#a level media studies

[eld0ts]

“WHAT DO YOU WANNA SAY TO the person who wrote the a level media studies component one eduqas exam paper RIGHT NOW???!!”

sup baby…. take me out to dinner~

#‘AYO!!’ #i don’t know who you are…….. but i will find you and i will kiss you on the lips #representation of gender THIRTY MARKER???? URGHHHH #digitally convergent technologies twelve marker??? on the times????? STOPPPPP 🥰🥰 #HOW DOES UP ALL NIGHT BY BECK CONVEY MEANING?? FIFTEEN MARKS??? 🛐🛐🛐 #whoever you are… just know ​half the media students on twitter are ready to drop their trousers for you #and the rest of us are looking for recipes to get you wined and dined right after #BEAUTIFUL paper #whoever did the wateraid ones at the end though: hope you’re doing good cos you were CLEARLY hungover or sommat #my guy wrote two of the same question i shit you not there was ONE word difference #a levels 2022 #a levels #a level media studies

[feelingthedisaster]

that awkard moment in which my teacher says "your english is so good and you have a really wide vocabulary" and i have to pretend it isnt because of fanfiction

#best way to learn a language: study? NO. READ FANFICTION INSTEAD #seriusly its amazing way to get better in reading comprehension grammar and vocabulary #and its way more fun than studying #tho you need a basic level before starting #(if you are new to the language i recommend start with music/kids shows/memes and social media/comics (webtoon has free comics online)) #fanfic #fanfics #fanfiction #fandoms #ao3 #ao3 fanfic #fandom #learning languages

[space-opera-slays]

Currently so glad i have the English school system purely for alevel physics because things are so cool

#im learning #LIKE BRO IM LEARNING #MAKING CONNECTIONS TO SHIT #AND BEING LIKE OHHHH THATS WHAT THAT OVERUSED SCIENCEY WORD FROM MEDIA ACTUALLY IS #ALSO LOVE ENGLISH SCHOOL SYSTEM BC ALEVELS GO DEEPER INTO A SUBJECT AS YOU ONLY DO A COUPLE COMPARED TO OTHER SCHOOL SYSTEMS #WHICH IS GREAT FOR THE AUTISM PHYSICS BRAIN #physics #alevel physics #a levels #a level physics #a level revision #stem #stemblr #studyblr #study inspo #women in stem #autism #autistic #actually autistic

[thedragonagelesbian]

I promised a post elaborating on the ordering of the one-on-ones, and I’m here to deliver! Be prepared for some VERY passionate structural and functional analysis.

So the order was Lou/Pinocchio -> Zac/Pib -> Siobhan/Rosamund -> Emily/Ylfa -> Murph/Gerard -> Ally/Timothy and here’s why this is brilliant and Brennan was very smart in picking this order:

First, Pinocchio is an EXCELLENT place to begin. PERFECT for establishing tone and ambiance and stakes for the multiverse/body jumping that is going to be repeating across the other characters WITHOUT too much lore-dumping upfront specifically because the Stepmother is so deliberately withholding and obfuscating. We get all the VIBES of what’s going on without getting much detail about the mechanics or rules of this crossing.

We follow that up with Pib. Also an inspired choice. We get a much needed reprieve from, y’know, all the child abuse in Pinocchio’s segment, and we learn a bit more about how this is all working. Specifically, not only the notion that the same characters appear across stories (which was mentioned in Pinocchio’s, with the horrifying detail that that Pinocchio had to die for this Pinocchio to enter that world) but that the same archetypes can transcend individual characters and stories entirely. This is brilliant to reinforce so soon after we see the Stepmother again because (as we’ve suspected since episode 2 at least with the mirror) she is the only entity of that type that we’ve encountered so far.

Also one of my favorite books as a really young child was called ‘Cat and Bear’ and it was about a cat named Cat who was a little stinker, so idk this segment was weirdly nostalgic and warm and fuzzy

Next, ROSAMUND. CINDERELLA. HOT WOMEN. What else is there to say? Well, we’re back to the plot that the Stepmother was alluding to but not stating outright. We learn more about the mechanics and rules of this world, and in addition to confirming how the crossings work, we get the pivotal piece of information that these other stories are (a) not infinite and (b) getting progressively worse as the better stories are either exhausted or die off.

