Media+Studies+-+Wikispace+Entries

Wikispace Entries The following assignments need to be in your Wikispace:

All media log entries are evaluated using the rubric that is attached to your course outline.

You can start creating your media log on www.wikispaces.com. Please remember to use your school email when signing up.




 * Please Note: All Glee response questions can be found in the Handouts section of your class **

1. **Start-Up (20 marks):**
 * Family and Friends (people in your life)
 * Music you listen to (bands, genres, favorite songs, etc.)
 * Magazines and Books (titles, genres, favorites, etc.)
 * Movies (favorites, genres, etc.)
 * Internet Sites (ones you seem to visit most frequently)
 * Brands you wear and the style of clothes
 * TV Shows you watch


 * 2. Media Triangle Questions for TV Shows (10 marks each for completion and thought) **

During these three classes we will be completing the objectives listed above by looking at two similar media texts and how they are changed to meet the needs of a similar audience. Today, we will be looking at the humorous side of these two stories by looking at the show "Scrubs". Scrubs was a show that was a comedy and dealt with hospital interns trying to learn how to become doctors. These stories are definitely supposed to be told from a more comedic side and it is up to us to see how the creators of this show used different codes and conventions to tell their story. As we are watching please fill out the following worksheet on Scrubs. The questions are for you to look at and think about as we watch the show. You will be posting these responses to your wikispace. Here is the handout for you to download:


 * 3. Popaganda: Sellebrity (15 Marks) **

Over the next number of classes we are going to focus on the media in the form of advertising and how the media influences us to buy into certain products and ideas. Today, we are going to start by looking at the music industry and how celebrities use their influence in pop culture to encourage us to buy certain products. The show we are going to watch is called ** "Popaganda: $ellebrity". ** As we are watching this show, I would like you to make notes on how celebrities use their influence to promote their products and their image. We will create a page on our wikis called "$ellebrity" and you will include your findings and some of celebrities promoting their products using images and YouTube.


 * 4. Psycographics (VALS) (20 Marks) **

Today we are going to look at what kind of shopper you are and how advertisers use this information to promote their products to us. Please download the notes to your network space for safe keeping. Once we go through the notes it will be up to you to decide what kind of shopper you are and what kinds of advertisements effect you. Your job will also be to examine three (3) other people that you know and describe what kind of shopper they are and give some examples of what kinds of advertising would work on them. That is a total of 4 people (you and 3 others of your choice). Please create a page on your wiki called " ** Psychographics ** ". This is where you will put your information. Please feel free to use advertisements from YouTube or ones that you find online.

5. **Transformers: Product Placement Search (15 marks)**

For the next couple of classes we are going to be looking at a specific piece of media that focuses product placement within it. Most of us, over the past few years, has heard a little bit about the Transformers movies (there have been 3 of them over the last 5 years). You know, those robots called Autobots that come to earth to save us from the Decepticons. Yeah, those guys! :) Well, within the first movie there are over ** 96 product placements ** thrown into it. Our job is to actually see if we can spot as many as we can. ** Within this search you will need to keep your eyes AND your ears open ** . Yes, not only is product placement about sight, it is about what you hear, as well. Please download the following handout to your network space. We will be completing these as we watch the movie. Afterwards we will post your findings and your opinion question to your wikispace

6. **Walt Disney World (20 marks)**

Here, we examined when advertising and businesses collide to produce a text that makes us believe a company makes us believe they have a postive image. Today and tomorrow, we are going to be looking at the "Disney" corporation and how they use their public image of "Dreams come true" tagline to make us believe in their brand. We are going to be focusing on the Walt Disney World resort in Florida as a basis to examine how they persuade us to buy into their products. Please download the following handout. We will be going over it in class and then view a vacation planning DVD for Disney World. As we go through it, we are going to see how they persuade us to spend our money on their product and their ideology that if we spend our money with them, we will have a good time.

7. **The Beatles: All Together Now (15 Marks)**

During this documentary we saw how a piece of media is produced from concept to design to production. We will be taking a look at the documentary film "LOVE: The Beatles" as the guys from Cirque Du Soleil create a piece of media from start to finish and the path they took to get there. Please download the following handout and answer the questions as we go through.


 * 8. Teenage Paparazzo (15 Marks) **

As we view this documentary, I want you to look at the following questions and create a page called "Teenage Paparazzo" for them on your wikispace:


 * 1. Why did Austin decide to become a paparazzi at such a young age?**
 * 2. What do you notice about Adrian's and Austin's relationship as the documentary progresses through. How does it start? How does it end?**
 * 3. While watching this, in your opinion, how easy is it for the paparazzi to make up stories and get pictures? Have things changed a lot since the introduction of social media websites?**
 * 4. After watching this, what is your view of the paparazzi? Do they have a right to do what they do? I want your opinion in paragraph form, please!**


 * 9. It's a Girl's World (10 Marks) **

This program looks at the world that young girls seem to be living in during their preteen and teenage years. Our job is to examine whether or not this is an accurate portrayal of the lives of girls or whether it makes it out to be to big of a thing when it comes to the way that girls treat each other.

**Girls**, you are going to have one question to answer. This answer will appear in your media log. Here is your question:


 * Does this documentary do a good job of portraying what happens in the lives of preteen and teenage girls? Yes or No? Why? Give examples. **

**Boys**, you too, get your own question:


 * What elements of this documentary surprised you with the way that girls treat each other? How does that differ from the way that guys treat each other when it comes to conflict? Give examples. **


 * 10. It's a Teen's World (15 Marks)**

I am going to give you some guiding questions and I would like to you create a page on your wikispace called "It's A Teen's World" where you can answer them. Please remember that answering in full and complete sentences (think journal entry) is a really good thing to help me know that you have actually thought about these questions. "Yes" and "No" without telling me "Why" doesn't help you. Here are the questions to guide your responses:


 * 1. Does the documentary get it right with the way they portray your generation? **
 * 2. Is harrassment considered to be "teasing" or something "more serious"? What's your take on it? Is there a line that you can't cross even with your friends? **
 * 3. Why do you think it is easier to trash someone by using a computer screen than by doing it face to face? Why is this the route that lots of teens are going? **
 * 4. After watching this documentary, is there evidence of these types of situation in our halls of Peacock or does the documentary put too much emphasis that you guys think about is sex, lies, power trips, and drama? **


 * 11. Public Service Announcements Page (20 marks)**

Your job is to create a **Public Service Announcement** page on your wikispace (you can call it "PSA Page" and then go and find some PSAs on YouTube that you can embed onto your wikispace. I would like you to find 5 PSA videos that deal with 5 different social issues in pop culture (each one must be different). Some ideas would include:
 * Drinking and Driving
 * Texting and Driving
 * Being cautious online
 * Dangers of Drugs
 * Environment issues
 * Animal Cruelty
 * Body Image (boys and girls)
 * Violence
 * Choose any that you feel would relate to our pop culture (issues of today)

For each of the videos you choose and put on your page, I would like you to answer the following questions under each of the videos:


 * 1. What is the topic for the PSA?**
 * 2. What are they trying to make you think about in the PSA?**
 * 3. What emotions are brought up through watching the PSA? How are they brought up?**
 * 4. What are you left thinking about after you watch the PSA when it comes to that topic?**