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Tuesday 25 September 2012

How do the dominant representations of Teenagers reflect their collective identity?

Teenage Radio  - Kiss 100
Capital FM
Radio 1

Adult Radio- Classic FM
BBC radio 4

The songs played on Kiss 100 target a teenage audience. The lyrics in some of them include explicit words and phrases for example, Nicki Minajs songs. This language represents teenagers as many teenagers use this type of language in todays society, words such as "hoe". Whereas, radio stations such as BBC Radio 4 does not represent teenagers at all as the music played is not aimed at them.

Kiss 100 Fm also advertise things such as itunes festival tickets which relates to a teenage audience. After 9pm on some evenings Rap songs are played. This represents teenagers as most tenenagers listen and create this style of music in todays society. This is sometimes frowned upon and seen negatively as most of the lyrics consist of "sex, violence and crime".

Classic FM play more calm and chilled out music which teenagers would find boring and not something they would choose to listen to. The language used on this channel is more formal compared to the language sometimes used on Radio 1 where they speak more formally including slang words.

Wednesday 19 September 2012

William Controls music videos with analysis



Build up to the song- it gradually gets louder after 26 seconds. The cuts become faster as the music gets louder.



Monday 17 September 2012

Identifying Objectives

1.) In what ways will your media product use,develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
Our media product will challenge the forms and conventions of real media products as the band will not be shown in the video. Therefore, there will be no continuous miming from the band. However, the main character will mime some parts of the song, for example the chrous.The video will draw from conventions of both short film and music videos and will also show some sort of a storyline. We will use the forms and conventions of real media products as typical camera shots will be used in our music video such as close ups and long shots. The character in the video will also be wearing black and have dark hair which are forms and convention of rock/metal music videos.

 2.) How will you ensure that the combination of your main product and ancillary texts are effective? By matching the style and image of the ancillary product with the music video and the artists existing material. For example, the main character in our music video is featured on the front of the Album Cover. We will make the main product and ancillary texts effective by getting audience feedback on our ideas and showing them our storyboard.

 3.) What kinds of audience feedback will you seek for your product and what things might you learn from this?
We will seek feedback from people in our Sixth Form as our target audience is of this age. We will find out if our idea is good and if they think it will be successful. From getting this feedback we can learn lots of things for example, their thoughts and how we can improve in certain areas.

 4.) How will you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?
We used the internet to research forms and conventions of music videos which are similar to our genre. We also watched music videos created by other Media students on Youtube to form different ideas for our own video and to think about the technical skills that are required to create one. We are going to digitally create our evaluation by using a video camera to film us talking about our finished product and the good things about it and the things we could of improved.