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Newspapers: Daily Mirror - Audience and Industries

  1) What is the Daily Mirror's audience? List the key statistics here. Their key audience is upper working to lower middle class people typically aged 65+ 2) Why do the Mirror stories on the CSP pages appeal to the Daily Mirror audience? They appeal as the story is about how a loved institutuion was done wrong by a large company and was blamed for that companies mistake 3) Why might a reader  enjoy  the Daily Mirror? Use Blumler & Katz Uses and Gratifications theory to add detail to your answer. Because it provides surveillence into what goes on in the world everyday all around 4) Why are print newspapers generally read by older audiences? Because they havent accepted the shift towards a more technology sided world 5) How are the CSP pages constructed to appeal to Daily Mirror readers? Think about text and selection of images. They are constructed with an interesting and scandal related splashhead aswell as presenting the ceo of the company at fault as a evil person ...

Newspapers: Daily Mirror - Language and Representations

  1) Write the definition of the following key language for newspaper front pages (you may want to add an example for each from our Daily Mirror CSP): Masthead: The title of the paper Pug: something Splash Head: The main lead story on the page Slogan:  The ethos of the paper Dateline: The date it was published Byline: The name of the journalist Standfirst: The leading paragraph 2) What is the main story on the CSP edition of the Daily Mirror (see above)? Make sure you learn the headline and what the story is about. The fujitsu post office scandal when people where arrested and lost jobs because an issue with the horizon software 3) What is the 'pug' or smaller celebrity story on the front cover? Why might it appeal to Daily Mirror readers? The pug is a mini line to catch the readers eye and make them want to pick up the paper 4) Why is the choice of news stories, content and page design on the  Mirror  CSP front page typical of a  tabloid  newspaper? Becaus...

December Mock Exam: Learner Response Blog Tasks

  1) Type up any feedback on your paper  (you don't need to write the mark and grade if you want to keep this confidential). If you only have marks and a grade on the paper, write a WWW/Next Steps yourself based on your scores. WWW: I got solid marks on most questions allowing me to get higher  than my target grade. Next steps: Focus on getting as much info as possible 2) Use the mark scheme for this Paper 2 mock (posted on GC) to read the answers AQA were looking for. First, write down a definition and example of non-diegetic sound (Q1.1 and 1.2). Non diagetic is when both people in the show and the viewers can hear the audio. For example talking   3) Next, identify  three  points you could have made in Q1.3 - camerawork and the extract. Look for the indicative content in the mark scheme - these are the suggested answers from AQA. The power dynamic, the body language, the speed of the cuts 4) Now look at Q1.4 in the mark scheme - pick out  t...