Media blog 1 - exam - Mr Pall

  1) What does the article suggest is different about the Gentlewoman compared to traditional women's magazines?  the gentlewoman sticks a middle finger up at these conventions. Its minimalist covers are so completely different that it’s actually shocking. 2) What representations are offered in the Gentlewoman?   the gentlewoman does a pretty good job of presenting a spectrum of womanhood 3) List the key statistics in the article on the average reader of the magazine.  47 per cent of The Gentlewoman ’s readers are in the A or B categories of the NRS social grading system that the UK press uses to gather demographics. 4) What is The Gentlewoman Club?  ‘international society’ of ‘sophisticated women and men who demand quality and originality from their agenda of cultural happenings’ 5) What theorists does it suggest we can apply to the Gentlewoman's club? Gauntlett’s ideas about how we, as media consumers, use media products to help create our identity. It co...

1) Type up your feedback in full (you do not need to write mark/grade if you do not wish to).  WWW - Good knowledge and clear points made  EBI - go into more depth and add key media terminology  2) Read the mark scheme for this exam carefully (posted on your exam teacher's Google Classroom), paying particular attention to the 'indicative content' for each question. This is some of the best analysis you can do as it gives you an idea of what the exam board are expecting. For your LR blogpost, identify ONE point you could have added for the first three questions in Section A: Q1 (unseen text) additional point/theory: the advertisement’s intertextual use of the visual codes and iconography associated with genres of  order, eg spy thriller, action and sub-genres. Q2 (unseen text and CSP) additional point/theory/CSP reference: the advertisement has been constructed to engage with audiences’ expectations and plays  heavily on the notion of brand recognition. Audiences...