Press Regulation Essay Plan

Prepare an essay plan for the following question;

Assess the arguments for the regulation of the press in 2016.

You should have examples and arguments that support and argue against increased press regulation, n, for and against statutory and self regulation.

There are *lots* of examples on google classroom, and on this blog below, to help you prepare for the question.

Leveson and beyond

Phone hacking, the PCC, Leveson and beyond.

Nick Davies, Phone Hacking, and Rupert Murdoch. 

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LEVESON

• Leveson Report: At a glance: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20543133
• Leveson Inquiry: The Key Findings https://www.theguardian.com/media/2012/nov/29/leveson-report-key-points
• Press Regulation Q&A: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21797513

1. What was the Leveson Inquiry?
2. Why did it take place?
3. When did it take place?
4. What did it recommend?

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Regulation in 2016:

Read these current press regulation stories: https://www.theguardian.com/media/press-regulation

5 - Summarise a story about press regulation today. What are the issues today around regulating the press? 

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Classwork and homework for 10th October - Mrs Hafenrichter

Professor Martin Barker Media Mag Questions

In class we watched the MediaMag videos of professor Martin Barker here; https://www.englishandmedia.co.uk/media-magazine/mmag-clips/professor-martin-barker

You will need to login to watch these clips: Use the school's Media Mag login;
Username: opmedia
Password: ops2016

We then answered the questions on this google doc;

Could you ensure you have answers to the questions and extension questions, along with a definition of cultivation theory on your exam blog by next week.

- Mr Lane

Tick sheet for Coursework Research and Planning A2

1. Analyse AT LEAST 5 videos in your chosen music genre and embed the YouTube videos onto your blog to gain maximum marks.
2. Upload images and analysis of location, costume, props etc
3. Make sure you have a photo storyboard/drawn storyboard/animatic plus analysis INCLUDING changes made and why
4. Include an audience questionnaire about audience expectations of videos in your chosen genre - embed the Survey Monkey link
5. Lyrics analysis with initial ideas (include shot types and possible edits you intend to use).
6. Research of music video directors - eg. David Fincher - with conventions they use in their work
7. Research into websites and digipacks - put the analysis of the Kanye West Rolling Stone cover in with this - Link to artist research examples here 
8. Images and analysis of 2 music magazine adverts for a forthcoming tour of an artist like yours
9. Theory posts - Andrew Goodwin, Tori Kelly, Facial expressions, Laura Mulvey
10. Your final pitch: Make sure you have a narrative analysis of your planned pitch
11. Embed rough cuts of your work with feedback from public and changes made

The BBFC

THIS IS NOW HOMEWORK TOO

I need you to summarise and create a post on all our work on the BBFC.

USE THIS WEBSITE FIRST: http://www.bbfc.co.uk/education-resources 

1) A brief history of the BBFC - how it was founded, how it's role has changed.
2) What case studies (key films or events) have caused these changes at the BBFC?
3) What the key pieces of legislation are that govern how the BBFC works as a regulator.
4) How the BBFC is different today than it was at other times in it's history.
5) How does the BBFC classify and rate films today? (What are the certificates and what is allowed in each)
6) What challenges the BBFC has going forwards, how it's role has changed?

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Further reading: 

http://www.bbfc.co.uk/case-studies <- BBFC's most controversial or interesting decisions. 

http://www.bbfc.co.uk/education-resources/student-guide/legislation

- What allows the BBFC to licence films for the public?

- What legislation does the BBFC use when classifying films?

- What does the Obscene Publications Act say?

- What does the Video Recording Act say?

- Why was the Video Recording Act changed via the criminal justice and public order act? 

? When was it changed and how was it changed?

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THE VIDEO NASTIES

What were the Video Nasties? Why were they an issue for The BBFC?

http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/591919/

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/film-censorship-how-moral-panic-led-to-a-mass-ban-of-video-nasties-9600998.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_nasty

http://www.bbfc.co.uk/education-resources/education-news/video-nasties

http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/15968/the-era-of-the-video-nasty

http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/445733/index.html

Here is a link to some of the BBFC's most interesting or controversial decisions:

http://www.bbfc.co.uk/case-studies 

Regulatory Bodies Research Homework

For your homework you need to find out who the following REGULATORY BODIES are, what industries they relegate, and how they regulate them. Put the information on your blog by Tuesday (13Z & 13V)

 

1. BBFC  
2. OFCOM  
3. IPSO
4. IMPRESS
5. ASA
6. VSC
7. BBC TRUST

Genre Research

This is your homework - to be completed by Monday 18th/Tuesday 19th July

WHAT MAKES A ______ VIDEO? 

