GCSE Media - Year 11

Explain how broadsheet newspapers reflect the time and historical contexts in which they were published. There are a number of ways in which newspapers reflect their historical contexts, in the way these contexts influence their producers, their audiences and the world that they represent through their news stories. Britain in the 1960s was a more patriarchal society and this meant most journalists were men, that audiences expected patriarchal representations, and the mostly political news that featured on the front pages was about powerful political figures - nearly all men. Only one female politician - Mrs Castle - features in the three front pages below. Britain is becoming a multicultural society in the 1960s but still saw itself as white, and race relations as a 'problem'. What stories in these front pages reflect that tension in British society? The newspaper is trying to be liberal on 'race issues' but still presents a very white point of view. There is muc...

The Observer is a UK-based National Sunday newspaper. It is published in two different ways, as a traditional printed newspaper format and online. Print out a copy of the printed version below and stick into your books. Task 1: Using the  News Glossary , label as many conventions as you can around the image in your book. Watch the  BBC News Media Review 2018  to help you think about the impact of technology on the newspaper industry.  Task 2: Click on The Observer logo above to find the newspaper website. Print screen and then label your image of the online version of the newspaper with as many conventions as you can. Task 3: Answer these questions about the media language of the two news platforms (online and print). What stylistic features does The Observer newspaper format have? Analyse the front page (deconstruct the conventions using the news glossary to help you label all of the elements). Explain in detail how The Observer uses these...

Observer front covers  You are expected to be familiar with two contemporary front covers and three historical front covers (The Observer 30 October 1966, 6 November 1966 and 20 October 1968) The historical Observer newspaper covers were chosen to help you gain a knowledge and understanding of how media language was used to construct representations in the 1960s and the contexts that affected those representations. You must study the contexts associated with the set covers and develop an understanding of the differences between how these media products illuminate the changing contexts of the 1960s and the present day, enabling you to develop a detailed understanding of how they appear in mainstream news media and its associated social and participatory media. Consider: • the various forms of media language used to create and communicate meaning on newspaper front covers  • how selection, combination and exclusion of elements of media language can influence meaning on n...

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.