The Hunger Games: Catching Fire - key scenes analysis

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire Key Scenes Analysis Year 10

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire - Katniss Destroys The Arena

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire - Victory Tour in District 11

The Amazing Spiderman 2 Research - Representation Of Teenagers

Consider the ways that teenagers are represented in The Amazing Spiderman 2 (this will really help with your coursework essay).

• Make notes on the representation of  Peter, Gwen and Harry.
• Consider things such as what they wear, hairstyles, body language and attitude. 
• Are they stereotypical teenagers or are they more realistic representations? Explain your conclusions.

Scheduling (4a) and Audience Pleasures (4b)

4. (a) Compare how and why two programmes were scheduled on different channels.

State the day, time and channel of each programme. [15 marks]

4. (b) Discuss in detail how one programme offers audience pleasures.

 Give examples from the programme. [15 marks]

Scheduling (4a) and Audience Pleasures (4b)

Date and time:

• Wednesday 10th December (period 1)

Task:

• Answer questions 4a and 4b (see posts below for details)

Duration:

• 25 minutes planning
• 30 minutes writing (15 minutes per question)

The Hunger Games: Reaping Scene

Hunger Games – Reaping Scene YR10

The Amazing Spiderman 2 - Electro Trailer

The Amazing Spiderman 2 Trailer

Film Poster and Target Audience Research

Find six posters for each of the two films (The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and The Amazing Spiderman 2)

Annotate one of the posters using the following headings:

• title
• tag line
• billing
• logo
• key image
• website
• release date

Then write about the target audience (who the film is aimed at) for both films. 

Consider the following:

• genre
• actors
• character
• themes

Look at this example for help

Representation of Katniss and Peeta by Abbie Waterson

Representation of Katniss and Peeta in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire by Abbie Waterson

Film Poster Research by Olivia Barnes

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire - Cornucopia Bloodbath

Stuart Hall’s ‘Audience Reception Theory’ 2

Stuart Hall’s ‘Audience Reception Theory’

Hall argues that the media appear to reflect reality whilst in fact they construct it. He also addressed theoretically the issue of how people make sense of media texts. 

In a key paper, 'Encoding/Decoding', Stuart Hall (1980), argued that the dominant ideology is typically inscribed as the 'preferred reading' in a media text, but that this is not automatically adopted by readers. 

The social situations of readers/viewers/listeners may lead them to adopt different stances. 'Dominant' readings are produced by those whose social situation favours the preferred reading; 'negotiated' readings are produced by those who inflect the preferred reading to take account of their social position; and 'oppositional' readings are produced by those whose social position puts them into direct conflict with the preferred reading Hall insists that there remain limits to interpretation: meaning cannot be simply 'private' and 'individual'.

Theory: Katz, Hartley and Maslow

Katz’ Uses & Gratifications theory

• Personal Identification – Where the audience can relate to a character or their situation
• Personal Relationship – Where the audience builds a close bond with a character or group of characters
• Inform & Educate – Where the audience LEARN something from consuming the text
• Diversion – Where the audience can ESCAPE from their reality and immerse themselves in the text.

 Hartley’s Seven Subjectivities

1. Age
2. Gender
3. Class
4. Ethnicity
5. Self-Image
6. Nation
7. Family

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

• Social Climbers– Where the audience are driven by improving their status in society
• Caregivers– Where the audience sympathise with the characters situation.
• Explorers– Where the audience are driven by social change.
• Survivors – Audience members who want the security and routine of knowing the characters will be ok (For example) or something will be resolved.

Miranda Research

1. What channel is Miranda initially broadcast on?
2. What other comedies (sitcoms/scripted comedies) does this channel broadcast?
3. What is the target audience for Miranda? Give three clear reasons for your this.
4. Who are the cast?
5. How do they appeal to the target audience?
6. What shows have the main cast members appeared in before?
7. What time is Miranda first broadcast?
8. Why do you think it is broadcast at such a time?
9. When is Miranda repeated?
10. What channels is it repeated on?
11. What is it about the setting of the show that appeals to the target audience?
12. What has the critical reception been? Find some reviews of the show. Are they good, bad or mixed?
13. In your opinion, in what ways is Miranda 'funny'.
14. What pleasure does Miranda offer an audience? These might include such pleasures as:

• narrative pleasures such as those of narrative resolution, 
• character identification, snowballing narrative, suspense, comedy, and so on
• pleasures of recognition, familiarity and anticipation
• pleasures of difference-within-repetition
• performance unpredictability and spontaneity
• transgressive pleasures
• specific pleasures associated with performers or personalities.

