Unit 1 Revision Project

The Walking Dead

Name: James Clee

Contents:

Sector and genre

Audience
Media Effects
Regulation
Codes and conventions
Communication and meaning:
o Mise En Scene
o Sound
o Camera Angles
o Editing
o Lighting
o Denotation and Connotation
o Narrative
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Sector and Genre

What media sector is The Walking Dead a part of?
TV

What is the genre of The Walking Dead?

Horror and adventure

Audience

Describe the Primary or Target audience for The Walking

Dead:
People who are interested zombies, horror and adventure.
Also a lot of people might like the gory scenes that The
Walking Dead has to offer.
Are the audience of The Walking Dead passive or active?
Active
Why?
Because lots of people are talking about it either when a
new episode is out or when they first start watching it.

Media Effects

Thinking about the Hypodermic Needle Theory: What in

the content of The Walking Dead may cause concern over
its effect on the audience and why?
Because people that are watching the show might actually think
that a zombie apocalypse is happening and that it is all real. This is
due to the theory being involved with passive viewer that believe
everything that the media tells them.

Regulation

Use the Internet to discover the regulation in place on The

Walking Dead.
Consider how/when it is broadcast on TV and how it is
regulated in DVD form. Also state who puts this regulation
in place.
Television
Ofcom would regulate the
show when it is being show
on TV. Therefore they need
to make sure that the show
wont offend people too
much and that it is on after
watershed which means it
cant go on after 9:00pm
due to the age rating.

DVD
Adverts need to fit the
target audiences who are
purchasing the dvds and the
Advertsing Standards
Authority would have to
make sure that the adverts
are appropriate for people of
all ages to see and make
sure theres nothing else
that will offend people like
racism or sexism. Also the
BBFC (Britisj Board of Film
Classifiaction) would have to
classify it by giving it an age
rating and let people know
what is included in it to give
it that age rating.

Codes and Conventions

What are they typical features that you can see in the
Walking Deads Genre? Complete the Brainstorm
Blood, gore, violence, bad language, weapons, drug use, sexual content

Typical Features of this genre

Communication and
Meaning
What parts of a product make up the Mis En Scene?
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Performance
Hair, costume and makeup
Settings & props

Complete the table below to describe the Mis en

Scene in The Walking Dead
Element of
Mis en Scene

Description

Sound
Complete the table below to explain the diagetic and nondiagetic sound used in The Walking Dead and its effect
Diagetic Sound

Non Digetic Sound

Exampl
es

Effect

Camera Angles

Name the camera angles used below and explain why

they have been used:

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An extreme long shot shows us the setting and the

emptiness of the world around the characters in the show.

Editing
Explain how the editing of The Walking Dead changes
between high action and calmer scenes.

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Lighting
What kind of lighting has been used in the image below?
Low key

What is the effect of using this kind of lighting?

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Denotations and
Connotations
Explain the meaning of both words:
Denotatio The literal meaning of something.
n
Connotati
on

Something that you can infer or something that can

represent something else.

Look at the following list of objects in The Walking Dead;

consider what the connotations of each could be:
Denoted
Object/Sound

Connotation

The Sheriffs hat

Guns
The noise of flies
and insects
The Zombie groan

Narrative
Describe the narrative in the first three scenes of The
Walking Dead:

Scene 1: minimal
narrative with more
cinematics than
talking to allow the
viewer to get an
understanding of
the setting and
what the show
might be about.

Scene 2:

Scene 3:

What type of narrative is this? Linear or Non-linear? Nonliner

What mode of address is The Walking Dead filmed in (1 st,
2nd or 3rd person)?