P1 Q2 DIRT ASSESSMENT

ASSESSMENT Q2 NEWS LIAR

GBHS MEDIA STUDIES A LEVEL Reflection

Name:                                           Date:

AO1: Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the theoretical framework of media and contexts of media and their influence (5)

AO2 Apply knowledge and understanding of the theoretical framework of media to analyse media products (KU) of the theoretical framework of media to:

Analyse media products/ Make judgements and draw conclusions (10)

Question: 2 How does media language incorporate viewpoints and ideologies in these front pages of the Guardian and he Daily Mail. Identify a strength or strengths in your assessment: Understood differences between different papers, used a variety of points to compare against and linked it to audience etc What are the areas you need to improve? Refer back to question throughout answer and refer to newspaper’s ideologies Reference and talk about images more and what they preserve and link back to Q What will you do to improve in your next assessment? Any particular areas or study skills? Revise objective and subjective. Revise different types of paper and the politics behind it

Q2 Points that could have been made

·       Differences in colour

·       Ratio of image to text – text heavy Guardian

·       Hard/soft news – Guardian three hard news stories all politics one international story

·       Formal/informal language

·       Guardian left leaning / Daily Mail

·       Close up head shots of DM old and aggressive Jagger, innocent young under SEX PESTS ideology of celebrity gossip and hyperbolic informal language

·       Daily Mail C1 C2 C3/ Guardian A B C

·       Alliteration language, saturated colour schemes

·       Size of fonts and capital letters DM