Pritam's Media GSCE Blog

 Introduction to Newspaper Blog Tasks: Daily Mirror Language & Representations

 1) What type of news can you typically find in a tabloid newspaper? Tabloids tend to be easier to read, feature shorter articles and include more photographs. They report on major news, but also include a lot of showbiz gossip, entertainment and sport. They tend to be the better sellers. Examples include The Sun and the Daily Mirror. 2) What type of news can you typically find in a broadsheet newspaper? Broadsheet newspapers traditionally used to be larger (printed on ‘broad sheets’) although most are the same size as tabloids now. They tend to be more serious, have smaller fonts, more advanced use of language and less photography (although they have included more over the last 20 years to be more popular). They tend to have lower circulation figures than tabloids. Examples include the Times and the Daily Telegraph. 3) If someone is left-wing, which political party in the UK are they most likely to support? Which newspapers would they be likely to read? Left-wing (Socialist): in f...

  1) Type up any feedback on your paper (you don't need to write the mark and grade if you want to keep this confidential). If you only have marks and a grade on the paper, write a WWW/Next Steps yourself based on your scores. Q1.3 feedback - Consider moments that present will as well as lyra as strong/dominant  Q1.4 feedback - consider how lyra's costume and eating habits are unlady-like Q2 feedback - remember to link to the societies that produced them Q4 feedback - can you consider the pair's social engagement  Q5 feedback - what would more regulations help to prevent and what could they get in the way of 2) Use the mark scheme for this Paper 2 mock (posted on GC) to read the answers AQA were looking for. First, write down a definition and example of non-diegetic sound (Q1.1 and 1.2).  Non-diegetic sound is sound that can't be heard by characters in the story, eg background music, narration, sound effects 3) Next, identify three points you could have made in Q1.3 ...

  The title of my magazine is called 'Expose’. The main point of the story consists of the the donor who is a British actor who helps a working-class girl improve her life since she is suffering from her illness and also she is the heroine (Propp) of the story. The point of the magazine is to help people improve their lifestyle and influence the people of todays society. The magazine is taking during the heroines illness, so the magazine is featuring gossips about the current situation maybe in order to help the girl or to attract awareness, because of that the magazine is now very popular in the film industry. However the actor who is the donor( Propp) also had his own past that no one has ever known about and that might be the root of why he helped the girl. The actor also writes a book called 'Light After Shadow' which talks about how to help people improve their life and it also have a hint of what happened to the actors past; how it relates to him helping the working...

 Audience 1) Who are the potential target audiences for Marcus Rashford and Kim Kardashian's online content? Try and cover both demographics and psychographics. The potential target audience for Marcus is young boy/men who have a passion for football or who is Rashford as a role model of sort. Whereas the target audience for Kim is young girls/women who have a interest in fashion  2) Marcus Rashford’s online presence is partly driven by his excellent use of social media. How does he use social media to engage with his fans and make them feel part of his brand? Rashford is in a lot of adverts and uses social media to promote brands like Nike or Burberry and others. This could influence young boys to be more/feel like Rashford as some consider him as a role model since he has helped a lot of people 3) What is Instagram engagement rate and what engagement rates do Marcus Rashford and Kim Kardashian have?  Instagram engagement rate is a measure of how much audiences engage wi...

 Language 1) Make two lists - one of website conventions used on Marcus Rashford and Kim Kardashian's official website and one of social media conventions found on their Instagram pages.  Website - Logo/brand identity, menu/navigation bar, search, central image Instagram/twitter - background/banner, profile picture, bio, verification symbol 2) How does Marcus Rashford's website and social media promote his brand? Give at least three examples of different pages / posts / images from his website or social media.  He promotes his books on twitter/website, "works" at charities such as FareShare and reposts tweets about his club or other charity work. He self promotes his books as he already has a audience 3) How does Kim Kardashian's website and social media promote her brand? Give at least three examples of different pages / posts / images from her brand websites or social media.  She has links to her fashion and make up brand, she self promotes  her products on tw...