Evan Appleby Media Blog

Media Language Roland Barthes - Semiology Signs have meanings past their denotation for example the silence and mid shot of Sarah Lund lets the audience know she has had an epiphany before she suggests to check the river. A limitation can be that signs may be misinterpreted. Tzvetan Todorv - Narratology Study of narratives with a structure of equilibrium(everything is normal), disruption(equilibrium is broken), transformation(the hero must change or go on a journey), new equilibrium(everything is good again) for example in Stranger Things, the boys are happy together, Will is taken and they go to find him but a new equilibrium isn't formed as it is only the first episode but is formed later in the show when Will is found. A limitation is that it cannot be applied to other media such as radio or news. Steve Neale - Genre Theory genres are created by repeated narratives, codes and conventions with genres always evolving and sometimes fusing to make hybrid genres such as Stranger Thin...

 Henry Jenkins Participatory Media - media becomes a part of people's lives and people participate in media such as online news and its lack of regulation or how The Killing was a public service broadcast but was remade by AMC and was turned into a capitalised piece of media Clay Shirky End Of Audience - consumers become prosumers and make content such as the comments on the Mail Online and Minecraft streamers who are watched more than the game is played Bell Hooks could be applied to Meghan Markle and her treatment as opposed to Kate limitations of theorists: Bandura- made in the 60s so is an old theory and was made for TV and used kids Barthes- symbols can be identified incorrectly also very old Van Zoonen- Men in power in Stranger Things can be incompetent but women like Nancy and Joyce have to work, in The Killing Sarah Lund is powerful but Jan is sloppy Hyper reality- a recreation of the 80s made through the Spielbergian Hyper Reality  in Stranger Things so is not entirel...

Forbrydelsen (The Killing) Context Audience BBC profile for viewers of The Killing: female profile=56 under 55 profile-29 ABC1 profile-70 HE profile-52 Characters Sarah Lund - strong female lead which is unconventional for the crime genre with most detectives being male or an older woman like Murder She Wrote or Miss Marple. She also presents herself as more masculine than feminine in her clothes and way she acts with her iconic sweater that became extremely popular after the show. She is moving from Denmark to Sweden with her family, Sweden has a friendly rivalry with Denmark. She has a son called Mark Lund and a boyfriend named Bengt Rosling. She ignores her family and postpones her move to Sweden because of her police work however and forgets her son's hockey team. She also misses her leaving party for her case showing that she is disregarding her own stability too. She is competent and devoted to the case. She seems to have a sixth sense for cases when the camera zooms in afte...

Question 1 compare two unseen sources sources could be front cover or website asked to apply representation theorist Stuart Hall Present, absent, different producers can create meaning by choosing which stories to keep, change or leave out entirely stereotypes repeated representations lead to stereotypes which are usually harmful anti-stereotypes don't fix the stereotypes, they just fix them in a different way nurses as heroes are an unhelpful anti-stereotype which doesn't present them as complex regular people producers use power to fix a preferred meaning practice question analyse the different social and cultural representations in sources A and B. Apply Hall's theory of representation in your answer     Plan the Mirror has royal family looking happy and positive despite its political leaning but still mentions a 'war' with Harry, Royals mentioned because of economic state and decline of news hard news mentioned in the Mirror as it supports the political leaning...

 Task 1 The news industry has faced lots of challenges over the past 20 years with a decline in print sales. Some newspapers have felt the effects of this more than other like The Guardian who's readership got so low it now only prints for the prestige with its last known circulation being 100,000 and The Guardian only becoming profitable in 2019. To counter this change news has started to make a shift to online with The Guardian's website that can get money through not just donations but a subscription which is more profitable than print sales. The Daily Mail made a big move into the online news world with the Mail Online that publishes 2000 articles a day and 4000 images. The Mail Online can publish so much due to its repeated narratives such as the Royal Family or immigration that will consistently get clicks without having to put effort into their articles as the few hits make up for the many flops. The move to online also follows Clary Shirky's theory of interactivity ...

News 4 questions for news Q2- 15 markers: representations of 'reality' viewpoints and ideology genre conventions usually Daily mail/ Guardian but could be anything can be websites usually The Sun will have Van Zoonen theory of objectifying women applied Daily Telegraph has high ratio of copy to images The Times is a populist broadsheet with a more balanced ratio of copy to images The Guardian is funded by donations with a younger ABC1 educated audience 3 paragraphs the I has a vertical masthead which is unconventional Stuart Hall is a go to theorist for preferred readings and dominant ideology(a good start), Gerbner's cultivation theory is also relevant lower priced tabloid that targets a younger reader could also be a mid-market Steve Neale- repetition and difference of genres  and being blended together David Gauntlet's representations pick and mix theory of audiences will pick and mix different interpretations and representations Any theorist can show up in question ...

Episode 1 - Chapter One: The Vanishing Of Will Byers Opens with a scientist running away from an unseen monster (the Demogorgon) that is revealed later in the series. The scene is an intertextual reference to Alien with the close up and POV shots. The boys(Mike Wheeler, Dustin Henderson, Lucas Sinclair and Will Byers) play DND in a basement with mise-en-scene full of props to fit the personality of a group of nerds with a poster of The Thing and DND special edition until Mike's mum (Karen Wheeler) interrupts them. Will runs home and is taken by the Demogorgan with a shotgun(Hopper notices its absent later) The DND boys go to class and they are bullied by bullies who call Lucas a racially motivated comment Brenner's crew go back to Hawkins' lab to find a quarantine and mysterious portal Eleven goes into a burger store in a hospital gown and the owner Benny catches her stealing fries Hopper and other police officers Powell and Callahan find Will's crashed bike The Wheeler...