Diary (Weekly Progress) [TERM 2]

AS Media Studies - Weekly Progress [TERM 2]
> Blog is written by me (Sharon)

WEEK 1 (3rd Oct 2022)

• M1: Section A practice (Movie: The Queen's Gambit) and chose a group for the radio project
• M2: Positive and negative representations in media
• M3: Representation theory (Stuart Hall) and connotation of different representations
• M4: Psychographics and demographics, radio project discussion and setting up a survey for further analysis and research of radios

WEEK 2 (10th Oct 2022)

• M1: Introduction to a new editing technique, "jump cuts" and filmed a short clip applying the editing technique (due on the 17th)
• M2: Discussion on representations we should be aware of (gender, sexuality, LGBT, race, age, social class, place, etc.), along with a group discussion towards a designated representation, where my group did representations on social class
• M3: Class discussion on stereotypes, analysing stereotypes in "When They See Us", passive (desensitization, Hypodermic Needle Theory) and active (Reception Theory (Stuart Hall)) audiences. Lastly, an introduction to the audience theory (Cultivation Theory (George Gerbner))
• M4: Analysis of Radio X's "Who Are You?" series and continuation of the radio project: psychographics, breakdown of the radio project, concept, as well as the name

WEEK 3 (17th Oct 2022)

• M1: Binary Opposites - Levis Strauss and Barthes' 5 Narrative Codes
• M2: "What We Do In The Shadows" analysis + application on Binary Opposites and the 5 Narrative Codes
• M3: Identities - David Gauntlett, cultural + personal identity
• M4: Finalising the radio project's timeline + script and worked on the audio recording (script intro) (trial and error), along with experiments on sounds/jingles in BandLab
  
  

WEEK 4 (24th Oct 2022)

• M1: "Stranger Things" movie analysis
• M2: News values
• M3: *PUBLIC HOLIDAY*
• M4: Radio room (introduction to radio equipment + tutorial)
  
  

WEEK 5 (31st Oct 2022)

• M1: "Top Boy" movie analysis
• M2: New Media
• M3: "Inside Man" movie analysis
• M4: Radio logo research design, sketching (trial-error)
  

WEEK 6 (7th Nov 2022)

• M1: Netflix's interactive show "You vs. Wild"
• M2: Unit Test - Camera angles + movements
• M3: Section B practice
• M4: *NO LESSONS*

WEEK 7 (14th Nov 2022)

• M1: Case study research for the question "To what extent is profit more important than creativity to media companies?" (essay to be written in M2)
• M2: Section B practice (essay)
• M3: Introduction to the self-report to be made for the radio project, Mr Nick's feedback (re-record as there is some interference in the background of the recording), blog organisation (making sections for projects (radio)), continuation on blog posts (completing the to-do list requirements for the radio project)
• M4: Continuation on the radio project: discussions on how we can re-record the audio

WEEK 8 (21st Nov 2022)

• M1: Practice planning Section B questions
• M2: Introduction to Component 1 (film intro/magazine)
• M3: "How does the media target, build, and maintain audiences?" through lessons of genre, demographics, agenda setting, as well as intertextuality
• M4: Radio project > re-organizing our blogs in a specific order, how to source the songs used, writing a brief, feedback on blog posts, team photo, embedding our presentation (self-reflection)