MIGRAIN Introduction to Media index

 

1) Introduction to Media: 10 questions

2) Media consumption audit

3) Semiotics blog tasks

4) Language: Reading an image - media codes

5) Reception theory - advert analysis and factsheet

6) Structuralism: Factsheet questions and film trailer analysis

7) Genre: Factsheets and genre study questions

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