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1) What is the preferred reading of a media text? The Preferred reading would see the audience siding with the character of Harry - all youths are thugs, mindless and only do bad things. 2) What is the oppositional reading of a media text? The Oppositional reader would say things like there is a reason behind the way the youths act, that they feel sorry for them rather than the people they are terrorizing.  3) How does the Harry Brown trailer position the audience to respond to the teenage characters in the film? Harry Brown positioned youths as very bad and that they are thugs. (all) This would make the audience see that all young adults are not good people and that they do contemptible things. 4) Why might young people reject this reading and construct an oppositional reading of the trailer? The Oppostional reader would disagree and say no, not all youths are contemptible and do wrong things like drugs. 5) Write a 200 word analysis of the McDonald's...

This is an extreme long Shot and this helps focus on me and Caroline and it makes a scene of what we are doing and what we are discussing about. This is a Longshot. This shows Caroline turned around maybe not wanting to show her identity and me walking down the stairs confused about what she is doing. This might connote that Caroline is powerful at this angle. This is a medium shot of my face showing me looking around connoting that I am looking at Caroline who is covering her identity and I am confused and don't know what is going on. This is a close up of Caroline turned around and not showing her identity because she is maybe shy or is hiding for a particular reason. This would make the consumers curious to find out who it is. This is an over the shoulder shot of Caroline looking at me and I am curiously looking at her confused and don't know who she is. This connotes that I am curious to what is going on and what she is doing. This is a close-up and th...

1) WWW: Your Question 9 has potential but you ran out of time. Grade: 3- 2) Q1:0 Q2:1 Q3:1 Q4:1 Q5:0 Q6:2 Q7:1 Q8:1 Q9:3 3) Yeah, I used words like company when I could have used words like consumers or producers. I need to use media terminology because if I don't I lose marks I need to revise these media words so that for my next test I am set for my tests. 4) I answered question 9 decently well. I could have written more than went into more detail and got more marks for it. I think I did well on this because I sort of used media terminology and got marks for that and also had good sentences and it linked a lot towards the question. 5) This is one of my weaker questions because I wrote a lot but only got one mark for it. This is because I guessed most of it because I was not sure what the real answer was. Instead, I could have written this for question 9 and got way more marks and got a better grade. 6) I think that producers use children in their a...