The document discusses media language and its role in creating meaning. It asks students to define key terms related to four technical areas of media - camera angles/shots/composition, sound, editing, and mise-en-scene. Students are tasked with creating an animated storyboard demonstrating a short sequence between two characters with a secret, using correct terminology and showing how they would film, edit, and set up shots and sounds. They are then asked to analyze their work and identify examples of how they used the four technical areas to create meaning.

1. Write a definition for the term ‘media
language’ on a post-it note and stick in on
your computer screen

2. Reinforce how media language creates meaning
All: define key terminology across the 4 technical
areas
Most: select most appropriate technical elements
in order to create your own meaning
Some: begin to conduct a micro analysis of your
AS production

3. Analyse your production in relation to media
language
How confident do you feel about answering
this question?

4. 4 technical areas
Camera angles/
shots/
composition
Sound
Editing Mise-en-scene
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5. Your task:
Create an animated storyboard
which depicts how you would film a
short sequence. The sequence
must be convey a relationship
between two characters and a
secret of some kind. You have to
demonstrate how you would film
and edit this sequence and include
how your mise-en-scene would look
and what sounds you would include.
Use the correct terminology for this
task.
You must hand-draw a
storyboard first as a plan

7. In your critical perspectives- question 1b blog,
upload your animated storyboard under the
heading; Media language- Animated
storyboard
Challenge: identify specific examples of
how you used the 4 technical areas in your
AS coursework which shows how you
created meaning. Write a blog post.

8. Analyse your production in
relation to media language
How confident do you feel
about answering this question
now?
Plenary