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The Gentlewoman: Audience and Industries blog tasks

  1) Media Magazine feature: Pleasures of The Gentlewoman Go to  our Media Magazine archive  and read the article on The Gentlewoman (MM84 - page 34). Answer the following questions: 1) What does the article suggest is different about the Gentlewoman compared to traditional women's magazines?   Its minimalist covers are so completely different that it’s actually shocking. The only text is the title, subtitle and name of the person in the photograph, unconventional 2) What representations are offered in the Gentlewoman?   This includes playing with ideas of gender performativity and stereotypes, such as the fashion feature 3) List the key statistics in the article on the average reader of the magazine.  61 percent of its readers are aged 28-46.  I may not have the income of the gentlewoman’s average reader (a whopping £87k!) 4) What is The Gentlewoman Club?  an ‘international society’ of ‘sophisticated women and men who demand quality and...

Y12 exam - Media Paper 1: Learner response

  1) Type up your feedback in full (you do not need to write mark/grade if you do not wish to). 29=B www: a really strong exam: Q2 and Q6 are excellent ebi: question focus and clarity for Q3 and csps revision 2) Read  the mark scheme for this exam carefully , paying particular attention to the 'indicative content' for each question. This is some of the best analysis you can do as it gives you an idea of what the exam board is expecting. For your LR blogpost, identify  ONE  point you could have added for the first three questions in Section A: Q1 (unseen text) additional point/theory:  • this advertisement makes heavy use of what Neale describes as ‘instances of repetition’, where familiar tropes and imagery are used to engage with audience expectations around media products. The advert works by explicitly connecting the watch to these well-worn ideas with the notion of ‘difference’ perhaps coming from the unusual foregrounding of the watch in the image which is ...