Questions for 1b

1. “Mass media is ever-changing due to its constant challenging of expected representations” Discuss how you challenged or incorporated accepted representations in one of your production pieces.

2. “All Media texts have a narrative” Discuss how you utilised different approaches to narrative in one of your production pieces.

3. “No media is presents reality, it is a construction of reality through series of shared interpretation of signs.” Discuss how youincoporated different aspects of media language in one of your production pieces.

4. “The audience should feel like voyeurs. Their response is absolutely crucial.” Explain the methods you used to attract your audience.

5. Discuss how you incorporated narrative concepts in one of your production pieces.

6. “The visual look of a text is what defines its genre” Paying particular attention to visuals, explain how you incorporated genre expectations in one of your production pieces.

7. “There is no such thing as reality in representation – we see what the creator wants us to see.” Discuss how you created certain representations in one of your productions.

8. “The more frequently and fluently a medium is used, the more “transparent” or “invisible” to its users it tends to become” Explain how you incorporated messages about your chosen genre in one of your production pieces.

9. “If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.” Discuss ways and methods you used to communicate with your chosen audience.

10. Discuss how you combined media language with a marketable product in one of your productions.

11. “Treating individual texts as closed-off entities is a mistake as codes extend structures.” Explain how you utilised intertextuality and media language in one of your production pieces.

12. “It’s is not the genre that defines a text but the medium of expression chosen by that text.” Discuss how you approached the conventions of your chosen genre in one of your production pieces.