A reminder to Year 12
Available on the intranet in the Pupilshare Media Studies folder are several powerpoint presentations on Gender - some you've seen, some we didn't have time to view.
It would be especially useful to look at the Hartley and Taflinger ones to give you some media theory to quote in your paper.
Pass this info on if you pick it up...
Tuesday 20 May 2008
Saturday 10 May 2008
Media Issues & Debates - Horror Films Online
This link will take you to the 1922 Nosferatu online:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6185283610506001721
Or Dracula (1931) starring the wonderful Bela Lugosi
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1951778873752026088&q=source:007259498880564830540&hl=en
And The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari (1919) opens here:
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=doktor+caligari&hl=en&sitesearch
Choose the second one on the list.
Worth scanning for some early codes and conventions.
This scene from Frankenstein (1931) is illuminating:
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=frankenstein&hl=en&sitesearch=&start=10
As is the 1954 classic Them!
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=them&hl=en&sitesearch=
Also available online is Night of the Living Dead (1968) George Romero's zombie horror classic:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2956447426428748010&q=&hl=en
And the truly wonderful and bizarre Freaks (1932) directed by Todd Browning (also dir. Dracula 1931) that uses real deformed actors in various roles based around a circus sideshow:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6355110065089064433&q=&hl=en
Science fiction found it's nadir in the laughably awful - yet strangely marvellous Plan 9 From Outer Space (1959) - if you've seen Tim Burton's Ed Wood, starring Johnny Depp (one of my favourite films!) it's based around it:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7038656109656489183&q=&hl=en
If you like your fears a little melodramatic why not indulge in some Reefer Madness (1936):
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6696582420128930236&q=source:007259498880564830540&hl=en
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6185283610506001721
Or Dracula (1931) starring the wonderful Bela Lugosi
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1951778873752026088&q=source:007259498880564830540&hl=en
And The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari (1919) opens here:
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=doktor+caligari&hl=en&sitesearch
Choose the second one on the list.
Worth scanning for some early codes and conventions.
This scene from Frankenstein (1931) is illuminating:
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=frankenstein&hl=en&sitesearch=&start=10
As is the 1954 classic Them!
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=them&hl=en&sitesearch=
Also available online is Night of the Living Dead (1968) George Romero's zombie horror classic:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2956447426428748010&q=&hl=en
And the truly wonderful and bizarre Freaks (1932) directed by Todd Browning (also dir. Dracula 1931) that uses real deformed actors in various roles based around a circus sideshow:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6355110065089064433&q=&hl=en
Science fiction found it's nadir in the laughably awful - yet strangely marvellous Plan 9 From Outer Space (1959) - if you've seen Tim Burton's Ed Wood, starring Johnny Depp (one of my favourite films!) it's based around it:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7038656109656489183&q=&hl=en
If you like your fears a little melodramatic why not indulge in some Reefer Madness (1936):
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6696582420128930236&q=source:007259498880564830540&hl=en
Sunday 4 May 2008
Media Issues & Debates - Good Link
http://www.freewebs.com/jbrogden/midgenremain.htm#162354479
This gives you some great background info on Genre and Science-Fiction in particular.
This gives you some great background info on Genre and Science-Fiction in particular.
New Media Technologies - Good Link
Here's a link to a media teachers page that offers an excellent summary of what this module is all about:
His name is Mr Brogden! And no he's not me in digital disguise - he's far too well organised...
http://www.freewebs.com/jbrogden/newmediatechnology.htm
His name is Mr Brogden! And no he's not me in digital disguise - he's far too well organised...
http://www.freewebs.com/jbrogden/newmediatechnology.htm
The Blogging Revolution - Wired Magazine, May 2002
Weblogs are to Words what Napster was to Music - Andrew Sullivan
In the beginning - say 1994 - the phenomenon now called blogging was little more than the sometimes nutty, sometimes inspired, writings of online diaries. These days, there are tech blogs and sex blogs and drug blogs and teenage blogs. But there are also news blogs and commentary blogs, sites packed with links and quips and ideas and arguments that only months ago were the near-monopoly of established news outlets. Poised between media, blogs can be as nuanced and well-sourced as traditional journalism, but they have the immediacy of talk radio. Amid it all, this much is clear: The phenomenon is real. Blogging is changing the media world and could, I think, foment a revolution in how journalism functions in our culture.
Blogs do two things that Web magazines like Slate and Salon simply cannot. First off, blogs are personal. Almost all of them are imbued with the temper of their writer. This personal touch is much more in tune with our current sensibility than were the opinionated magazines and newspapers of old. Readers increasingly doubt the authority of The Washington Post or National Review, despite their grand-sounding titles and large staffs. They know that behind the curtain are fallible writers and editors who are no more inherently trustworthy than a lone blogger who has earned a reader’s respect.
