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VCE Stuff => VCE Arts => VCE Arts/Humanities/Health => VCE Subjects + Help => VCE Media => Topic started by: JVG on October 25, 2010, 05:33:20 pm
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Hey, I did OK in Media last year, and would like to pass on some help, as the people on this forum have been fantastic.
Drop me a message
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JVG,
You did "OK" and got a 50??? Oh man I am going to ask you a HEAP of questions tomorrow.
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I did OK in Media last year
Biggest understatement of the year. You aced media haha. Just out of interest, did you get a premier's award for it?
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Haha no, I was the only 50 who didn't :(
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there was only one 50 last year.....
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According to the Herald Sun top achievers list, there were 10 50's last year.
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sh*t.... this is awkward. my bad.
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Did you expect to get (close to) a 50 or was it a big surprise? Not really relevant to anything, just curious.
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how much work did you do yourself? and how much did your teacher help you?
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Honestly I had no idea- i can't say I studied a lot the weekend before- was rowing in Nagambie. My teacher did help me a lot, the most valuable thing she told me was to include complexities to really differentiate yourself- like even though passive is not an accurate description of an audience ('couch potato' question) it's good to say that we can choose to passively consume media. I must say- I went into the exam having done every question before, that was what helped me the most.
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Honestly I had no idea- i can't say I studied a lot the weekend before- was rowing in Nagambie. My teacher did help me a lot, the most valuable thing she told me was to include complexities to really differentiate yourself- like even though passive is not an accurate description of an audience ('couch potato' question) it's good to say that we can choose to passively consume media. I must say- I went into the exam having done every question before, that was what helped me the most.
Oh god, my teacher is probably the worst in the world. I gave him a practice exam to mark and his comments weren't helpful in the slightest. In fact most of them were wrong. He was like "Dialogue is NOT sound" when in the question was like "Refer to how sound engages an audience, including music, sound effects and/or dialogue". This was vcaa too. Arghhh. I wish I had a good teacher to mark my stuff. I'm not even gonna bother showing him anything else. It's a waste of time. I may have to send you some answers JVG! Cos my teacher is pathetic.
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Oooooooooo shit, shilayli. :(
3 DAYS.
FRIDAY - narrative <- everything
SATURDAY - social values <- everything
SUNDAY - media influence <- everything
Monday prior to 3:00pm <- black ops
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Couldn't really think of anywhere else to put this question...
For Social Values, it asks the production period of the film we watched. Now, i'm aware of what this means and everything, but I'm just wondering on that small line given do we just write the year it was released in, or give a range of the years it was produced over?
For example, I'm doing "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner". Do i simply write 1967, or do i write something like 1965-1967?
Also by "I'd done every question before", do you mean by luck you had done the ones that came up in the exam, or that you'd literally done every practice exam you could find haha? (Better yet, how many practice exams did you do?)
I only have access to 7....(VCAA 2005-09, Insight 2007-08).
Thanks.
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Couldn't really think of anywhere else to put this question...
For Social Values, it asks the production period of the film we watched. Now, i'm aware of what this means and everything, but I'm just wondering on that small line given do we just write the year it was released in, or give a range of the years it was produced over?
For example, I'm doing "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner". Do i simply write 1967, or do i write something like 1965-1967?
Also by "I'd done every question before", do you mean by luck you had done the ones that came up in the exam, or that you'd literally done every practice exam you could find haha? (Better yet, how many practice exams did you do?)
I only have access to 7....(VCAA 2005-09, Insight 2007-08).
Thanks.
Years it was produced over apparently. But it doesn't really matter. No marks are given for it anyway so you could do either. It's just to kinda impress the assessor. What could they do if you didn't write anything? Nothing really. So don't stress about it. Just do 1965-1967 that's what seems to be right, but it's not important in the scheme of things anyway.
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Also by "I'd done every question before", do you mean by luck you had done the ones that came up in the exam, or that you'd literally done every practice exam you could find haha? (Better yet, how many practice exams did you do?)
