Video Essay: Style and Influence
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Video Essay: Style and Influence

Season
Unit 2 Media
Unit
style and genre
Episode
exploring a distinctive style

For this SAC you will create a video essay of 3 - 6 minutes that explores the style of a media producer that you find inspirational. Your video essay should include the following things:

How a media producer uses codes / conventions to create a personal style.

Some questions you might consider are:

  • What symbolic or technical codes are evident throughout the producer's work?
  • What story conventions are evident throughout the work?
  • How has the style changed or evolved over time?

What the influences of this style are.

Some questions you might consider are:

  • What media other media creators and artists had an influence on your chosen media producer?
  • How does the producer's work reflect the world they live in?
  • What does the producer's work tell you about what they want to say about the world?
  • How has the producer made a product for a specific medium?

The personal connection you have with the media producer.

Some questions you might consider are:

  • Why do you find this producer inspirational?
  • How did you first come to see the producer's work?
  • What does this work mean to you?
  • How might this producer come to influence your own media productions?
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