The second thing blogs do is - to invoke Marx - seize the means of production. It’s hard to overestimate what a huge deal this is. For as long as journalism has existed, writers of whatever kind have had one route to readers: They needed an editor and a publisher. Even in the most benign senario, this process subtly distorts journalism. You find yourself almost unconsciously writing to please a handful of people - the editors looking for a certain kind of story, the publishers seeking to push a particular venture, or the advertisers who influence the editors and owners. Blogging simply bypasses this ancient ritual.
Twenty-one months ago, I rashly decided to set up a Web page myself and used Blogger.com to publish some daily musings to a readership of a few hundred. Sure, I’m lucky to be an established writer in the first place. And I worked hard at the blog for months for free. But the upshot is that I’m now reaching almost a quarter of a million readers a month and making a profit. That kind of exposure rivals the audiences of traditional news and opinion magazines.
And I have plenty of company. The most obvious example is Glenn Reynolds, a hyperactive law professor who churns out dozens of posts a day and has quickly become a huge presence in opinion jounalism. this is democratic journalism at its purest. Eventually, you can envisage a world in which the most successful writers will use this medium as a form of self-declared independence.
Think about it for a minute. Why not build an online presence with your daily musings and sell your first book through print-on-demand technology direct from your website? Why should established writers go to newspapers and magazines to get an essay published, when they can simply write it themselves, convert it into a .pdf file, and charge a few bucks per download? Just as magazines and newspaper editors are slinking off into the sunset, so too might all the agents and editors and publishers in the book market.This, at least, is the idea: a publishing revolution more profound than anything since the printing press. Blogger could be to words what Napster was to music - except this time, it’ll really work. Check back in a couple of years to see whether this is yet another concept that online reality has had the temerity to destroy.
In the beginning - say 1994 - the phenomenon now called blogging was little more than the sometimes nutty, sometimes inspired, writings of online diaries. These days, there are tech blogs and sex blogs and drug blogs and teenage blogs. But there are also news blogs and commentary blogs, sites packed with links and quips and ideas and arguments that only months ago were the near-monopoly of established news outlets. Poised between media, blogs can be as nuanced and well-sourced as traditional journalism, but they have the immediacy of talk radio. Amid it all, this much is clear: The phenomenon is real. Blogging is changing the media world and could, I think, foment a revolution in how journalism functions in our culture.
Blogs do two things that Web magazines like Slate and Salon simply cannot. First off, blogs are personal. Almost all of them are imbued with the temper of their writer. This personal touch is much more in tune with our current sensibility than were the opinionated magazines and newspapers of old. Readers increasingly doubt the authority of The Washington Post or National Review, despite their grand-sounding titles and large staffs. They know that behind the curtain are fallible writers and editors who are no more inherently trustworthy than a lone blogger who has earned a reader’s respect.
The second thing blogs do is - to invoke Marx - seize the means of production. It’s hard to overestimate what a huge deal this is. For as long as journalism has existed, writers of whatever kind have had one route to readers: They needed an editor and a publisher. Even in the most benign senario, this process subtly distorts journalism. You find yourself almost unconsciously writing to please a handful of people - the editors looking for a certain kind of story, the publishers seeking to push a particular venture, or the advertisers who influence the editors and owners. Blogging simply bypasses this ancient ritual.
Twenty-one months ago, I rashly decided to set up a Web page myself and used Blogger.com to publish some daily musings to a readership of a few hundred. Sure, I’m lucky to be an established writer in the first place. And I worked hard at the blog for months for free. But the upshot is that I’m now reaching almost a quarter of a million readers a month and making a profit. That kind of exposure rivals the audiences of traditional news and opinion magazines.
And I have plenty of company. The most obvious example is Glenn Reynolds, a hyperactive law professor who churns out dozens of posts a day and has quickly become a huge presence in opinion jounalism. this is democratic journalism at its purest. Eventually, you can envisage a world in which the most successful writers will use this medium as a form of self-declared independence.
Think about it for a minute. Why not build an online presence with your daily musings and sell your first book through print-on-demand technology direct from your website? Why should established writers go to newspapers and magazines to get an essay published, when they can simply write it themselves, convert it into a .pdf file, and charge a few bucks per download? Just as magazines and newspaper editors are slinking off into the sunset, so too might all the agents and editors and publishers in the book market.This, at least, is the idea: a publishing revolution more profound than anything since the printing press. Blogger could be to words what Napster was to music - except this time, it’ll really work. Check back in a couple of years to see whether this is yet another concept that online reality has had the temerity to destroy.