I only have access to 7....(VCAA 2005-09, Insight 2007-08).
Thanks.
I also wanna know the answer to this..
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With reference to one of the texts you have studied this year, give an example of how one of the following production elements is used to contribute to the audience’s engagement with that text. 2008 (3 marks)
• acting
• camera/film/video techniques and qualities
• sound
In reference to one of the narrative texts you have studied this year, analyse how one production and one story element combine to establish a relationship between two of the characters. 2008
(6 marks)
The reception context of a text may impact on the audience’s experience of a film, television or radio narrative. 2008
a. Define the term reception context (1 mark)
b. Describe how the reception context of one of the texts you have studied this year may affect your experience and understanding of that narrative (3 marks)
Describe a setting featured in one of the texts you have studied this year and explain how one of the production elements listed below works with the setting to affect possible audience response to the narrative of that text. 2007
• Lighting
• Visual composition
• Sound (5 marks)
Narratives may be categorised into genres, generic hybrids or types of stories such as horror, soap opera and teen movies. Explain how one of the texts you studied this year uses production and/or story elements typical of one or more genres or types of programs. 2007 (5 marks)
Explain your understanding of the terms ‘cause and effect’ and ‘character motivations’ as story elements in fictional media tests. Use examples from the texts you have studied. 2006
(3 marks)
Explain how one production element and one story element from the following lists contribute to the narrative possibilities, issues and/or ideas established in the opening sequence of one of the texts you have studied this year. 2006
Production elements:
• Visual composition and mise en scene
• Sound, including dialogue, music and sound effects
Story Elements:
• Establishment and development of the character(s) and relationships between characters
• The setting and its function in the narrative (6 marks)
With reference to one of the texts you studied this year, discuss how two of the following production elements establish the point(s) of view from which the narrative is presented in one sequence of the text. 2006
• Acting
• Visual composition and mise en scene
• Sound, including dialogue, music and sound effects
• Editing/vision and sound design and mixing, including style, techniques, placement, pace and rhythm of editing
• Camera/film/video techniques and qualities including shot selection, movement and focus
(6 marks)
With reference to one text, discuss how editing of vision and/or sound is used to structure time within the narrative. In your answer you may include discussion of style, techniques, placement, pace and rhythm of editing. 2006
(4 marks)
Compare how either lighting or sound (including dialogue, music and sound effects) is used in the closing sequences of the two narrative texts you studied this year. 2006
In your response you may refer to any of the following:
• the resolution of the texts’ multiple story lines
• the communication of the major ideas, themes and issues of the narrative texts
• the audiences’ understanding, interpretation and enjoyment of the texts
A narrative relies on cause and effect to move forward. How have cause and effect been used in one of the narrative texts you have studied this year? (2 marks)
Camera techniques can be used to combine with other production or story elements to create a response from the audience. Discuss how this has occurred in each of the fictional narrative texts you have studied this year. (4 + 4 marks)
Film a)
Film b)
Time is usually manipulated to some extent in any fictional narrative. It can be expanded or contracted, linear or non-linear and so on. Explain how time has been manipulated in either of the narrative texts you have viewed this year. (5 marks)
Narrative fictional texts use a range of elements to convey meaning to the audience. Give an example of one production element and one story element used in one of your chosen texts and explain how each of them contributes to the audience’s understanding of the text. (4 + 4 marks)
The climax in a narrative text most often leads to the resolution of the main storyline. The closing sequence then follows to allow closure for the audience. With reference to one of the texts you have studied this year, explain the relationship between the climax, resolution and closing sequence, including whether or not closure was provided for the audience. (6 marks)
1. Describe the use of sound in both texts that you studied this year. (3 + 3 marks)
2. Identify one story element from one of the texts you have studied this year. Discuss how this story element combines with one of the following production elements to communicate ideas within the narrative such as themes, issues or motifs. (6 marks)
3. With reference to one of the narrative texts you have studied this year, discuss how one of the following production elements is used to develop characters and relationships between characters in the narrative
• Camera/film/video techniques including shot selection, movement and/or focus
OR
• Sound, including dialogue and/or music and/or sound effects (5 marks)
4. With reference to one of the narrative texts you have studied this year, discuss how one of the following production elements is used to structure time within the narrative
• Camera/film/video techniques including shot selection, movement and/or focus
OR
• Editing/vision and sound design and mixing, including style, techniques, placement, pace and/or rhythm of editing (5 marks)
5. With reference to one of the texts studied for narrative, describe how any two of the following production elements are used to contribute to the development of the overall narrative
• camera/film techniques
• editing
• sound (3+3 marks)
6. In the closing sequence(s) of a narrative text, narrative possibilities introduced in the opening sequence(s) may be resolved. The resolution may not necessarily occur in ways that the audience expected. Other narrative possibilities may be left open and/or unresolved.
