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WWW: This is an excellent start to GCSE Media – well done! I really like your detail in the mise-en-scene blog post where you analysed the Stranger Things opening clip and your fruit bowl is stunning. This shows you are developing the technical skills that will hopefully result in excellent coursework in Year 11. Keep up the good work!  EBI: The main thing to work on is pushing yourself to complete any extension tasks for any blogs to ensure that achieve that top grade in Media Studies. On a side not, consider the theme you use for your blog to avoid the text and background being different – I think this happens when you copy information from Media McGuffin, have a play around with different themes and click ‘View blog’ to see what it looks like as a preview. LR: Create a new blogpost on your Media blog called ‘Blog feedback and Learner Response’. Copy and paste this WWW/EBI feedback into your blogpost then complete the LR tasks/questions below. Reflect on your first month of Media...

 1) First blog task - 10 questions 2) Denotation and Connotation 3) Introduction to Photoshop: fruit bowls 4) Mise-en-scene: Stranger Things 5) Camerawork: shots and angles 6) Camera movement and editing 7) Blog feedback and learner response

  Re-watch the Minority Report chase scene that we analysed in class: Blog tasks: 1) Pick  three   aspects of  camera movement  in the Minority Report clip. Identify the  type  of camera movement and write about why the director chose to use that camera movement in the scene and what effect it has on the audience. they used a pan when the guy was reading the newspaper and then then they showed his face to show the effect of how the guy was looking at his face in the paper and then showed his face on the bus to show how he was suspicious of him. They also used a crane shot when the guys where flying the jetpacks to chase the criminal to show how fast they were chasing him they used this because they wanted to show the whole setting of where his id from the train station to the alleyway to the flats and how he constantly moved.      2) Pick  two  aspects of  editing  in the Minority Report clip and write about what...

Watch this clip from Doctor Who and complete the tasks below: Watch this clip from Doctor Who and complete the tasks below: Watch this clip from Doctor Who and complete the tasks below: Blog tasks: 1) Pick  three  camera  shots  from the Doctor Who scene and explain what type of shot it is and what meanings or effect they have on the audience. Medium close up: camera gets closer and face and shoulders is shown. They show that the people in the show are very invested in what do as the camera gets closer in their face. Two shot: medium or medium close up shot and two characters together. They show this with the mother and when they are in the zoom call to show that they are very close together. Long shot: head and toe visible shows plenty of background fits in plenty of action. They use this when they are using the machines to connect to the doctor on another planet and they use this shot because they wanted to show how they use the ma chines and how they move around o...

  Mise-en-scene is a vital aspect of media language and builds nicely on our work on denotation and connotation. Mise-en-scène is a French term meaning ‘Putting on Stage’.  It refers to the Media language used by the producer in their media product to communicate with their audience so…everything we see on screen. We can remember what this includes using the acronym CLAMPS: Costume Lighting Actor placement and movement Make-up Props Setting When we look at a clip, image or advert in Media Studies we need to be able to identify aspects of  mise-en-scene  and explain the effect it has on the audience. This video explains the power of mise-en-scene in film analysis:  Mise-en-scene: Blog tasks Watch the opening of television drama ‘Stranger Things’, a science fiction story set in the 1980s when four friends get wrapped up in a dangerous alternate universe. Create a new blogpost called 'Mise-en-scene: Stranger Things analysis'.  1) Choose  THREE  aspec...