Remember, anything could come up in the exam, so the more examples of different media texts you analyse will be beneficial.
You should be looking at these three stories according to the following Media Concepts:
News Values
Representation
Audience
Semiotics/Visual Analysis (including use of camera, sound, mise en scene and editing)
BBC News: Student protest in London - 9th December 2010
Consider how the news story is presented through various News Values - positively or negatively?
How are the different groups students represented? Think about age, social background and ethnicity, in particular.
How might different audiences respond to the events shown?
BBC News: Riots in Britain - August 2011
Consider how the news story is presented through various News Values.
How are individuals and groups represented? Think about how young people are represented in the last minute of the story - those standing behind Ed Miliband (Labour party leader) and the those filmed in long shot at the end.
How might audiences be positioned to take a certain point of view in this story?
ITV News: Michelle Obama visits a north London girls school - April 2009
What News Values might exist in this story?
Think how Michelle Obama is being represented here, and what she might be representing to the girls in the audience.
How might this be seen as a 'positive' item from an audience point of view?
Now consider how 'news' works in this clever and award-winning advert from The Guardian newspaper:
Try to identify all the different ways in which news can be presented to an audience in the 21st Century.
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