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LR for Feb-March Mocks

  Mock exams learner response: blog tasks Today, we need to closely analyse our performance across both papers and identify specific ways we will improve for the real exams on Tuesday 16 and Wednesday 24 May . Complete the following learner response tasks in a new blogpost on your Media blog called 'March mock exams learner response': 1) Type up any comments/WWW/EBI from your teacher from both papers. You don't need to write your total number of marks if you don't want to. paper 1 Just put the letter-EBI Need to add basic mise-en sceneEBI Key message is about chocolate EBI Wrote about the wrong cspEBI 5.1 central image-1/1 5.2wrong meaning aiming at audience who is certain psychographic EBI 5.3 I need to talk about what values I am saying, which is upper class. How this magazine aims to similar  people  7.2. Be specific=name actress+say specific methods  8. Need to talk about the BBC’s remit 9. How they use Instagram Paper 2 1.3. What it is suggesting about their relat

Introduction to newspapers

Introduction to Newspapers: blog task Create a new blogpost called 'Introduction to Newspapers' and answer the following questions / or answer on this document and submit on GC: 1) What type of news can you typically find in a tabloid newspaper? Soft news such as sports and gossip 2) What type of news can you typically find in a broadsheet newspaper? Hard news 3) If someone is left-wing , which political party are they likely to support? Which newspaper would they be likely to read? They are mostly labour party voters and read the daily mirror  4) If someone is right-wing , which political party are they likely to support? Which newspaper would they be likely to read? Conservative party and read the daily times. 5) Why has there been a decline in newspaper sales in the last 20 years? Be more specific than just ‘the internet has got bigger’.  There has been a decline as more people have sarted to consume their media online and is more accessible and convenient compared to print

Newspapers-The daily Mirror

  Newspapers Blog Task Blog tasks: Daily Mirror case study Work through the following questions to complete your work on the Daily Mirror. Representation 1) What political party does the Daily Mirror support? How can you tell? They support the Labour party as the paper is based on left wing issues and labour is a left wing party  2) How does the Daily Mirror usually represent rich and powerful people or corporations? They represent rich people as useless as they always that jobs and money from the poor and give it to them and hate rich and wealthy people such as jeff bezos 3) How are ordinary working people presented in the Daily Mirror? They are represented as good people how diverse better and have called the nhs heroes due to them not getting a good enough pay rise  4) How is the Labour Party represented in the Daily Mirror? They are represented as heroes as they often praise Mps who are part of the labour party such as talking about stan who died age 91 and was labelled as a hero

Summer Project: coursework planning

  1) Research: Music videos Watch the following music videos and analyse an aspect of media language for each one: Music video 1:  Marshmello x YUNGBLUD x black bear  - Tongue Tied How is   narrative   used in this music video to engage the audience? Narrative is used in the music video to tell the audience about how the people who are in the video are trying to run away from the police and try to stop them. Music video 2: Years & Years - I Wish I Knew How is camerawork and mise-en-scene used in this video? Use CLAMPS to remember the different aspects of mise-en-scene. camerawork and mise en scene is used for this video as in the start of the video there is a close up of the singer and the camera position is like this for a another minute and then there is a medium shot of the band singing the song and the camera is mostly focus on the lead singer. Music video 3: Foals - Hummer How is editing used in this music video to engage the audience?  Editing is used as in the intro the song

Music video prep tasks for coursework

  1.       Name of Video- STAN by Eminem Narrative (a story line or plot that links with the lyrics)   There is a pregnent woman An eminem look alike is in the toilet and is locked in and the women is banging on the door and the lyrics and linked to the visual                  2.       Name of Video- Crazy in Love by Beyonce Performance element (some kind of performance that could be dancing or lip synching to camera)   Jay z in the video is lip syncing and beyonce is dancing  There is a photoshoot happening while beyonce is singing and dancing  There are a lot of good locations such as many urban areas and at some points of the video the time of day is sunset.             3.       Name of Video - Bonobo by Bambro Koyo Ganda Edited to the beat – use of editing to match the beat of the song  There were birds in the sky when the speed of the song is at a slow pace and there are time lapes of people cars and when the song was at a fast pace it was mostly showing towns and cities       

Heat and Tatler extension tasks

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  HEAT Grade 8/9 extension tasks 1) How does the front cover engage audiences with possible narratives? Look for stories, cliff-hangers, dramatic cover lines etc. Do for every cover line for Heat.  The Front cover engages with possible narratives as highlighted in yellow the headline is "posh caught out" which gives out the narrative that she is being secretive and is hiding secrets from the public and are intrigued to find out what happens to her. 2) What are paparazzi images and why are they crucial to the front cover of Heat? Paparazzi images are people who are independent who take photos of high-ranked celebrities such as the royal family and high profile people such as Boris Johnson and these are crucial as it shows how these A-listers look without makeup and the headline might want to expose their secrets. 3) How does the front cover juxtapose text and images to create contrast and narrative on the front cover of Heat? The front cover juxtaposes text and image to create

Walk and Talk Learner Response

1) Type up any comments/WWW/EBI from your teacher. You don't need to write your total number of marks if you don't want to but it might help if you put marks (for yourself). WWW- good effort but you didn't mention KK Hollywood and you haven't gone into enough media terminology but good examples from CSP EBI- you need to write more detail and uses more media terminology  2) Write a  question-by-question analysis  of your performance. Read the mark scheme I have created  THEN for  each  question, write how many marks you got from the number available and what you did wrong/didn't include. Q1-2/6 marks-I did not define the meaning of diversion and did not define the pleasure that they give and I was not specific about the CSP that I was talking about. Q2-3/9 marks- I did not define what in app purchases are and did not explain how Keeping up with the Kardashians built up the Kardashian brand and I also did not relate to the question and how the brand makes money throug