Paper 1 Q3 DIRT Sheet

 

Paper 1 Q1 DIRT Sheet

 Question 1,   6/10

Q1. What did you need to add to get full marks for each question?  Which bits did you leave out?

1. Other Articles, don't stay focused on one

2. Indentity of the newspaper, what are their usual views?

3. How does this represent the readers indentities?

What do you need to focus on when revising for news next time? Any part of newspaper language you will need to focus on more? Are you clear on the political and Brexit messages in all main UK papers?

I need to work on my timings, I have the knowledge I just cannot get it onto paper fast enough.

What improvement will you implement in your next revision/assessment? What areas do you need to revise more thoroughly

I will make sure to include more representations by practicing analysing covers faster, and writing practice questions.

Minecraft Merchandise

DIRT News

Newspaper PPE

Grade: A
Mark : 32/50

1) 15/15
     Daily Mail Masthead could link to their news values.

2) 11/15
Talk about political views, Corbyn V Cameron
Syrian / Yemen
Women - femail
White men
Lack of diversity
Bell hooks, Gilray, Butler, Gauntlett.
LIAR / DR-CAGES

3) 1/10
Only technology!!!
 Do not talk about re-branding
Technology positives eg. no waste /portable /archive /wider audience

4) 5/10
 Shirky Audience
Citizen journalism
Images of events, catastrophe, weather etc
Retweets
Fake news
Ordinary people competing with the newspapers.

Next assessment:

Next time I will focus more on Industry as it was my lowest scoring question. I will gather examples of citizen journalism or events that have been shown through images or videos from ordinary individuals.

In the next assessment I will have a better understanding of Shirky and representation theorists other than Stuart Hall and Van Zoonen. I will also trust my knowledge and understanding of the questions more, in order to not hinder myself from gaining extra marks.

Daily Mail Evaluation

Daily Mail Evaluation 

The task was to create a Daily Mail front cover using past articles that had been in the news. Our target audience was that of the Daily Mail, middle aged, low/middle class (C2 D E), women. Upon looking at a plethora of front covers I noticed that a give away or perhaps voucher was always present in order to attract those of a lower class. The stories were a mix between hard and soft news, the Daily Mail had their own custom font, gaps were rare ( text and images filled the sheet from top to bottom). Usually the image on the right was not relevant to the headline, it was a smaller soft news story.


Choosing a headline to fit the allocated space as best as possible was the most harrowing task. As well as individually typing and spacing out each letter to the right size and placing it in the right space to fill said space.
For a first look into creating a front page I believe my cover was quiet successful. Any criticism i received was based on the headline filling the allocate space to the highest degree. Next time I will choose an easier article that allows me to come up with a short sweet and maybe slightly comical headline for my front page. However,  the skills and creativity I used to construct the giveaway advert were rather refined in my first attempt. Therefore, I would keep that as is.
Prior to this task I had not noticed how often give aways and vouchers were featured in the front page.

I used the following image as my main source of inspiration.

Assessment 1A