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Summary of Reading: The book chapter discusses how creating the “Other” is part of a media maker’s basic toolkit. To keep the audience engaged, media makers create protagonists bearing similarities to the viewer, positioning them closer to us as we identify with them. Conversely, media makers create Others who “either oppose the protagonist or presentContinue reading “Role Models and Stereotypes”

Reading Summary: This chapter talked about how groups often try to be “inclusive” while still maintaining a distinctive identity. The words “we,” “us,” and “you” have a great deal of rhetorical power. If a title of a news article says “you,” it is addressing you directly and is more personable. You are now part ofContinue reading “Ch 6: “Role models and stereotypes: An introduction to the ‘Other’””

Summary Genres are categories of films which guide audiences choosing what to watch or consume. Each genre has a set of fairly consistent expectations for how the events of a film within the genre should unfold, producing a level of predictability while leaving room for some variation. For each genre, there exists a set ofContinue reading “Smith Chapter 4”

Reading Summary: In chapter 4 of What media classes really want to discuss, Smith dives into the idea of Genre and how it impacts the way audience members view the media with which they consume. Each Genre has a wide variety of movies that can fall within them and as Smith discusses, certain components holdContinue reading “Genre Schmenre”

Summary: This chapter discusses how genres invoke certain feelings, settings, and even narratives to mind through their strong correlation to those things which we have been conditioned to with many forms of Media. For example, how certain actors in movies usually give us insight as to what movie this might be or even how theContinue reading “Genre Schmenre”

Reading Summary: A movie or film is made of many shots or still frames. Shots can be defined by distance, area, or subject. A shot defined by distancer can be a close up, or a long shot. Shots defined by area include possibly a certain room which is called and establishing shot. Shots defined byContinue reading “Jacob Nicholson Film Space”

Reading Summary Smith defines the “Other” as a constructed identity not relating to our own. This concept will feel different for everyone as we are made of unique traits and come from different cultures and backgrounds. In media and literature there is a distinction of “us” and “them”. When we feel connected and included toContinue reading “An Introduction to the “Other””

Reading Summary This chapter outlined the many different methods and techniques to filmography. The first topic the chapter describes are the many different types of shots that a director can use. The first of these that are described are different focal lengths, distances, and angled shots. Additionally, different perspectives, movements, and emphases create different moodsContinue reading “Film, Space, and Mise-en-Scene”

Summary In chapter 4, Smith disusses how genre affects the way we view and concume media. Genre can be determined using specific codes that media makers follow when making films that are recognizable to the audience that will then be consuming that media. Genre is a very inexact way to discuss and define movies, andContinue reading “Genre Schmenre”

Summary: According to What Media Classes Really Want to Discuss, customers expect consistency when it comes to genres of films or television shows. If a person enjoys romantic comedies, they rely on that genre to elicit the same emotions. Media consumers rely on a “brand” and that brand is genres, directors, and actors. One canContinue reading “What media classes really want to discuss 52-68”