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Coursework: Summer Project 2018

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1) Research: Film trailer analysis  You need to write detailed  250-word close-textual analyses  of six film trailers in your chosen genre. For each film trailer, focus on a different aspect of media language, and embed each one on your blog: Film trailer 1: Narrative and genre How is narrative and genre communicated quickly and clearly to the audience? 1) The Conjuring  In this trailer, enigma codes are utilised to portray a sense of mystery, this is shown in the middle of the trailer where the investigators are trying to discover the evil spirit that has taken over the house and the people within it which causes the audience to possess numerous unanswered questions and feel an urge to find out what happens next (Roland Barthes - codes). This has a typical hero and villain story line as the heroes are the ghost hunters/paranormal researchers and the villain is the evil spirit taking over the house and possessing the people within it (Vladimir Propp - seven spheres of action

Learner response

Coursework: Ignite presentation learner response There have been some  excellent  Ignite presentations with some brilliantly creative responses to the coursework brief.  Hopefully, the presentations and Q&A sessions that followed have highlighted the strengths and weaknesses of your coursework proposal and may indeed have prompted re-drafts of your statement of intent.  Your learner response is as follows and will take some time to do properly: Create a new blogpost called 'Ignite presentation learner response' 1) Type up your feedback  in full  including the ratings out of five for each category.  Title and tag line bith need work - very little originality there and title with exclamation mark almost suggests comedy. Good choice of images to communicate genre and narrative ideas are solid-classic horror storyline  Technical planning needs to be much more specific - don’t define the camera shot or editing ... explain how you will acctually use these with speci