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Coursework: Preliminary exercise 2025

  Coursework: Preliminary exercise 2025 1) State the  song  you have chosen for your preliminary exercise.  For my song I will be using runaway by Kanye West 2) Choose at least  three  music videos similar to your concept and watch a clip or more from each. Make  bullet-point notes  on everything you watch, commenting on camerawork, editing and mise-en-scene. Dave – “Streatham” (2019) Camera Work Frequent use of tracking shots following Dave around his neighborhood. Handheld feel gives it a documentary/raw realism vibe. Low angle shots emphasize power but also ground him in his environment. Mise-en-Scène Filmed directly in Streatham, South London :barber shops, chicken spots, council estates. Everyday people and friends appear, creating authenticity. Grey skies and tones match the track’s gritty vibe. Editing Cuts between different neighbourhood spots to show a panoramic portrait of his area. Fairly slow pacing lets shots breathe rather than...
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Coursework: Ignite presentation learner response

  Coursework: Ignite presentation learner response There have been some   excellent  Ignite presentations with some brilliantly creative responses to the coursework brief.  Hopefully, the presentations and Q&A sessions that followed have highlighted the strengths and weaknesses of your coursework proposal and may indeed have prompted re-drafts of your statement of intent.  Your learner response is as follows and will take some time to do properly: Create a new blogpost called 'Ignite presentation learner response' 1) Type up your feedback  in full  including the ratings out of five for each of the categories.  WWW: Good slides, research concepts and close use of media language Well structured research , references to representation. Audience theory used+ audience pleasures. Ebi: Look at audience. need more content, better rehearsal for timing. Images need to be more relevant e.g mise en scene. 4 3 3 3 2 =18/30 2) Use this feedback, comments fr...
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Summer project tasks

  Summer project tasks https://docs.google.com/document/d/14GARtFSveTnStO7ff4Xj-TZjFLQI_6I8vNReeX4efUg/edit?usp=drivesdk  tiktok links  Complete the following tasks on a blogpost on your  coursework  blog called ' Summer Project: coursework planning ':  1) Research: TikTok videos You need to write a  150-word close-textual analysis  of  SIX  TikTok videos that will inform your production work. The TikTok videos you analyse are up to you but focus on a different aspect of media language for each one (see guidance below).   TikTok videos TikTok Video 1: Narrative  https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNdqn5RNY/ This TikTok uses a clear narrative structure to parody epic storytelling within a gaming context. It begins with a classic equilibrium (two brothers loyal to the King), before introducing disruption (disequilibrium)   through their doubts and eventual mistakes, reflecting Todorov’s narrative theory. The moment of the st...
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TV assessment learner response

  Your learner response is as follows: Create a new blog post called ' TV assessment learner response ' and complete the following tasks on your  coursework blog : TV assessment learner response 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: Some excellent and very well expressed writing EBI: Need to have a fully developed answer, especially with more examples from Deutschland 83 Question 1: EBI: Explain key terms more fully 2) Read the whole mark scheme for this assessment carefully. Identify at least one potential point that you missed out on for each question in the assessment (even if you got full marks for the question). Question 1: I could have explained postmodern terms like intertextuality more clearly and given a better example from the set text. Question 2: I needed to include more examples from Deutschland 83 and explain the context more clearly. Question 3: I could have added more...
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