Download - Exam Topic 2015 - Tv News Lesson 1
TV NewsExam Topic 2015
Starter
What is the purpose of the news?
Should it be entertaining?
What news stories can you think of
that you have seen recently?
R.A.I.L
When analysing a piece of media you
should consider;
Representation
Audience
Institution
Language
To remember this we use R.A.I.L
Representation
How a person/concept/object is being
presented to the audience through the
media.
E.G – culture, class, gender, sexuality,
race can be represented in a positive
or negative way depending on the
news article.
Representation
We can use denotation and
connotation to help develop ideas on
representation.
E.G
Denotation – red
flowers.
Specifically,
poppies.
Connotation – it
represents the
soldiers who died
during WW1
(primarily). Some
people consider it to
represent any soldier
who has lost their life
fighting for our
country.
Representation - theory
Specific representation can be defined
by these questions;
What idea is being represented?
How is it represented, within genre?
How is the representation been made
to seem natural or real? If it isn’t
natural or real what is the impact of
this?
Who is the representation targeted at?
How do you know?
Task
Using Google images, find three examples of representation.
You can pick; People
Concepts
Objects
(note – people is the easiest to look for.)
Copy and paste into a document and, using the questions, identify the representation.