Welcome to GCSE Media Year 2

 Year 1 reflection - blog tasks

Work through the following tasks to reflect on Year 1 and make sure you are ready for Year 2:

1) Look at your tracker for Year 1 blogposts (this will have been emailed to you by your teacher either before the summer or this week). Make a list of any CSPs you haven't completed. We will cover these in lessons later in the year but you WILL need to complete the blog tasks before you take any exams. 

• Television 
• Newspapers 

 Which CSPs from Year 1 are you most confident on?

• Newspapers: The Times- Introduction 

3) Which CSPs from Year 1 are you least confident on?

• NHS advert 

4) Your upcoming assessment will only be on CSPs from the first half of the year leading up to lockdown. Write a brief summary of the following CSPs to start your revision (Reveal magazine is done for you as ):

OMO - Representation of women, lady cleaning, makeup and hair done whilst cleaning, looks like she enjoys cleaning etc.

TATLER - Sounds like tattle tale - somebody who spills tea on others (and celebs), magazine for quite wealthy people - upper, middle class, leans toward looking good and fashion, appearance matters a lot. formal etc.

REVEAL -Not a formal magazine, uses slang, not proper pictures - just ones from paparazzi, for lower middle or working class etc.

GALAXY TV ADVERT - Typical representation of a Woman falling for a wealthy man, red lipstick represents the idea of love, dressed attractively/nicely etc. 

NHS blood advert - Wants different ethnicity to donate blood (especially Black and Asian people), shows you could save lives.

Doctor Strange: 

A massive budget, yet successful movie made by MCU (Marvel Cinematic Universe). 

I, Daniel Blake: An independant, low/small budget film, which made a decent/good amount of money.

Magazines - Reveal:  A celebrity magazine aimed mainly at working-class women focusing on gossip, celebrity and motherhood for just 99p. Offers quite a traditional, stereotypical representation of women.

Magazines - Tatler:A magazine aimed at upper and middle upper class, which mainly focuses on fashion & beauty & wealth.

Advertising: OMO: An advert which represents a pure white clothes cleaning product. A typical stereotype/representation of Woman used on the products poster.

Advertising: NHS Represent: An advert which wants BAME to donate more blood to people who really need it as 1% of BAME donate blood.

Advertising: Galaxy chocolate: An advert for galaxy chocolate & how it is somewhat 'luxurious'. Used a robot/ai to ceate a lookalike Audrey Hepburn (who was a well-known & successful actress to sell their product/grab attention.