Start Date : 12th November 2019 Production studies are ‘the study of how media texts get made and who stamps their authorial imprint on them’. It involves studying the people who produce, distribute and market content as well as those who control media. This ranges from people who create content in their free time to […]
Read moreStart date : 19th October 2019 Historiography is a method that involves researching into past events and developments that have happened over time. It is used to make a meaning and an understanding of what has happened. An area of research that I think would be interesting to look at using historiography would be looking […]
Read moreStart date : 20th November 2019 This weeks class focused on narrative theory. Prior to studying this methodology, I thought that narrative was about the story that was being told through a piece of media. However, narratology is the analysis of the structure, the form and the elements that are used to make the story […]
Read moreStart date : 14th October For class this week we were given the reading of Visual Style by Jeremy G. Butler. In this reading, Butler identifies 8 ‘functions’ of style. Four of these functions were stated previously by Bordwell. ‘Style can be said to: denote, express, symbolize, decorate, persuade, hail or interpret, differentiate, signify liveness […]
Read moreStart Date : 21st October 2019 For this week’s reading, we had to read Media Policy by Bill Kirkpatrick. Media policy is the rules and regulations that are set and enforced by ‘the state, media industries and citizens’ over ‘the production, distribution and consumption of media’. The reading describes three methods of analysis used when […]
Read moreStart Date : 9th November 2019 Ethnography is the study of people’s lives and their culture through observations made on them. Ethnographic research often involves the person who is carrying out the research living with the group of people they are observing. This is so that they can observe their cultural practices as well as […]
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