(Eg. What makes a pop video)

•Choose a particular genre

•Find 5 artists from that genre

•Look at their music videos and try to find links and conventions that videos from that genre have. (Such as Pop Videos featuring a certain number of costume changes / Rock videos often focusing on the performance of the individual band members.)

•Also note whether they are a solo artist or a band (and how they show this in their videos)

•Look for technical codes such as;

–Whip Pans, Crash Zooms, Jump Cuts, Close Ups, Slow Motion, Cross Cutting, Props, Costumes

•And look for narrative & genre codes such as

–Theme, Storyline, Characters, Use of artist as character, Goodwin’s theories, Atmosphere, Tone, Concept, Relationship between lyric and visuals.

Narrative Theory - to help with your exam response

Click on the link below and summarise the points made on your blog by answering these 4 questions.

What is the difference between story and narrative?

What does Aristotle say about the relationship between "action" and "character"?

What do you understand by Christian Metz's point that in narratives we should consider "the time of the thing told and the time of the telling"?

Give some examples of devices to manipulate time used by filmmakers.

NARRATIVE THEORY

Vladimir Propp - Narrative Theory

Using the powerpoint attached apply Propp's theory to a film, television show or video game of your choice.

Vladimir Propp's Theory

YOUR TASK:

See how many of the 8 character types and how many of Propp's NARRATEMES (there are 31 in total) you can identify in the media product you chose.

Propp's 31 Narratemes

Andrew Goodwin

Find examples from music videos to illustrate all of Andrew Goodwin's theories.

Post these on your Coursework Blog G324.

Powerpoint on Goodwin's Theories

Types of music videos: - Homework

Your homework task is to; 

Using your class notes, write up a detailed explanation of what the following types of music videos are, on your coursework blog.

1) Performance
2) Narrative 
3) Conceptual 

For each type you need to find 2 examples (we haven't seen in class) that fit, or partially fit, this definition. 

Due Monday (12V) / Tuesday (12Z)

Here are some for reference; 

PERFORMANCE: 

 

NARRATIVE







CONCEPTUAL

Exam questions 1a and !b - Examplars and Mark Schemes

Click on the link below for exemplars for a variety of questions.

Good luck!

Mrs H

EXEMPLAR ANSWERS AND LEVELS

CLASSWORK AND REVISION FOR FRIDAY 29TH APRIL

Hi,

In preparation for next week's mock RESEARCH the theories of these leading music video theorists.

Bullet point the essential points of their theory and post examples FROM YOUR OWN WORK to exemplify them.

Sven E Carlsson - see revision notes post below for a link to this theory
Michael Shore
Steve Archer
John Stewart

and
Laura Mulvey (not a music video theorist but should be considered if you have featured women)

BE PREPARED TO DISCUSS THESE THEORIES IN YOUR NEXT MEDIA LESSON.

REVISION NOTES FOR QUESTION 1B EXAM

If you want to write about your music video for this question then you need to revise Andrew Goodwin.  As he talks mainly about what makes music video a particular art form you can use his 5 categories to discuss theories of Audience, Representation, Genre, Narrative and Media Language.

Make notes on your blog using the 6 bullet points below with SPECIFIC EXAMPLES from your own work to match each category.

ANDREW GOODWIN'S THEORY

1. Music videos represent Genre characteristics: a rock band should be performing in the music video - how did you do this?
2. Relationship between and visual and lyrics: what is being said is being literally or metaphorically represented visually in a specific camera shot
3. Relationship between music and visuals: shots change in synch with drum beats
4. Record company’s demands: close up of artist, star image.
5. Voyeurism and the notion of looking: any explicit references to this in the mise-en-scene?
6. Intertextual reference: any implicit representations in your video to other texts?  Link this to your audience.

OTHER MUSIC VIDEO THEORISTS WHICH YOU CAN USE.

Make notes on Sven E Carlsson's theory summarised below (it's a little like Levi Strauss!)