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire Research Task

Complete the following:

• Make a list of character names.
• Write a character profile for each of the main characters (include an image of each one too).
• Consider the ways that teenagers are represented in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (this will really help with your coursework essay).

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013) Trailer

Creativity: CD Cover Activity 2

The task:

• Make a CD Cover with no restrictions.
• Choose your own image, title and artist.

OR

• Make a cover for either an existing artist or a made up one.

OR

• Make a CD cover for an existing CD-give it your own version.

Cinematic Techniques

Goodfellas Dolly Zoom

Bad Education Research

1. What channel is Bad Education initially broadcast on?
2. What other comedies (sitcoms/scripted comedies) does this channel broadcast?
3. What is the target audience for Bad Education? Give three clear reasons for your this.
4. Who are the cast?
5. How do they appeal to the target audience?
6. What shows have the main cast members appeared in before?
7. What time is Bad Education first broadcast?
8. Why do you think it is broadcast at such a time?
9. When is Bad Education repeated?
10. What channels is it repeated on?
11. What is it about the setting of the show that appeals to the target audience?
12. What has the critical reception been? Find some reviews of the show. Are they good, bad or mixed?
13. In your opinion, in what ways is Bad Education 'funny'.
14. What pleasure does Bad Education offer an audience? These might include such pleasures as:

• narrative pleasures such as those of narrative resolution, 
• character identification, snowballing narrative, suspense, comedy, and so on
• pleasures of recognition, familiarity and anticipation
• pleasures of difference-within-repetition
• performance unpredictability and spontaneity
• transgressive pleasures
• specific pleasures associated with performers or personalities.

Year 11 Half Term Homework

• Complete the research into Bad Education.
• Hand your work in on the first lesson back after half term: Wednesday 29th October Period 1

Creativity:CD Cover Activity 1

THE ACTIVITY

1. Generate a name for your band by using WikiPedia's random page selector tool, and using the first article title on whichever page pops up. No matter how weird or lame that band name sounds.
2. Generate an album title by cutting and pasting the last four words of the final quote on whichever page appears when you click on the quotationspage's random quote selector tool. No matter what those four words turn out to be.
3. Finally, visit Flickr's Most Interesting page -- a random selection of some of the interesting things discovered on Flickr within the last 7 days -- and download the third picture on that page. (Even better: Click on this link to get a Flickr photo that's licensed under Creative Commons.) Again -- no cheating! You must use the photo, no matter how you feel about it.
4. Using Photoshop (or whatever method you prefer), put all of these elements together and create your very own CD cover.

My version:

Artist Name: Togendai Station

Album Title: Come Back From It

LINK

 

When you've completed your CD Cover, answer the following in your journal:

1. Did you crop or manipulate the image in any way? If so why?
2. Why did you choose your font?
3. Why did you lay the text out in a particular way? What effect were you trying to achieve?
4. Is your finished CD Cover a success or not? Give reasons for your answer.

Year 11: Work To Do

By the end of the lesson Friday 17th October period 2 you need to have completed the following:

• Answered all the questions in the TV Comedy: Introduction post
• Answered all the questions in the TV Comedy: Research post
• Finished your TV viewing diary and present it in a suitable format
• Print out all your work and hand to me by the end of the lesson

Extension task

Research Task on Bad Education (see separate blog post)

TV Comedy: Research

1. List all the BBC channels.
2. What is the target audience for each channel?
3. How do they all differ?
4. What type of programmes do they tend to show? List five of the most popular for each channel. Classify the programmes by genre.
5. List all the ITV channels.
6. What is the target audience for each channel?
7. How do they all differ?
8. What type of programmes do they tend to show? List five of the most popular for each channel. Classify the programmes by genre.
9. List all the Channel 4 channels.
10. What is the target audience for each channel?
11. How do they all differ?
12. What type of programmes do they tend to show? List five of the most popular for each channel. Classify the programmes by genre.

TV Comedy: Introduction

1. What is the BBC?
2. Name as many BBC programmes as possible.
3. Which ones do you watch? 
4. What times are they shown on TV?
5. What is the Licence fee?
6. How much does it cost?
7. What is ITV?
8. Name as many ITV programmes as possible.
9. Which ones do you watch?
10. What times are they shown on TV?
11. What is the 'Watershed'?

