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AS Media Studies

Summer Work 2016

Name:AS Media StudiesSummer work

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Audience and Institution

25%of your media grade requires you to understand how lms aremade !ou"ll need to #e a#le to $om%are &S lms and 'ritish lms at

e(ery stage of %rodu$tion from %it$hing an idea) gaining funding)$asting) lming) editing) ad(ertising and nally distri#ution ande*hi#ition

Task: Wat$h a lm at the $inema this summer and $om%lete a $asestudy on it Some titles are suggested #elow:

Suicide Squad

The Secret Life Of Pets

Jason Bourne

The B!

Star Trek Be"ond

!host#usters

Be$ow is a $ist of the #asic thins "ou must write a#out

1 An e*%lanation of the lms %lot2 +he lms genre ,who do you think would want to wat$h it-

+eens) adults) males) females et$./ +he lms rating ,eg) is it 1) 1) 3-.4 +he lms #udget ,ie how mu$h it $ost to make. Who dire$ted the lm ,is this lm ty%i$al of their work-.6 Who starred in the lm ,are they ma5or stars or relati(e

unknowns- What lms ha(e the %re(iously #een in-. Whi$h Studio,s. %rodu$ed the lm ,and more im%ortantly W78

owns them-. +he te$hnology in(ol(ed ,was it lmed on 9lm" or digital) is it

/- oes it use ;3

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&e'resentation and Te(tua$ Ana$"sis

'y denition) all media te*ts are re)'resentationsof reality

+his means that they are intentionally $om%osed) lit) written)framed) $ro%%ed) $a%tioned) #randed) targeted and $ensored #ytheir %rodu$ers) and that they are entirely arti$ial (ersions of thereality we %er$ei(e around us

When studying the media it is (ital to remem#er this C e(ery mediaform) from a home (ideo to a glossy magaDine) is a re%resentationof someoneEs $on$e%t of e*isten$e) $odied into a series of signsand sym#ols whi$h $an #e read #y an audien$e

+he study of re%resentation is a#out de$oding the diBerent layers oftruthF$tion

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&e'resentation in T. /rama

Task 01 haracter 'ro3$e

hoose a character and think a#out how the" are4re'resented in the show in which the" a''ear6

Make notes on the fo$$owin 'oints1

+@ drama name

3enre of +@ drama

A$torFa$tress name

;hara$ter name

Ages of $hara$ter and a$tor

thni$ity

Gegional identity

;ostume usually in$ludes

Sum u% lifestyle in words

?riends

ey moment in drama series

redi$tion for future narrati(es ,storylines.

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7ow is the audien$e su%%osed to rea$t to them- *%lain (iew