With reference to one of the texts discuss the way(s) in which the closing sequence(s) of the text resolve and/or leave unresolved narrative possibilities from the opening sequence(s). (9 marks)
7. A narrative generally unfolds as characters are established and developed. Characters can react to certain events and character motivations can also cause certain events to unfold.
With reference to two narratives you have studied this year, discuss how character development has contributed to the organisation of the narratives. (7 marks)
8. Camera, film and/or video techniques involve coordinating camera movement, shot selection and focus. Camera, film and/or video techniques can contribute to the development of narrative in many ways, which can include
• establishing a genre and/or program type
• contributing to the development of setting
• contributing to character development
Discuss how camera, film and/or video techniques have been used in one sequence from each of the two texts you have studied this year. You may refer to the dot points above and/or other ways camera contributes to the sequence and the narrative. (4+4 marks)
9. In fictional narratives, setting plays a large part in the audience’s understanding of a story. Production elements can be used to draw the audience’s attention to certain aspects of the setting and assist in their understanding of the narrative.
Select a scene from one of the texts you have studied this year. Discuss how the setting and two production elements work together to develop the audience’s understanding of the narrative. (6 marks)
10. Select two characters from one of the texts. Discuss how one production element and one story element were used in developing each of the characters you have selected. (9 marks)
11. With reference to one of the texts studied this year, provide an example of how the following production elements are used to contribute to the audience’s understanding of the narrative
• camera
• sound
• lighting (9 marks)
12. Time is a story element used in most narratives. The audience has an understanding of the conventions in relation to the structuring of time.
Describe two ways in which time is used in the organisation of one of the narratives you have studied this year. (4 marks)
13. At the start of any narrative the audience is usually made aware of a number of narrative possibilities. By the end, those narrative possibilities may have been resolved or perhaps forgotten. With reference to both narratives you have studied this year
• discuss two narrative possibilities raised in the opening
• discuss how they are or are not resolved in the closing (4+4 marks)
14. With reference to one of the texts you have studied this year, provide an example of how the following production elements are used to contribute to the audience’s understanding of the narrative
• editing
• acting (2+2 marks)
15. A narrative generally begins with a situation, then a series of changes occur according to a pattern of cause and effect through time and space.
