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New new new new new
One of the truisms about media/advertising is that advertisers are keen on the 16-34 year old demographic, because it’s relatively cheaper to persuade one of these individuals to try something new, or to change brands. The over 40s, on the other hand, while they may have more disposable income than the younger age group, are [...]
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Simple Guide to Analysis
Most media (and other subject) teachers despair of students ever understanding the difference between denotation and connotation, or between signifier and signified. Most students are just so bottled up and blinkered that they can’t make connections. I’ve been accused in the past of making connections too easily, one of the benefits of a paranoid style, [...]
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Tags: analysis, examinations, exams
For font bores strictly
I’ve never gone for sans serif fonts in the way that designboys and girls do, which is probably why I’m a teacher and not a graphic designer. I used to work with graphic designers, and had fierce arguments with them about my deep hatred for Helvetica.
Still, there’s no getting away from the fact that nine [...]
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Tags: fonts, type, typography
Strictly for font bores
I was never particularly happy with my original typography slideshow (available on Slideshare), and wanted to do something that paid closer attention to the forms of letters. Not surprisingly, it’s not really possible to condense 550 years of type history into one slideshow, and I’m now thinking this will end up needing four separate presentations: [...]
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Tags: fonts, type, typography
Juno vs. Wade
Went to see Juno last night, one of three films released this week given five-star reviews by such outlets as the Guardian. Even Kermode was mostly positive about it.
I enjoyed the film. Ellen Page is a star, and the one-liners in the script were funny. Interesting question in my mind as to audience, given the [...]
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Values and Ideology
Quite the hardest aspect of A Level Media, as far as my students seem to be concerned, is the key concept of values and ideology. They find this difficult, I truly believe, because they have been raised to believe that there is no such thing as ideology, that the world is fully transparent and that [...]
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Tired, tired, tired
Someone arrived here today searching on “how to survive your NQT year”, which is what I am trying to do. My method so far involves not doing much planning, so that all my weekend time isn’t spent working. I’m doing a bit – adapting last year’s – roughly working out what I’m going to do, [...]
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Tags: NQT, NQT year
She’s Having a Baby
I wanted to remind my students about the use of musical montage sequences – and especially how the lyrics of the song chosen can be matched to shots in order to tell the story. I’m trying to emphasise, as they make their films, that they need to use visual storytelling and not too much dialogue.
I [...]
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Tags: John Hughes, Kate Bush, Kevin Bacon, She's Having a Baby, Signs
Further to my ever-popular post on 10 Things I Hate About You, here is the long-overdue slideshow companion.
This focuses on the technical brilliance of the opening sequence, with its extended opening crane shot (an homage to Orson Welles, perhaps), and lengthy and complex steadicam shots, all of which pack 10lbs of storytelling into a 1lb [...]
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Am Big You Arse
Today I experienced one of the funniest moments I’ve yet had as a teacher. My lesson was actually being observed by my tutor, so the whole thing could have been quite horrible, but it was all righerrt in the end.
I was showing my “Audience” presentation to a media group (see previous post below), and we [...]
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