Abdiillah Media Exam

  TV: Deutschland 83 case study   Introduction: Reviews and features Read the following reviews and features on  Deutschland 83 : The Guardian - Your next box set: Deutschland 83 The Guardian - Deutschland 83 Pity the Germans don't like it 1) Find one positive aspect and one criticism of  Deutschland 83  in the reviews. Yet as if to make up for such a radical premise, it then backtracks into stereotype. Stasi officers are cruel ideologues who blackmail family members and fake reports for political ends. It’s not all retro-smirking at oatmeal computer hardware and  99 Red Balloons , though (even if the latter is sung at a youthful East German house party as if it is the coolest tune in town). Deutschland 83 is a serious thriller driven by jeopardy of the all-out nuclear kind. Austere-looking East German newsreaders continually pop up against mustard backdrops with updates on the deployment of mid-range  Pershing II  missiles. 2) Why does the second...

  Blog tasks: Representations of women in advertising The following tasks are challenging - some of the reading is university-level but this will be great preparation for the next stage in your education after leaving Greenford. Create a new blogpost called 'Representations of women in advertising' and work through the following tasks. Academic reading: A Critical Analysis of Progressive Depictions of Gender in Advertising Read  these extracts from an academic essay on gender in advertising by Reena Mistry . This was originally published in full in David Gauntlett's book 'Media, Gender and Identity'. Then, answer the following questions: 1) How does Mistry suggest advertising has changed since the mid-1990s? More ambiguity.  2) What kinds of female stereotypes were found in advertising in the 1940s and 1950s? 3) How did the increasing influence of clothes and make-up change representations of women in advertising? 4) Which theorist came up with the idea of the '...

   1) Type up your feedback in  full  (you don't need to write the mark and grade if you want to keep this confidential). WWW-I started my exam off well during the initial first questions in which i scored well in, however EBI: I began to fall of during the later questions, especially in question 4 where I need to go into more depth and avoid surface level analysis  2) Read  the mark scheme for this assessment carefully . Identify at least  one  potential point that you missed out on for each question in the assessment. The image of Stormzy. He's not looking at the audience, which is unusual for tour posters. This might show vulnerability, breaking away from the typical strong, tough black male image. However, he's also bare-chested, which could bring back the idea of black men being sexualised or overly masculine. The lighting on his face and chest highlights this mix of strength and vulnerability. 3) On a scale of 1-10 (1 = low, 10 = high), how ...