Homework

Over the next week, keep a diary of all the TV programmes you watch, the time they are on and the channels they are broadcast on. 
If you only watch programmes on Netflix or Amazon Instant Video then still compile a list of shows watched, along with the times you viewed them.

Deadline: Wednesday 15th October

Magazine Cover Construction Task

The task is to construct a music magazine cover in one lesson.
You must do the following:

1. Choose a magazine name from the list I have provided. This will normally take a long time, hence the prearranged selection.
2. Decide on a suitable cover star (or stars) of your choice.
3. Have a quick look at coverjunkie for ideas.
4. Pick a font.
5. Include several examples of relevant text.
6. Add a bar code, issue number, month and price.

This is the version I made as an example:

Magazine Names

• Drone
• Reverb
• Deadline
• MMM (Modern Music Monthly)
• ARP
• Resonate
• The Mix
• Frontline
• Riff
• Rockwrok
• X
• Vox
• Rumpus
• FANDANGO
• Turntablist
• Freak Out!
• Invisible Jukebox
• Amok
• fred

Choose a magazine name from the list above, don't over-think it, just pick the first one that you like the look of and go with it.

Random Magazine (Construction Elements)

The following elements were used in the construction of my example magazine cover.

Rick Rubin is a famous record producer (Jay Z, Slayer, Johnny Cash, Adele, Run-D.M.C amongst many others). He was the co-founder of Def Jam records and also established American Recordings.

I cut the image out using the magic wand tool and also slimmed him down slighty. The American part of the tagline is a reference to him and also a nod to his record company American Recordings.

 I cut out a portion of the stars and stripes and pasted it over the I in Rubin.

I think the barcode is slightly too big on the final version. On your magazine choose a barcode that has a random number like the one above and not a 0123456789 one.


The font I chose is BEBAS NEUE. I like the clean lines and crisp style of this font. It matches the overall idea I had in mind for my magazine.

LIAR-A Simple Way To Analyse A Text (Year 10)

Language
Institution
Audience
Representation

Use these four headings to analyse a Magazine cover, CD cover, film poster or DVD cover of your choice. 

Analyse at least two. 

If you can, analyse an example from each type of media listed.

Refer to your books or the SlideShare presentation (Slides 8,11,12,13) on my blog to help remind you of  the definitions.

Complete work using Word and stick the finished creation in your learning journal.

Media Studies Introduction (Year 10)

GCSE Media Studies Introduction from fordford

French Film Club

Year 10 Media Work To Do

Make sure you are up to date with all work so far.

Ensure that you have underlined the date and heading/ sub-headings on each page of your journal.

You need to have completed the following:

1. 5X5 activity
2. Make sure you have copied down the information from the Introduction to Media Studies presentation (slides 3,4,8,10,11,12,13)
3. Finish the LIAR activity

All work needs to be pasted into your journals.

When you complete these tasks then move on to the representation mood board activity.

11W: Work To Do

By the end of the lesson complete the following:

• send me your blog address
• post your magazine work on your blogs-add images as jpegs, PowerPoints need to be uploaded to SlideShare and then posted to blog, Word documents need to be uploaded to Scribd and then posted to blog.
• Send me a zipped file with all your work so far. The zipped file should contain:

1. Your essay in a folder entitled ESSAY
2. Your poster work in a folder entitled POSTERS
3. Your magazine work in folder entitled MAGAZINES
4. THE ZIP FILE NEEDS TO HAVE YOUR NAME ON IT: YOUR NAME/ 11W/ MEDIA

Coventions (Year 10)

Media studies gcse representation from tcasman

Year 11 Work To Do

• Set up a blog
• Email the blog address to: n.ford@lc.leics.sch.uk
• Post 5x5 onto blog
• Make sure your research is finished
• Ensure all parts of the magazine work are completed too
• Answer the evaluation questions
• If necessary begin extension work

Extension Work-Year 11

The area we will be covering is Institution and Audience.

As a starting point I want you to think about some of the TV comedies that you've seen recently

• What made you want to watch those comedies? 
• Try to think beyond peer influence and consider any other factors that contributed to your choice.
• Did you like or dislike the comedies?
• What factors impacted or your enjoyment or lack of enjoyment?
• Compose a post with your conclusions.

