12+Media

= Welcome to your Year 12 Media page! =

This year we will be studying a range of carefully chosen texts that will challenge you to view the media through NEW eyes! Not only will you be studying lots of fantastic films, you will be involved in creating your own horror movie trailer. This course is designed to challenge you both academically and creatively, as you will be required to heighten your level of thinking and inquiry.

You will be studying:

 * Term 1**
 * Narrative Conventions in Police Shows (weeks 2-8) - THE MOD SQUAD, DRAGNET, THE SHEILD, THE WIRE, and CRIMINAL MINDS.
 * Teenage Representation (weeks 9-10); REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE, THE BREAKFAST CLUB, EASY A, and SHE'S ALL THAT.


 * Term 2**
 * Teenage Representation continued (weeks 1-5)
 * Vampire Genre (weeks 6-10); NOSFERATU, DRACULA, LET THE RIGHT ONE IN, ECLIPSE - TWILIGHT SAGA.


 * Term 3**
 * Design a Media Product (Horror Movie Trailer!) (weeks 1-3)
 * EXAMS (weeks 4-5)
 * Complete a Media Product (Production of Movie Trailer - weeks 6-9)
 * Genre Revision (weeks 10-11)


 * Term 4**
 * Genre Revision (weeks 1-4)
 * NCEA EXAMS!



As we progress throughout the year, I will add copies of both the resources I give you in class (class booklets an exception!) and also some extra tit-bits to keep you motivated! It is important that you keep checking the materials that I put on this wiki so that you can get the most out of Media Studies this year.

** HOT Links! **
Great explanation of Diegetic and Non-Diegetic Sound (09/02) @http://filmsound.org/terminology/diegetic.htm Cool Supernatural Montage by one of your talented classmates(22/02) Montage Awesome Website for Criminal Minds - may be worth a read before writing task. Criminal Minds Fan Site

Some basics...
__ Media and Everyday Life: Media 2.0 (a phrase coined by some media educators to explain changes in media production and consumption)__

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**Film Terminology:**
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 * Cross-cutting Example - James Bond and Fades and Dissolves - which is which?**

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 * Jump Cuts, Match Cuts and Cutaways and Reaction Shot!**

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 * Match Action Shot! Remember...**
 * ...Match Cuts are awesome for creating continuity during actions scenes.**

**Vampire Genre Student Presentations**

 * Audience Expectations/Reactions**


 * Special Effects**


 * Religious Iconography**


 * Commercial and Societal Influences**


 * Violence and Gore**