Why study the media? The Media is such a key component of society today and has been for a long time. It has affected how the modern world is today and will keep shaping the future for the generations after us. Television, the internet, films, radio, newspapers are all types of media, it's everywhere why would I not want to study such a contemporary subject that surrounds us day in day out and understand it to a greater depth. www.dictionary.com defines media as ‘the means of communication that reach or influence people’ to me this suggests that media has been around since the Tang Dynasty in China where they used wooden blocks coated in ink to create books, such as the diamond sutra made in 868 A.D. This shows us how long media has been around for and how it is part of our history, it has helped develop technologies around the world through sharing knowledge and will continue to do so. More than 4 billion people are now using the internet and over 5 billion people now have m...
Key Words: Naturalistic Mis-En-Scene - follow assumed laws of nature and society and have consistently logical relationships to one another. Linear Narrative - the order in which events are portrayed corresponds to the order in which they occur. Stories told using this narrative structure will have a clear beginning, middle and end. They might begin with a description of the setting, have events leading up to a climax (the point where there is the most tension or drama in the story) and end with a resolution in which all the problems that arose during the narrative are either resolved or accepted. Narrative Disruption - events are portrayed, out of chronological order or in other ways where the narrative does not follow the direct causality pattern. In the video 'unfinished sympathy' by Massive Attack, why would you describe the Miss-En-Scene as naturalistic? Why would you then describe the Mise-En-Scene in Fatboy Slim's 'Ya Mama' as less naturali...
Fatboy Slim- Ya Mama Using Media Language, Explain how representations have been constructed in the music video 'Ya Mama' by Fatboy Slim. The music video shows people playing the song and dancing uncontrollably in chaos, it has a linear narrative as we can see the music tape being delivered and then once played people dance dramatically and then he goes and sells/shows other people. However, it is also a cyclical narrative as the postcard that can be seen when he's painting his models is then seen in the end but with him in the postcard this time. In the beginning of the song you can see Tom and Jerry being watched ,by what appears to be a house of rednecks, which is an example of intertextuality and is a slapstick comedy show which is humorous ,similar to the music video. It also shows the people in the house as immature, as they haven't grown out of children's programmes reinforcing our opinions of them being rednecks. When the music tape gets played in...
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