575. dvd cover dimensions

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565. Final cut pro free plugins and tutorials

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558. Why you should log shots – and downloadable shotlog

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520. Film viewing – Audience Feedback Questionnaire

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512. The Parts of a newspaper. Parts of a magazine

Parts of a Newspaper
Layout, typical features and technical terms Some or all of these may be found on the front pages of newspapers.

! Box-out – A small part of the page, shaded in a different colour.

! By-line – the name of the reporter, if they are important is often included at the beginning of the feature, rather than at the end, or not at all.

! Caption – typed text under photographs explaining the image.

! Credits – the author of a feature may be given credit in the form of a beeline. Photographs may have the name of the person who took them or the agency that supplied them alongside them.

! Crosshead – this is a subheading that appears in the body of the text and is centred above the column of text. If it is se to one side then it is called a side-head.

! Exclusive – this means that newspaper and no one else solely cover the story. The paper will pay their interviewees, buying the story so it cannot be used by another paper.

! Feature – not necessarily a ‘news’ item (current affairs), but usually with a human-interest angle presented as a spread.

! Headline – this is the main statement, usually in the largest and boldest font, describing the main story. A banner headline spans the full width of the page.

! Kicker – this is a story designed to stand out from the rest of the page by the use of a different font (typeface) and layout.

! Lead Story – the main story on the front page, usually a splash.

! Lure – a word or phrase directing the reader to look inside the paper at a particular story or feature.

! Masthead – the masthead is the title block or logo identifying the newspaper at the top of the front-page. Sometimes an emblem or a motto is also placed within the masthead. The masthead is often set into a block of black or red print or boxed with a border; the ‘Red-tops’ (The Sun, The Mirror, The News of the World) are categorised by style and the use of a red background in the masthead.

! Menu – the list of contents inside the paper.

! Pugs – these are at the top left and right-hand corners of the paper and are known as the ‘ears’ of the page. The prices of the paper, the logo or a promotion are positioned there. They are well placed to catch the reader’s eye.

! Secondary Lead – this is usually only a picture and headline, it gives a sneak preview of a story that you might find inside the paper.

! Sidebar – when a main feature has an additional box or tinted panel along side of it.

! Splash – the splash is the main story on the front of the paper. The largest headline will accompany this, along with a photograph.

! Spread – a story that covers more than one page.

! Standfirst – this is an introductory paragraph before the start of the feature. Sometimes it may be in bold.

! Strapline – this is an introductory headline below the headline.

! Tag – a word or phrase used to engage a reader’s interest in a story by categorising it e.g. ‘Exclusive’, ‘Sensational’.

!Tip-on. a promotional item, such as a magnet or game piece, affixed to the cover of a publication.

462. Media terms for revision

AUDIENCE
http://www.robertsmyth.co.uk/media/audience.htm
http://www.stevewlb.zen.co.uk/Frame.htm
http://www.mediaknowall.com/alevkeyconcepts/audience.html
http://www.mediaed.org.uk/posted_documents/Audience.html

INSTITUTION

http://www.robertsmyth.co.uk/media/institution.htm
http://www.mediaknowall.com/alevkeyconcepts/Institution.html

GENRE
http://www.robertsmyth.co.uk/media/genre.htm
http://www.mediaknowall.com/alevkeyconcepts/genre.html

REPRESENTATION

http://www.robertsmyth.co.uk/media/representation.htm
http://www.mediaknowall.com/alevkeyconcepts/representation.html
http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Modules/MC30820/represent.html

NARRATIVE

http://www.robertsmyth.co.uk/media/narrative.html
http://www.mediaknowall.com/alevkeyconcepts/narrative.html

SEMIOTICS
http://www.robertsmyth.co.uk/media/semiotics.htm

IDEOLOGY
http://www.mediaknowall.com/alevkeyconcepts/ideology.html

406. List of free sound effects and free music sites

try soungle

freeplaymusic for something different

creative commons site
Free Sound Effects from PartnersInRhyme.com

This is a great site but check carefully because it sells sounds as well as offering others for free.
http://derekaudette.ottawaarts.com/

http://www.acoustica.com/sounds.htm

http://www.alcljudprod.se/english/ljud.php

http://www.freesound.org/index.php

brilliant, but you need to set up an account and log in to download

http://www.ljudo.com/default.asp?lang=tEnglish&do=it

http://www.jamendo.com/en

373. Writing up your coursework

Write up guidelines

Critical evaluation has an introduction and three parts. In the introduction, you must outline exactly what you did for your AS production.

Part 1 (1,000 words max) – Pre construction and construction

In this part you need to outline your brief, briefly how you researched it and the stages and decisions you made in the construction stage.

