Postmodernism - LOM Video

Generic Signifiers - The Bridge

Recurring Situations - Murder and attempted murder/ Terrorist plot/ Countdown to destruction/ Examining CCTV footage Police car chase/ Photofit/ Timely rescue Car search/ Clear the building / Confronting the suspect. Detective stands alone. Elements of the Narrative - Investigative narrative Clear disruption of equilibrium (Todorov) Closure of some narrative strands with some resolution Surreal elements (Martin’s vision of Jens) Driven by binary opposites e.g. cops v criminals, personal v professional Style - Chiaroscuro lighting – effect of duality or bars (imprisonment). Low key. Closed frames - entrapment Desaturated/grey/khaki colour palette – bleak Soundtrack – eerie, echoing. Windows and reflections – themes of appearance v reality Iconography - Police uniforms, cars, flashing lights and sirens Technology- PCs/mobile phones/ evidence bags Clues (e.g. lapel pin)/ handcuffs/ poison / gun / alibis – dates, times/jargon Setting...

Research in the Key Concepts of Media Studies

Initially there are 4 Key Concepts of Media Studies, they are: Audience Institution Language Representation Component 1 is focused in 3 different Sections. Section A of Component 1 will assess the analysis of Media Language and Representation. It will consist of assessing with relation to two of the following aspects: Advertising, Marketing, Music Videos or Newspapers. The choice will be made at random which means there will not be any guaranteed aspect to analyse. There will be 2 questions in this section: One assessing Media Language in audio-visual or print resource, whereas the second one will be extended response comparison question assessing Representation in one set product and in an audio-visual or print resource. Section B will be slightly easier than Section A, it will assess the same aspects plus video games, radio - and Media Concepts. It will include two questions: One stepped question at Media Industries and another at Media Audiences. Component 2 will assess all ...

Modernism x Postmodernism, The Conventions

Modernism Postmodernism Adheres to Western hegemonic values Contests Western hegemonic values Focus on the writer Focus on the reader Focus on interiority Focus on exteriority Alienation Collective voices Unreliable narrator Ironic narrator Rejection of realism Ambivalence towards realism Literature is self-contained Literature is open and intertextual High-brow genres Mixing of high- and low-brow genres Rejection of literary conventions Parody of literary conventions Metafictional Metafictional Idiosyncratic language Simple language

AS Media - Daniel

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