MIGRAINE

This is a recap of the final letter remaining out of what we have covered from MIGRAINE and is the last theory and industry lesson on that very acronym. Having done it last year and most of this year, we will now be using and applying the knowledge from our collection of studies in order […]

The ‘E’ of MIGRAINE is to do with context. It refers to economics, politics and the social aspects of a media product. When analysing one, it is important to think about what time period it refers to (for a film this would be when it is set), when it was made and how this might […]

” Good should overcome evil “ ” Law is better than disorder “ ” Pleasure is a goal in life “   Statements such as the ones above are generally followed and believed in by most people, making them the core of our social system, at least in terms of Western beliefs. They are obvious, […]

Like the title suggests, this is a continuance of our study on representation, primarily focused on how men are portrayed in the media since we mainly explored women’s representation in the previous lesson. We began by looking at the female gaze, which in my opinion, is surprisingly unheard of, or misunderstood. The Female Gaze – […]

In this lesson, we focused on the ‘R’ of M.I.G.R.A.I.N.E, which stands for representation. Representation is defined as how media texts deal with and present gender, age, ethnicity, national and regional identity, social issues and events to an audience.  Because of this, media texts have the power to shape an audience’s knowledge and understanding of […]

In this lesson, we looked at the ‘N’ of M.I.G.R.A.I.N.E which stands for Narrative. Personally, I don’t struggle too much with including this in my analysis but I’m often unsure of how to weave it in throughout. I usually stick to mentioning the narrative techniques at the start, when I’m looking at the film/book as […]

To finish our recap of the ‘M’ in Migraine, we went through our knowledge of sound and did some technical analysis to refresh our memory. Firstly, we talked as a group about the words we already associate with sound. Here is the list we came up with: MP3 Tension Loud/quiet Orchestral Thematics Foley Natural/unnatural Tone […]

To continue our recap on the ‘M’ of M.I.G.R.A.I.N.E, we learned about editing and lighting. Firstly, we watched a video that explained different editing techniques, such as cuts and transitions, but because that was quite long and detailed, so I’ll be going over the key information and definitions we focused on afterwards. Cross-cutting: Cutting from […]

In this lesson, we focused on the ‘M’ of ( M.I.G.R.A.I.N.E ), namely media language, which includes mise en scene, cinematography, editing, sound and lighting. We focused on two of these aspects but included editing, sound and lighting in some of our analysis as well. Mise en scene – The elements of a scene Cinematography – Photography […]

Last year, I learned about MIGRAINE, which is an acronym for things to include in your writing when analysing a piece of media. It was useful to follow when doing my analysis on Midnight in Paris which involved a lot of in-depth research, because having some sort of structure helped me feel less lost, as I […]