Course topics.

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1. Compare the topic list with the current course outline from your school.
2. Pick a topic you can partly explain and identify the exact part you want to work through.
3. Bring one example of the kind of question or task your school uses.

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Topics in the resource inventory

• 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
• Media aesthetics, the construction of themes and aesthetics within production contexts
• Using techniques, codes and conventions to challenge expectations
• How representations are constructed, and media as a vehicle to challenge representations
• Cultural contexts, values and the interpretation of media art; media theories and audience response
• Independent media producers: challenges and meeting niche audiences' expectations
• The impact of cultural influences on media content
• Suitability of media for social or political comment, and the intended audience
• Changing distribution networks and the impact of media trends on media use
• Persuasive techniques, codes and conventions; selection, emphasis and omission to construct point of view
• Persuasive representations, their values, and naturalised stereotypes
• How media influence audiences: applying theories, and reinforcing or challenging perceptions, values and attitudes
• How producers construct perceptions of issues: editorial control, funding, distribution and regulation
• Propaganda, agenda setting and formal and informal censorship
• Own production in the written paper, and writing short and extended answers