Objective: Learning to link the concept of narrative to your practical productions and

evaluate your productions in relation to how you applied conventions

Explain your conclusions,
with reasons and evidence

What has been the most

enjoyable part of working on your
practical portfolios so far?
Objective: Learning to link the concept of narrative to your
our practical
practicalproductions
productionsand
and
evaluate your
our productions
productionsininrelation
relationtotopost-production
how you applied conventions
Explain your conclusions,
HOMEWORK DUE: TODAY with reasons and evidence

• 1a)
• ‘Post – production can be the most creative stage’
Discuss the decisions you made during post-production
of two pieces of coursework.

• 1b)
• ‘Media texts rely on cultural experiences in order for
audiences to easily make sense of narratives’.
Explain how you used conventional and/or experimental
narrative approaches in one of your production pieces.
Objective: Learning to link the concept of narrative to your
our practical
practicalproductions
productionsand
and
evaluate your
our productions
productionsininrelation
relationtotopost-production
how you applied conventions
Explain your conclusions,
with reasons and evidence

Read Section 1.a) from Mike Fews essay

1) What do you learn from Mike

about his practical production?
2) What does Mike write about?
timEr acTiVity
TIME LEFT TO COMPLETE
ACTIVITY
Objective: Learning to link the concept of narrative to your
our practical
practicalproductions
productionsand
and
evaluate your
our productions
productionsininrelation
relationtotopost-production
how you applied conventions
Explain your conclusions,
with reasons and evidence
Reflect on Acknowledges Discusses both Uses specific
approaches to Progression AS and A2 examples
both AS and A2

15 mins

How have you considered the conventions from

real media texts when planning your own practical
productions?
timEr acTiVity
TIME LEFT TO COMPLETE
ACTIVITY
Objective: Learning to link the concept of narrative to your
our practical
practicalproductions
productionsand
and
evaluate your
our productions
productionsininrelation
relationtotopost-production
how you applied conventions
Explain your conclusions,
with reasons and evidence

You are now all going to go

speed dating!
Objective: Learning to link the concept of narrative to your
our practical
practicalproductions
productionsand
and
evaluate your
our productions
productionsininrelation
relationtotopost-production
how you applied conventions
Explain your conclusions,
Speed with reasons and evidence
Daters
Dating! Datees
Charley
Datees will take Dora
up position at George M
one of the desks Deanna
with pad/pen Ky
Aleena
Daters will spend Alex T
three minutes with Aqib
three different George S
Datees. Waqar
Alex P
During the three minutes Asha
you will need to read Steph
your paragraphs to each Isy
other and record what Nicole
you have learnt about Alex C
each others practical Ben
work
timEr acTiVity
TIME LEFT TO COMPLETE
ACTIVITY
Objective: Learning to link the concept of narrative to your
our practical
practicalproductions
productionsand
and
evaluate your
our productions
productionsininrelation
relationtotopost-production
how you applied conventions
Explain your conclusions,
with reasons and evidence
Reflect on Acknowledges Discusses both Uses specific
approaches to Progression AS and A2 examples
both AS and A2

How have you considered the conventions from

real media texts when planning your own practical
productions?
Objective: Learning to link the concept of narrative to your
our practical
practicalproductions
productionsand
and
evaluate your
our productions
productionsininrelation
relationtotopost-production
how you applied conventions
Explain your conclusions,
with reasons and evidence

Reflect on Acknowledges Discusses both Uses specific

approaches to Progression AS and A2 examples
both AS and A2

1a)
‘Post – production can be the most creative stage’
Discuss the decisions you made during post-production of
two pieces of coursework.
 Take responsibility for
making sure that
7th-18th – Pre Production goals are achieved,
Blog marking 23rd – Final hand in and pushing things
for practical
forward despite any
setbacks
18th – Final Hand in
Blog: research and
planning

January March April May

February

2nd – Hand in rough

cut of practical 4th – Evaluation
Final hand in

27th - EXAM
Objective: Learning to link the concept of narrative to your
our practical
practicalproductions
productionsand
and
evaluate your
our productions
productionsininrelation
relationtotopost-production
how you applied conventions
Explain your conclusions,
with reasons and evidence

