Media Blog 1- Mr Bush

  Part 1: Ofcom report into news consumption Read  this Ofcom report on the consumption of news in the UK  and answer the following questions (bullet points/short answers are fine): 1) Look at the headlines from the report on page 5 & 6. Pick three that you think are interesting and bullet point them here. Why did you pick those three in particular?   • The BBC is still the most-used provider of news in the UK.  • Despite online being the main platform for news, the more traditional providers are rated more highly for trust, accuracy and impartiality. I picked these two in particular as I am interested in the part traditional news sources play in todays technological sphere, in a world where people can get their own news is traditional media still needed and or respected?  2)  Now look at the motivations for following news which differs by age on pages 7 & 8. What are the main reasons people gave for following news? What are the percentage...

  1) Type up your   feedback  in full (you do not need to write mark/grade if you do not wish to). 64/84  - A WWW - Good knowledge of CSPs  EBI - more sophisticated examples 2) Did you succeed in meeting or exceeding your  target grade  for A-Level Media in this paper? If not, how many additional marks do you need to achieve your target grade in Paper 2? I exceeded my target grade which was a C These are the grade boundaries we've used (out of 84):  A* = 71; A = 62, B = 52; C = 43; D = 33; E = 24 Now read through the real AQA mark scheme for Paper 2 and the examiner's report (see your Media teacher's Google Classroom for both of these documents). 3) Write a  question-by-question analysis  of your performance. For each question, write how many marks you got from your the number available and identify any points that you missed by carefully studying the AQA indicative content in the mark scheme. Q1) 7/9 Included: Propps character types and...

1) Type up any  feedback in full  (you do not need to write mark/grade if you do not wish to). 70/84 - A* WWW -  Q3 on intertextuality and Q7 on risky business was spot on  EBI -  Focus more on key words in the question of the unseen and revise specific media terminology eg. end of audience theories  2) Write a  question-by-question analysis  of your performance. For each question, write how many marks you got from the number available and identify and points that you missed by carefully studying the AQA indicative content in the mark scheme: Q1) 5/8 Things to add:  - word make logo, title, caption, tagline, develop audience interpretation further, positioning/placement of anchorage text, juxtaposition of 'National' and 'Trust' offers a two-way relationship between the  reader and the view which links a kind of faith (in England’s green and  pleasant land) with a kind of responsibility; a stewardship that NT (thankfully)  admi...

1) Henry Jenkins  - fandom and participatory culture  2) Sims Freeplay - language and representation   3) Sims Freeplay - audience and industries  4)  Learner response: OSP assessment  5)  Women in video games and further feminist theory 6) Horizon Forbidden West - language and representation   7)  Horizon Forbidden West - Audience and industries 

Audience Look at  this YouGov blog on the console gaming audience  and answer the following questions: 1) What statistics can you find for the number of male / female players for the major consoles?  % of male players for PlayStation5: 68% % of female players for PlayStation5: 29% % of male players for Xbox series X/S: 68% % of female players for Xbox series X/S: 32% 2) What is the difference between 'hardcore' and 'casual' gamers - and which do you think would play Horizon Forbidden West? Hardcore gamers - those who say they take videogames seriously or play competitively, they mostly play on PlayStation or Xbox  Casual gamers - those that like videogames but are not one of their top interests, they mostly play on PCs  I think it is more of hardcore gamers as the game has a complex story and it is a sequel to a previous game, something that casual gamers would not largely keep up with 3) What are the different reasons YouGov researched for why players play...

  Part 1: Background reading on Gamergate Read  this Guardian article on Gamergate 10 years on . Answer the following questions: 1) What was Gamergate?  It was a harassment campaign that included all women working in the video game development and gaming press, as well as the industry's LQBTQ+ community    2) What is the recent controversy surrounding narrative design studio Sweet Baby Inc?  A group with more than 200,000 followers on PC games storefront Steam, as well as thousands in a Discord chat channel, believes that Sweet Baby Inc is secretly forcing game developers to change the bodies, ethnicities and sexualities of video game characters to conform to “woke” ideology.  3) What does the article conclude regarding diversity in videogames? Nobody is forcing diversity into video games, it is happening naturally as the gamers and game developers themselves diversify. And Gameragte didn't intimidate omen out f vide games then and women still will not...