Media


In class today we were looking at media as a whole and what is it and what the media is. Within class discussion we were talking about everything that make up the media from, Newspapers to the internet to T.V. One word that is very important in media is medium. Medium is something that is in the middle, media denotes this word because the media is in the middle of something happening and people finding out. For example, someone famous dies, the media is in the middle of that and it reaching people. Also we were looking at what is the media, this is individual aspects that make up the media.
To conclude, in this lesson i found out what the media is, what it does, how it does it and how important the word medium is in the subject media.

Juxtaposition


- In the second lesson of media studies AS level, we were looking at juxtaposition. Juxtaposition is the contrast between two things. These two elements can be very different or have a slight relationship. Within the lesson we were assigned to create a juxtaposition and then evaluate it. I chose to look at the contract between big and small, i collected two pictures. When evaluating the juxtaposition, we were looking at aspects such as what the background signifies, what themes are present within the picture, what the foreground signifies and also to look at the powers that this juxtaposition represents.

Media Studies Lesson: 13/9/10


- Signifier's aren't only visual, they apply to sound as well. Semiotics is the study of signs. We look at three types of "signs".

• Symbolic - The learned codes. E.g numbers, letters and punctuation marks.
• Iconic - Resembling or imitating the signified. E.g photo or realistic sounds.
• Indexical - Where something is directly connected to the signified