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OSP Clay Shirky: End of audience blog tasks

  Media Magazine reading Media Magazine 55 has an overview of technology journalist Bill Thompson’s conference presentation on ‘What has the internet ever done for me?’ It’s an excellent summary of the internet’s brief history and its impact on society. Go to  our Media Magazine archive , click on MM55 and scroll to page 13 to read the article ‘What has the internet ever done for me?’ Answer the following questions: 1) Looking over the article as a whole, what are some of the positive developments due to the internet highlighted by Bill Thompson? It's an amazing space for creative thinking and expression and you're able to connect with people all over the world. 2) What are the negatives or dangers linked to the development of the internet? Illegal activity, child abuse or the trading of it, the dark web, fraud, malicious software, scams and rip offs.  3) What does ‘open technology’ refer to? Do you agree with the idea of ‘open technology’? It refers to unrestricted acces...
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Magazines: final index

  1) Magazines: Front cover practical task 2) Magazines: GQ - Language and Representation 3) Magazines: GQ - Audience & Industry 4) Magazines: Front cover practical task LR 5) Magazines: The Gentlewoman - Language and Representations 6) Magazines: The Gentlewoman - Audience and Industries 7) Magazines: Industries - the appeal of print and independent magazines
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Industries: the appeal of print

  1) Writer's Edit journal article Read this excellent  Writer's Edit academic journal article on the independent magazine industry  and answer the following questions: 1) What is the definition of an independent print magazine? published without the financial support of a large corporation or institution in which the markers control publication and distribution  2) What does Hamilton (2013) suggest about independent magazines in the digital age? "A small but growing body of evidence suggests that small printed magazines are quietly thriving even as the global newspaper and book industries falter” (Hamilton 2013: 43). 3) Why does the article suggest that independent magazines might be succeeding while global magazine publishers such as Bauer are struggling? Independent magazines tap into the "global niche"(Hamilton 2013:44) and use digital developments to reach these audiences unlike global magazine publishers that refuse to transfer to the media  4) What does t...
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The Gentlewoman: Audience and Industries

1) Media Magazine feature: Pleasures of The Gentlewoman Go to  our Media Magazine archive  and read the article on The Gentlewoman (MM84 - page 34). Answer the following questions: 1) What does the article suggest is different about the Gentlewoman compared to traditional women's magazines?  “The only text is the title, subtitle and name of the person is the photographer, which is taken as a portrait and framed like a painting. It’s a bold statement that says it’s more than just a magazine, it’s art.” 2) What representations are offered in the Gentlewoman?   It’s presents a “spectrum of womanhood” this includes playing with “gender performativity and stereotypes” such as  a botanist, a Zambian  rapper, a courtroom artist, a Moroccan  mountaineer 3) List the key statistics in the article on the average reader of the magazine.  61% of its readers are aged 28-46 47% of its readers fall into the social classes of A or B 4) What is The Gentlewoman...
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Magazines: The Gentlewoman - Language and Representations

  The Gentlewoman: Language and Representation blog tasks Close-textual analysis Work through the following tasks to complete your close-textual analysis of the Gentlewoman   CSP pages: Gentlewoman front cover  1) What do the typefaces used on the front cover suggest to an audience? It suggests that this magazine is targeted towards those that are involved in celebrity culture due to the well known star on the cover 2) How does the cover subvert conventional magazine cover design? It has a boarder in which the main image is located, it has virtually no cover lines except for the name of the main image  3) Write an analysis of the central image. The makeup is very bold and honestly not cohesive at all. It is as if it's a purposeful presentation of women breaking the conventional beauty standards. She has a bold and bright red lip with an accentuated cupids bow - a feature that most women try and cover up with over- lining the lips in modern society. She is also w...
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Y12 exam - Media Paper 1: Learner response

  1) Type up your feedback in full (you do not need to write mark/grade if you do not wish to). Grade=B, 27/42 Q1) too much on Industry/marketing, focus more on genre, good writing Q2) good understanding but product is a bit overlooked Q3)detailed and integrated response Q4) forgot the 2nd box Q5) no comment Q6) some good points  2) Read  the mark scheme for this exam carefully , paying particular attention to the 'indicative content' for each question. This is some of the best analysis you can do as it gives you an idea of what the exam board is expecting. For your LR blogpost, identify  ONE  point you could have added for the first three questions in Section A: Q1 (unseen text) additional point/theory:  • this advertisement makes heavy use of what Neale describes as ‘instances of repetition’, where familiar tropes and imagery are used to engage with audience expectations around media products. The advert works by explicitly connecting the watch to these w...
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Magazine front cover - Learner response

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  1) Add your finished magazine cover as a JPEG image. 2) Type up your feedback from your teacher. If you've received this by email, you can copy and paste it across - WWW and EBI. You don't need to include a mark or grade if you don't want to. WWW Excellent  cover  image with careful construction of mise-en-scene Excellent use of typography – appropriate font and contrasting colours Very effective use of colour – sticking to black, white & red Appropriate feature article content for the  magazine  product Good use of alliteration in  cover  line EBI Lacks a dateline and price, along with some smaller  cover  lines Colour of  cover  lines against background to make them more clear 13/15 3) Consider your mark against the mark scheme above. What are the  strengths  of your production based on the the mark scheme? Think about magazine cover  conventions  and the media language techniques you have used to communi...
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