A Level Media 2 Mr Halsey

1) Social learning theory has been criticised for simplifying the causes of violence in society. Do you think the media is responsible for anti-social behaviour and violence? I agree withe the statement as it doesn't consider people individual characteristics.In my opinion, the media has caused the younger generation from around the ages of 8/9 - 18 to become more anti social due to the rise in the new technology. An increase in media platforms becoming more accessible for people to use within their everyday life as meant that less people go out and experience things first hand for example, more people make judgements on what to wear based on weather apps instead of experiencing it themselves. This relates to Rokeach and DeFleur saying we are dependent on media consumption. However, I dont believe the media is solely responsible for the violence promoted within society. this relates to the hypodermic needle as not all information taken in from the media is bad information.  2)

Feedback given from assessment: WWW: This is a strange party: you really show some excellent potential in places. Your response to Q2 is close to top-level so there is a lot to build on here. EBI: The main lessons here are actually exam techniques Clearly timing is a problem: you must answer the 20 mark Q with an extended response You must answer the question-don't drift off into speculation...analyse the text you are given and use the wording from the question Don't describe the theory: apply it! 

Genre: blog tasks Complete the following tasks using the  Media Factsheets  available on the Media Shared drive.   You'll find them in our  Media Factsheet archive : M:\Resources\A Level\Media Factsheets Read Media Factsheet 03 - Genre: Categorising texts and answer the following questions: 1) What example is provided of why visual iconographies are so important? The examples that are provided for why visual iconographies are so important is the film Star Trek and Star Wars. They both have bold iconographies which convey the themes of nature and also the genre of the film which is sci-fi. 2) What examples are provided of the importance of narrative in identifying genre? The example that is provided of the importance of narrative in identifying genre is Independence Day (1996: dir. R. Chimeric), Deep Impact (1998: M. Leder) and, more recently, The Day After Tomorrow (2004: dir. R. Emmerich). In The Day After Tomorrow a father has two goals: to persuade