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Coursework: Preliminary exercise 2026

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1) State the song you have chosen for your preliminary exercise. SEOUL CITY - JENNIE 2) Choose at least three music videos similar to your concept and watch a clip or more from each. Make bullet-point notes on everything you watch, commenting on camerawork, editing and mise-en-scene. Overall, these music videos have the same visuals of city life at night time and car scene. I want to do this in my music video in order to match with my artist's identity , paired with capturing the feeling of freedom these videos create for the fans/ audience also match up with my target audience as they are  succeeders and aspires as argued by Young and Rubicam .    SEOUL CITY - JENNIE - The introduction starts of with a high key lighting view of the city from a plane window, paired with the star posing in a homey style environment holding a toy plane, suggesting the binary opposition between reality and fantasy with is established with the closeup and mid shots - Scene transit...

Coursework: Ignite presentation learner response

  1) Type up your feedback in full including the ratings out of five for each of the categories.  WWW - Good Intro,  Good concept, Buzzfeed questions, Good website planning EBI - Too much text on the screen + reliant on reading, clearer conclusion Research - 5/5  Concept - 4/5 Language - 4/5  Representation - 4/5 Mulvey, Hall, Gilroy, Young Rubicam e.g Audience - 5/5 BandK, Reception theory, Bandaura social learning theory Delivery - 4/5               = 26/30 2) Use this feedback, comments from peers and your own reflection on your presentation to self-assess and write your own detailed WWW and EBI for your coursework concept and presentation as a whole. For WWW, My research was detailed and included everything in order to be signifcant for my research, such as highlighting, paragraphs for statement of intent, Moreover for concept I believed my concept should of been 5/5 for the use of intextuallity and syenagry within each o...

Coursework: Summer Project 2026

1) Research: TikTok videos You need to write a 150-word close-textual analysis of SIX TikTok videos that will inform your production work. The TikTok videos you analyse are up to you but focus on a different aspect of media language for each one (see guidance below).   TikTok videos TikTok Video 1: Narrative How is narrative used in the TikTok video and what impact does this have on the audience? Can you apply any narrative theories to the story in the TikTok video? Get ready with me video - @jennierubyjane The use of narrative is successfully used in order to attract fans of Blackpink/Jennie's music, due to the use of the soundtrack which can be argued to be used as a convention of adverting to promote her new song. Moreover, the impact this leaves the audience is a  glimpse into her personal life, creating intimacy and making her seem more relatable despite her celebrity status. Additionally,  Todorov’s narrative theory can be partially applied, as the video...

Y12 Media exam: Paper 2 Learner response

  1) Type up your feedback in full (you do not need to write the mark/grade if you do not wish to). WWW - Good understanding of broadcasting remits and source of key issues/ change EBI - include more specfic industry information ad the difference ways audience engage with the products 2) Read the mark scheme for this exam carefully (posted on your exam teacher's Google Classroom), paying particular attention to the the 'indicative content' for each question. Firstly, focus on the unseen question and identify two aspects of the poster that you could have written about in your answer.  Talked about ideology, as it wasn't include in my answer More examples such as the buildings are shaped as guns 3) Look at the indicative content for Q1 again and make a note of any theories or examples of media terminology you could have used in your answer. Could of used terminology which could of used the key terms  use the underlying values / beliefs of what is being promoted 4) Now fo...