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Class Trailer

1) How does Class meet the conventions of a TV drama series From the trailer I can tell that Class is going to be dramatic and science fiction and there is going to be some sci-fi and horror. Its kind of a mix between conventions. 2) What conventions of the science-fiction genre can you find in the Class trailer? List as many as you can and use NCIS to help you. Narritive Aliens Time Travel Space Travel Characters New species Scientists Monsters Iconograhies Labs Future Weapons Different colours Setting Spooky future worlds Different time Different specimens 3) What other genres are suggested by the trailer (e.g. horror)? Is Class an example of a modern hybrid-genre show? Class is a old genre that uses 'future weapons' and things that we have now where they didn't have it before. 4) Class is a spin-off from Doctor Who. At what point does the character of the Doctor appear in the trailer? Doctor Who first appears at the start of the Class trai

OMO advert: blog task

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1) What year was the advert produced? 1950 2) How were women represented in most adverts in the 1950s? Most women in the 1950's where usually housewives and did all their work at home and did not have any jobs to do. If they don't do house work then they are looking after their kids while the men do the important job and work to get money to feed the family. 3) How does the heading  message ('OMO makes whites bright') and typography promote the product? The heading makes the words sound like its a rhyme and it might get stuck in your head (catchy). It might also get the audience to buy it and it convinces them. 4) Analyse the mise-en-scene in the advert (CLAMPS): how is costume, make-up and placement of the model used to suggest women's role in society? She is dressed up like a housewives and her expression is like is wants to work hard on cleaning and is joyful to clean up. 5) Why is a picture of the product added to the bottom right of the adver

Reveal CSP

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General Look through the slides from the lesson on Reveal and use this information and your own research and analytical skills to answer the questions below.    1) Based on your research, what type of people read Reveal? Consider demographics and psychographics. People of lower class read these sort of magazines because they might have spare change to use. 2) Look at the lesson slides: how does the editor introduce Reveal magazine? The magazine introduces Reveal as a magazine for people who want to escape their life of doing their jobs and hear all the gossip about celebs. 3) What is the difference between the Reveal and Tatler target audiences? Reveal is for lower class people whereas Tatler is more for higher class who have time and money to spend. 4) What issues are Reveal readers interested in? Reveal readers are interested in the latest gossip and what their relationships are like and with who they are with (partner).  Media language 1) How many of the 12 magaz

Tatler : Case Study Blog Task

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1) Based on the trailer, what type of people produce and read Tatler? Consider demographics and psychographics. Looking at the video closely, I have noticed that it shows how posh people live and what their lifestyle is like. It also suggests that there are upper classes and lower classes and how different families live like and rich people showing their money of by hosting big parties. 2) Look at the  Tatler Media Pack 2018 . Go to page 2: how does the editor introduce the magazine   The editor of Tatler customises the magazine as niche. It is about how it is basically targeted to the richest readers in the country and how they live. 3) Now go to page 4 of the Media Pack. Focus on the print magazine (NOT tatler.com - the website). List the key demographic details: age, gender %, ABC1 % (social class), HHI (Household Income), % of those living in London and the South East. What do these demographic details suggest about the average Tatler reader? The demographics for this magaz

Learner Response

1) Type up your feedback in  full  (you don't need to write the mark and grade if you want to keep this confidential). Sorry but this was incredibly hard to mark as you have made up loads of random facts and written them, showing a complete lack of understanding and no revision. Hard to see why you want to study my subject at GCSE if you are not taking it seriously. Your written English needs a lot of work to be GCSE standard. Where you didn't achieve full marks, write  WHY  you think you missed out on the extra marks. Use the indicative content suggestions in the mark scheme to help with this. 2) Did you get any  media terminology  wrong in the assessment? Make a note of it here for future revision: I did miss out some media terminology like connotation and denotation, media industry, music industry and news industry hopefully i can use these terms next time and make more sense to get a higher grade. 3) Look specifically at  question 3  - did you successfully write abou

Representation

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1) List the people, places and groups represented in the poster.  There are 7 young students most likely in school. Who are acting as if they are bad kids and trying to represent a bad personality. 2) Are there any stereotypes you can identify? One might be that kids are all dangerous and that they are not trustworthy.They are holding up dangerous weapons that they should not be holding up. 3) What is the preferred reading of this poster? Preferred readers would say that it is only some bad kids that are trying to ruin the good reputation of good kids. They would say that these kids have not been taught well and do not go to school. 4) What is the oppositional reading of this poster? Oppositional readers would say that young children are bad and do bad things. They are dangerous and do things that are illegal and wrong

Essay LR

My Essay LR: Introduction Over time, Media has changed a lot. The Internet has changed significantly and how people used to wait for a t.v show to come on whereas now we can watch it whenever we want and download it or even binge watch.There were big problems like people could not go online and the internet was very slow but now it is very fast. Now everybody can watch films in the cinema and they can get ratings and can get views and rich. Once they have made one film and it's very successful they will make a part two and it will get popular whereas in the past they couldn't do that because it was way. Years have past and the the music industry has changed a lot. One way it has changed is because of YouTube. Back when there was no one to sin you up for a record label, you had to make a video and upload so that you could get popular. Now it is very hard to get your music videos popular as you need a lot of money to make the video and get it viral. It spreads around a