Media Studies 120

THIS WEEK:
due: Wednesday, Shrek Qs Intertexuality
Friday, Project Proposals (also Exam proposals)

Thursday/Friday: The Truman Show Qs on Reality TV/ethics

UPCOMING assignments
due: June 1st Movie Review
June 3rd QUIZ ( movie genres)
June 4th: LJ #5 due
June 10th/11th PROJECT presentations
ongoing- classmarks. 5-4-3-2-1!

Media Studies...Happy Victoria Day!

Enjoy your long weekend! It looks like it will be a good one.
Friday we looked at some information on Movie Reviews...next Assignment: A movie review of a family movie...due June 1st. Refer to the handouts for important informaion, and devise some sort of rating scale. Be sure to include the movie's rating. Please email it to me...I will be sending the reviews to the Island Times for upcoming issues. (be sure to include your name on the article!)
Guidelines for final project went out Friday...PROPOSALS due Friday, May 28th, PROJECT due Thursday, JUNE 10th. You will be given some class time to work on them, but a good chun will have to be done outside of class. IF you are opting to do the final exam instead of the project, remember, you still have to give me a proposal, too..what questions will you have on your exam?

Media Studies

Learning Journal #4

Read the article "Fundy High Parents Irked by anti-homophobia Activities", St Croix Courier May4th, and follow up Letters to the Editor, May 11th.
Write 1/2 page commentary on your reaction to the aforementioned articles, and comment on your own personal biases/emotions that might come through in your writing, if you were a news reporter.
Due Friday, May 21st.

Surprise Quiz????!

Gee; it seems to me, class has been given warning of a quiz, and that the squeals of surprise this morning were meant for some other teacher!!!
I'll have marks ready for you on Monday, along with your course update/missing assignments.
Learning Journal #3 ("Posing Au Naturel") due FRIDAY !!

What is BEAUTIFUL??

This week we are looking at the media's perception of BEAUTY, and how we react to it.
We are looking at these sites:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pu-8wGbWMro&playnext_from=TL&videos=m3Sq8G5dlmo

http://www.dove.ca/en/default.aspx#/features/videos/video_gallery.aspx[cp-documentid=9150719]

LJ #3 Posing au naurel...due Friday, May 14

DON'T FORGET QUIZ on Thursday, May 13th!!!

TGI Thursday!

Great to see most of you caught up on assignments, with only a couple of you on Homework Hour. Don't firget I am now looing for your NEWS ARTICLES...Thanks, Tiffany for the tip on using Microsoft Word Blank Document:Newsletters....what a great template to use for your article. If you have your article all written, I'll give you the weekend to copy and paste it to one of the templates.

Next week: QUIZ on Thursday, May 13th...all on Photojournalism notes and Ethics (next week's topic)
Have a great weekend!

Monday! Short week!

Today we focussed on HEADLINES...a few notes, and collected samples from newspapers.
No-No, Oh NO!...note: importance of headline PLUS photo PLUS newstory...they all need to go together to get a great story.
News article Assignment: by now you should have your draft article written; thining of a captivating Headline. (due: Thursday!)
QUIZ...week of the 10th, most likely 13th on Photojournalism