13C1 Cover Work Miss Holliday 30.01.09

Go to Youtube and watch the Slumdog Millionaire trailer and Danny Boyle's account of filming in India. Read some of the comments on the latter.
Then go to The Guardian and read the article about 'Poverty Porn' and then the one about how British Asians have responded to the film. Post up all these links on your Med 5 blogs and then write your own response to the film, paying particular attention to the representation issues.
How does it represent India/Indians? How does this compare to our notion of The Other or the Oriental stereotype? Try to link your answer to the theorists/ideas we were looking at last week.

13C1 Cover Work Miss Holliday 27.01.09

Using the handout on 'representation of the other' discussed on Friday's lesson find a range of textual examples (both print and moving image) of 'the other'. Prepare a presentation based on these representations (including images) covering:

• How are these representations being constructed? (using media language)
• Whether the representations are fair and accurate?
• What stereotypes exist?
• How might the institution be affecting this representation?
• How could the audience read these texts? (consider a range of audience theories)
• Consider how SHEP factors may also play a part in the representation and your reading of these texts.

Be ready to present back in class on Friday

13D1 Cover Work 27.01.09

I may not make it to the lesson today but you MUST stay in the classroom throughout period 2 and do the following as it is quite possible I'll arrive before breaktime...

Go to Youtube and watch the Slumdog Millionaire trailer and Danny Boyle's account of filming in India. Read some of the comments on the latter.

Then go to The Guardian and read the article about 'Poverty Porn' and then the one about how British Asians have responded to the film. Post up all these links on your Med 5 blogs and then write your own response to the film, paying particular attention to the representation issues.

How does it represent India/Indians? How does this compare to our notion of The Other or the Oriental stereotype? Try to link your answer to the theorists/ideas we were looking at last week.

13D1 News Values MED 6 Analysis

Look at the 2 texts we used in lesson

13D1 News Values MED 6 Analysis

Analysis essay for homework based on the newspaper front covers we analysed in the lesson.

Remember the question, as always is: 'Using the comparison of these two texts as your starting point, explore the media issues and debates which they raise.'

Your analysis must address fully all relevant media language (MIGRAIN) when referring to specific examples from the 2 texts and account for why there are differences in content, production values etc through SHEP making sure you consider any other issues and debates raised by the two texts.

Essay due in next Thursday's lesson. Typed please!

Self-Evaluations 2

To be completed by Tuesday 27-01.

Your responses will be used to help us write your next Interim Reports which you'll be receiving in a few weeks time.

SELF EVALUATION
Write an evaluation of your progress on the Media course since the last report.
Post the work up on your Module 5 blogs.

a. Comment on each of the following, giving yourself a grade with an explanation outlining why:

(Grading should be 1-5: 1 = excellent, 2 = v. good, 3 = good/average, 4 = poor, 5 = v. poor)

• Attainment
• Effort
• Punctuality
• Submission and quality of homework
• Ability to work independently
• Quality of writing
• Organisation of Media folder
• Oral contributions in class
• Standard of Module 5 blog
• Standard of Module 6 blog

b. Make a list of three achievements (www) and three targets/areas for improvement (ebi) over the next half-term.

Coursework - First Draft

The following needs to be completed by Tuesday 3rd February. (Like you'd forget!)

• Complete your first draft of your Independent Study.

• It must be a word processed 3000 word essay (with a word count included at the end).

• Also, include correctly set out references, quotes and footnotes. (Footnotes should take the following form - Author Surname, Author First Name (year of publication), page number(s). eg...Craig, Steve (1992) p. 123.)

• A full bibliography must be submitted. (See the Book Research Task for help with this) . The first section should be titled 'Works Cited' and will contain everything that you make direct reference to in your essay. Divide it into 'Books', 'Newspapers & Magazines', 'Internet' and 'Moving Image Texts'. The second section should be called 'Works Consulted' and will cover all the additional research you did but that didn't necessarily get directly quoted. This should have the same subheadings as the first section. Use BibMe to help you do this correctly, using the APA format for books.

• Two copies are necessary. Hand in a hard copy (on paper) on the deadline day, and this needs to have one and a half spacing. Also paste it up on your blog.

If you're in any doubt about what this all should look like then please check out some of the finished grade 'A' and 'B' essays from last year (2008), the year before (2007), and the year before that (2006).

These will also be helpful when thinking about how to write your essay (what to include in the introduction and conclusion, how to structure the work, how to set out quotes, the correct tone, and how much research to include - they each contain between 20 and 40 footnotes, etc.)

But please ensure that all writing is done in your own words. Plagiarism is a very serious business and anyone found simply copying from other sources (either students or books/websites) will be in real trouble. And you will be found out if you do! We're not stupid - we know how you write, and we know very well what was in the previous studies (and there are numerous online checkers that we can feed your work into to see if it has been plagiarised).

This is the big one so no excuses and good luck!!

First Paragraph Rewrite

The following needs to be completed by Tuesday 27th January.

Following your individual tutorials, you need to re-write your Independent Study first paragraph and post it up on your blog. This should include your full title (and preceding quote) that may have been refined since your meeting.

Also, the paragraph needs to engage with the keywords in the title, outlining your hypothesis/argument, and should include at least two quotes/references (with properly presented footnotes).