1 St. Andrew’s Catholic School Center Number: ___________________ Candidate Number: _____________________________________ Candidate Name: _______________________________________________________________________ A2 Media Studies Unit G324: Advanced Portfolio in Media – Production Log Asuka Young 64135 4149
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St. Andrew’s Catholic SchoolCenter Number: ___________________
NARRATIVE:-Relationships and family issues-Death-Adultery-Flashbacks-Sexuality-Overarching storylines-realism-social issues-several stories running at the same time (multi-stranded)-sudo (fake), verisimilitude (attempt at realism).
CHARACTER:-manipulative characters-killer-geezer-femme, fetale-nosy-bullies-active/passive-figures for the audiences to relate to.
-action of man pushing woman(NV)-‘It was me!’: argument(V)-‘stay away from my sister’ (V)-violence: actions with furious facial expressions.
-Katz: escapism, entertainment.(K)Informing about characters, (K)-Care givers (M)-Gender: Male-enjoy /familiar with violence? (H)
Focus on working class communities
-mid-shot, tightly framed-new owner of the vic: leader of a community-‘250 a grand’ sounds a lot according to people’s reactions.
-Personal identity within working class (K)-Age: for young people (20’s etc), 250 grand sounds a lot of value. (Hart)-Social climbers- have reaction to money.(M)
“Multi-Stranded Narrative”
-Money, relationships of different characters shown simultaneously.
-Katz: it is more entertaining to have more stories going on at once, rather than one constant narrative.
Disruption in storyline‘Disequilibrium’ (Todorov)
-New owner of the vic disrupts the overarching storyline?
-Community Drivers/Explorers- agree/disagree with it? -Personal identity to the storyline?
Trailer 2)
What is the Focus of this trailer?Finding the cheater to a relationship (marriage).
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Code &
Convention
Evidence
(Verbal, Non-Verbal, Technical)
Impact on the Audience
(Katz, Maslow, Hartley)
RomanceShouting ‘it does to me!’ –conventional couple argument?-action of kissing
-Entertainment & Personal identity (K)-Care givers feeling sorry (M)
Family relationships and/or conflict
-shouting, burning paper-lots of cuts-violence (pushing woman against wall)-background?
-class-mid: lots of arguments (H)-Entertaining? (K)-Creating social interaction between people-making people feel better about themselves
Focus on working class communities
-The market- when he was stalking her- conventional shop for this class.-funfair brings the community sense to a location
-working class audiences can identify themselves (H)-Country: typical British market? (H)-Social climbers? As they like status symbols and cares about money- they will think that either they are higher up in authority than the characters, or lower and be competitave.
“Multi-Stranded Narrative”
It is one story line but with lots of shots of multiple characters.
-It may mean that many different kinds of people can identify themselves (K)
‘Disequilibrium’ (Todorov)
7 people cut in the same way- seems like a different narrative.
-perhaps, people with different regional identity, age groups etc can identify with the different characters (H),(K).
Multi-stranded narrative
A Multi-stranded narrative can be defined as…..
telling a story from more than one person’s point of view. _____________________________________________________________________________
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Telling multiple stories about multiple characters in an open narrative for example. _____________________________________________________________________________
YOU MUST deconstruct the 10-minute extract from Eastenders and identify where the following elements are presented to the audience:
· Multi-stranded narrative· Family relationships and/or conflict· Focus on working class communities· ‘Disequilibrium’ (Todorov)· Romance
YOU SHOULD write down x1-2 examples for EACH of the elements above that are presented.
Code & Convention Evidence Impact on the audience· Multi-stranded
narrative-boys in bar & girls on street-2 adults stuck in a room-focusing on different characters’ story
-entertainment- different genders etc-personally identifying-educate- how different age groups act and go through different things.
· Family relationships and/or conflict
-a sense of a parent & child- drinking together-men and women fighting : ‘Im so sorry’ ‘I’ll punch you in the face’-making up with a friend
-self identity-entertainment-care givers may feel like resolving the fights-explorer may think how to change bad attitudes?
· Focus on working class communities
-The bar- setting -people with dress: not appropriate-lots of action scenes-lots of beer scenes, medium shot.
-bars etc are familiar to working class audiences -therefore can personally identify with characters
Disequilibrium’ (Todorov)
-sound of knocking door changes a constant situation.
-expecting something to happen: entertaining
· Romance -kissing, room with a pinky environment
-personal identification with their current relationship-survivors: conventional situation.
Soap Opera Codes & Conventions continued – Lesson 3Textual Analysis
According to Rebecca Feasey in ‘Masculinity and Popular television’ (2007), the Soap Opera genre tends to focus on:
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The home/family / domestic tribulations and strong women and the such. They’re long been said to appeal to the female viewer. Personal identifying, but also reinforcing stereotypes. _____________________________________________________________________________
Next Page - YOU MUST deconstruct the opening 5 minutes of a sequence from the popular ITV Soap Opera Coronation Street (1960 – Present) to identify examples of where this ideology is presented to the target audience.
YOU SHOULD also try and identify, to demonstrate your knowledge and understanding of the genre, any Codes & Conventions associated to the Soap Opera genre.
