Year 12 Holiday homework
1. Prepare a presentaion on your representation case study. 5 minutes long, with examples from all three platforms and an example of a historical text.
2. Update your normal blog TWICE A WEEK with interesting news stories that are Media related.
3. Come back to school with 5 interesting news stories from the summer. These could be about a specific industry; the news; a specific group of people or a place. For example, if there is a big news story about RIOTING again, find some headlines and newspapers and bring them in! If suddenly a celebrity is killed, find some news stories and bring them in! If there is a big blockbuster film released, perhaps find some promotional materials for that. Basically, come prepared to DISCUSS WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THE NEWS.
If you don't then you will look stupid in the first lessons back.
Have a fantastic summer making swimming pools in wheelie bins, and I will be checking up on you all via your blogs!
Miss Davies
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Representation from the Specifcation
Copy and paste this onto your blog and then highlight the key parts of it.
Answer the question: How does your case study meet these requirements and what exactkly are you doing in your case study?
3.3 Unit 3 MEST3 Critical Perspectives
Introduction
The aim of this synoptic unit is to allow candidates to
demonstrate their holistic understanding of the Media
Studies Specification. It is assumed that during the
course of their study they will have covered media
concepts in some detail but, generally speaking,
individually. At this level they are encouraged to
examine the media in a less formulaic way. Unit
3 will encourage candidates to demonstrate their
understanding of the concepts, and also to develop
and formulate their approach to the media and the
role of the media in today’s society by referring in
detail to the wider contexts (social, political, historical,
economic, as appropriate) which affect media
production, distribution and exhibition, by tackling
media theory and by taking part in a discussion of
the major contemporary media issues and debates.
Candidates are expected to look at cross-cultural
factors and the effects of globalisation on the media
where appropriate.
Assessment Objectives
AO1 Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of
media concepts, contexts and critical debates
AO2 Apply knowledge and understanding when
analysing media products and processes (and
evaluating own practical work) to show how
meanings and responses are created
Content
Candidates will be given
two pre-set topic areas for
study during the year, which they will explore across
one or more of the
three media platforms.
Each of the topic areas will allow candidates to
examine media issues and debates, theory and wider
contexts, while also consolidating their understanding
and use of the media concepts and other aspects of
the specification covered at AS level. Each candidate
should produce an individual case study of their
own choice for each pre-set topic selected. It is not
advisable for a whole group of candidates to be given
the same title for an area of research. Candidates will
be expected to examine media texts in detail in terms
of their meanings and their functions.
Pre-set topic areas:
The first two pre-set topic areas will be:
• representations in the media
• the impact of new/digital media.
Representations in the Media
Candidates might study:
• Images of particular groups or places across a
range of media
• Possible alternative representations;
representation and stereotyping
• Representation and genre
• Representations and wider contexts
• Representations and audience
• Cross-cultural factors in representation
• The effect of globalisation on representations in
the media
• Values and ideology underlying representations.
Case studies might be of a chosen group or place,
eg refugees in British newspapers or Los Angeles
in Hollywood films and television. Thus candidates
might study a variety of representations across the
media platforms over the period of a term such as
teenagers in TV soap operas and British films or
celebrities in magazines and newspapers. They could
widen this approach to study such representations
across different media platforms, where appropriate.
Areas such as these would allow them to consider
a variety of current media issues and debates such
as media effects, ownership and control and news
values.
They could consider the role of the media in shaping
our beliefs and attitudes and the reasons why certain
representations exist by examining the wider contexts
in which media products are manufactured and sold.
A study of representations in the media would also
lend itself to the examination of a variety of media
theories to:
• consider how the representations of groups and
places are constructed (media analysis)
• consider the political issues surrounding
representations (politics and the media)
• consider the effects of such representations
on audiences and the reasons why such
representations exist (consumption and
production)
• consider cross-cultural factors in the
representation of groups and places as
appropriate.
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GCE Media Studies Specification for AS exams 2009 onwards and A2 exams 2010 onwards (version 1.2)
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A case study of refugees in British newspapers
for example, would involve research into, and
documentation of, the treatment of refugees in a
variety of British newspapers (or possibly just one)
to pinpoint the political and social reasons for the
construction of such media representations and
the possible effects on the audience of newspaper
readers. Candidates could widen this approach to
study such representations across different media
platforms. The case study should involve candidates
in an exploration of the wider contexts (historical, social,
political and economic) of production and, importantly,
provide them with an opportunity to consider the
question ‘why’ such representations exist, including
cross-cultural factors and the effect of globalisation.
Wednesday, 3 July 2013
Representation Case Study Homework
Year 12 Homework for next Wednesday
Finish off your case study! Complete the research, decide what you're all going to say, have a discussion about the representation of Syria, each post 500 words onto your blog about what you found out, record the Questionnaire details in some knid of funky pie chart or something and be ready to present, AND BE GRADED for your represention case study!
Finish off your case study! Complete the research, decide what you're all going to say, have a discussion about the representation of Syria, each post 500 words onto your blog about what you found out, record the Questionnaire details in some knid of funky pie chart or something and be ready to present, AND BE GRADED for your represention case study!
Tuesday, 2 July 2013
Syria - things to ponder
1. http://www.reuters.com/places/syria
Who are Reuters.com? It's not a standard newspaper so what kind of stories are present on here?
2. The New York Times. How are publications abroad representing the conflict?
Who are Reuters.com? It's not a standard newspaper so what kind of stories are present on here?
2. The New York Times. How are publications abroad representing the conflict?
Kerry, Meeting With Russian Counterpart, Seeks Syria Talks Soon
BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Brunei — Secretary of State John Kerry said on Tuesday that the United States and Russia are still working toward holding an international peace conference on Syria and agreed that it should take place “sooner rather than later.
3. How are institutions linked?! This was published on the Guardian's website!!!
Daily Mail in £100,000-plus payout over Syrian chemical weapons story Libel damages paid to defence company for article wrongly linking two executives with sale of weapons to Syria
4. Do some research on one or two newspapers and find the most common words linked with Syria. PErhaps paste the headlines you find into a Wordle and create an interesting poster?!
Syria - things to ponder
When I searched, I found a few things and thought of a few questions you should be posing to yourself about them.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/worldnews/10153741/Children-of-Syria.html#?frame=2605529
It's a photographic exhibition of pictures of children from Syria. Why has this been created? What is it's purpose? What does it do for the audience in terms of shaping their representations?
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/worldnews/10153741/Children-of-Syria.html#?frame=2605529
It's a photographic exhibition of pictures of children from Syria. Why has this been created? What is it's purpose? What does it do for the audience in terms of shaping their representations?
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Syria Case Study
Hey there dudes and dudettes,
So hopefully we are progressing nicely with our case study on the representation of Syria in the news.
As part of the case study, I am expecting to see, presented to me on Thursday, the following:
So hopefully we are progressing nicely with our case study on the representation of Syria in the news.
As part of the case study, I am expecting to see, presented to me on Thursday, the following:
- Blog with a variety of resources and ideas represented
- Images and videos representing different aspects of the conflict.
- Analysis from each of you of one of your products.
- Specific focus on the different representations created and how they are created.
- An ability by ALL OF YOU, to actually quote things you've read, and to reference explicitly things that you have looked at.
Friday, 21 June 2013
Practical brief for the next 4 weeks
Representation Brief
Create a concept for a new TV
programme – it can be lifestyle/doc drama/ soap. To be featured on BBC 3 after
the watershed.
This programme needs to challenge
entrenched the stereotypes of the East.
You need to produce the promotional
materials for the programme:
Cover all 3 platforms.
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