reading+texts



Reading texts is done by us all sub-consciously every day. Reading is a predominantly subjective activity. At College students particularly undertake readings of narrative, representation and audience in media studies classes.


 * [[image:narrative.jpg]] SLUM DOG MILLIONAIRE.**
 * TASK TWO. You do a film reading for this to consider the reading of narrative context**



Students:Readings of cinema:Exemplar 1. //[|GCSE FILM STUDIES - HOW TO READ FILM] //

see readings further: humanist sociological back to 3.2 task two home

Media studies
Social science reading, where media studies comes in, is about the conflicts, arrangements and relationships of human behaviour as these are structured, negotiated and controlled in society. If students engage with the process of reading they may go on to read sociology or Anthropology in the social sciences. If they like to read texts closely, they may persue study in English, cultural studies, Theatre, languages or media production. Readings come about from the position of how the reader is informed and by where the reader can draw comparative information. Thus, reading are relative.The reader may be active or participant. ( Once the notion of a reader did not even exist except as a passive or rote reader -think indoctrinations. Reading may be culturally specific. CULT reading are an example.

A casual reader may think they are reading intuitively. The discipline of reading invariably breaks into two flanges when we see reading as a social science.

The reader brings a priori knowledge to a text. The reader might be open or closed, prejudiced or liberal, cautions or cynical. A reader needs to think about self and society and culture and identity. Such awarenesses are great as reading tools.

Enjoy. Content for readings may, therefore be subversive or persuasive. Have we really thought about this enough? This is the alarmist side of a reading equation. Another side to a reading equation is that readings are done for taste groups, by fans and connoisseurs- or by professionals. Students have a huge range to the practice of reading. Reading becomes shared. It becomes the," Hey. Did you see this? ( Hear this?) "what did you think, feel, share about it?"

By far the most dominating texts are visual. Select a visual text and analyse this for your two readings. A text in moving image or 2D imagery is a media construction. This may be assembled from written, read,drawn, photographed material or mixed media resources and made into a combination of these in moving images, sound, text or concept with symbols - as adaptations, mashes, blogs, e-zines, video games, costume parties of fan events. The scope of reading might include readings of: Advertising, film,graphic novels,photo essays, web sites, Youtube, radio. The key is to unpack the construction of media forms by looking for and analysing the function of conventions and codes. It is these that trigger our sujective readings and responses. We call this an investigation of meaning. Hence the assessment : Reading Audience is a unit standards available this year. The skills used here are: quantitative reading and qualitative reading. These skills apply to the task three Audience study 7466. In 2007 the reading were conducted qualitatively about Boutique cinema audiences. This year ( 2010) the readings are being conducted after a quantitative research questionnaire is handed out to fifteen "friends" about their use of face-book.
 * 1) == **Readings in Social Science: media studies** ==

Other features of reading could be the Aesthetic. Students start to think about visual and structured aesthetic in TASK A of this assessment. Extended reading of aesthetic is permissible for the TASK TWO area. e.g Design: 2D

If the visual text is static is assembled by the codes of: design layout colour 2nd dimension typography sequencing Design: Audio listeners, viewers, readers If a text is aural is is designed by codes of: decible, silence, sound,speech conventions, performance conventions, special effects. Design: Television

Design: conceptual