Thursday, 26 April 2018

Marketing and the Creative Industry

1) do a case study ( using the resources and the internet ) on the marketing of life on mars.
use images and examples to support your case study.
2) explore the link to BBC pres pack note the links and features, relate to TA.
3) note the links at the bottom of the page to BARB, TV LISCENCE and OFCOM have a quike look at these to see what information is there
Why does the BBC have links to these?
4) contrast this to marketing in the 1970s

5) David Hesmondhaigh task:
condence his ideas and relate them with examples back to life on mars.

 Marketing and the growth of the creative industry

industry use these techniques to minimise risk and maximise profit (example ashes to ashes and other spin offs)
this stifles creativity
people who are truly creative are corrupted and exploited by the big companies

"those industries which have their origin in individual creativity, skill and talent and which have a potential for wealth and job creation through the generation and exploitation of intellectual property" (DCMS 2001, p. 04)


Iindependents rely on the industry and are manipulated and subverted in created terms by the large companies.measures of how healthy the creative industry is flawed:




The DCMSDCMS (2001), (2 ed.), Creative mapping document - London, UK: Department of Culture, Media and Sport, retrieved 2007-05-26)
classifies enterprises and occupations as creative according to what the enterprise primarily produces, and what the worker primarily does. Thus, a company which produces records would be classified as belonging to the music industrial sector, and a worker who plays piano would be classified as a musician.
The primary purpose of this is to quantify – for example it can be used to count the number of firms, and the number of workers, creatively employed in any given location, and hence to identify places with particularly high concentrations of creative activities.
It leads to some complications which are not immediately obvious. For example, a security guard working for a music company would be classified as a creative employee, although not as creatively occupied.
The total number of creative employees is then calculated as the sum of:
  • All workers employed in creative industries, whether or not creatively occupied (e.g. all musicians, security guards, cleaners, accountants, managers, etc. working for a record company)
  • All workers that are creatively occupied, and are not employed in creative industries (for example, a piano teacher in a school). This includes people whose second job is creative, for example somebody who does weekend gigs, writes books, or produces artwork in their spare time

Hesmondhalgh reduces the list to what he terms "the core cultural industries" of advertising and marketing, broadcastingfilm, internet and music industries, print and electronic publishing, and video and computer games. His definition only includes those industries that create "texts"' or "cultural artifact's" and which engage in some form of industrial reproduction (Hesmondhalgh 2002, pp. 12–14).

Sunday, 22 April 2018

Monday 23rd April & Tuesday 24th - lesson for Year 12 Media - REPRESENTATION IN HISTORICAL MAGAZINES

Following on from your homework of analysing the Big Issue - representation we are looking at historical magazines.

• ALL EXERCISE Books in the wooden cupboard in corner by Michael.

Today & tomorrow you will all be analysing three magazines under the theme of representation. 
The magazines are Vogue, Woman & Woman's Realm.

Please watch the video links as this will assist when you are writing your notes/ analysis.

Historical magazines 

Women’s magazines became very popular in the post-war period and, in the 1960s, sales of women’s magazines reached 12 million copies per week. 
While this was a period of great change and increased independence for women, many magazines and adverts continued to perpetuate narrow and stereotypical ideas about gender. 

The representations in women’s magazines should be analysed in relation to: 
• the genre (and ideologies of consumerism driven by the need to ‘deliver’ readers to advertisers) 
• the social, cultural and historical context (the feminist movement in particular) 
This short video about the history of Vogue provides some useful context for all of the women’s magazines: 



http://www.vogue.co.uk/video/inside-british-vogue-a-brief-history-of-100-years/ 

• 1960s – cultural change, swinging 60s 
• 70s-80s – second wave feminism – women ‘having it all’

You must complete all three sheets and make use of the suggestions buttons for added depth into your chosen pages.

Please indicate all pages you analysed clearly. 
Ten mins per advert page - 6 x 10 = 1 hour.
This will take one hour.

Sheet 1: Advertising in Vogue: 
http://resource.download.wjec.co.uk.s3.amazonaws.com/vtc/2016-17/16-17_1-32/_eng/unit3/3b-advertising-in-vogue.html

Sheet 2: Advertising in Woman
http://resource.download.wjec.co.uk.s3.amazonaws.com/vtc/2016-17/16-17_1-32/_eng/unit3/3c-advertising-in-woman.html

Sheet 3: Advertising in Woman’s Realm
http://resource.download.wjec.co.uk.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/vtc/2016-17/16-17_1-32/_eng/unit3/3d-advertising-in-womans-realm.html

On completion of the above you will have 30 minutes to begin the following Theoretical Approaches 1 activity, covering stereotyping in historical magazines’ resource includes an activity where you will apply ideas from Hall and Gauntlett to key examples from your set magazine. 
Hints and extension tasks to be completed please in your exercise books.
You must complete in Tuesday's lesson.
http://resource.download.wjec.co.uk.s3.amazonaws.com/vtc/2016-17/16-17_1-32/_eng/unit3/3e-theoretical-approaches-stereotyping.html

Updated checklist below:

Thursday, 19 April 2018

Life on Mars

1) use the following link to give me 10 bullet point synopsis:

2) Watch the link and make notes about the title sequence in terms of the representation of the program:
colour pallette
iconography
framing of shots
typeface used

How Tyler is represented in terms:
of his role
clothing
actions
sound and use of voice over
Life on mars
Title sequence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIMP6-KBSCs

3) use the teacher notes to :
add extra observations about the title sequence
give the main points to be raised about

the interview room

and the office in 2007
the accident to Sam which sends him back in time.
and finally the difference when in 1973.

4) Use the link below to look at the main characters provide a brief character profile for each.

Life on mars
synopsis of the characters
http://www.bbc.co.uk/lifeonmars/characters/

Tuesday, 17 April 2018

Today complete all coursework and homework in lesson

Lined paper in cupboard for you, which will go in your exercise books.
Work hard and focus. You all have lots to catch up on.
Mrs McD-H

Thursday, 12 April 2018

Quick guide to media ideas and language.


Before we move on its probably a good idea to take a whirl wind look at some of the key concepts and thinking behind media to be able to analyse texts properly:

use the links to make notes on the key points ( ignore any reference to your exam as this is a different course) 

The media insider;
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Exam prep serialised TV drama:
Media language

genre theory

Cinematography:

A-Z:
Gratification:
intertextuality:
theorists in a nut shell:
objectification of women:
other useful ones:
mis en scene:





EXAM Timings Component 2

S ection A Question 1a & 1b = 24 mins each (Life on Mars / The Bridge) 15 mark & 15 Mark Section B. E ither questions 4 or 5 or...