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January 26, 2025

2) Mise-en-scene analysis blog tasks
3) Mise-en-scene video recreation and learner response
4) Lighting analysis blog tasks
5) Sound analysis blog tasks

6) Sound: parallel and contrapuntal video feedback and learner response

7) Cinematography analysis tasks

8) Cinematography video feedback and learner response
9) Editing video task and learner response
10) Editing blog task - 750 word analysis

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Summer Project: Coursework planning

July 13, 2025

Summer project tasks Complete the following tasks on a blogpost on your coursework blog called ' Summer Project: coursework planning ': 1) Research: TikTok videos You need to write a 150-word close-textual analysis of SIX TikTok videos that will inform your production work. The TikTok videos you analyse are up to you but focus on a different aspect of media language for each one (see guidance below). TikTok videos TikTok Video 1: Narrative How is narrative used in the TikTok video and what impact does this have on the audience? Can you apply any narrative theories to the story in the TikTok video? Lyric video This tiktok video is an over exaggerated lip sync to the song ‘That’s what I like’ by bruno mars. Narrative is used in this through the typography on the screen going along with the song in all caps to emphasise the intensity and emotion behind the original song and currently played verse. The effect it has on the...

Lighting

October 07, 2024

Photo 1 -uses lowkey lighting -uses top lighting on the left to create a shadow on the right -it accentuates her face structure to show she may be a femme fatale as she's holding a cigarette, connoting she is evil or "bad" Photo 2 - high-key lighting - top lighting -creates an effect of power and him being superior -warrior like - top lights makes some shadows under his eyes to make them darker to show he is tough Photo 3 - lowkey lighting - top lighting -creates an effect of superiority and power as he is presented as a strong being and the use of a lower angle helps to identify his power and look more intimidating Photo 4 - lowkey lighting - under lighting -a shadow is created by putting the light on the left side of her which creates an enigma code because she's hiding from something o...

Deutschland 83: Case study

March 09, 2025

Introduction: Reviews and features Read the following reviews and features on Deutschland 83 : The Guardian - Your next box set: Deutschland 83 The Guardian - Deutschland 83 Pity the Germans don't like it 1) Find one positive aspect and one criticism of Deutschland 83 in the reviews. Negative: it had shed half its starting audience, with only 1.72m viewers. Not quite “the flop of the year”, as Bild called it, but underwhelming nonetheless. Positive: It's a perfect moment in a near-perfect series. 2) Why does the second Guardian article suggest the Germans didn't like the show? By focusing the story around Martin Rauch, a young East German border guard going undercover in the west, it doesn’t just make the viewer empathise with a Stasi agent on a human level , instead it makes us engage with the socialist regime’s worldview, in which a military exercise in West Germany poses a potentially existential threat. 3) Find three 'below the line' comments fro...