Year 11: Set Up A Blog

Welcome back Year 11. In today's lesson you will be doing two things: 

• setting up a blog for your media work 
• completing the 5X5 activity (see previous post)

Year 11: 5X5

1. Choose five areas of the Media that you like (see my attempt for help).
2. Within each area pick your five favourites. 
3. Add a description/explanation/justification.
4. Add images to illustrate.
5. Post work to your blog

5X5

5 Hip Hop Albums 2013-2014

1. Pusha-T-My Name Is My Name (Key Tracks-Numbers On The Boards & Nosetalgia )
2. Shabazz Palaces-Lese Majesty (Key Tracks-Forerunner Foray & Motion Sickness)
3. Earl Sweatshirt-Doris (Key Tracks-Centurion & Chum)
4. Future-Honest (Key Tracks-Benz Friendz (Whatchutola) & Move That Dope)
5. Freddie Gibbs & Madlib-Pinata (Key Tracks-Shitsville & Thuggin')

All five albums reinforce my belief that hip hop is the most dynamic and sonically interesting music genre. All are different and all are unique visions of what hip hop can sound like. Kendrick Lamar misses the cut because his last album came out in 2012.

 5 Marvel Comic Book Characters

1. Silver Surfer-"Where soars the Silver Surfer.... There he must soar ... alone!"
2. Iron Man-"I know everything. I can't help it."
3. Daredevil-"I can see just fine."
4. Spider-Man-"My spider sense are tingling"
5. Hulk-"Talking man hurt Hulk...HULK RIP TALKING MAN'S HEAD OFF!"

5 Comedians

1. Louis C.K.-"You’ve got to be optimistic to be single. Stupid. You have to be stupid. That’s what optimistic means, you know? It means stupid. An optimist is somebody who goes, “Hey, maybe something nice will happen.” Why would anything nice happen?"
2. Bill Hicks-"I've noticed a certain anti-intellectualism going around this country; since about 1980, coincidentally enough. … I was in Nashville, Tennessee, and after the show I went to a Waffle House. I'm not proud of it, but I was hungry. And I'm sitting there eating and reading a book. I don't know anybody, I'm alone, so I'm reading a book. The waitress comes over to me like, [gum smacking] "What'chu readin' for?" I had never been asked that. Not "What am I reading?", but "What am I reading for?" Goddammit, you stumped me. Hmm, why do I read? I suppose I read for a lot of reasons, one of the main ones being so I don't end up being a waffle waitress."
3. Stewart Lee-"Writing this now, God, how I miss the cultural side of the eighties - the rhetoric, the raggedy clothes, the politics, gigs you were frightened to go into, Radio 1 when it had weird bits, Channel 4 when it was radical, the NME when it had writers, and the thrill of discovering underground music and new comedy for yourself.”
4. Josie Long-"Two years ago I was touring a show where I outed myself as a feminist. At the time it seemed like that was something necessary, as I felt a bit beleaguered and outnumbered. It was the first time I’d tried to talk about it on stage and the material I did was about the kind of hassle I’d get for having opinions about feminist issues. I’d start by saying, “I’m definitely a feminist and I’m not creepy for having said that . . . I don’t like to bang any less. I didn’t think it was an issue but then whenever you say anything remotely strident, people are like, ‘Who invited the frigid puritan cow?’ and I have to be like, ‘Heyyyy! I’d just like to get paid the same! Hiyaaaa!’”
5. Chris Rock-"I had a cop pull me over the other day, scared me so bad, made me think I stole my own car. “Get out of the car, get out of the fucking car! You stole this car!” I was like, “Damn, maybe I did!”

5 American TV Dramas

1. Justified-Raylan Givens is an ultra polite, quick tempered, fast drawing U.S. Marshall. Set in Harlan County Kentucky, this show is a refreshing change from the usual big city crime dramas.
2. Fringe-Three alternate worlds, different versions of many characters, time travel, visitors from other planets and a pet cow in a laboratory at Harvard. Fringe is the best sci fi show I've ever seen on TV (and yes that does include Lost).
3. The Wire-Five seasons of TV brilliance. Initially centered on the drug culture of inner-city Baltimore, the show goes on to focus on other areas of city life whilst still maintaining a link to earlier characters and themes. A tour de force. Highly recommended. 
4. Mad Men-a slow moving drama about advertising executives in 1960s New York. Brilliantly written and acted. The noteworthy elements being: the clothes, the drinking and smoking, the affairs, the politics and the glimpse of a time long gone. 
5. Banshee-definitely not for the fainthearted. A tale of hidden identity and revenge. Some of the most over the top scenes I've ever seen on television.

