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.