e.greslow CHCHS A Level Media 17-19

Synopsis of ‘Life on Mars’ ·         Sam Tyler, a DCI for the Greater Manchester Police, is hit by a car in 2006 trying to rescue his girlfriend. ·         Tyler awakens and finds himself in 1973, the year he was born. ·         Sam works for the commander Gene Hunt. ·         In 2006, Tyler is the top cop and always gets the job done efficiently, however in 1973, Hunt is the top cop however, both of them do things very differently. Media Language within the title sequence In the opening sequence we see Sam, get hit by a car and wake up in 1973. As well as him telling us this we can infer this from the old fashioned clothes and retro looking cars. We then see him enter the police office he works in (in the present day) however it looks very different to what he is used to it looking like. As he walks through the office doors, t...

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Economical Contexts   F unding:  The music video to the Riptide by Vance Joy was low budget film, with no special effects or major editing added. The Australian band are signed to Atlantic records label and this song 'Riptide'; was their first single to be released in America. On the other hand, once their popularity grew, as did their funding, the video to one of their more recent songs, 'Georgia' clearly had a far larger budget and was shot with special effects, looking more like a film, than a music video. Visually it was a lot more cinematic, and was made to have more of an effect on the viewer .   The 'random' images displayed in a montage style in the video to 'Riptide' are seemingly random, but when combined with the lyrics, we see how they represent the words he is saying. This is an example of a cheap budget but meaningful music video, some may say a powerful message is displayed.     The combination of elements of the media language influ...

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Media Theorist Semiotics - Roland Barthes This is the idea that texts communicate their meanings through a process of signification and the signs in the texts can function at the level of denotation, which involves the 'literal' or common-sense meaning of the sign, and at the level of connotation, which involves the meanings associated with or suggested by the sign. Constructed meanings can come to seem self evident, achieving the status of myth through a process of naturalisation.  Narratology - Tzvetan Todorov  Todorov says that all narratives share a basic structure that involves a movement from one state of equilibrium to another. It is said that these two states of equilibrium are separated by a period of imbalance or disequilibrium. The idea that the way in which narratives are resolved can have particular ideological significance  Genre Theory - Steve Neal Neal argues that genres may be dominated by repetition but are also marked by differe...