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Planning and paragraphs
Task: before you do anything else, watch this video. It's pretty long, but talks you through every single part of the exam process from beginning to end!
Watching this video and making notes is the most important part of this lesson. So get watching...
The plan
Have you watched the whole of the video linked here yet? If not watch it now!
Planning an essay is essential because it allows you to demonstrate knowledge and understanding before you even start writing your introduction, getting you more marks. It also allows you to structure your thoughts and take stock in a stressful situation.
Task: Below are two questions. You are not going to answer them. You are going to write a plan for them. This is going to take you no more than two minutes for each question.
What key terms jump in to your head when you see these questions? What theories could you apply? Any big words you're desperate to use? Use them in the plan!
You can find an example of a plan by clicking here. And you will have seen an example in the YouTube video I asked you to watch at the start of this post. Have you watched it yet?
Explore how stereotypes can be used both positively and negatively in Woman magazine
How have digitally convergent media practices influenced the videogame industry? Make reference to the Assassin's Creed franchise
The paragraphs
Task: Choose one of the above questions, and write a single PEA paragraph, using everything you learned from the video to help you. Try to spend no longer than five minutes on this paragraph
Here's an example of a PEA paragraph I wrote. Remember, there's no right or wrong way to write a paragraph, as long as you stick to a structure and always answer the question set!
Compare how the Daily Mail and the Daily Mirror construct representations and reflect the ideology of the producer
[P]The Time’s front cover however take an almost binary opposite approach to constructing a complicated representation of May as a politician and as a woman. [E]The CU shot of May used on The Times, taken with a zoomed telephoto lens positions the audience in a voyeuristic code of address. A black bar; a cars wing mirror covers half of May’s face, creating a polysemic series of connotations. An image has been selected where May looks bitter, tied and defeated, but the angle and selection of image is nowhere near as unflattering as the image included in The Mirror. [A]The preferred reading of The Time’s ideological perspective is that May is a sympathetic figure who has tried her best in a difficult situation. The headline, in lower case serif font takes a more formal mode of address, yet still uses a pun (driven to despair), demonstrating the wide readership of the times.