A level media coursework blog

  1) Type up your teacher's feedback   in full  plus a summary of the comments you received from other students in the class. Artist name graphic, Converse branding – lots of nice touches before even pressing play on this! There is the basis of an excellent video here. Mise-en-scene at beginning works well – photos, location, diary. Check the focus in places – a little blur is fine but you need to make sure it focuses in correctly before cutting away. Font for the credits at end is excellent – worth considering for opening of video? I think it could work along with the footwear brand? Shot on the street is weaker – can you do anything in post-production here? Effects? Slow motion? Black and white? Or re-shoot that section with more shots perhaps. 2) Using a combination of your own reflection on the preliminary exercise and the feedback you were given, write  three  WWW bullet points and  three  EBI bullet points for your work. Good song choice Nice fon...

  Read   Media Factsheet #176: CSP Radio - War of the Worlds . You'll need your Greenford Google login to download it. Then answer the following questions: 1) What is the history and narrative behind War of the Worlds? Orson Welles’ 1938 radio play is an adaption of H.G. Wells’ novel of the same name, first published in 1898. It tells the story of an alien invasion and the conflict between mankind and an extra- terrestrial race from Mars. 2) When was it first broadcast and what is the popular myth regarding the reaction from the audience? Broadcast live on 30th October 1938, popular myth has it that thousands of New Yorkers fled their homes in panic, and all across America people crowded the streets to witness for themselves the real space battle between earth and the Martians. 3) How did the New York Times report the reaction the next day? MANY FLEE HOMES TO ESCAPE ‘GAS RAID FROM MARS’ – PHONE CALLS SWAMP POLICE AT BROADCAST OF WELLES FANTASY 4) How d...