A level media exam blog

  MIGRAIN Final index Keeping an index of all your work is extremely good practice from a revision perspective. Not only does this keep the concepts and media terminology fresh in your mind but it  will also highlight if you've missed anything. Your final index should include the following: 1)  Introduction to Media: 10 questions 2)  Semiotics blog tasks 3)  Language: Reading an image - media codes 4)  Media consumption audit 5)  Reception theory - advert analyses 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 - Hypodermic needle/Two-step flow/U&G 11)  Audience theory 2 - The effects debate - Bandura, Cohen   12)  Industries: Ownership and Control 13)  Industries: Hesmondhalgh - The Cultural Industries 14)  Industries: Public Se...

  Your learner response is as follows: Create a new blog post called ' MIGRAIN 3 Assessment - Learner response ' and complete the following tasks: 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: Nasra, good ability to analyse the unseen media products and use of media terminology EBI: Not enough focus on the other examples of advertising in media 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. 7/8 Finally, the costume of the man perhaps reflects David Gauntlett’s idea that masculinity is evolving due to changing representations in the mass media. The lack of a tie and socks is a more informal, modern interpretation of masculinity compared to traditional representations 8/12The campaign reinforc...

  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? -  We all construct our image to communicate our identity through music, fashion and makeup. There is a difference between who think we are and who we want to be. The construction of role models influences us on our lifestyle choices I think, therefore I am - social constructs determine how we perceive ourselves and how we are perceived by others. Our identity is based on the conditions of the families we are born into and this includes c lass, religion, gender and other  predetermined roles From citizen to consumer - This is idea that identity is constructed by externalised image 2...

  Read   Playing With The Past: Post-feminism and the Media   ( MM40 , page 64 -   our Media Magazine archive is here ). This is a great example of sophisticated media analysis and an indication of the level we want to be writing at by the end of the two-year course. 1) What examples are provided from the two texts of the 'male gaze' (Mulvey)? HBO’s Pan Am and Beyoncé’s music video for ‘Why Don’t You Love Me’, both of which use the historical setting of the Fifties and early Sixties, a time before the Feminist movement, to reinforce post-feminist ideologies. 2) Do texts such as these show there is no longer a need for feminism or are they simply sexism in a different form? In  the pilot episode of Pam Am we see Laura having her weight  and appearance checked, and being subjected  to a humiliating girdle check (a type of support  underwear worn at that time to control the stomach and upper thighs). - this shows we do still need feminism as it ...