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Real Media Conventions Question

Real Media Conventions

MARKS

Explanation/Analysis/Argument - 7/10

Examples - 5/10

Terminology - 3/5 

Total - 15/25

Real Media Conventions Essay Plan

How has your understanding of real media conventions developed over the past two years?

Essay Plan:

Real Media Conventions - ESSAY PLAN by AliceLillyHoar

Real Media Conventions Tasks

Each of your media production tasks had a specific set of conventions – whether it was the music magazine, the music video or the ancillary tasks. In each case you researched real media to establish conventions and guidelines to aid you in the production of your own work.

For this topic you need to consider how your understanding of these real media has developed over the last two years.

TASK ONE 

List of Conventional Elements by AliceLillyHoar

TASK TWO

Applying Theories to Your Work by

TASK THREE 

Postmodern Theories (For Real Media Conventions)

Postmodern style: Irony, Parody, Pastiche, Bricolage, Intertextuality 

• Bricolage is the process of deliberately ‘borrowing’ or adapting signs or features from different styles or genres to create a new mixture of meanings (O’Sullivan et. al, 1998).
• Pastiche: Bog standard copying of conventions or can be done for bricolage effect.  Whichever, this ultimately reinforces their importance in culture and society.  Parody is a kind on pastiche which makes fun of the subject.
• Intertextuality is the way in which media texts gain their meanings by referring to other media texts that the producers assume that the reader/decoder will be familiar with and recognise (O’Sullivan et. al 1998).Postmodern style: Irony, Parody, Pastiche, Bricolage, Intertextuality.