Include:

• Folder of research
• Flat plans, storyboards, rough sketches
• Printouts you made of previous versions of final product

Part 2 (1,000 words max) – Post construction evaluation of the product and how it works

In this section you analyse the finished product. This means you must explain how the decisions and revisions you made affected the form of your work and why you made these decisions in relation to the audience e.g. ‘I changed x because it looked too childish and I knew my main audience would be women aged 30-40’.

Next, answer how your product makes meaning – what do the elements of the work signify to the audience?

Wherever possible, relate to critical theory from the course e.g. genre, audience effects, narrative, media language (feminist, Marxist, close-up, POV, hybridity, intertextuality) Remember this is synoptic.

Part 3 (1,000 words max) – Evaluation of the product with direct relation to the audience

In this section you must explain how your text fits in with the wider context of media institutions and audiences. This means you must compare your product with real media output of a similar nature. Direct comparisons to actual texts and real institutions (BBC, magazine producers) are vital.

You must analyse how well you think your product would work with the audience – you should include any comments you have had from audiences you have tried your product on. Remember evaluation is how well or effective this part is (e.g. colour choice).

Analysis is why things are as they are.

Advice:

o Don’t spend ages saying ‘I decided to research this…’ and ‘When I had done this I changed it to…’. Get straight to the point, for example ‘After researching women’s magazines I found…’ and ‘The next change made was…because…’

o Choose the key points and explain them in detail rather than trying to cover everything

o Refer to theories and ideas you have learnt in both years of the course as much as you can, think how you can use a higher level of language at all time e.g. ‘narrative structure’ as opposed to ‘storyline’

o Wherever possible try to think beyond decisions of liking or not liking. If you like something or don’t like something there is a reason why: try to uncover what this is e.g. you prefer the purple writing on the pink background rather than black. At first thought you might prefer purple but, purple and pink are actually complementary colours and this will account for why you prefer it. It is not wrong to prefer one thing to another, you must get to the ‘why’ you preferred it and write about that reason.

Avoid simply describing, always analyse and evaluate.

372. Propp is fun!

http://www.brown.edu/Courses/FR0133/Fairytale_Generator/gen.html

371. Propp’s character archetypes

Propp’s character archetypes

• the villain, who struggles with the hero
• the donor, who prepares and/or provides hero with magical agent
• the helper, who assists, rescues, solves and/or transfigures the hero
• the Princess, a sought-for person (and/or her father), who exists as a goal and often recognizes and marries hero and/or punishes villain
• the dispatcher, who sends the hero off
• the hero, who departs on a search (seeker-hero), reacts to the donor and weds at end
• the false hero (or antihero or usurper), who claims to be the hero, often seeking and reacting like a real hero (ie by trying to marry the princess)

318. Activity Statements to use in coursework

Activity Statements – Drag and drop the words and use in your assignment.

 

Discovering Ideas:

apprehend	attend to	be aware of	be conscious of	collect
compare	conceive of	consider	detect	discern
distinguish	draw upon	encounter	examine	experience
experiment with	explore	feel	fantasise	find
get the idea	grasp	handle	hear	identify
imagine	interview	investigate	know	let
listen	look	make out	notice	observe
perceive	react	recall	recognise	record
respond to	search for	see	sense	smell
survey	taste	touch	undergo	use
view	watch	witness	work with

 

Transforming Ideas:

adapt	adopt	alter	amplify	change
compose	convert	create	distort	elaborate
enlarge	exaggerate	expand	experiment	express
extend	generate	hypothesise	imagine	improve
improvise	interpret	invent	invite	modify
originate	plan	propose	rearrange	redesign
refine	reorder	represent	reshape	revise
select	shift	simplify	symbolise	test
				try out

 

Working with Media:

assemble	build	collect	combine	complete
construct	control	devise	do	employ
erect	execute	explore	fashion	form
join	make	manipulate	operate	practice
produce	put together	render	select	shape
test	try out	use

 

Perceiving and Describing:

account for	analyse	apprehend	attend to	be aware of
be interested in	categorise	classify	compare	differentiate
discern	distinguish	examine	emphasise	encounter
group	identify	look	mention	name
note	notice	observe	pair	point out
recognise	respond	see	select	sense
				view

 

Interpreting :

ascribe meaning to	attibute meaning to	characterise	cite
declare	determine	disclose	explain
form an opinion	get the idea	give meaning to	generalise
hypothesise	imagine	invent	infer
propose	speculate	suggest	theorise
translate	understand	verify

 

Judging :

accept	admire	appraise	appreciate	approve
argue	assess	cite	criticise	debate
decide	determine	disapprove	estimate	evaluate
favour	form an opinion	give reason for	justify	like
order	prize	rate	reject	respect
think highly of	weigh