Antonia's A-level Media Blog

  Read  Media Factsheet 76: News Values  and complete the following questions/tasks.  Our  Media Factsheet archive is available here  - you'll need your Greenford Google login to access. 1) What example news story does the Factsheet use to illustrate Galtung and Ruge's News Values? Why is it an appropriate example of a news story likely to gain prominent coverage? An earthquake in San Fransisco kills two hundred people It is a good example because it represents majority of the news values such as surprise and balance. 2) What is gatekeeping? The process of filtering information prior to dissemination. 3) What are the six ways bias can be created in news? Selection and omission Placement Headline Photos, captions, camera angles Names and Titles Choice of words 4) How have online sources such as Twitter, bloggers or Wikileaks changed the way news is selected and published? They offers a way for  audiences to access news stories that may have been mediate...

  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...

  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...