Synoptic - proving a point

What is The Male Gaze (what's it about?)

What are the traditional expectations of Men and Women roles in a film - what are men there do in a film compared to women?

What is genre and why do we have/use it?

How do we know what genre a media text is? What do we recognise?

What needs to be in the opening of a Thriller to keep the audience watching - usually in the form of a question?

Rocky vs Mr T - what roles do they play and why do you need them in a story?

Does the Media re-present reality anymore? What idea do we link to this?

If everything has been done, how do Media producers (film, games, music, etc) create new texts/ideas?

What are the 3 stages of a story?

What happened to the Vampire sub-genre of Horror between these films? What does this show about genre?

Time Essay Skills & Theory Revision

Starter: http://youtu.be/47gd_wfsN78?t=2h2m58s 

"The Media exists not to entertain or inform but to pacify and indoctrinate towards conformity"

 

What points can you find to support or challenge this?

Use the images below to generate ideas

 

http://www.online-stopwatch.com/full-screen-interval-timer/?c=wi5mcapdlt

 

The skill you have to develop:

Main Body: Go through each theory, in 5 minutes Pre-prepare your examples and points you wish to make.

How? Rewrite the question into something that you have an opinion on.

Point - a conventional idea about N/G/R/A/ML applied to YOUR work

Evidence/Example - from your production ie back up what you have said applies

Analysis - does it challenge or follow these theories and why/how?

Synthesis - Why does your production follow traditional ideas or not - answer the question?

Task: Practice

Lets try the skill in getting ideas out quickly and following structure

Look at the following provocative statement:

"Education exists to train into an acceptance of the way things are, to socialise and indoctrinate towards conformity in the interests of the ruling elite"

http://youtu.be/47gd_wfsN78?t=51m48s

Give me 1 point that challenges or reenforces this position, with an example from your own experiences of going through GCSE and A Level. Analyse your example to give a reason of how it does this?

You have 5 mins... 

Media Language Essay Plan