Cinderella is also key as, three one-on-ones in, we are getting our most reliable narrator to date. She gives Rosamund a clear goal, something to drive the plot forward that’s less cryptic than the book.

And on a beautiful fucking nat 20, Rosamund gains an incredible awareness of her past lives and other stories that supercharged her character arc. I wonder if it is for that awareness that Rosamund (and Ylfa) didn’t get new character portraits when they crossed over: that they are able to retain more of a fundamental essence of self (Rosamund because of the nat 20, Ylfa because she succeeded on the CHAR save).

Coming off of Rosamund’s almost empowering note, the affective roller coaster continues with Ylfa, in which Emily Axford breaks my heart for like thirty minutes straight and I thank her for doing so. We get more of a glimpse of the rules and forces at work in this world, the Wolf continues to be my absolute favorite metaphysical NPC in Dimension 20 history.

Again, each session dovetails beautifully with and builds off of the one-on-one before it to show us new aspects of how this masterwork of a world functions, all while varying tone and affect in a way that isn’t jarring but keeps interest throughout the 2+ hours. I can’t gush enough about how much I admire all of the intrepid heroes and their role-playing skills.

And it was Murph’s segment that made me want to make this post in the first place. Obviously the intrepid heroes did not know what was going on in everyone else’s sessions, but the timing of Gerard as comedic relief is SO perfect. Such an excellent follow-up to Ylfa, again another point of reprieve as Murph commits to Gerard just not fucking getting the concept that we as an audience have had presented to us now for four different characters.

And again, the presence of the fairy brings us back to the PlotTM. We’re getting a sense not for the metaphysical bigger picture but the factions that are at war in this world and the consequences that their fight is having for everyone else. We also get a delicious seed of interparty ~drama~ as Rosamund and Gerard (and Pinocchio) are being courted by different sides in this tale-spanning battle. I NEED to see how much they all tell each other when they finally meet back up again...

Finally, we end with Timothy because, like, how could we possibly end anywhere else than with the storyteller? The book is one of the keys to understanding this world and takes on additional symbolic weight as the characters are passing through to another story, a different, darker book.

But there’s still hope. Things are going to be harder this time around, but there’s still a chance, in another once upon a time.

Just... I commend all of them so much, Brennan for laying the tracks for the emotional, narrative, and lore beats of the episode and the intrepid heroes for picking up on them and responding to and expanding them like the endlessly talented improvisors they are.

WHAT A GOOD FUCKING EPISODE, CAN’T WAIT FOR EPISODE 5

#dimension 20 #neverafter #neverafter spoilers #neverafter meta #idk functional analysis of actualplay can be harder bc of the improvisation #so when i get the chance to be like this is Why Something Works at a technical/structural level #the media studies scholar in me goes bonkers

[dlasta]

#amber heard #johnny depp is a wife beater #tortoise media #spear campaign #online harassment #bots #astroturfing #abuse #there is curiously little thumbs up for these two videos #for this level of quality and subject #if you can please watch and show your opinion #they say in the video that while they have the material to study many experts did not want to get involved for 'reasons' #it's still going on and the only way to get actual facts out is by promoting it and showing our opinion #this is genuine moment that would help since youtube won't promote #Youtube

[aggressiveguitarnoises]

i have media studies exam (although mock so its fine) that i didnt study for so im gonna force myself to practice by applying barthes narrative theory to season 1 hannibal (vaguely tbh cuz its the whole seasom but ok)

hermeneutic codes(how do u even pronounce this omfg) :

enigma codes, they are def crucial to this show as each episode raises more and more unanswered questions as the audience continues watching the show, questions like who is commiting the crimes, is will ok, does he know how fucked up his clocks are, is crawford fucking stupid, is abigail ok, what the hell is hannibal doing, why are they using cat guts for strings, are the dogs gonna live oh my god please can the dogs be okay for once

usually done by leaving cliffhangers for each episode

it drives the audience forward and interests them so they continue watching the show to find out the answers to their questions

its also a convention to use hermeneutic codes for horror crime shows like hannibal

