Q2 News assessment

ASSESSMENT Q2 NEWS LIAR

GBHS MEDIA STUDIES A LEVEL Reflection

Name:              Maisie                      Mark: 10/15

AO1: Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the theoretical framework of media and contexts of media and their influence (5)

AO2 Apply knowledge and understanding of the theoretical framework of media to analyse media products (KU) of the theoretical framework of media to:

Analyse media products/ Make judgements and draw conclusions (10)

Question: 2 How does media language incorporate viewpoints and ideologies in these front pages of the Guardian and he Daily Mail. Identify a strength or strengths in your assessment: A strength in my assessment was identifying the different typical conventions of the two newspapers, such as the bold writing, and image to text ratio of Daily Mail, and then the amount of hard news in the guardian. What are the areas you need to improve? I need to improve the amount of detail after giving a point and explaining what effect it has etc. What will you do to improve in your next assessment? Any particular areas or study skills? I will go into more detail and talk about the ideologies in both papers.

Q2 Points that could have been made

·         Differences in colour

·         Ratio of image to text – text heavy Guardian

·         Hard/soft news – Guardian three hard news stories all politics one international story

·         Formal/informal language

·         Guardian left leaning / Daily Mail

·         Close up head shots of DM old and aggressive Jagger, innocent young under SEX PESTS ideology of celebrity gossip and hyperbolic informal language

·         Daily Mail C1 C2 C3/ Guardian A B C

·         Alliteration language, saturated colour schemes

·         Size of fonts and capital letters DM