Princess’ A-level media exam blog

  1) Type up your feedback in  full  (you don't need to write the mark and grade if you want to keep this confidential). WWW: This is brilliant progress from your last assessment and the first 3 questions are very strong EBI: Try to do the same with the 20 mark essay and cover both sides of the argument and show a critical perspective. 2) Read  the mark scheme for this assessment carefully . Identify at least  one  potential point that you missed out on for each question in the assessment. 1 -  Typography, Preferred and Oppositional and  representations (black, males, rappers) • The verbal codes (text) signify a range of different meanings – modern yet serif font for the artist name suggests the artist has a strong presence yet moves with the times. The ‘h.i.t.h’ (standing for ‘Heavy is the head’ – the name of the album the tour is promoting) is in an old fashioned almost medieval font that perhaps suggests royalty or power. It could also offer co...

  Part 1: Media Magazine reading Page 34: The World Of Mockingjay: Ideology, Dystopia And Propaganda 1) Read the article and summarise it in one sentence. The article examines how those in power use media to uphold and reinforce their ideologies. 2) What view of capitalist ideology is presented in the Hunger Games films? The films highlight the contrast between the wealthy, who live in luxury, and the poor, who struggle with poverty and oppression, mirroring the inequalities we see in the real world. 3) What do the Hunger Games films suggest about the power of the media to shape and influence ideological beliefs? The Hunger Games films suggest that media can be a powerful force, capable of shaping and controlling dominant beliefs and ideologies. 4) What is   YOUR  opinion on this topic? Do you think the media shapes our values and beliefs? I think the media definitely plays a big role in shaping our values and beliefs, often reinforcing dominant ideologies. However,...

  Task 1: Media Magazine article 1) Read the article and summarise each section in one sentence, starting with the section 'Who are you?' Who are you? Our identity is a blend of our own life experiences and the impact of the world around us, especially how we see ourselves through the media. "The rise of the individual" refers to the growing emphasis on individualism, where personal uniqueness is celebrated. "From citizen to consumer" highlights how we’ve shifted from focusing on our roles in society to being driven by the need to create and fulfill personal desires. "Branding and lifestyle" speaks to how brands shape their identity by associating a ‘personality’ with their products, influencing not just what we buy, but how we see ourselves in relation to them. 2) Do you agree with the view that modern media is all about 'style over substance'? What does this expression mean? The phrase "style over substance" implies that looks, ...

Representation: Feminist theory 1) Introduction to media: 10 questions 2) Media consumption audit 3) Semiotics blog tasks 4) Reception theory - advert analysis and factsheet 5) Language: Reading an image - media codes 6) Genre: Factsheets and genre study questions 7) Narrative: Factsheet questions 8) Audience - classification - psychographics presentation notes 9) October assessment learner response 10) Audience theory 1 11) Audience theory 2 12) Industries: ownership and control 13) Industries: Hesmondalgh - The Cultural industries 14) Industries: Public Service Broadcasting 15) Industries: regulation 16) Representation: Introduction to Representation 17) Representation: Feminism - Everyday Sexism & Fourth Wave MM article 18) Representation: Feminist theory 19) 20) 18)  Representation: Feminist theory 19)  Representing ourselves: Identity in the online age - MM articles & Factsheet 20) Ideology: BBC Question Time analysis and MM articles 

  Media Magazine reading - two articles on feminism and theory 1) What examples are provided from the two texts of the 'male gaze' (Mulvey)? The examples provided of the male gaze are 'Down With Love'  (2003) and Virgin |Airlines and retro eighties adverts. These show 2) Do texts such as these show there is no longer a need for feminism or are they simply sexism in a different form? These texts show that this is simply sexism in a different form because both use a historical setting of the fifties and early sixties, a time before the feminist movement, to reinforce post-feminist ideologies. 3) Choose three words/phrases from the glossary of the article and write their definitions on your blog. Post feminism- – An ideology in culture and  society that society is somehow past needing  feminism and that the attitudes and arguments  of feminism are no longer needed. Third wave feminism-  – Was a movement  that redefined and encouraged women to be  do...