Blog Part 2!!!

In the second week of the best media studies class in the world we watched an episode of the new season of Casualty and an episode from the second season of Life On Mars. We made notes on these episodes and found out about binary oppositions between characters in the dramas.

For a home work we had to do an essay, "TV drama conventions, A deconstruction of Life on Mars and Casualty."

In the essay we included descriptions of characters, narrative, Mise en scene, sound and icons.

I got an A, GO ME!!!!!!

Exam Dates And Week 1 Summary

Exam - 13th January 2010

Links

• http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/
  
• http://www.channel4.com/programmes/4od
  
• http://demand.five.tv/Home.aspx
  
• http://www.youtube.com/

Summary

• Signification - This is the dentotation of an image given to the user at its basic level (ie. The colour Red is just a colour)
  
• Connotation - This is the term used to describe all the possible ways someone may think an image represents (ie. The colour Red may mean anger and danger, but also lust and passion)
  
• Representation  - This is the term used to describe how a TV drama presents a character/place/situation.