Rishi A Level Media Blog 1 Mr Pall

   1) Introduction to media 10 questions:  https://alevelrishimedia1.blogspot.com/2023/09/first-blog-task.html 2) Semiotics task:  https://alevelrishimedia1.blogspot.com/2023/09/semiotics.html 3) Language: reading an image - media codes:  https://alevelrishimedia1.blogspot.com/2023/11/reading-image-media-codes.html 4) Media consumption Audit:  https://alevelrishimedia1.blogspot.com/2023/09/my-media-consumption.html 5) Reception Theory - Advert analysis:  https://alevelrishimedia1.blogspot.com/2023/11/reception-theory.html 6) Genre: Fact sheets and genre study questions:  https://alevelrishimedia1.blogspot.com/2023/11/genre-blog-tasks.html 7) Narrative: Fact-sheet Questions:  https://alevelrishimedia1.blogspot.com/2023/11/narrative-factsheet.html 8) Audience: classification - psychographics presentation notes:  https://alevelrishimedia1.blogspot.com/2023/11/audience-classification.html 9) Octob...

  Part 1: BBC Question Time analysis Watch this clip from BBC Question Time with Russell Brand and Nigel Farage. The BBC deliberately placed the two against each other and the episode resulted in far more people than usual watching and reacting on social media. 1) What examples of  binary opposition  can you suggest from watching this clip? Support and neglect love and hate right wing and left wing   2) What  ideologies  are on display in this clip? Liberal social welfare and conservatives    Embed the video into your blog (as above) and answer these two questions in full paragraphs. Part 2: Media Magazine reading Media Magazine issue 52 has two good articles on Ideology. You need to read those articles ( our  Media Magazine archive is here ) and complete a few short tasks linked to them.  Page 34: The World Of Mockingjay: Ideology, Dystopia And Propaganda 1) Read the article and summarise it in one sentence. People have power ...

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: Rishi, some specific subject terminology + media theories used applied in your response EBI: Lacking clarity in your response perhaps proof- read your answer  2) Read  the mark scheme for this assessment  carefully. Write down the number of marks you achieved for the two questions: _/8; _/12. If you  didn't achieve full marks  in a question, write a bullet point on what you may have missed. 4/8  • The image on the ‘Bad boy’ advert constructs a range of interesting meanings. It reinforces male dominance with a suit and open-necked shirt connoting power and authority, albeit relaxed. The man is sitting in comparison to the woman kneeling on the floor and has his leg crossed to reinforce his relaxed dominance of the scene. One eye is visible and makes contact with the audience but in a markedly different way to the woman’s gaze....

1) Read the article and summarise each section in one sentence, starting with the section 'Who are you?' Who are you?   Whether we use fashion statements, hairstyles,  make-up or indeed make an active decision not  to do any of those things, we are all involved  in constructing an image to communicate  our identity. I think, therefore I am! At one time in the not-too-distant past, our identity was seen to be firm, fixed and pre- determined. How we perceived ourselves and how we presented ourselves was based on the social constructs that defined the interpersonal relationships within the groups we found ourselves in. The rise of the individual!   Dominant values help shape how we see  ourselves; and by the late 1960s and 1970s the  notion of individualism began to take hold,  reacting against what can be seen to be the more  conformist values of the past. From citizen to consumer!   The idea that identity could be constructed  ...