Students revisited the concept of REPRESENTATION and how the nature of the INSTITUTION shapes meaning. Reference was made to the representation of the Hillsborough tragedy by The Sun newspaper in 1989 and their apology last week, and how mobile phone footage was used to challenge the original Police representation of the death of Ian Tomlinson in 2009. Click on link below to access the Tomlinson footage that challenged the original representation of his tragic death.
Ian Tomlinson incident: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HECMVdl-9SQ
The next session of the lesson involved the class considering the question:
How are Paralympians represented within this media text?
Click on link below to access Channel Four advertisement,
'Meet The Superhumans': http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuAPPeRg3Nw
The next phase of the lesson considered the codes and conventions of the film trailer. Click on links below to access the three trailers used to identify codes and conventions:
Ghost Writer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_AerBW0EcI
The Sweeney: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtoM5O0eXvE
The Wedding Party: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohdo8lb60AM
Students discussed how the form of the trailer always provides information relating to character, location, time, genre and plot. Enigma codes are used, a state of narrative disequilibrium is presented and the text will be polysemic without being confusing. Text or dialogue is often used to illustrate the nature of the narrative. Media forms are dependent upon genre. Students may have the opportunity to construct their own trailers therefore students must be aware of the ingredients used to create a successful trailer.
Hitchcock's PSYCHO 'Shower Scene' was offered to students with the aim of developing student understanding of how media forms shape meaning. Click on link below:
The final section of this carnival of media delights was a consideration of the KICK-ASS trailer. Students were asked to consider the question:
How is violence represented within this media text?
Students were asked to apply media theory to this text and were introduced to Dyer's theories, the idea of desensitisation, Reception Theory and the Uses and Gratifications Theory.
Click on link to access trailer:
HOMEWORK: Sudents are expected to produce two pieces of written work in response to the questions:
- How are Paralympians represented within this media text?
- How is violence represented within the KICK-ASS trailer?
The Channel Four text demands that students consider the Preferred Reading and how media forms are constructed to create this meaning. STUDENTS MUST ATTEMPT TO USE MEDIA LANGUAGE IN AN APPROPRIATE MANNER. Students must refer to the significance of long shots, close ups, diegetic sound, non-diegetic sound, the speed of editing, connotation etc. Select the three or four key frames that serve to illustrate the nature of the Preferred Reading. I expect one page of A4 if the response is using a size 10 font.
The second text needs to identify the nature of the representation of violence and also needs to apply media theory. This is a controversial representation of violence therefore students need to consider how an audience might use this text and any negative effect this text may generate. Reference must be made to the concept of desensitisation and Dyer.
PHEW.
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