Sample Mest 3 questions
How is the use of mobile phones represented in the following
media texts?
Use of smartphone technologies is often represented
negatively. How is this being challenged?
Ice Age – Was shown in cinemas
Big Buck Bunny – Online film, rarely or never shown in a
cinema
1. In both clips, how are different media techniques employed
to set the scene.
2. How have advances in technology changed the way we access
the media.
3. To what degree is the group you studied outcast by the
media.
Section
A June 2014
3) Media Product 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8vncRUbnQU Barclays
Premier League Advert
Media Product 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMGsxgdqJnc
ECB Official Ashes Promotion Film
1.
How is sport portrayed as a being
for everyone in both of the media products? (8 marks)
2.
Explain how narrative techniques
are used in sports advertising to create audience anticipation and excitement.
You may refer to other Media examples (12 marks)
3.
How are institutions using New and
Digital Media to further advertise their product or brand? You should refer to
other media texts in your answer (12 marks)
Section A
· Evaluate how each media
product represents ‘celebrity’.
· Does the media fuel celebrity
obsession or are they just giving the audience what they want? You may also
refer to other media examples to support your answer.
4) Media Product One- ARGO opening sequence
Argo is a
2012 American Political film directed by Ben Affleck. This dramatization
is adapted from U.S. Central Intelligence
Agency operative Tony Mendez's book The
Master of Disguise and Josuah Bearman’s 2007 Wired article The
Great Escape. The plot focuses around Tony Mendez rescue of six U.S.
diplomats from Tehran,
Iran, during the 1979 Iran hostage crisis. Argo was widely acclaimed by American
critics, however the Islamic nation was outraged at the generalisation of their
nation.
Media Product Two- Reel Bad Arabs clip
Reel Bad Arabs: How
Hollywood Vilifies a People is a documentary film directed by Sut Jhally and produced by
Media Education Foundation in 2006. This film is an extension of the book of
that name by Jack
Sheenan, which
also analyses how Hollywood corrupts or manipulates the image of
Arabs. The film received positive and
negative critics when being reviewed, the documentary itself didn’t receive
great publicity and was only shown at small independent film festivals.
1. Evaluate how the Islamic nation is
represented in both media products. (8 marks)
2. How has Marxist hegemony shaped the stereotype
of Islam in Media texts? Is it challenged? You may also refer to other media
products to support your answer. (12 marks)
Question 3
3. How does new and digital media help to challenge
and produce countertypes? You should refer to other media products to support
your answer. (12 marks)