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What is Paper 1?
What is Paper 1?
Paper 2 is called "Media Messages". Within this 2 hour exam in the May of your second year, you will explore a range of media industries and products from an analytical and critical perspective, considering why and how messages have been constructed by media producers to reinforce or challenge cultural and societal ideologies.
Section A: UK Newspapers, print and online
You will answer 4 x questions on UK newspapers, focusing on their media language and representations, as well as their industry and audience practices. Our key set texts are Daily Mail and The Guardian, although you will also learn about all major national papers.
Section B: Media Language and representations
You will study 3 topics and two of them will come up in the exam from:
Music Videos - SET TEXTS - David Guetta's Titanium and Lil Nas X's SUN GOES DOWN
Advertisements SET TEXTS - Shelter, River Island and Dove
Magazines SET TEXTS - The Big Issue
Please try some of our taster lessons below, some of which feature our set texts, others of which focus on non-set texts.
Heinz Advert source and analysis https://cxl.com/blog/semiotics-marketing/
Taster Lesson 1. Textual Analysis
Taster Lesson 1. Textual Analysis
To access the teacher narration that accompanies this presentation click on the ! along the bottom of the slides. Enable auto play and then use the arrows to progress through each slide.
Optional Activity
Optional Activity
Once you've worked through the slides why not have a go at conducting an analysis of this advertisement?
Taster Lesson 2. Music Videos
Taster Lesson 2. Music Videos
Please be aware that the music video analysed does contain explicit lyrics.
Optional Activity
Optional Activity
Why not have a go at deconstructing a music video of your choice?
Engage in some wider reading around contemporary music videos and music videos from the 1980's / 1990's.
Edited taster 2 - music video.mov
Formation then is not a plea that black lives matter — it’s a warning that they do (vox.com)
Formation then is not a plea that black lives matter — it’s a warning that they do (vox.com)
Taster Lesson 3. Alternative Magazines
Taster Lesson 3. Alternative Magazines
Optional Activity
Optional Activity
Why not have a go at deconstructing some covers from the Big Issues' archives?
The Big Issue taster.mov
Taster Lesson 5. News
Taster Lesson 5. News
Optional Activity.
Optional Activity.
Use this website to compare some of the front pages of the British Press.
https://www.thepaperboy.com/uk/front-pages.cfm
Consider how they are reporting on the same event. What representations are they constructing? How are they trying to influence the reader? Draw some conclusions about why they're doing this.
News taster editied.movPage updated
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