Hypodermic needle model 1) Read this Mail Online article about the effects of video games . How does this article link to the hypodermic needle model? The Mail magazine shows a negative side of playing violent video games. This article has a lot of hypodermic needle theory. It shows that media has a bad influence on our behaviour. 2) How does coverage of the Talk Talk hacking case (see Daily Mail front page below) link to the hypodermic needle model? Why might someone criticise this front page? It blames everything on the violent video games and calls the 15-year-old a 'baby faced loner' saying that he rarely leaves his room. The Daily Mail newspaper just assumed that 100% of this behaviour is caused by video games, not by e.g. family issues or anger issues that existed before he started playing video games. Two-step flow model 1) Summarise the two-step flow model. In your opinion, is the two-step flow theory still relevant today? The two-step flow model
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1) Total: 21 WWW: Although the grade isn't where you want it to be eventually there is leads of potential here and you offer insight in Q2 + Q4. You are thinking like a Media student and that will help you massively over the next 2 years. EBI: - The key aspect holding this back are based around theory: narrative theory in Q1 and genre theory in Q3. Revise that! - Written English is clearly on aspect we need to keep working on but I'm sure over two years you will be fine. - Look over the mark scheme in detail to see the kind of answers that would result in a top grade. 2) Q1: Propp’s character types: urban hero established through costume and props Q2: Differences: Ill Manors allows us to 'get to know' the character while Nike is deliberately ambiguous; both use sky background to create meaning. Q3: Neale “repetition and difference” – allows producers to evolve genre but maintain audience; Abercrombie “television producers set out to
1) Introduction to Media: 10 questions 2) Media consumption audit 3) Language: Reading an image - advert analyses 4) Reception theory 5) Semiotics: icons, indexes and symbols 6) Genre: Factsheets and genre study questions 7) Narrative: Factsheet questions
1) Give an example from film or television that uses Todorov's narrative structure of equilibrium, disequilibrium and new equilibrium. Mystery/Science Fiction film 'Divergent It's a great example of equilibrium, disequilibrium and new equilibrium in a text. At the beginning the world was synchronised and divided by fractions, but after the main character discovers that she doesn't fit in, everything starts to fall into pieces. The climax happens when the main character overcomes the villain and there's a new word where they run away to start a new life without fractures. 2) Complete the activity on page 1 of the Factsheet: find a clip on YouTube of the opening of a new TV drama series (season 1, episode 1). Embed the clip in your blog and write an analysis of the narrative markers that help establish setting, character and plot. Teen drama, Horror fiction, Comedy-drama series 'Teen Wolf' Setting: at the beginni