January 30th: Responses to Unseen Text Assessments

This is no Shape for a Girl

Examine my feedback to your 'This is no Shape for a Girl' analysis (returned to your Google Drives). Make improvements (using a different colour to represent changes) and post a copy of your improved response in your online learning journal.


Newspaper Headlines

Examine the marks you got for the unseen newspaper headline assessment. Having read your own responses again, read my key terms list. In your learning journal, post a hyperlink to your original submission and then respond by posting improved responses (just type straight into your blog).

Here are links to your original marked submissions.

Ben

Cole

Jacques

Joe

Katie

Quinn

Common Misconceptions
  • Headline / Caption / Masthead


Here are the front pages and key terms that I think you should include in your responses;

Question 1



  • Medium shot
  • Headline
  • Sub-headline
  • Gesture code
  • Sans-serif
  • Double entendre
  • Represents
  • Enigma code
  • Bias by headline

Question 2



  • Sexualisation
  • Enigma code
  • Gesure code
  • Reference to Feminist Theory (Van Zoonen); challenge & support
  • Dress code
  • Direct mode of address (of women in image)
  • Two-shot

Question 3



  • Right-wing
  • Iconic imagery
  • Gesture code
  • Barthes Referential code (culture specific meaning)
  • Mode of address
  • Ethnocentricity
  • Headline
  • Layout (spacing & priority)
  • Standfirst

Question 4



  • Depth of field
  • Selective focus
  • Medium close-up
  • Stereotypical gender roles (supporting wife)
  • Ideology (of the paper)
  • Bias by headline
  • Caption
  • Binary opposition (David Cameron vs newspaper ideology)