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Narrative conventions question
Narratives are made using roles, codes, oppositions, conventions and
structures. With reference to one or more from the list above, explain narrative in a
media text you have studied.
Misquoting film classic lines
Nobody puts Babybel in a korma.
I have always depended on the kindness of stranglers.
Houston, we have a problem. / Have you tried turning it off and on again?
Yippie Kai Yay, Mother Theresa.
Frankly, my dear, I don’t Instagram.
Do you know what films they are incorrectly quoting?
How’s the studying going? English tomorrow. Whoop!
Institution
Making a media text is a very complicated process. In a media text you have studied explain how at least two institutional factors have affected this text. 6
Behind the scenes X Factor final
Behind the scenes
Key Aspects of Media Literacy – reminder
1. Categories: how texts are classified which include:
Medium – television
Purpose – persuade, entertain, make a profit
Form – drama, light entertainment, series
Genre – soap opera, talent show, constructed reality.
2. Language: how the media creates meanings through the use of conventions. There are two main kinds:
technical (eg: camera angle, editing, lighting, sound)
cultural/symbolic (eg: dress, gesture, accent).
3. Narrative. Conventions of a soap involves the plot line detail of characters, setting and action as well as Structure – the organisation of the sequence (normality/disruption/new normality; single or multiple storylines; happy endings; cliffhangers)
4. Representation: how media texts represent places, people, events or ideas. Stereotypes/non-stereotypes.
5. Audiences: how the audiences are identified and addressed (target audience (specify), different audience reaction).
6. Institutions: how the production of the media output is organised and financed (type of production company, effects of finance).
7. Technology: how media products are created and distributed to the audience. Technological issues are not dealt with as separate but described when appropriate.
What kind of text is it? (Categories)
What does the text mean and how do I know this? (Language)
What story does the text tell? (Narrative)
Who is the text aimed at and what do they think of it? (Audiences)
How does the text present its subject? (Representations)
Who made the text and why? (Institutions)
How was it made and distributed? (Technologies)
Who is making this text and why? (Institutions)
Who is the text aimed at and how should they react? (Audiences)
What kind of text are they making? (Categories)
What is the subject and how do they present it? (Representations)
What story should it tell and how do they tell it? (Narrative)
What should it mean and how do they convey these meanings? (Languages)
How do they make and distribute it? (Technologies)
Purpose
What is the purpose of your chosen media text – to inform, to educate, to entertain, to persuade, to make a profit? Choose any two and describe what is included in the text that illustrates its purpose.
http://www.thedrum.com/news/2013/09/11/x-factor-signs-second-product-placement-deal-samsung
You could also look up GoggleBox X Factor to gauge audience reaction to Sam Bailey but remember this programme goes out after the watershed and the language/comments are more adult than those shown on the X-Factor which is pre-watershed.
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/soaps/s13/hollyoaks/news/a384634/hollyoaks-signs-nokia-product-placement-deal.html
Award ceremony winner 2013
| 2013 | Sexiest Male | Danny Mac | Won |
| Best Actress | Claire Cooper | Won | |
| Spectacular Scene of the Year | The Bus Crash | Won | |
| Best On Screen Partnership | Emmett J. Scanlan and Kieron Richardson | Won | |
| Best Newcomer | Joseph Thompson | Won |
Setting up the shots
This webpage will take you to all the preparations needed for something that will last no more than a few minute on screen.
The pictures have been taken by someone who lives nearby so the comments he made are not particularly relevant and you’ll need to be a redditor to get some of them.
Look at the costumes, mise en scene, camera tracks, lighting and camera rigs, crew…
More about the film here:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2554274/?ref_=nm_flmg_prd_3
Narrative Structure question 1
What has been included in the narrative structure of your professionally produced media text which would make it appeal to a particular audience? (Audience should be specifically defined in terms of gender, age, special interest or ABC1/C2DE characteristics)