With reference to one of the narratives you have studied this year, discuss how cause and effect contributes to the organisation of a narrative. (4 marks)
16. Editing, including vision and sound mixing, involves the careful coordination of images, sound effects, dialogue and music. Editing can contribute to the development of a narrative in many ways, which can include
• establishing a genre and/or program type
• contributing to character development
• developing storylines
• creating suspense or tension
Discuss how editing has been employed in one sequence from each of the two texts you have studied this year. You may refer to the dot points above and/or other ways that editing contributes to the sequence and the narrative. (4+4 marks)
17. Narratives use different production and story elements to engage an audience. With reference to one narrative you have studied this year, provide one example of how visual composition including mise en scene has been used to engage an audience. (3 marks)
18. Production and story elements such as cause and effect contribute to an audience’s response to characters and situations in a narrative. With reference to one narrative you have studied this year
• discuss how cause and effect are constructed to engage an audience
• discuss how cause and effect contribute to the development of characters and situations in the narrative. (8 marks)
19. Select a sequence from one of the texts you have studied this year for narrative. Discuss how any two of the following elements contributed to the effectiveness of the sequence
• lighting
• setting
• visual composition
• development of character (4 marks)
20. A narrative usually emerges from the characters, their personalities, desires and relationships. With reference to one narrative that you studied this year, provide one example of how editing is used to develop an aspect or storyline of a character. (3 marks)
21. Select a sequence from one of the texts you have studied this year for narrative. Discuss how any two of the following elements contributed to the effectiveness of the sequence
• camera/film techniques
• structuring of time
• sound
• setting
• point(s) of view (4 marks)
22. Explain the meaning of ‘point of view’ in relation to the how a narrative is presented. (2 marks)
23. Describe how one production element works to convey ‘point of view’ in each of the narratives you have studied this year. (3 marks)
24. Explain the term ‘mise en scene’. (2 marks)
25. Explain how sound was used to reveal information about a main character in a scene from each of the narrative texts studied this year. (2+2 marks)
26. Give one example of how multiple storylines advanced the narrative in one of the texts studied this year. (4 marks)
27. Describe how the combination of one story element and one production element gave the audience information about genre in each of the narratives you have studied this year. (3+3 marks)
28. After all the hard work in production it is the audience that ultimately make or break a film. Analyse how one of the narratives you studied this year was constructed to engage an audience. Your response should consider the relationship between the text and its intended audience. (10 marks)
29. Compare and contrast the relationship between the narrative possibilities or expectations established by the openings and how these were resolved by the closures of both texts studied this year. Refer to at least two of the following to support your analysis
• visual composition including mise en scene
• camera techniques
• acting
• editing
• lighting
• cause and effect (16 marks)
NARRATIVE ESSAY QUESTIONS
1. Compare the narrative texts you have studied this year, referring to at least two production and /or two story elements. Compare how the opening sequences raised narrative possibilities, issues and/or ideas and how these were resolved or unresolved in each text’s closure. 2008
2. Characters play a major part in advancing a narrative. As a story element, the establishment and development of characters also affects how an audience engages with a text. 2007
With reference to one or more characters in both texts you have studied this year, discuss
• character establishment and development and the relationship between characters within each text
• how character motivations affect narrative progression in each text
• how characters in both texts affect audience response to the overall narratives
In addition to character, your answer should refer to two or more other story and/or production elements.
3. The structuring of time is a major story element in all fictional narratives. Sometimes we are aware of being taken to a different time period through the use of techniques such as flashbacks, or by references a character makes to events which have happened earlier. On other occasions, the structuring of time seems to occur without our notice because we are so familiar with the way that production elements are used for this purpose.
Discuss how time was structured in two fictional narratives you studied this year.
In your response you should refer to how the structuring of time
• contributed to the development of the narrative (you may wish to consider this development in the context of the opening and closing sequences)
• allowed individual storylines to comment on, contrast and/or interrelate with each other
• engaged the audience with, for example, the characters and events of the narrative
4. All fictional narratives rely on characters: their goals, their desires, their strengths and their faults, and the differing circumstances in which these characters are required to function
Discuss how production and story elements were used to construct two characters in two of the narratives you studied this year (that is four characters, two characters from each text).
For each character explain
• how both production and story elements were used to develop the character in the narrative
• how the development of the character allowed for and/or encouraged audience engagement with that character
5. The main characters in narratives are revealed to us through production elements. Consider the opening sequence of each of the two texts you have studied this year.
Explain how the production and story elements introduce the main characters. What clues about the nature of these characters, and the role they might have to play in the unravelling of events, are given by these production and story elements?