Proairetic codes:

action codes, the actions done to drive the narrative forward, previous events drive other events into action. ngl this one is fucking stupid to apply i dont get if i ever apply it correctly

in hannibal, proairetic codes tie a lot with hermeneutic codes as the actions of the characters raise questions for the audience questioning their choices and makes the audience wonder what will happen next. the action creates tension and makes the audience wonder how the created problem(if there is one) will be resolved. for example when hannibal lecter called abigails father to inform him that "they know" and that fbi is on the way. this drives the narrative forward as then the audience wonders how the characters will react and wonder how the actions will affect the story. this action ended up with abigail becoming an orphan and their suspect dead, creating a few side plots and introducing new characters. this constant tension created by each action drives the narrative forward and engages the audience to continue watching the show

semantic codes:

connotations, things associated with something, the deeper level meaning of a symbol. this one is hard yet so easy cuz theres literally SO many of them

they basically give insight into the plot and characters, building personalities and maybe even starting the deep questions the audience will have

for example, for hannibal, hes quite sophisticated, the semantic codes for that would be how he wears suits all the time, his overall style and his acquired taste. those things connote sophistication, wealth and even control and power (especially the suit and his high respected position as a psychiatrist)

but another thing that can be derived from things like how hes always careful, always has a cloth that doesn't leave any fabric fibres, how he doesn't use anything digital, only physical things like journals to leave no traces, the fact that hes literally eating his evidence lmao, his knowledge and experience of human anatomy and mind connote that hes a careful, experienced, ambitious man and prob(definitely) is a serial killer

symbolic codes:

it has such an easy concept that its literally confusing to understand. its basically symbols, binaries, a thematic/structural device, but it's basically about themes and contrary signs specifically, which is ig why its kind of difficult to understand since its specifically binary symbols

some symbolic codes in hannibal would be life vs death, clearly a reoccurring theme with all of the crimes happening, good vs bad, murderers and their victims, health? both physical and mental? stability? work vs personal life? idk its so hard to pin point it even tho its so easy and common idk

a better example woukd be the bad vs good binary used in star wars with ghe colours of light sabers

Cultural codes:

literally cultural and social conventions, knowledge that comes from the outside world of the text, specific connotations used

example, FBI for crimes and america, religion and faith, the whole fbi units especially medical, even Christmas is a cultural code as its a celebrated event of certain social and cultural and religious conventions

bruv i cant think of any more examples even tho i know theres so many

hope yall enjoyed my silly analysis of hannibal as my media studies application practice if u read it all xx

#idk why i did this on tumblr instead of just writing all of this in my notes or smth #media studies #gcse #a levels #fucking british education system #media studies a level #nbc hannibal #hannibal #roland barthes #barthes theory #narrative theory #hannibal nbc

[airenyah]

now that i've turned thai drama into my bachelor thesis, the only question left is: how to turn thai drama into my master's thesis

#i have about 2 years to figure this out #it's gotta be something that i can do with whatever skill level i'm at with my thai once i get there #not just the skill level but also my cultural knowledge #i'm one semester into my master's and i've already decided on a supervisor for my thesis fkfjfjf #and he even said he'd let me do this SO!! #airenyah plappert #alternatively a different idea i had was to do a translation analysis of pjo #since i have 3 different translations of the og series at home (german italian and norwegian) #i think thai would be fun tho bc i don't think the thai language is something that gets researched a lot here #we don't even have thai studies as it's own subject to study #(there's korean studies and japanese studies and chinese studies) #(there's also one major called 'south asian tibetology and buddhist studies' but they have no thai unfortunately) #(i was still thinking of doing that as a 2nd subject tho bc i'd get to learn more about buddhism which i know nothing about) #(and also they do sanskrit which could also be suuuper interesting) #(also i have so many indian mutuals and i thought it might be fun to learn about indian culture) #(and then discuss it with the mutuals and learn even more djcjjcf) #(let's see if i can manage to schedule it hfhfhc) #(bc i've also been thinking of doing theater film and media studies as a 2nd major) #(i have too many things i'm interested in send help)

[1-tiger-every-day]

15.08.2022

tiger jumping thru water (feat. Gradient maps)