1. Woman doing housework using gloves (Full shot)- traditional ideology. Female audience identifying themselves, as care givers (K&M) / stereotypical.
2. Woman Arguing, where she stands is quite dominant compared to the man. -Her taking boy to the hospital is a traditional role of a mother.
3. An old woman controlling the situation- ‘I don’t want you to think that I’m the sort of woman that...’ -counter stereotyping traditional woman.
4. Traditional woman: need man- ‘He’s only gone for 5 days’ & ‘I miss ya’ in response to him going- stereotypical women’s weakness in men.
5. Woman having a stereotypical family daily life as a mother- eating together in a dining room.
Rebecca Feasey (2007) Ideology:
1. Woman doing housework using gloves (Full shot)- traditional ideology. Female audience identifying themselves, as care givers (K&M) / stereotypical.
2. Woman Arguing, where she stands is quite dominant compared to the man. -Her taking boy to the hospital is a traditional role of a mother.
3. An old woman controlling the situation- ‘I don’t want you to think that I’m the sort of woman that...’ -counter stereotyping traditional woman.
4. Traditional woman: need man- ‘He’s only gone for 5 days’ & ‘I miss ya’ in response to him going- stereotypical women’s weakness in men.
5. Woman having a stereotypical family daily life as a mother- eating together in a dining room.
Rebecca Feasey (2007) Ideology:
1. Woman doing housework using gloves (Full shot)- traditional ideology. Female audience identifying themselves, as care givers (K&M) / stereotypical.
2. Woman Arguing, where she stands is quite dominant compared to the man. -Her taking boy to the hospital is a traditional role of a mother.
3. An old woman controlling the situation- ‘I don’t want you to think that I’m the sort of woman that...’ -counter stereotyping traditional woman.
4. Traditional woman: need man- ‘He’s only gone for 5 days’ & ‘I miss ya’ in response to him going- stereotypical women’s weakness in men.
5. Woman having a stereotypical family daily life as a mother- eating together in a dining room.“Multi-Stranded Narrative”
-Two Families in both of family relationships sort of scenes.-Marriages-Two Families in both of family relationships sort of scenes.-Marriages
· Family relationships and/or conflict
-Old woman dominant over everyone: about the red carpet etc.-family daily life presented.
-Old woman dominant over everyone: about the red carpet etc.-family daily life presented.
· Focus on working class communities
-Women doing housework -setting in small rooms, conventional to the class.-Women doing housework -setting in small rooms, conventional to the class.
Disequilibrium’ (Todorov)
-The introduction of the grandmother changes what was constant inside the family’s life.-The introduction of the grandmother changes what was constant inside the family’s life.
· Romance -Old & Young couple being presented.-Old & Young couple being presented.
· Other Themes & Issues represented:
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Soap Opera Codes & Conventions continued – Lesson 4Textual Analysis
1) What is the purpose of a trailer?
To promote and to gain interest for mass audiences of a media product by: informative cliffhangers, using multi-stranded narratives, clashing/exaggerated imageries/clips, to keep previous audiences going with the product (if it’s a series), social audiences can spread the words. _____________________________________________________________________________
2) What are the benefits of Multi-Platform promotion of a media text?
· _Maximising audiences- getting more views on the text _______________________________________________________________________
· Can reach those who doesn’t use certain platforms (Radio, TV, magazines, internet...etc. _______________________________________________________________________
Ultimately, some form of Convergence is important when promoting a text to the target audience.
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Textual Analysis –
Next Page - YOU MUST make notes on the following areas when deconstructing this sequence from Coronation Street:
· Multi-stranded narrative· Character dilemmas· ‘Personal Identification’ (Katz)
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http://www.channel4.com/programmes/hollyoaks/4od
The above link will take you to some of the latest episodes of Hollyoaks.
1. What are the connotations of the ident for the popular Channel Four Teen Soap Opera Hollyoaks (1995 – Present)?
the soap appeals to both genders, shown in the colours (Pink = female, blue = male), and the gender symbols in the O’s which are non-verbal codes. These also connote that there are stereotypical gender issues involved in this soap. _____________________________________________________________________________
Next Page - Hollyoaks – “White Wedding Trailer” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bu2sW-r9Vb4
2. YOU MUST make notes on the following areas when deconstructing this sequence from Hollyoaks:
· Binary opposition of the non-diegetic music· Symbolism of the non-verbal code of the tear· Representation of Pregnancy· Any other examples that would impact the audience
Music: - Not the sort of music that would appeal to women in wedding. It was a dark, mellow music. The lyrics says: ‘White wedding’, but the setting is all black themed. Telling the audiences that the story is going to be about a sad / unhappy wedding?
The Tear: - represents unhappiness, pain- however because the tear is reddish black, it may represent fake emotions within the soap.
Pregnancy: - who’s the father? Situation: The doll being smashed on the floor representing troubles involving children/babies? (Abortion etc).
Women with the vail: personally identifiable with people who are already married? Black vail representing the dark married life ahead of her?
Production Work
1) What is the role of a Producer?
The Decision making: Productions/logistic side. _____________________________________________________________________________
Overseeing production: consideration of target audience, profits etc. _____________________________________________________________________________
Build up contracts, financing, budgeting. _____________________________________________________________________________