Year 9 Media Studies

A reminder that your deadline for your practical production work is this week. Your teacher will expect you to print out your final poster and your research powerpoint to put in your media assessment folder. Year 9 making media assessment from Mrs Downie

Look at these typical Action Adventure posters that are using all of the conventions of the genre. They are designed to appeal to different target audiences depending on which character appears on the poster. As this is a family film, the target audience varies across genders, age and demographics. Task: You are going to put your own original Action Adventure Film Poster up against a professional poster to evaluate how close your creation is to a real product. Paste them into a landscape Word document. You need to label both the professional poster (you can use one of the images above) and your own with the following: Media Conventions - label all of the elements you would expect to find on a film poster on both the professional poster and you own Action Adventure - label anything that implies the film narrative or genre (look closely at the images and slogan) Media Representation and Audience - using labels, comment on the target audience of the film and your own, ...

Over the next term you need to complete the following work as part of your Production Portfolio: ALL  YOUR RESEARCH WORK NEEDS TO BE PRESENTED VIA A POWERPOINT. YOU MUST EXPLAIN EVER RESEARCH DECISION. TODAY YOU MUST ANSWER ALL THE REFLECTION QUESTIONS Finish the research tasks Decide on the sort of action adventure film you will be making the poster for REFLECTION QUESTION: Why have you chosen this genre/style of film (consider popularity, storylines, action sequence, special effects, star names, awards etc)? What appeals to you about your chosen genre? Which actors do we associate with your genre? Choose a suitable title for your film REFLECTION QUESTION: Is the title of you film similar to any existing films? If so which ones and why? if not, why not?  Decided on a tagline for your title REFLECTION QUESTION: How effective is your tagline? Does your tagline pose a question for the reader? Does it hint at key plot events? Does it mention the star? Write a brief plo...