Kaye: Media Exam Blog 1 - Mr Pall

  1) Type up your feedback in   full  (you don't need to write the mark and grade if you want to keep it confidential). WWW: Kaye, top responses for Q1 + 2 very clearly answered - shows good knowledge + understanding but equally detailed blog work - well done! 2) Read the mark scheme for this assessment carefully (this has been posted to your exam teacher's Google Classroom). Identify at least one potential point that you missed out on for each question in the assessment. The British flag (Union Jack) constructs a meaning of Great Britain, traditional power and the  monarchy. For some audiences, it will also offer connotations of Stormzy’s place as a British  cultural icon as it reflects the Union Jack stab-proof vest (designed by artist Banksy) that  Stormzy wore for his Glastonbury appearance in 2019. 3) On a scale of 1-10 (1 = low, 10 = high), how much revision and preparation did you do for this assessment? You may also want to think here whether you ha...

  Academic reading: A Critical Analysis of Progressive Depictions of Gender in Advertising Read  these extracts from an academic essay on gender in advertising by Reena Mistry . This was originally published in full in David Gauntlett's book 'Media, Gender and Identity'. Then, answer the following questions: 1) How does Mistry suggest advertising has changed since the mid-1990s? Advertising has increasingly employed images in which the gender and sexual  orientation of the subject are markedly (and purposefully) ambiguous. 2) What kinds of female stereotypes were found in advertising in the 1940s and 1950s? Women after the WW11 were seen as domestic, dependent and focused on appearance. 3) How did the increasing influence of clothes and make-up change representations of women in advertising? The increasing influence of clothes and make-up changed the representations of women in advertising by women being represented as decorative (empty) objects. 4) Which theorist ca...

  Create a new blog post called 'Advertising: Introduction to advertising blog tasks'. Read ‘Marketing Marmite in the Postmodern age’ in MM54  (p62). You'll  find our Media Magazine archive here  - remember you'll need your Greenford Google login to access. You may also want to re-watch the Marmite Gene Project advert above. Answer the following questions on your blog: 1) How does the Marmite Gene Project advert use narrative? Apply some narrative theories here. The Marmite Gene project advert uses narrative by using Blumler and Katz Uses and Gratifications due to the idea of diversion. This allows audiences to have an escapism or entertainment as well as curiosity as their slogan says “love it or hate it”. 2) What persuasive techniques are used by the Marmite advert? The persuasive techniques that were used by the Marmite advert was the idea of Bandwagon where they showed at the advert that everyone is buying it. 3) Focusing specifically on the Media Magazine a...

  1) Introduction to Media: 10 questions 2)  Media consumption audit 3)  Semiotics blog tasks 4)  Language: Reading an image - media codes 5)  Reception theory - advert analysis and factsheet 6)   Structuralism: Factsheet questions and film trailer analysis 7)  Genre: Factsheets and genre study questions 8) Narrative: Factsheet questions 9) Audience: classification - psychographics presentation notes 10) October assessment learner response 11) Audience theory 1 - Hypodermic needle/Two-step flow/U&G 12) Audience theory 2 - The effects debate - Bandura, Cohen  13)  Industries: Ownership and Control 14 ) Industries: Hesmondhalgh - The Cultural Industries 15) Industries: Public Service Broadcasting 16) Industries: Regulation 17) Representation: Feminism - Everyday Sexism & Fourth Wave MM article 18)  Representation: Feminist theory 19) Representing ourselves: Ident...

Task 1: Media Magazine article Read the Media Magazine article on collective identity: Self-image and the Media (MM41 - page 6). Our  Media Magazine archive is here . Complete the following tasks on your blog: 1) Read the article and summarise each section in one sentence, starting with the section 'Who are you?' ‘Who are you?’ People’s identities are shaped and influenced by the culture that surround us. The media can also have a great influence as to how it informs us with lifestyle and choices. ‘I think, therefore I am’ In the past our identities were fixed, it would be based on our class, age, gender, the family we lived in and the roles that were given to us, Men as the head of the family and women as the subject to patriarchal power, working class at the bottom of the hierarchy and upper-middle class at the top.  ‘From citizen to consumers’ To adopt an identity it is not about being active consumers but being passive consumers and it is not about what the consu...

  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. The article shows how the people in power controls the ones who are powerless by manipulating them and controlling their beliefs. The powerful people in the marxist theory shows how they threaten the powerless whenever their hopes were raised. 2) What view of capitalist ideology is presented in the Hunger Games films? Marxist views are reprsented in the Hunger Games films, showing how the ruling class controls the working class.  3) What do the Hunger Games films suggest about the power of the media to shape and influence ideological beliefs? The film suggests that the media has the power to threaten the powerless people if they rebel, where powerful people tries t...