Question 2- Redraft

 How far has genre influenced the media language in sources A ad B?

A                                                                B

     Broadsheet   Tabloid

To answer the question, almost entirely, as we can see both the tabloid of the Daily Mirror and the broadsheet of The Guardian show distinct conventions of their genres.

There are three genre types of newspaper, Broadsheet, Tabloid and Quality Tabloid. A broadsheet tends to follow it own conventions as it will tend to be primarily about delivering information to the reader and will have much less images on its front page in contrast with other newspaper types. Its titles will also be more informative rather than eye catching and the paper in general will focus on more 'hard news' stories such as politics rather than celebrity drama. A tabloid newspaper, tends to focus on celebrity and other 'soft news' stories and will conventionally feature little writing and more images. They will also typically feature a woman's image in the bottom right hand corner of the cover as well as a short and snappy title. Another significant feature of a tabloid is that they will tend to have a lower reading age for their papers compared to a Mid-market or broadsheet, meaning a child would have an easier time reading these papers than others. A quality tabloid, tends to take conventions from both as it will normally blend the style of tabloids with flashy titles with the hard news of broadsheets. These types of newspapers have become very common in the modern era as both papers are moving closer towards these.

In source A, The Guardian, It shows many conventions of a broadsheet. This includes having a detailed and descriptive title along with several other stories surrounding the front cover leaving little room for pictures. Its masthead is also small and in san-serif art style with a white text contrasting a dark navy background. Where as with source B, the daily mirror, is a clear example of a tabloid news paper and possess some of the normal conventions of one with a short snappy title, a large amount of pictures taking up the majority of the cover and very little writing. 

In conclusion, you can clearly see both papers have taken specific elements of the three genres and incorporated them into their covers.

Feedback: Question 1 will ask you to apply a theory to the sources you are given

Question 2 broadsheets: Hard news, few images, big issues, large amounts of copy

                  tabloid: soft news, focus on personal stories, pun filled, 

Redraft

In source A we can see the clear conventions of a broadsheet in the Guardian. Firstly its Headline story 'No guarantee schools will reopen after Easter, government warns' is very conventional of a broadsheet as it is very informative about the story rather than relying on puns or alliteration like a tabloid. another key trait seen on this front cover is the large amount of copy, this is a very common convention of the broadsheet giving out as much information as possible on the front page. However the source does stray slightly from the norms of a broadsheet as it feature much softer news stories than the politics and crime that would be typically found on the front page of  broadsheet.