Antonia's A-level Media Blog

  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?   Six in ten UK adults claim to use some form of online intermediary (social media, search engine or news aggregator) for their news. Meta (39%) and Google (34%) services are the most commonly used intermediaries While the BBC, across its own services on TV, radio and online, has the highest reach of any news provider, reaching 39% of this age group, TikTok (31%), YouTube (30%), Instagram (24%) and Facebook (21%) are the most-used individual access points for news. These services host news from other providers which may include established news brands such as the BBC. TV and newspapers are used more by older peop...

  Create  ONE  blogpost that you return to and update weekly. Call it ' Newspaper news story research '. Then, each week you need to visit the  MailOnline website  and the  Guardian website  and choose one story from each to summarise and share.  Most importantly, you need to do the following on your blogpost for each story... Copy the  headline, date  and  link . Briefly summarise  the story in a sentence or two: is  this is an example of  hard news  or  soft news?  Does it reflect the  politics  or  ideological stance  of that newspaper/website? Explain in a sentence how or why this story  appeals to the audience of that newspaper  (use media terminology and theory if you can). Is it  quality journalism  or an example of  clickbait ? We'll be sharing our stories as a starter each week and this will ensure you build up a range of stories from both CSPs to pr...

  1) Type up your   feedback  in full (you do not need to write mark/grade if you do not wish to). WWW: Good knowledge on question 2 EBI: Mention other media texts for synoptic question 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? 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. 1) 6/9 I should have explained more clearly linking to unseen 2) 20/25 don't speak...

  1)  Videogames: Henry Jenkins - fandom and participatory culture 2) Videogames: The Sims FreePlay - Language & Representation 3)  Videogames: The Sims FreePlay - Audience & Industries 4)  Learner response: OSP assessment 5)  Videogames: Women in videogames &  Further feminist theory 6)  Videogames: Horizon Forbidden West - Language & Representations 7)  Videogames: Horizon Forbidden West - Audience & Industries

 Create a blogpost called 'Horizon Forbidden West: Audience and Industry' and work through the following tasks. 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?   PlayStation 5 (68% male; 29% female) and Xbox Series X|S (68% vs. 32%) have the highest proportion of male compared to female gamers. 2) What is the difference between 'hardcore' and 'casual' gamers - and which do you think would play Horizon Forbidden West?  Casual gamers play games as a pass time whi9lst hard core gamers invest and make games their number one priority. 3) What are the different reasons YouGov researched for why players play games? Which of these would apply to Horizon Forbidden West? Relaxing/ wind down time making a world of their own Interact with other gamers Look at  the PlayStation website page for Horizon Forbidden West ...

  Language Introduction Read  this review of Horizon Forbidden West in the Financial Times  (should be non-paywalled but you can  read the text of article here if needed ). Answer the following questions: 1) Why does Guerrilla Games have 'a serious case of bad timing'?  2) What is the narrative for the original game Horizon Zero Dawn?  The game takes place a thousand years after rampaging machines have wiped out most of humanity. Survivors have clustered into tribal communities who view relics of technology as objects of either suspicion or religious relics. 3) How is the central character Aloy described?  A complex mysterious character 4) What is the narrative and setting for sequel Horizon Forbidden West? It is more diffuse, and it smartly explores themes of climate catastrophe. 5) What does the review say about animation and graphics? It is realistic and smooth. 6) What do we learn about the gameplay and activities in Horizon Forbidden West?  T...