Final Documentary Projects; End of Media Studies

Your documentary projects are due. Please take the first few minutes of class to send me your URL's in the COMMENT section below. Once I have these, we'll screen them and enjoy a snack.

Victoria & Jenna
Raeona & Kordae
Jesziah & Alquasia
Kemani & Britney
Pahz & Isobel
Joshua
Akhiyar
Javant
Turon
Ja'Miah

HOMEWORK: None. You are done. Congratulations! Consume some media...

Final Exam & Projects

After our exam, please continue working on your documentary projects. If you have completed the documentary, please complete your final portfolio (due tomorrow with Ms. Gamzon).

We will screen our documentaries on Monday. Please make sure you have included a title/end credit sequence to your film and upload the file to YouTube. After uploading, please make sure you send me the URL link in the COMMENT section below.

HOMEWORK: See above. Complete anything incomplete.

Final Media Studies Exam; Documentary Projects

Today, please work on your documentary projects and study for your final exam on Thursday.

Final Exam Review:

• Television & Cable (chapter 6)
• Vladimir Zworykin & Philo Farnsworth
• Charles Francis Jenkins, the father of American Television (blog)
• Analog, digital, and HDTV (chapter 6)
• Prime time & the prime time access rule (PTAR) (chapter 6)
• The development of cable (the network era) (chapter 6)
• narrowcasting (chapter 6)
• Premium channels, Pay-per-view (PPV), Video-on-demand (VOD), and Direct broadcast satellite (DBS), VCR's, DVD's, DVR's (chapter 6)
• Time shifting (6)
• Third screens (internet) & fourth screens (Smartphones) (6)
• Television genres: sketch comedy, situational comedy, anthology dramas, episodic series, chapter shows, serial programs, network news, reality tv, game/quiz shows, etc. (6)
• Public television (PBS) and its effect/influence (6)
• The telecommunications Act of 1996 (6)
• Television production and distribution (6)
• Syndication (6)
• Television ratings (6)
• Major broadcast companies (ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, PBS, Netflix, AT&T, Comcast, Time Warner, Hulu, etc.) (6)
• I Love Lucy (blog)
• The Simpsons (blog)
• Twilight Zone (blog)
• Star Trek (blog)
• The Queen's Messenger (blog)
• The FCC (blog & chapter 6, etc.)
• RCA (blog & chapter 6 & chapter 5)
• The history of Television (blog)
• How to write a TV script and a scripts 3-act structure (blog)
• Story pitch, Teaser, Subplot, Slugline, Description, Dialogue, Transitions (blog)
• The Rule of Thirds (photographic journalism, blog)
• Visual storytelling (blog)
• Rules of Photographic Composition (blog)
• PSA (public service announcement)
• Young Frankenstein & Mel Brooks (blog)
• Parody & comic techniques (satire, rule of 3, hyperbole, repetition, double entendre, pun, juxtaposition, mistaken identity, incongruity, irony: verbal, situational, and dramatic, farce, slapstick) (blog)
• New Hollywood (blog)
• The History of Journalism (blog & presentations)
• Johannes Gutenberg & the Printing Press, John Peter Zenger & NY Weekly journal, Ben Franklin & the Saturday Evening Post, Penny Presses, Joseph Pulitzer & Randolph Hurst, Yellow Journalism, The Yellow Kid, Radio & Radio Broadcasting, Adolph Ochs & the New York Times, newsreels, Tom Wolfe & New Journalism, Hunter S. Thompson & Gonzo Journalism, Woodward & Bernstein, Helen Thomas, Judith Miller, Maureen Dowd, Jonathan Katz & Rolling Stone Magazine (chapter 8, blog & presentations)
• Nellie Bly & 10 Days in a Madhouse (blog & book)
• Investigative Journalism (blog)
• Attribution & leads (blog)
• Different types of leads: name, event, time, place, cause, manner (blog)
• The inverted pyramid (blog)
• Featuring the feature (blog)
• How to create an outline (blog)
• Journalist ethics (blog; handouts; chapter 14) & Values in American Journalism (chapter 14)
• Shattered Glass (film)
• Conflict of interest (chapter 14)
• News (chapter 14)
• What makes something newsworthy (blog & chapter 14)
• Active vs. passive voice & tips on how to write in a more journalistic style (blog)
• Objective, literary, and interpretive journalism (chapter 8)
• Consensus vs. conflict-oriented journalism (chapter 8)
• Ethnocentricism, responsible capitalism, small-town pastoralism, individualism (chapter 14)
• Types & styles of Documentaries (blog)
• Public Relations, Propaganda, & Advertising (blog & chapter 12)
• Press agent (chapter 12)
• Edward Bernays (chapter 12)
• Press release, video news release media relations, special vs. pseudo-event, community and consumer relations, lobbying (chapter 12)
• Noam Chomsky & Manufacturing Consent (blog)
• The 5 filters of Mass Media (blog)
• Diegesis (blog)
• The relationship between Public Relations and the Press (chapter 12)
• Convergence in the media (all chapters--you should be able to apply the concept to television, film, newspapers, journalism, and PR)

HOMEWORK: Complete your documentaries (due by June 11). Study for your final exam (due June 7). Complete your final portfolio (due June 8).