GCSE Media - Year 11

The Observer Online  You are expected to be familiar with The Observer Online, including the use of social and participatory media. Click on the image above to be taken to the Observer homepage. This publication has been chosen as it is unique in that it explores one possible economic future for news organisations by monetising online content through voluntary donations and membership. You must study the home page of The Observer and at least one other page in order to investigate continuities in the form and content of the pages. You must follow the links for a number of articles and journalists to help illustrate the media language used, representations constructed, modes of audience address and the scope and scale of The Observer’s online content. Social and participatory media  You need to look at these different social media links to look at how they are used to appeal to readers in the light of new technologies, such as the internet. You may need to acces...

Explain one way that music videos use media language to differ from one another.  Music videos are marketing products, designed to appeal to the target audience by portraying the artists as somebody they aspire to be like or could relate to. Watch The Vamps Somebody to You and Little Mix Black Magic music videos below and consider how the way the band and characters in the video are presented are designed to appeal to their own music fans.

These books are designed to support Media Studies GCSE students to pass the exams. They will help you with your preparation for next week's Music and News exam. We have them in stock in the library for £5.

1. Look at the mise-en-scene of the key image on this front cover to connote the conventions of the pop music genre. 2. Comment on the use of colour and font in both the masthead and the anchorage text. 3. How does the artist's pose and the language register suggest the magazine is offering secrets and insights to the target audience? 4. How would this magazine appeal to the target audience and can you name the demographic? Challenge Task: Compare this with how representation of the musicians is used on the extract from Mojo.

Led Zeppelin  were an English rock  band formed in London in 1968. The group consisted of guitarist Jimmy Page , singer Robert Plant , bassist and keyboardist John Paul Jones , and drummer John Bonham . The band's heavy, guitar-driven sound has led them to be cited as one of the founders  of heavy metal.  Their style drew from a wide variety of influences, including blues, psychedelia and folk music. Jimmy Page was the founder of the band and  is widely considered to be one of the greatest and most influential guitarists of all time alongside Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix. Robert Plant  is regarded as one of the greatest musicians in the history of rock music. Singer  Plant enjoyed great success with Led Zeppelin throughout the 1970s and developed a compelling image as the charismatic   rock-and-roll front man, similar to his contemporaries, The Who singer Roger Daltrey, Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones and Jim Morrison of...

What are the conventions of Music Magazines? Label your image of the front cover.

Exam music from Mrs Downie