news 15 mark question

normally a comparison of two unseen images where you are asked to give an analyse of the two in relation to the stories and the papers they come from

the question will ask you to look at the political, economic and cultural context of the stories being told and will be placed into a structure which goes as follows

intro

  • Introduce The Sun/The Guardian and how they differ/ are similar. Consider genre (popular/quality), ownership, politics/ world view/ ideology of the paper, audience
  • Unpick use of headlines, subheading , stand first, lack of and mode of address eg in the sun and guardian and sun how do they reflect their ideologies
  • Analyse the sun and guardians choice, framing and placement of images and how do they contrast connotations of the papers ideologies
  • Look at the use of language and the mode of address which differ from formal/informal
  • Compare the page layout and use of space including proportion of image/ text, use of quotations, captions and other elements
  • Draw conclusion about the differing representations to create meanings of the story: if you only saw one of these stories, how would your perception be swayed



  • this question will often take around 20 minutes to finish 

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Question 3 and 4

 Question 3 Audiences and producers no longer find the concept of genre relevant to long form television drama. How far do you agree In Long form tv drama, the concept of genres is becoming increasing outdated as producers blend conventions from multiple different areas of media, however, I still believe that genre is relevant in modern media. This can be seen with the  Netflix series Stranger Things where rather than losing the concept of genre all together, have hybridized many genres into its tv show in an attempt to reach a larger audience. This is due to the fact that Netflix are entirely concerned with maximizing profits and must be as appealing to mass audience as possible. Whereas with DRs the killing, they are more fixated on only using the Nordic Noire genre, appealing to a far more niche ABC1 audience. Because of DR being a Public Service Broadcaster with a goal of being a refection of he country and point out social flaws in Denmark, DR are able to take risks and not be con
Read more
 3 key points Jon Favreau chose to make the live action movie in CGI as he thought that travelling to the Indian jungle was impractical and wouldn't have the intended "dream-like"quality Wanted to test the limits of the new technology and defended this by comparing it to Oscar winner Life of Pi and highest grossing movie of all time Avatar Uses a star studded cast in order to promote the movie with actors like |Bill Murray, Ben Kinglsy, Christopher Walken, Idreas Elba and Scarlett Johansson  the two competing companies are using remakes of old classics in order to try and attract the largest audience to them over they're competitors and using actors as the driving force behind the movies.
Read more