Prepare for a tutoring lesson.

Try this with Media Production and Analysis

1. Pick one topic and bring a question, an attempted answer or a short section of your notes.
2. Write a goal you can check at the end, such as explaining a method or improving a response.
3. Choose one independent follow-up task to try after working through the example.

Pick a starting point

• Codes and conventions: technical, symbolic, written and audio codes
• The system of communication: encoding, decoding and preferred, negotiated and oppositional readings
• Media theories for audience analysis: hypodermic needle, uses and gratifications, reception theory, two-step flow, cultivation and agenda setting
• Artistic and cultural benefits of media work
• Auteur figures, personal expression and aesthetics
• Manipulating narrative elements and narrative structures

Plan a sample lesson

Choose one inventory topic and a goal. This plan stays in your browser until you download it; it is not sent to a tutor.