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  WWW:  Your fruit bowl shows technical skills in Photoshop. We now need to make sure we match that technical skill with ensuring all homework, blog work and analytical tasks are completed in detail.  EBI:  You are missing a few blog tasks which have been set for homework. Please ensure you are using all lesson time when we are on blogs to be productive and complete work as soon as possible. Please complete the following blog work: Camerawork – Doctor Who Camera movement and editing – Minority Report Blog index so far 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: 1. What do you feel is your strongest piece of work so far? Fruit bowl 2. What is your weakest? Denotation & Connotation 3. What specific skills or knowledge do you need to develop over the rest of the course? i  need to improve my wrtin...

  1) What is a  conglomerate  in the media industries?  . Conglomerate  a very large organisation that owns different types of media company  2) What is a  subsidiary ? . A company within a conglomerate that has many smaller companies 3) What are the benefits for media companies of  vertical integration ? . Vertical integration is when one conglomerate owns different companies in the same chain of production. 4) What are the benefits for media companies of  horizontal integration ? . Horizontal integration is when one company buys other companies at the same level of distribution. 5) Give  three  examples of media companies or brands that have used  synergy  to maximise their profits. There are examples in the notes above to help you. 6) What is  convergence  and what device has changed the relationship between audiences and producers?  Technological convergence refers to the fact we can now access all diffe...

  1) Type up your feedback in  full  (you don't need to write the mark and grade if you want to keep this confidential). .WWW: A good assessment ,Maen! you are able to apply denotation to the unseen media product. Able to consider camera shot and mis-en-scene for the WaterAid advert  EBI: More examples of how the Heat advert use connotations . Consider giving exanples for how the water Aid advert incudes mise-en-scene to communicate to their audience   2) Read  the mark scheme for this assessment  carefully. Write down the mark you achieved for each question:  Q1: 1 Q2: 1 Q3: 4 Q4: 2 Q5: 3 Q6: 3 3) Identify one of your  stronger  questions. Why did you do better on this question? Use the mark scheme to help you with this. I answered  questions 4 well  because I mentioned the  background I seed the wall looks like mud which suggests poverty  4) Identify one of your  weaker  questions. Why did you score l...

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= The  Medium close up at 0:17 shows a man and a woman looking straight  from just above the head to just below the chest. This is used to show the characters emotions  when they are speaking to the other characters .    close up = close up it shows the characters facial expressions and allows audience to see the to see the character emotions and reaction. high shot = he is looking the rocket because it taking if the plan working and he is really happy that it working 2) Pick  one  camera  angle  that is used in the scene and explain the effect it has on the audience.  on this low angle makes subject look big and powerful the audience see the character as in control of what's happening 3) Pick one aspect of  mise-en-scene  from the scene...

  1) Choose   THREE  aspects of mise-en-scene (e.g. costume, lighting and setting) and write a short paragraph for   each  about the   denotation  and  connotation  and what is communicated to the audience. For example:  Costume: The character at the start is wearing a white lab coat. This suggests to the audience. Lighting:  the light was dark and flashy  Setting: it was in a house and in basement and it was in forces  Props:  board game hats food 

  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