Levi's Media A2 Blog

Regulation ‘Regulate’- a rule or directive made and maintained by an authority. In my own opinion I believe that regulation is the organisation from the BBFA ratings for all types of media, reaching from films to music videos and video games. In which it was created to rate films so that the specific intended audience would be able to view an appropriate media platform.  In other words regulation is there to help protect the vulnerable viewers from dangerous messages or content. Whilst regulation benefits millions of people it is also substantial who helps set the guidelines for the BBFA. Particularly speaking, regulating from society on a whole is vital to them as there are multiple different races, age and religion. The more people who represent society on a whole the more successful the regulation is. Furthermore other people who are regulating should not be biased in any way as it causes disruption between the regulators and affect the society by harmful content. More s...

Casting, Directing and Credits  Casting- Here we had to choose male and female actors who could portray the characters that we created. As we were targeting a male dominant society it would seem that having the male actor played by Levi Bent act violent, terrifying and creepy, I believe we have successfully achieved our ambitions do to the footage shown and how professional it looks compared to other real media. Furthermore the female actress used is played by Megan Boyle and we had envisioned her to be represented as the male gaze. This is due to the male dominated society and having her viewed through the male’s perspective allows the audience to experience it in that way.  Credits- The credits consist of the members of our group and the specific roles that they played part into the final poster and trailer. To help create this we used Photoshop to help us create the credits and Dafont which enabled us to use the specific font...

Peer Assessment Question 1b Portfolio Question/Theory: Narrative essay Student name: Levi Bent MEG: C               Working at Grade: C List theorists & theories referenced: 1 Todorov- Equilibrium, disequilibrium and resolution 2 Levi strauss- Good vs evil, Man vs Woman and Protagonist vs Antagonist. 3Binary Opposites 4 Barthes- Enigma code 5Propp- Damsel- in- distress List terminology words: Binary Opposites, enigma code, stereotypical, teen punishment, mis-en-scene, disequilibrium, equilibrium, resolution, linear structure, montage, disruption, protagonist, antagonist, Level Description Ref no Grade Agree? Level 1: Outlines or describes 1 theorist with little reference to own production, and is under 250 words (1 side handwritten A4) U Level 2 lower: Introduces and d...

Digital technology is the way of how over the years it has become more developed than ever, allowing other users to create products from their own initiative. Softwares such as Photoshop, InDesign, Final cut pro and Logic Pro X all help allow the producer to experiment with different elements of a design.  For my AS coursework I was instructed to create a music magazine of my choice, however in A2 I created a horror genre film trailer which focused on the slasher sub-genre. Throughout the two years I have acknowledge the opportunity of being able to work with certain editing softwares that was accessible for me to utilize. I have also used these softwares to help me develop my work over the two years but more so in the second as my knowledge of them has increased.  Firstly I would like to start of with my Preliminary task that was to create a college music magazine. As this was completed in my first year my knowledge of the editing softwares was at amateur level, this meant ...

Real media text essay "Explain how significant were the Conventions of Real Media Texts in your development of creativity across your 2 years of production work." Real media texts all have conventions and rules which helps lead to their purpose. Typical conventions have the option of either being broken or followed due to the real media texts that are already exist it would seem that creativity has been limited as they set image for a real media text. With creating a real media text it is a necessity for the creator to involve semiotics as certain real media texts have a subtext allowing the audience to identify the denotation and connotation of the media text. In AS, my brief was to create a hip hop music magazine and to complete this successfully I had to identify typical conventions in a real media magazine relating it to the layout and structure, use of images and text, semiotics, what genre and the representation. First of all in AS we had to choose a music ...

Media essay question Q: Describe how your analysis of the conventions of real media texts informed your own creative media practice. Refer to a range of examples in your answer to show how these skills developed over time. Firstly over the course of the two years I feel conventions play a vital role in being successful with real media texts. I say this because to create a real media text it seems following the same function will allow a piece to become successful in its own way as it coincides with the real media text. If leading away from the typical conventions opens a route for originality which can be taken positively or negatively. With such a wide variety typical media text the audience already know what to expect. This also prompts the question of how successful those media texts are? Which in response would be mostly as the media text have applied the typical conventions of  a media text, therefore allowing the audience to relate to the media text. Throughout the two ye...

Representation essay The trailer that I will be analysing is from ‘Splash slasher Productions’ and it is called ‘Never sleep again’, reason being is because they included multiple representation theorists that can be explored within their teaser trailer. Theorists such as Charles Derry, Carol Clover and Sarah Dobbs have all been located within the teaser trailer which helps follow the typical conventions of a horror trailer. Firstly I noticed throughout the trailer Carol Clover’s theory of the use of a final girl, due to the character being the last person to actually confront the source of evil itself. For example in the trailer the final was being dragged viciously across the ground by the antagonist which is evidence for the confrontation between the protagonist and antagonist. In other trailers such as ‘Cabin in the Woods’ the same character type is seen there as well which may imply that the female protagonist is adopting masculine features to overcome evil. Strengths of ...