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ASSESSMENT Q2 NEWS LIAR

GBHS MEDIA STUDIES A LEVEL Reflection

Name:                                           Date:

AO1: Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the theoretical framework of media and contexts of media and their influence (5)

AO2 Apply knowledge and understanding of the theoretical framework of media to analyse media products (KU) of the theoretical framework of media to:

Analyse media products/ Make judgements and draw conclusions (10)

Question: 2 How does media language incorporate viewpoints and ideologies in these front pages of the Guardian and he Daily Mail. ·       Layout ·       Typography ·       Colour ·       Font ·       Images Outlining the conventions of the front pages of tabloid newspapers, including use and style of headlines and images Analyse the contrasting use of symbolic, technical and written conventions in the sources Contrasting conclusion and judgments. Tabloids: Lower demographic, CDE Higher image to text ratio Large bold headlines - attracting readers. Skyline advert for content inside Soft news however includes some hard news Colour High variety of articles Multiple large images The large font of the headline in the mirror clearly screams its viewpoint on Theresa May. 'lies, damned lies', and the subheading which speaks of 'broken promises' leaves the impressionable readership in no doubt that they should condemn the tory party. The size of the typography is extremely large, even for the tabloid, and coupled with the repetition of 'lies' forces the CDE demographic to take on the anti-Tory ideology - a crucial reading on the day of the general election. The daily mail also sues the common tabloid convention on direct mode of address in the headline (lets ignite), and the skyline ('your guide). However, instead of using the imperative commands (which the lower demographic of the mirror would accept), the mail cleverly unites its c1c2d demographic by making the readers feel part of the team - together they are part of the change, part of the politics. This this effectively flatters the audience into accepting the pro-conservative viewpoint it is hammering home. The editors of the DM have clearly understood its audience, and have tweaked the tabloid convention to suit the intelligent reader. Identify a strength or strengths in your assessment: What are the areas you need to improve? What will you do to improve in your next assessment? Any particular areas or study skills?

Q2 Points that could have been made

·       Differences in colour

·       Ratio of image to text – text heavy Guardian

·       Hard/soft news – Guardian three hard news stories all politics one international story

·       Formal/informal language

·       Guardian left leaning / Daily Mail

·       Close up head shots of DM old and aggressive Jagger, innocent young under SEX PESTS ideology of celebrity gossip and hyperbolic informal language

·       Daily Mail C1 C2 C3/ Guardian A B C

·       Alliteration language, saturated colour schemes

·       Size of fonts and capital letters DM

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ASSESSMENT 1B NEWS LIAR

GBHS MEDIA STUDIES A LEVEL Reflection

Name:                                           Date:

AO1: Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the theoretical framework of media and contexts of media and their influence

AO2 Apply knowledge and understanding (KU) of the theoretical framework of media to:

Analyse media products/ Make judgements and draw conclusions

Questions were: 1.News values and conventions 2. Representation of Ethnicity 3. Technology 4. Shirky/Gerbner Identify a strength or strengths in your assessment: Wasn’t any What are the areas you need to improve? Improve on the theorists, in order to right the correct thing about the question asked the theorists must be analysed. This therefore means learning all the theories in full and proving links between them to ensure memory and a method of memorising the theorists for the exam. Therefore, this will allow the question to be answered accurately and to not be accessed at the wrong angle. What will you do to improve in your next assessment? Any particular areas or study skills? Leaning the theorists this will allow me to thrive in the next assessment as little knowledge ion the theorist allowed me to not be able to answer the question correctly. Following this this meant that I was incapable to do the question to a good standard. Knowing the theorists will allow me to be able to answer the question with an attempt rather than answering the question aimlessly.

paper 1 question 1

paper one question one:

paper one:
section 1 - news
1. representation, 2 unseen texts, apply a representation theory.
hall, gaunlet, brll hooks, judith butler, Van Zoonen, gilroy
2. media language, 2 unseen texts.
3. Audience - guardian and the daily mail. as well as their online presence.
4. theory, any of those theories. "evaluate the usefulness of... theory" g and dm (others)


elite class
political views
class of audience
gender
ethnicity

p: the mirror chooses to represent the cultural issue of gender through the choice of image on the front page. it depicts Theresa May, the female pm on the day of the 2017 general election.

E: The tabloid has printed a full colour, low angle, close up which bleeds to the edge of the page.

E: The low angle shot has subverted the usual convention of tabloid imagery. Hall's theory suggests that the 'code' of a low angle shot would empower the subject Theresa May. however, in this photograph undermines her authority, making her look unattractive, flawed and ridiculous. The representation of may as a female here also subverts halls theory of representation, as she does not fit the generic convention of the 'attractive' woman. Halls theory is more in evidence in the mail as she is looking more respectable, open and positive.

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