A Level Media 2 Mr Halsey

Your Newspapers assessment took on some challenging material - regulation of the press, pluralism and power in the media. There is a huge amount we can learn from this experience - from basic content and theory to structuring longer 20-mark essay questions.  The first part of your learner response is to look carefully at your mark, grade and comments from your teacher. If anything doesn't make sense, ask your teacher  - it's crucial we're learning from the process of assessments and feedback as we move towards the exams at the end of this year.  Your learner response is as follows: Create a new blog post on your Media 1 Exam blog called ' Newspapers assessment learner response ' and complete the following tasks: 1) Type up your feedback in  full  (you don't need to write the mark and grade if you want to keep this confidential). WWW: This is a mixed picture: you've clearly revised and made some excellent points in seve...

1)  OSP: Clay Shirky - End of Audience blog tasks  ----- 2)  OSP: Teen Vogue - background and textual analysis  ----- 3)  OSP: Teen Vogue - audience and representation   4)  Newspapers: Assessment learner response   5)  OSP: Teen Vogue - industry and social media   6)  OSP: Hall and Gilroy - media theory 7)  OSP: The Voice - blog case study  ----- key: ---- = completed but needs to be updated 

Industry: Condé Nast 1) Research Teen Vogue publisher Condé Nast. What other magazines do they publish and how much money did they make last year? - Other magazines that have been published by Conde Nast include; GQ, Vogue, Glamour, Vanity Fair and Wired. - Parent Organisation: Advance Publications - 2.4bn revenue 2016 2) What are Teen Vogue’s main sources of income? Main sources of income are through advertising, sponsored content and YouTube channel revenue. 3) How are traditionally print-based products like Teen Vogue diversifying to create new income streams? One way which Teen Vogue can diversify to create new income streams is by making social media accounts such as YouTube. Their YouTube account reaches over 1million+ views and has 1.1 million subscribers. Compared to it's other sources of income this may not be as significant however it does generate revenue with very minimal cost to produce a video. 4) Why is sponsored content and ‘advertorial’ par...

Audience 1) Analyse the  Conde Nast media pack for Teen Vogue . What is the Teen Vogue mission statement and what does this tell us about the target audience and audience pleasures? "We aim to educate, enlighten, and empower our audience to create a more inclusive environment (both on- and offline) by amplifying the voices of the unheard, telling stories that normally go untold, and providing resources for teens looking to make a tangible impact in their communities." This suggests that the their target audience is educated and interested in hard news such as politics rather then celebrity, soft news. 2) What is the target audience for Teen Vogue? Use the media pack to pick out key aspects of the audience demographics. Also, consider the psychographic groups that would be attracted to Teen Vogue: make specific reference to the website design or certain articles to support your points regarding this. Their target audience is people aged between 16-24. 63% are Generatio...

Go to our Media Factsheet archive on the Media Shared drive and open Factsheet 170: Gilroy – Ethnicity and Postcolonial Theory . Our Media Factsheet archive is on the Media Shared drive: M:\Resources\A Level\Media Factsheets Read the Factsheet and complete the following questions/tasks: 1) How does Gilroy suggest racial identities are constructed? Gilroy states that racial differences and racial identities are the product of racial oppression. Racial identities are often caused by historical conflicts that have different groups into opposition. 2) What does Gilroy suggest regarding the causes and history of racism? Gilroy suggests racism cause race rather than racism causing race. Racism is not caused by the clash of two or more races - racism is not a natural perception. 3) What is ethnic absolutism and why is Gilroy opposed to it? Ethnic absolution is a line of thinking which sees humans are apart of different ethnic compartments, with race as the basis of human differentiat...

1)  Newspapers: The decline in print media   2)  Newspapers: The death of print media Factsheet 3)  Newspapers: The future of journalism   4)  Newspapers: News Values 5)  Newspapers: Regulation MM article 6)  Newspapers: Regulation essay 7)  Newspapers: Daily Mail case study 8)  Newspapers: Mail Online case study 9)  Newspapers: The i newspaper and website case study

Work through the following tasks to complete your case study on the i and specifically the 21 September edition of the newspaper.  The i analysis: Friday 21 September Use your notes from the lesson to answer the following questions. 1) What are the front page stories on the 21 September edition of the i? 2) From your analysis in class, what other stories and topics are covered in this edition of the i? You should address the following pages: Page 2 Page 3 Pages 5 Page 6-7 Pages 11 Page 15 Page 16 Page 18 Page 45* 3) Media language: Write an analysis of the construction of the i front page: Page design, font, text, images, conventions, hard news/soft news, news values etc. 4) Narrative: How is narrative used in this edition of the i? Look at the selection of news: is there an ongoing narrative? How is narrative created by the paper to engage an audience? 5) Representations: Are any stereotypes reinforced? Is the audience positioned to respond to the stories in a c...