Year 13 homework

Due in Tuesday 14th January.

Apply the 5 key concepts to your film trailer, poster and magazine cover.

• Audience
• Media language
• Representation
• Genre
• Narrative

Look back at your notes on the theories and theorists (quotes) and apply each to your work.

Year 12 homework

This is due Tuesday 7th January. It is one of your evaluation tasks and is marked for coursework. It should be detailed and use media terminology. You must make sure you have photos of different social groups from your film BEFORE the end of term.

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

List social groups e.g. teenagers, middle aged women...

Pick a character from your film that is a member of a social group. How do you know? How typical are they of this social group? What is your evidence?

Consider clothes, facial expressions, hair, jewellery, make up, accessories, age, camera shots used, settings, who they are with, their role in the film

Example above from Mean Girls.

Find a photo of a character from a film that is from the same social group as a character in your film. Put this in Photoshop next to a still from your film of the character. Save as a jpeg and put on blogger then explain the similarities and differences. How stereotyped is your character? Use the list above to help.

Do this for at least one more social group.