What is music video? Sven E Carlsson's theory summarised

HOMEWORK - Complete Question 1B - Media Language using Andrew Goodwin and others

Make sure you complete your Media Language essay on your blog this week.
When writing about your music video you are best to start with a Goodwin quote - see above.

Now try to find examples from your work to exemplify his theories.

Use my Revision sheet to add in more theorists such as Rick Altman and Steve Neale's ideas on Genre; Blulmer and Katz's Uses and Gratifications for the Audience; Roland Barthes' Myths and Levi Strauss' ideas on Binary Oppositions.

See below for some more help on Blulmer and Katz.

Essay Planning for Collective Identity

Every single essay you do for the collective identity question will require you to be able to explain how the collective identity for a group (Teenagers and Young People) is portrayed (and created) by the mainstream media today.

In other words, you will need to be able to say how young people are depicted on TV, in films and in the news.

You can then use these depictions to answer whatever question you've been asked. But you must have the examples (from two different media) for every question.

YOU NEED TO PREPARE 500 WORDS ON...

What is the depiction of young people and teenagers by the mainstream media today.

- Attack The Block

- Newspapers & TV News

- Your own examples (eg. The Inbetweeners Movie / Misfits / Bad Education)

PLAN:

- Define the stereotypical view on teenagers in the media; (antisocial, violent, apathetic, alienated) 

- Give an exemplar text that supports this. (Such as Attack the Block)

- Give specific examples from the text that support this view (or contradict it) 

- Give another exemplar text that supports this, from a different media industry. 

- Give specific examples from this text that support this view (or contradict it) 

- Explain how both texts depict identity in the same way. 

then....

YOU NEED TO PREPARE another) 500 WORDS ON...

What was the historical depiction of young people and teenagers by the mainstream media? 

- Daily Mirror "Wild Ones Invade Seaside" - 1964

- Cohen - Folk Devils & Moral Panics

- Your own examples (Quadrophenia, West Side Story, Moral Panics, etc.) 

PLAN: 

- Give an exemplar text that depicts the collective identity of young people in a way. (Such as the Daily Mirror article)

- State how the identity is being portrayed (mediated) by the text - e.g. "Wild Ones / Dangerous" 

- Give specific examples from the text. 
- Is this depiction different or similar from that of today? 


EXTRA READING AND INFORMATION:

• A good starting point for this area of the question is Jon Savage's Teenage: The Creation of Youth and the documentary film made from it. Which you can find out about here: http://www.teenagefilm.com

• Also Andrew Miller's speaker notes from the BFI Media Studies Conference 2015 

• This exam guide esource about implications and effects  http://collectiveidentity.posthaven.com/what-are-the-social-implications-of-different
• Why the coverage of the London Riots was disgraceful
• Why are there no young positive black British role models in the media?
• How the media demonises teenagers
• Youth Culture and crime, what can we learn from History?
• Report on how young black men are portrayed by the media. 

Genre Theory Essay - Homework

Please upload your answer to Question 1b to your blog.

You were asked to apply theories of Genre to your AS film opening, using the essay structure and revision sheet which I gave out in class.

TIP: Remember, Genre is often a vague term with no fixed boundaries, and many films also cross into multiple genres.

Recently, film theorist Robert Stam challenged whether genres really exist, or whether they are merely made up by critics. Stam has questioned whether "genres [are] really 'out there' in the world or are they really the construction of analysts?".   Think about whether your film can be placed in a different genre depending on storyline (eg. war film), budget (blockbuster), location (the Western), artistic status (the art film) or even performer.....see below.

Effects of the construction and portrayal of teen identity by the mainstream media

Here is the documentary we watched on 'Teen Trouble' 

You need to find at least three examples of newspaper stories, articles, tv programmes, or films that;

- Create a negative, or stereotypical identity of teenagers
- Use emotive, hysterical, selective, or exaggerated media language to create this identity (mediate it)
- Explain how these examples of media language create, reinforce stereotypes.\
- Think of how these examples could affect;

• Adults and mainstream society 
• Teenagers and adolescents 

Put these on your blog and be prepared to explain them to the class next double lesson.

- Mr Lane

Year 13 - Christmas Revision Homework

Question 1a: Update your blog on how you have IMPROVED in terms of CREATIVITY, RESEARCH AND PLANNING and USING CONVENTIONS OF REAL MEDIA TEXTS in preparation for your mock in January.


Question 1b: Revise Narrative for your mock exam in January.