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Textual Analysis - Exam Structure - IMPORTANT

Introduction - DAC

Definition - Defining key terms

Argument - 

Context - Background information about media

Paragraphs - PEA

Point - 

Evidence - references to key scenes

Argument - theories

TERMS TO USE

Polysemy - Something with many possible meanings
Hegemony - Rules that people follow that aren't necessarily law
Intertextuality - Where one media text references another
Negotiation - Audience response to a media product that agrees and disagrees
Ideology - Views and beliefs of producer

Things to revise:

What could be in the Exam?

  • Tide Advert
  • WaterAid Advert
  • Kiss of the Vampire Advert

  • Woman Magazine
  • Adbusters' Magazine

  • Daily Mirror Newspaper
  • The Times Newspaper

  • Humans
  • Les Revenants

  • Formation
  • Riptide

  • Late Night Women's Hour

  • Assassins Creed III: Liberation

  • Zoella
  • Attitude Online

  • I Daniel Blake
  • Straight Outta Compton
Examiner will see big words and give higher mark.

Creating an argument:

- Yes or No?
- Why?

In order to reach a larger but devoted cult audience. The producer uses non-diegetic sound to create a mysterious scene which may be a hermeneutic code to suggest mystery making the person watching wanting to solve the mystery.

Long Shot of Camille and her mum in kitchen using the 180 degree rule to contrast between the living and the dead but also the normality of the situation in Camille's eyes and the Abnormality in her mums.

Colour grading is used to make the colours look more washed out and less lively which is symbolic of Camille being dead. Existential Philosophy
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