audience?

6.What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

7.Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product? 

Read about the making of Gravity

The Making of Gravity

Homework

For Thursday 23 January find a piece of film industry news to bring in to class. You must have a printout and you must read it before coming to class. You also need to look at box office top 10 and identify which ones are based on novels or (auto)biographies.

For Friday 24 you must have your rough cut feedback on your blog together with a link to your rough cut.

Homework for Thursday 19 December

Blog your jellybaby pictures with a short description of the story and how it fits in with horror film conventions.

Homework for Thursday 5 December

Blog your feedback on Animatics and include a link.

Homework for Friday 29 November

Research 3D in cinemas. Include the following:
Definition of 3D in film
Benefits of 3D to the film industry
Criticisms of 3D cinema
Your own opinion on 3D.

You might find The Guardian, The Times and BBC websites useful.

This should be one A4 side typed. Do NOT copy and paste from the internet. Make sure you name your sources.

Homework for Thursday 21 November

Answer these questions in your books:

1. What is foley sound? Give examples.
2. Why do we use it?