Thursday, 14 December 2017

Pratical Assessment HT2

Key concepts:
  • Denotation/connotation.
  • Camera shot, angle and movement.
  • Genre: codes and conventions.
  • Representation: stereotyping.
  • Contexts.
  • Intertextuality.

Contexts:
  • The Royal Wedding next year (will cost £10million - Windsor [The Royal Family] said they would pay for it).
  • The Grenfell Tower disaster (there's still people who haven't been relocated properly)
I am going to be dressing the issue that the Royal family i willing to spend £10 million on a royal wedding, in oppose to support and rehoming for sufferers of the greenfield tower disaster. Over the year of 2017 a lot of attacks and national disasters have occurred where people have lost homes and family members, however the royal family have been 'invisible' during these disasters and not made any contributions to the help and warfare of people who have suffered in there country. Therefore, its targeted the issue of is money being spent correctly by the monarchy? As it is hard to agree with spending an extreme amount on a wedding instead of providing the help needed to put peoples lives on track, which the money provided from the council and taxes cannot provide the needed support alone. 

The target audience of my final drafted magazine is c1 and below, however it touches upon the A and B audiences as they are the people with money and considered to have intelligence so are people who may be guilt tripped into donating money towards the cause of the victims. Although, the main target audience is for C1 and below this is because in our final draft we included pictures of the victims, so we wanted to target it towards people of the same social status and opinions as the greenfield tower, because it may make those people consider the argument on a personal view point and make them think about the little the royal family has done for them. Also, the people in the C1 and below category are considered less intelligent and easier to persuade, therefore they are more likely to believe the same view of the magazine. 

In terms of intertextuality, on our second draft we used a pound coin as the sun surrendered by a childrens drawing of a sun. this links to the c1 and below audiences and the drawing done by a kid is considered less intelligent and not drawn well. however the context behind that idea was to target the focus of the British money represented with the pound with the queens face on it to show the influence of the royal family. the bright yellow colour of the sun makes it appear like the royal family is happy because we associate the sun with a nice day, however its over looking the tower, which clearly wasn't a good day. However in our final draft we got rid of the sun and replaced  the background of the sky with pictures of the Grenfell tower victims. Therefore, it shows that whilst the royal family are getting married (on the ground) the victims are no longer here. this is done to make the lower classes feel sympathy of the victims and to influence there views on the royal family. 

Furthermore, in relation to the representation of the royal family and the event of the Grenfell tower incident, i choose to have a picture looking up on the building to show once it stood strong, however the representation of Harry and Megan is that they are standing below the victims provides two messages that the are below the victims (they have no influence to the victims), also that they are 'in a rich mans world' representing there materialistic persona, how money if valued to them on the materialistic facts of life, (e.g. the wedding) in oppose to the value of there people (the victims ) and providing the support they need.  

(final draft)

Thursday, 7 December 2017

monday 4th december

Learning Objectives:

K: Expected 'REPRESENTATION' content for analysing set products for C1SB

U: How to apply each of the areas to a successful analysis.
BAT: Develop / improve own analysis of set products.
CO: Use media terminology and writing frame effectively.



Use the set media texts. You should prepare a short presentation, analysing any representational issues present. 
GENDER                
AGE                  
ETHNICITY          
NATIONAL/REGIONAL IDENTITY           

ISSUES/EVENTS


This poster of beauty and the beast mentions the 'literacy campaign', and bringing in more libraries. this relates to the film as Belle is an idol for the younger audiences and represents her love for books, this is supposed to encourage children into reading. Also, by using a disney fairytale as the  representation gives the impression that the literacy campaign and takes you to a fairytale. At the time this a campaign called 'the national literacy trust' had come out, who are a charity working with schools and communities to give disadvantaged children the literacy skills to succeed in life. Therefore, this poster is targeting, not just the wonders of reading and a child's dreams and imagination, but the awareness for a campaign supporting the children.


key terms for mise-en-scene

These are the key terms and definitions we use to describe the setting, props, costume, makeup, lighting, colour etc.