#I should do more monochrome tigers #it’s a rly good way to focus on levels first n foremost #daily tiger #digital media #iPad art #Procreate app #digital sketch #photo study #Gradient map

[harvestar]

I did also try reading an unofficial translation of svsss a while ago and I was kind of ambivalent about it but the concept is very funny. I think having gotten more used to translated works I wanna take another crack at the kkm novels because my brain had a little trouble with them a while ago and now I think I would get a lot more out of it (part of the problem was that I was reading it at work so I couldn't focus on anything even slightly challenging)

#ktxt #translated text based media is hard sometimes or at least in comparison to manga and stuff #like it can definitely be hard to get nuance across without images to do some of that legwork #both in terms of 'english doesn't allow for this level of subtlety in the way things are said/wordplay' #and 'things can come across as very basic and simple if you don't change the core translation and add things to convey the true meaning' #it's really interesting honestly! I kind of wish I had studied languages more like I wanted to in hs but life got complicated... #I think I would have loved translation work and trying to strike a balance between preserving the original text and conveying the feeling #(I love TL notes that explain the reasoning for phrasing and stuff those are my special post chapter treats)

[bookwyrminspiration]

hey hey pspssp i wanna get back into drawing regularly, y’all got any doodle reqs or ideas? pretty please :)

#kotlc #<- or other medias #that’s just. what most people follow me for #i have no clue the level of effort I’ll go to nor what medium I’ll use #but!! trying something new to see if this’ll kickstart me into drawing more regularly!! #and motivate me to do more anatomy studies and such #thank u Lucas for the final push to try this <3

[anothermonikan]

Constantly thinking about a Happy Sugar Life video essay I watched years ago and the title was like. Oh. Happy Sugar Life is a study in empathy. and yeah it is! Happy Sugar Life is very good at making the audience conflicted about who’s doing right and wrong and what the best situation to put Shio in is and about who you feel bad for and how you feel about feeling bad for people who may have done some pretty horrible things. and then the person doing the video’s whole argument was. Oh, everyone views this as okay because it’s a teenage girl doing it, but imagine if it was an old man! Like. What a way to interpret the show. I don’t think anyone else who watched it viewed what Satou was doing as okay but alri

#Sorrryy problematic media takes hours #I haven't rewatched Happy Sugar Life ever all my interpretations of it are based off what I remember of it when I was like. 14 years old #I think it's an interesting study in empathy because the situation that the show centers around is kinda complex and multi-faceted- #-on both logical and personal levels #My real take about the situation is that the true enemy of Happy Sugar Life is capitalism but I'm pretty sure that wasn't supposed- #-to be an option lmao #happy sugar life #android.txt

[longagoitwastuesday]

I love the Goncharov meme conceptually. It feels like classic academia perhaps, definitely like studying ancient philosophy at times. You get a fragment (knockoff boots), a general context (Martin Scorsese films existing), and then a very long discussion about nothing starts. But the nothingness isn't entirely nothing, and there are still limits to what can and cannot be said framed by both the existence and non-existence of that which is being discussed. Hilarious, truly, and the fact itself so very interesting to analyse in so many ways.

#This feels a bit like studying and discussing presocratics or Socrate himself xD #ngl while I loved the boots thing (I had often thought about those knockoff boots‚ I found them hilarious) #I don't find the Goncharov memes particularly funny #But the concept is fascinating conceptually and thrilling to analyse in so many levels #The fact that almost every webwaving‚ even the ones about a fake film‚ have the same quotes #That basically everything said about this film is what is said about any other popular media #Is so interesting as how short media analysis falls into superficiality and miopic repetition of patterns #As is the fact that we can discuss to eternity something that doesn't exist #in a sort of Narcissus looking at his reflection on the pond situation‚ in love with our own discussion more than the thing itself #And that's a level. But it's also very interesting in how basically everyone has a very similar idea of what the film is about #How nothingness with sprinkles can tell us something‚ a lot‚ and make a ghost of a film which can effectively to some extent be analysed #It's also hilarious in how it puts a mirror‚ so to speak‚ in front of so many academic studies #How we've basically been doing this for centuries unironically and I'd say with at least a certain sense of self awareness #How this brings back studying and discussing the lost texts of Ovid or Sappho based just on what they say about them or the absence #in what they say about them‚ or what other authors say about them or how their works are wrapped around those lost texts #How it brings back the study and analysis of presocratics like Pythagoras or even Socrate himself of which we have Plato and Xenophon #but really something close to nothing considering how important those authors are as basis of the entire history of western philosophy #And yet there's honestly so much to say about them given the nothingness we have accompanied by the something! #And Goncharov memes work a bit that way #I don't know. There are really so many facets to this meme and they are all conceptually hilarious yes xD #Another but not less important aspect of this meme that I love conceptually is that #I'm a bit fan of funny lies. I adore them. Especially when constructed between several people #And Goncharov is precisely that lol #Goncharov #I talk too much #I should probably delete this later #Meme shit

