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#105MC: 18th November, Lesson 3 - Moving Practical To Theory

In the last lesson we started to move away from the fact we have finished our documentaries and applying the theory based part of module about the documentaries we made and how they connect with the four key concepts in media.

‘Audience’is a very important concept throughout media studies. All media texts are made with an audience in mind, ie a group of people who will receive it and make some…

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#105MC: 18th November, Lesson 2 - Best Documentaries Nominations

In the second lesson we had a look at the top four documentaries out of a,b,c,d home groups throughout the first year.

The first one was B7which was about Gypsies representation in media, and from previously looking at it in the first lesson and then looking back at it again i could see why it was nominated with the interviews and different view points about gypsies and how they are portrayed in…

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#105MC: 18th November, Documentary Evaluations: Lesson 1

#105MC: 18th November, Documentary Evaluations: Lesson 1

Today in first lessons we looked at each others documentaries, and see what the other people have been doing for the 72 hour challenge with different groups doing different topics of documentary like Flemenko, East Winds Festival & Demographic.

B48 Films First one that was shown was our documentary about Birmingham and the different cultures surrounding Birmingham which are starting to mix…

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#105MC: Completing Editing & Evaluation Of Work & Group

#105MC: Completing Editing & Evaluation Of Work & Group

With Friday looming round the corner and the deadline for the 72..(74) hour challenge coming to an end as of 16:34 the edit is finally complete and the group are satisfied with what it looks like and the structure of how it was put together and with the group contributing while i was editing everyone could have their own influence for the edit so it’s other peoples mindsets and not just my own.

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#105MC: 72 Hour Film Challenge - Participatory Documentary, Day 1

Today our 72 hour film challenge started which requires us to create a documentary, edit it together and show it to the class for Friday (i think), to make it fair on who’s will be getting what sub genre to focus on for the editing process each group had to spin a wheel.. our group got Participatory documentary.

Participatory documentariesbelieve that it is impossible for the act of filmmaking to…

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#105MC - Shooting In Birmingham, Day 1 - Cultural Documentary (Reflection)

Today B4 & B8 went to Birmingham to go and film segments for our documentary which we are getting the brief for next Tuesday, we all meet up at the Coventry train station at around eleven o clock and headed for Birmingham new street where we ended up getting a bus to a remote part of Birmingham where there is a street full of local shops from different cultures e.g. Asia, Jamaica, India etc.

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Home Groups #105MC - 28th October 2014: Representation (More Extra), Lesson 3

In today’s final lecture we were still looking at the concept of representation in media texts, and the first two examples we looked at in the lesson was ‘Snow white and the seven dwarfs (disney) and we had to watch a five minute clip of the beginning of the film where she is walking through a forest and write down how disney represent her.

The notes that i had hidden was that she is represented…

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