Section A: Theoretical Evaluation of Production

Question 1(b) requires you to select one production and

evaluate it in relation to a media concept.
Objective: Learning to link the concept of narrative to your practical productions and
NARRATIVE
evaluate your productions in relation to how you applied conventions
Explain your conclusions,
with reasons and evidence
Objective: Learning to link the concept of narrative to your practical productions and
NARRATIVE
evaluate your productions in relation to how you applied conventions
Explain your conclusions,
with reasons and evidence
Objective: Learning to link the concept of narrative to your practical productions and
NARRATIVE
evaluate your productions in relation to how you applied conventions
Explain your conclusions,
with reasons and evidence
Objective: Learning to link the concept of narrative to your practical productions and
NARRATIVE
evaluate your productions in relation to how you applied conventions
Explain your conclusions,
with reasons and evidence
Objective: Learning to link the concept of narrative to your practical productions and
NARRATIVE
evaluate your productions in relation to how you applied conventions
Explain your conclusions,
with reasons and evidence
Objective: Learning to link the concept of narrative to your practical productions and
NARRATIVE
evaluate your productions in relation to how you applied conventions
Explain your conclusions,
with reasons and evidence
Objective: Learning to link the concept of narrative to your practical productions and
NARRATIVE
evaluate your productions in relation to how you applied conventions
Explain your conclusions,
Todorov: theory of narrative with reasons and evidence

structure: Equilibrium – Disequilibrium -

Equilibrium

Vladimir Propp - characters and actions (31

functions of character types)
Barthes:
decided that they could be categorised in the
following five ways: ･Action & enigma code
(i.e. Answers & questions) ･ Symbols &
Signs ･ Points of Cultural Reference ･ Simple
description/reproduction
Objective: Learning to link the concept of narrative to your practical productions and
NARRATIVE
evaluate your productions in relation to how you applied conventions
Explain your conclusions,
Binary Oppositions with reasons and evidence

Levi-Strauss
Man Woman
Another method of
analysing the meaning
Active Passive and structure of texts.
Texts are structured by
a series of binary
External Domestic conflicts.

Public Private Gender

Producer Consumer
Think about film genre, which
portray very specific binary
oppositions?
Objective: Learning to link the concept of narrative to your practical productions and
NARRATIVE
evaluate your productions in relation to how you applied conventions
Explain your conclusions,
Binary Oppositions with reasons and evidence

• In the mid-20th century, two major European academic thinkers, Claude Levi
Strauss and Roland Barthes, had the important insight that the way we
understand certain words depends not so much on any meaning they
themselves directly contain, but much more by our understanding of the
difference between the word and its 'opposite' or, as they called it 'binary
opposite'. They realised that words merely act as symbols for society's ideas
and that the meaning of words, therefore, was a relationship rather than a
fixed thing: a relationship between opposing ideas.
• For example, our understanding of the word 'coward' surely depends on the
difference between that word and its opposing idea, that of a 'hero' (and to
complicate matters further, a moment's thought should alert you to the fact
that interpreting words such as 'hero' and 'coward' is itself much more to do
with what our society or culture attributes to such words than any meaning the
words themselves might actually contain).
• Other oppositions that should help you understand the idea are the youth/age
binary, the masculinity/femininity, the good/evil binary, and so on. Barthes and
Levi-Strauss noticed another important feature of these 'binary opposites': that
one side of the binary pair is always seen by a particular society or culture as
more valued over the other.
Objective: Learning to link the concept of narrative to your practical productions and
NARRATIVE
evaluate your productions in relation to how you applied conventions
Explain your conclusions,
with reasons and evidence

Andrew Goodwin:

‘Music Videos are simply an extension of the lyrics’

‘Images add new layers of meaning to the words of the
song.’
Objective: Learning to link the concept of narrative to your practical productions and
NARRATIVE
evaluate your productions in relation to how you applied conventions
Explain your conclusions,
with reasons and evidence
Which theories do you think you can
use and apply to support/challenge
your production?

• Fiske
• Christian Metz
• Todorov
• Propp
• Roland Barthes/Levi Strauss
• Andrew Goodwin