5 Favourite Albums

1. Panda Bear-Person Pitch-Dubby,woozy and harmonic. Sounds like it was recorded underwater. Took me ages to get it, now it's indispensable (Key Tracks-Comfy In Nautica & Bros)
2. Mos Def-The Ecstatic-A recent hip hop classic. Beats were conjured up by a veritable who's who: J Dilla, Mr. Flash, Madlib, Mos Def, Oh No, Preservation, and The Neptunes.The album features a master lyricist and rhymer at his peak and a wide array of "out of the crates" samples. (Key Tracks-Supermagic & Wahid)
3. Beach House-Teen Dream-Songs about uncertainty, doubt and feeling beaten down by the world. It's also ethereal and angelic, the sort of music to inspire vivid dreams. (Key Tracks-Silver Soul & Take Care)
4. Prince-Sign O The Times-16 tracks of brilliance. Covers everything from rock, pop, soul, funk slow jams and a protest song. A genius at work. (Key Tracks-Sign O The Times & If I Was Your Girlfriend)
5. Japan-Gentlemen Take Polaroids-Cult British singer David Sylvian's first band. 8 tracks containing the sort of idiosyncratic vision you don't find too often: swooning,hyper-elegant and polished. (Key Tracks-Gentlemen Take Polaroids & Taking Islands In Africa)

Year 11 Summer Homework

Finish your research and evaluation.
Hand in to me the first lesson back after the summer break.

Year 10 Media Summer Work 2014

YEAR 10 BOOKLET SUMMER 2014

Create A CD Cover Activity

NEVER THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX

Always know the rules.

Nothing is original.

You are going to 'create' by slavishly following rules. By the end of the session you will have invented a band, recorded their first album, designed the cover art and released it.

1. Generate a name for your band by using WikiPedia's random page selector tool, and using the first article title on whichever page pops up. No matter how weird or lame that band name sounds.
2. Generate an album title by cutting and pasting the last four words of the final quote on whichever page appears when you click on the quotationspage's random quote selector tool. No matter what those four words turn out to be.
3. Finally, visit Flickr's Most Interesting page -- a random selection of some of the interesting things discovered on Flickr within the last 7 days -- and download the third picture on that page. (Even better: Click on this link to get a Flickr photo that's licensed under Creative Commons.) Again -- no cheating! You must use the photo, no matter how you feel about it.
4. Using Photoshop (or whatever method you prefer), put all of these elements together and create your very own CD cover, then upload it to the CD memepool

Using Photoshop, put all of these elements together and create your very own CD cover, then upload it to the CD memepool.

PHOTOSHOP FAQ

Where do I find it?

In the start menu, select - all programmes - common programmes - adobe production premium - photoshop (64bit)

How do I get started?

In the upper left select - file - new

What page size do I need?

CD covers are SQUARE, alter the height and width to 120mm. Ensure the colour mode is 8bit and the background colour is white.

How do I add an image?

You should have been able to save your image from flikr (if not jump to the next question). In the upper left select - file - open and locate the image you downloaded. The image will appear in a new tab, DO NOT PANIC, pull the tab down by pressing and holding the left mouse button until it appears in front of your white square tab, next press shift + v to drag and drop the image onto your white square tab

I couldn't download the image, how do I get the image?

Find the image given to you by Flickr, press print screen, then in photoshop press ctrl + v

But now I have the image and the desktop, how do I delete the desktop?

Press ctrl + t, this will allow you to change the shape of the object. Hold down shift and make the print screen image the same size as your window. Now press shift + m, this will make the cursor appear as an +, draw boxes over the areas you wish to delete and press backspace until you have deleted everything you want to remove.

The Image doesn't fill the square!

Press ctrl + t, now press and hold shift, pinch the corner of the image and stretch it until it fills the space. You can use the move tool (shift v) to align it properly.

How do I add text?

On the left hand side it a T, click on the T and then draw a text box where ever you wish. Type the name of your band and select a font and a size just as you would do on word.

Why doesn't it look quite right?

In really, really basic terms, design is about symmetry. Try and imagine your cd cover is divided equally into thirds, in 2 of these thirds something 'different' should be happening to the remaining third. Try and align yours along these principles.

EXAMPLES: 10W MEDIA CD COVERS

10W MEDIA CD COVERS, a set on Flickr.