Bowling For Columbine - Homework Due Tuesday

Moral Panic

Stanley Cohen has termed ‘The Moral Panic’ (Cohen 1972: 9)
A moral panic is an intense feeling expressed in a population about an issue that appears to threaten the social order. 

PEE - Point, evidence, explain. 

1. How are the two boys represented?
2. Did the shooting create a moral panic? 
3. Does Michael More attack American gun law? Is this a biased account? 
4. Are the government responsible for the moral panic or the media?
5. Do the media promote moral panics to avert attention from the government?
6. What did the media/ people blame for the shooting?

britcinemas 19.3.13 by mediaashton

American Filmindustry by mediaashton

Synergy by mediaashton

For all incomplete blogs

All blogs MUST be complete and looking like the examples, they must include (page post):

1. Research
2. Audience profile (who will read your magazine)
3. Plans, sketches, images, shot plans
4. Test shots or shots that you did not use
5. Double page spread draft
6. Front cover draft
7. Contents page draft
8. Schedule (week by week account of completed work)
9. Font cover final
10. Contents final
11. Double page spread final
12. Evaluation

MAKE SURE THAT YOUR BLOG LOOKS PRESENTABLE (aesthetically pleasing), easy to read (colour), that the background fits the genre of your magazine or film opening. It is essential that you make it clear and easy to read as you will be marked from this.

Evaluation

Below are questions for you to answer for your evaluation of your magazine. 

Use this link to look at evaluation examples: http://bethurwin.blogspot.co.uk/ 

1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

• Title (name of magazine)
• Mise en scene of images
• Costume and props
• People
• Title font and style
• Written content
• Music genre and how your magazine suggests it
• Layout
• Contents page

2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?

3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

4. Who would be the audience for your media product?

5. How did you attract/address your audience?

6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

7. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to full product?

http://www.ocr.org.uk/images/62842-mark-scheme-unit-g322-key-media-concepts-tv-drama-january.pdf