OSP: Teen Vogue & The Voice month in focus

One of the key aspects for your Media Paper 2 essay on Teen Vogue and The Voice will be a range of relevant and interesting articles from these websites.

We recommend putting this homework into your timetable so you have a regular slot you complete it every week - as we'll be doing this again later in the year for the newspapers topic.

The details: for the next month, you must find a weekly news story from Teen Vogue and The Voice and read, summarise and comment on them on your blog (A*-B candidates will do more).

Teen Vogue
The Voice

You'll also find stories related to the media linked from our Twitter account, @blogmacguffin (access it online here if you don't have the Twitter app) so make sure you're following that too.

Most importantly, you need to do the following on your blog for each story...

1. Provide the title and weblink;
2. Include a relevant image, graphic or screenshot;
3. Summarise the story in your own words;
4. Explain how or why this story appeals to an audience (use media terminology and theory here);
5. Comment on the story: to what extent does it reflect the values and ideologies of the website? Is this an example of quality journalism or simply clickbait? 

You'll be presenting these to the class each week (we'll randomly select a student and you'll be expected to present from memory, so make sure you come prepared) and this will ensure you build up an archive of stories from the CSP texts to widen your media knowledge base and provide examples to use in exam questions and essays. 

What will this look like? Although this was for a slightly different task for the old specification Year 13 exam, this blog post from one of our previous Media students gives you an idea of what a valuable resource these stories quickly become.

Due: EVERY week for the next FOUR weeks - no excuses. Exact day set by your exam class teacher.