New Media Technologies - the importance of convergence etc
Last lesson I emphasised the significance of convergence to the new media technologies exam.
Here's a link to an article that explains what the term means:
Why convergence matters
Another important movement in New Media Technologies is increasing personalisation:
Personalising Yourself - is more choice better?
Possible Case Study 1 - Videogames
For those gentlemen in the class who spend too long in front of their XBox's twiddling their joysticks here's a link that just might enable you to say to Mum that you're researching for your media studies exam!
http://www.wired.com/gaming/gamingreviews/commentary/games/2008/05/gamesfrontiers_0502
You might want to think more widely about what the benefits and disadvantages of video gaming are for consumers or producers...
Here's a summary of the issues:
Sample Case Study - Videogaming
Institutions - Game profitability under threat - http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6397527.stm
Audiences - Games 'make drivers go faster' -
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6410061.stm
Wired is a good general source for articles on contemporary debates in the media.
Possible Case Study 2 - Digital Radio
So too is The Guardian Media website:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media
This week there's an article on the increase in Digital Radio's listening figures.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/may/01/digitaltvradio.rajars
What are the advantages to users of digital radio? How is it better than analogue?
What are the benefits to the different producers involved? Producers of radio programmes - BBC etc? Producers of the hardware - http://www.pure.com/ for example? Or even the retailers who sell the radios - Currys, Dixons, amazon.com?
Possible Case Study 3 - Digital TV
These links gives you some starting points for a possible case study into the advantages and disadvantages of digital television:
An introduction to digital television
Who needs a television?
Is +1 a channel too far?
Possible Case Study 4 - Web 2.0
Or is you're feeling frisky you could start looking into Web 2.0 (wikipedia, myspace, facebook, youtube, podcasting, blogging! MMOG's etc)
Web 2.0 and the power of collaboration
Podcasting
Blogging
BBC News - Virtual worlds set for shake up
Media Guardian - Why youtube is good for TV
BBC Click - Web 2.0 starts to take hold
Just to prove that Web 2.0 isn't all a nerds love-in and is about making cash too...
The race to preserve the third space - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6496351.stm
The impact of youtube - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6365389.stm
More news from the last post...
If you've been looking at the music industry as a possible case study here's a link to some detailed information on digital rights management:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/6457369.stm
http://blog.wired.com/music/2007/02/how_to_explain_.html
Here's a link to an article that explains what the term means:
Why convergence matters
Another important movement in New Media Technologies is increasing personalisation:
Personalising Yourself - is more choice better?
Possible Case Study 1 - Videogames
For those gentlemen in the class who spend too long in front of their XBox's twiddling their joysticks here's a link that just might enable you to say to Mum that you're researching for your media studies exam!
http://www.wired.com/gaming/gamingreviews/commentary/games/2008/05/gamesfrontiers_0502
You might want to think more widely about what the benefits and disadvantages of video gaming are for consumers or producers...
Here's a summary of the issues:
Sample Case Study - Videogaming
Institutions - Game profitability under threat - http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6397527.stm
Audiences - Games 'make drivers go faster' -
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6410061.stm
Wired is a good general source for articles on contemporary debates in the media.
Possible Case Study 2 - Digital Radio
So too is The Guardian Media website:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media
This week there's an article on the increase in Digital Radio's listening figures.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/may/01/digitaltvradio.rajars
What are the advantages to users of digital radio? How is it better than analogue?
What are the benefits to the different producers involved? Producers of radio programmes - BBC etc? Producers of the hardware - http://www.pure.com/ for example? Or even the retailers who sell the radios - Currys, Dixons, amazon.com?
Possible Case Study 3 - Digital TV
These links gives you some starting points for a possible case study into the advantages and disadvantages of digital television:
An introduction to digital television
Who needs a television?
Is +1 a channel too far?
Possible Case Study 4 - Web 2.0
Or is you're feeling frisky you could start looking into Web 2.0 (wikipedia, myspace, facebook, youtube, podcasting, blogging! MMOG's etc)
Web 2.0 and the power of collaboration
Podcasting
Blogging
BBC News - Virtual worlds set for shake up
Media Guardian - Why youtube is good for TV
BBC Click - Web 2.0 starts to take hold
Just to prove that Web 2.0 isn't all a nerds love-in and is about making cash too...
The race to preserve the third space - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6496351.stm
The impact of youtube - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6365389.stm
More news from the last post...
If you've been looking at the music industry as a possible case study here's a link to some detailed information on digital rights management:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/6457369.stm
http://blog.wired.com/music/2007/02/how_to_explain_.html
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