6. The context a narrative text is received within can alter the extent of audience enjoyment.
Using one scene from each film you have studied this year, explain how the reception context of an audience may affect their enjoyment of these scenes. Consider the following in your response:
• the possible reception contexts of the viewer (no more than three)
• emotional identification of audience with particular characters and the particular scene
• the effect of production and story elements on the audience’s understanding of the narrative in that reception context
7. In narratives, technical wizardry and special effects alone cannot engage audiences. All production and story elements play a role in the development of a narrative and in some particular genres certain elements are more noticeable and important than others.
With the use of direct examples from the texts, analyse the relative contribution of story and production elements in both texts studied this year. In your response you should refer to all four of the following elements used in each of the texts, and provide some comparison and contrast as to the ways they have been used in each text
• camera/film
• sound
• structuring of time
• cause and effect
8. In reference to the two films you have studied this year, discuss how editing has been used to contribute to the development and organisation of the narrative.
9. In reference to the two films you have studied this year, discuss how production and story elements have been combined to contribute to the audience’s understanding of the narrative.
10. Audiences have certain expectations about a film, radio or television program. Some expectations exist due to the genre of the text. Audiences can react in a variety of ways, from intense excitement during an action sequence to heartfelt sadness in response to a tragic closure. With reference to at least two of the following points, discuss ways in which production and story elements are used to structure a narrative which engages an audience in the two film texts you have studied this year:
• The point of view from which the narrative is presented
• Narrative progression, including the relationship between the opening sequence(s), developments within the narrative and the closure of the narrative
• The relationship between the narrative text(s) and the genre or type of program that the text(s) relates to
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I didn't really do too many prac exams, just lots of questions so I knew what I was talking about
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I'm finding it really hard to motivate myself to study for media.
I've done like 2 practice exams and I feel like i now know it all haha.
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feeling exactly the same as you BilzaLM.
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Regulation....
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what the fuck is: qualitative, quantitative, longitudinal and field studies!
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Is Media something that's difficult to get 45 for provided a reasonable amount of effort is put in?
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Is Media something that's difficult to get 45 for provided a reasonable amount of effort is put in?
Nothing is difficult in the end if you've put effort in :P
I guess it's quite competitive at the top end because not too many people do it. So your answers really need to be precise to separate you from the people who get in the low 40s. Depends on the person too. Some find media easy, others find it hard. I personally loved the subject so I didn't really notice when I was studying it, just seemed to happen without me really saying "I need to study now".
What texts are you doing for sections A and B btw? ... if you know them already
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I only know one and it's American Beauty.
I'm only worried a little because for 1/2 we learnt hardly anything, that said I'd probably be fine with anything 40+ for Media, as it'll be but fun and rewarding
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I only know one and it's American Beauty.
I'm only worried a little because for 1/2 we learnt hardly anything, that said I'd probably be fine with anything 40+ for Media, as it'll be but fun and rewarding
That's really good, American Beauty is a great one for narrative. So much to write about, I'm sure you'll be fine. Just make sure you don't slack off, some people thought they could and ended up doing badly. That's probably one of the most important things with media. Good luck :)
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Yeah, slacking off is definitely what I'd call what I did in 1/2
American beauty is brilliant, Kevin Spacey is one of my favourite actors
Now to cryptically convince my teacher to do Animal kingdom ....
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Those who did media last year can you tell me your scores achieved to get your study score?
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Also by "I'd done every question before", do you mean by luck you had done the ones that came up in the exam, or that you'd literally done every practice exam you could find haha? (Better yet, how many practice exams did you do?)
I only have access to 7....(VCAA 2005-09, Insight 2007-08).
Thanks.
I also wanna know the answer to this..
My teacher taught us a way that makes sense.
In the name of the film you write film name, production company, location, year and director. but i think film name, director and year is good enough. an example looks like this:
"Footloose", Paramount Studios, 1984, USA, dir: Herbert Ross
Then for production period you write: early 1980s for example.
and place of production, i would write California, USA
as someone else already said, it isn't marked for anything, so there is no RIGHT way of answering this, but hopefully this helped some.
Also
JVG, would you be interested in reading any exams we send you?
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i hope the extended response is on either themes, issues and/or motifs or on structure of time