GDB A-Level Media

3 COMPONENTS: COMPONENT 1 - EXAM (INCLUDES UNSEEN TEXTS) Advertising Newspapers Film Industry Radio Music Videos Video Games Section A : Media Language + Representation Section B : Audience and Industry COMPONENT 2 - EXAM (MEDIA PRODUCTS IN DETAIL) Television Internet Magazines One Question on Each Industry:  Language, Representation, Industry and Audiences  COMPONENT 3 - COURSEWORK (PRODUCTION) Statement of intent Music Video Magazine cover and two pages WHAT IS A MUSIC VIDEO? 🎦 - a video which accompanies a song - visual aspect of the song - often includes performance - provides the audience with another level of entertainment - promotes the music and makes it easy to share - advert for a song - looks how a song sounds Music is important as people identify with it much more than other media products Uses and Gratifications of music: - liking the artists - entertainment to pass the time - to represent c...

THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN COMPONENT 1 AND 2: Component 1 is comparing and contrasting media texts, and you don't know what will come up in the exam Component 2 is where you analyse the media text and what it is made up of and why Component 2 example Compared with the past, David Gauntelett argues that in the media today, 'we no longer set singular, straightforward messages about ideal types of male and female identities'. Evaluate the validity of this claim with reference to the set editions of Woman and Adbusters and the historical context in which they were produced. [30] What you need to answer this: include and expand on your own opinion reference both magazines in your answer there is historical context that you need to include you need to almost make up a question yourself the argument does not need to be balanced Spend 50 minutes on each question, 10 planning and 40 writing. Semiotics re-cap: - Hermeneutic - Proairetic - Symbolic ...