lesson four
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Lesson Four
Wednesday 21st September 2016Media Language –
Narrative
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Connect the Learning
• Review my comments on yourDesign Challenge posters
• Respond to my feedback• Make sure you write in full sentences
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Preparing Minds
• What’s the story?
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Death of Bay Hop• Person executed:
Viet Cong Guerrilla,killed twelve people that morning.
• His had slaughtered family of executioner’s best friend.
• Picture cropped to display just General and his victim (executioner was South Vietnam’s National Chief of Police).
• Photograph credited with helping provoke massive demonstrations against Vietnam war.
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Learning Intentions
• To explore media language concepts of narrative and genre
• To learn language of narrative and genre
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Success criteria
• I will– Know what narrative and genre mean– Understand how they apply to media products– Explore how they help the audience make sense
of the media
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Narrative
• Stories told within media by words/ pictures/ sounds etc.
• How we interpret experience.• Basis of all human interaction/
communication (e.g. Bible stories,fairy tales etc.).
• Implicit or explicit but always there.• Can be a single sentence or a TV series lasting
for thousands of hours.
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The shortest story?
• “For sale:baby shoes,never worn”
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Longest Running series• US soap opera – (72 yrs,
18,262 episodes)
• UK soap opera – (53 yrs, 8040 episodes)
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Only seven stories?• Overcoming the Monster • Rags to Riches• The Quest• Voyage and Return• Comedy of Identity• Tragedy • Rebirth/ Redemption• Can you think of
examples for each?
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Only one story?• “Hero’s journey” (monomyth)• Are all stories about hero/ villain struggles?
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Suspense
• Drives narrative• Build “enigma”• Whets the appetite• “What happens next?”– Cliff hangers– Teasers– Headlines
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What’s the story?
• Man of Steel trailer
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Questions
• How was suspense created?• Which story/ stories shown?
• Overcoming the Monster • Rags to Riches• The Quest• Voyage and Return• Comedy of Identity• Tragedy • Rebirth/ Redemption
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Point of View
• Where are we positioned?– Goodies and baddies?
• How do know?– See what hero sees/
feel what they feel– Could be through voice-over– Could be through focus– Could be through point of view
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Connect the Learning
• How many stories are there?– 7 or 1
• Can you name them?• Overcoming the Monster • Rags to Riches• The Quest• Voyage and Return• Comedy of Identity• Tragedy • Rebirth/ Redemption• Or the “monomyth” (Hero’s journey)
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Positioning
• Clip from Charlie Brooker’s Screenwipe(Reality TV pastiche)
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Examples of positioning?• Can you think of
examples from• Reality TV?• Soap opera?• News stories?
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Conflict• Central to narrative• Usually between
good and evil– Normal world/ invader– Hunter/ hunted
• Audience invited to take sides– Civil war in Syria– “Brexit”– “The power to make the innocent guilty and make
the guilty innocent…” (Malcolm X)
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Other conflicts?
• In the news?• Between celebrities?• In games?
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Ideology
• Belief systems– Political– Social– Religious
• Learned from the media/ society?• What is good and what is bad?
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Name some ideologies
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How does ideology influence narrative?
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Task• Choose a story (can be from a film/ TV
programme/ news story/ book/ comic/ fairy tale)– Your choice needs to have clear
heroes and villains.– You are going to re-write the story from the
villain’s point of view.– You should aim to write at least three
paragraphs.– Complete at home (deadline 28th September)
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For example
• Maleficient• Star Wars: Battlefront II• Hoodwinked
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Luke’s ChangeGraham Putnam 2013