Media Studies Unit 1b - Media Language and Representations
Week 1 - Introduction to Unit/Advertising Texts
Lesson Powerpoint
The powerpoint used in this week 's lessons is to the right. You can look through this on this page or you can download it to your computer.
Lesson Content
This week's lessons covered the following key areas:
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Meaning in film - Narrative
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Meaning in film - Aesthetic Qualities
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Meaning in film - Contexts
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Meaning in film - Representations
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Key Text 1 Screening - Pan's Labyrinth
Scroll down the page for information on the homework task and resources used in the lessons.
Homework
Write a reflective academic account of your first impressions of the first key text film, Pan's Labyrinth (Del Toro 2006).
Typed and Printed - 750 Words
Lesson Resources
Old Spice Advert
This is one of your key texts which you could be asked about in the exam.
You need to analyse its use of media language and what representations it constructs and offers.