[farmersliga]

progress in language learning is always slow and hard to define, but today i realized that, despite not having technically studied much new grammar since august, i can construct much more complex german sentences than i was able to a few months ago and it makes me feel so whole :)

#bc like! im kinda relearning the a1-a2 level at uni even if i already studied it in goethe institut #so most of the stuff we discuss in class i already know at this point #but it turns out i was able to pick up new insights from my prof and from consuming german media #and im just. happy :) #the life and times of liz

[darlinguistics]

thinking about what i’ll do (study-wise) the rest of the summer once my class is over next week, these are my loose plans as of now

daily routine: 

go through topik1 anki deck

write a journal entry (original sentence practice) (maybe i’ll post those here?? we’ll see) 

skim/review some of textbook (to not forget and review things i missed or slacked on), and/or skim/preview some of next semester’s textbook (to mentally prepare lol)

other random things to do for fun and practice:

studying dialogues from dramas

studying with kids songs/videos/cartoons 

listen to korean learning podcasts (like ttmik real conversations, etc. or just the audios that came with my textbook)

browsing korean/language learning communities online

#🌟.txt #korean #langblr #my class is getting hectic and scary for the last week and half thats left so thinking about this is calming me down #i <3 studying on my own with no grades or pressure lmao #almost done almost there #but anyway if anyone has good media recs for beginner level korean feel free to drop them

[eli-silly]

I truly think that one of the most intriguing parts about succession is how it tows the line between high and low culture. the show works when portraying a legacy media company because every single bit of it feels like something grand and old shifting into something fast paced and new.

This can be seen in the music, with the gravitas orchestral sounds fused together with hip-hop and rap, creating an almost clunky sound which perfectly illustrates waystar's desperation to keep up with other media outlets. Specifically, L to the OG and Roman's Beat both being from/about characters that have grown up as part of the company, whilst also wanting to develop it into something new, is a very deliberate choice.

it can also be seen in the dialogue used thought-out. I've always thought that the use of words in the show has felt poetic and somewhat shakespearian, with intertextual references and swear words grounding the dialogue in the modern world. this also highlights the class of the people who speak in that way, as it suggests that they have grown up high class, in comparison to the few working class characters who refrain from speaking in that way.

finally, the entire narrative can also foster the idea of high and low culture colliding. Jesse Armstrong was initially inspired by the lives of the Murdoch family, a family that owns things such as fox news in the US, as well as many other media producers throughout England and Australia. However, the story also plays out like a Greek tragedy, with the characters destined to fail. these two factors merged together creates a narrative as old as time, set in a world that is contemporary and ever evolving.

anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss once suggested that binary opposites (such as good Vs evil) in media drive forward the narrative. in this case, I believe that what drives forward successions narrative is the conflict of old Vs new, represented through the use of high and low culture in its technical and visual codes.

#hbo succession #succession #apologies for that last bit but i have a media a level coming up and i need to revise so I'm using this as a means to :0 #roman roy #kendall roy #media studies

[aggressiveguitarnoises]

i love going through my media studies book trying to find actors and other stuff i know cuz its so funny

like wdym david tennant is indeed in my book but as a fucking paper bracelet on whoviannet help

#sad that we learned about doctor who before i got into it #theres also broadchurch mentioned but thats in an A level book this is gcse #AND Gilliam Anderson (hannibal bedelia) also #i laughed so hard when i found this tho #doctor who #david tennant #media studies #gcse #a levels