Shreyam's Media Exam Blog 1 - Mr Bush

Language and contexts Homepage Go to  the Voice homepage  and answer the following: 1) What news website key conventions can you find on the Voice homepage? A banner at the top displaying different genres of news Main articles on the front page A search option 2) What are some of the items in the top menu bar and what does this tell you about the content, values and ideologies of the Voice? Sport Lifestyle Entertainment Competitions Opinion Faith The content covers a wide range of topics, values , and ideologies 3) Look at the news stories on the Voice homepage. Pick two stories and explain why they might appeal to the Voice's target audience. Mum’s shock after armed cops arrest 13 year old over colourful water gun The story is about a Black child who was arrested because the police thought his toy gun was real. It is often said that the police are " institutionally racist ", and that they tend to react harsher towards black suspects compared to white suspects. Black p

1)  Add your finished magazine cover as a JPEG image. 2) Type up your feedback from your teacher. If you've received this by email, you can copy and paste it across - WWW and EBIs. You don't need to include a mark or grade if you don't want to. Mark: 10/15 WWW: Effective use of cover lines, especially the use of highlighting and different fonts EBI: Monochrome style and heavy use of photoshop does not match the conventions of a typical GQ magazine 3) Consider your mark against the mark scheme above. What are the strengths of your production based on the the mark scheme? Think about magazine cover  conventions  and the media language techniques you have used to communicate with your audience (e.g. mise-en-scene, camera shot etc.) My cover star is portrayed in high-key lighting, a solid white background, and covers a large chunk of the paper My cover lines vary in terms of appearance and information 4) Look at the mark scheme again. What can you do to move your mark higher an

Go to our Media Factsheet archive on the Media Shared drive and open Factsheet 170: Gilroy – Ethnicity and Postcolonial Theory. Our Media Factsheet archive is on the Media Shared drive: M:\Resources\A Level\Media Factsheets or you can  access it online here  using your Greenford Google login. Read the Factsheet and complete the following questions/tasks: Paul Gilroy - blog tasks 1) How does Gilroy suggest racial identities are constructed? Racial identities are historically constructed – formed by colonisation, slavery, nationalist philosophies and consumer capitalism. 2) What does Gilroy suggest regarding the causes and history of racism? Racism is not caused by the clash of two or more races – racism is not a natural phenomenon. Instead, Gilroy states that racial differences and racial identities are the product of racial oppression. Racial identities are caused by historical conflicts that have brought different groups into opposition. That is not to say that there were no human d

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: Excellent writing for Q2 - concise & focused EBI: Ensure you cover all keywords in questions ('myth' in Q1?) 2) Focusing on the unseen question 1, pick out three bullet points on the anticipated content and link each point to the three aspects of the question - denotation, connotation, myth.  Denotation - The denotation of the costume, props, colour and body language Connotation - T he connotations of the image with reference to USA’s national identity through the  burning flag and the reference to the Western genre Myth - N otion of a patriotic country, valuing an independent spirit associated with masculinity. 3) Look at the anticipated content for the 25-mark Magazines question. Pick out three points on GQ and three on The Gentlewoman that you think are particularly interesting for this question on social and cultural contexts. GQ: GQ supports

Audience Smart Water brand case study Read  this Smart Water case study from Influencer Intelligence  and answer the following questions: 1) What is the charity link to her Smart Water brand ambassador role and how does this link to the celebrity persona she has created? Zendaya's Smart Water brand ambassador role is linked to her support of community water programmes and the Global Water Challenge charity. This aligns with the philanthropic and socially conscious persona she has created. By working with the Global Water Challenge and launching the "smart solutions: global water challenge," Zendaya connects her brand ambassador role with a charitable cause focused on achieving universal access to clean drinking water, particularly for women. 2) Read the analysis of Zendaya’s social media profile. What statistics support why she is described as ‘a high-ranking celebrity influencer’? The analysis of Zendaya's social media profile supports her description as a high-ran