Shabd's Media Blog 1 - (Mr Bush)

1) What type of text is it? The text I have chosen is a television advert that created large controversy towards is due to its ideology and denotation. 2) How do you know? What are the key conventions that allowed you to identify the text? The Key Conventions of this advert is the use of star power as having a major fashion icon in Kendall Jenner in advert creates a large amount of publicity for Pepsi as well as the use of having Pepsi being shown several times throughout the advert clearly follows key conventions throughout the advert. 3) In your opinion, who is the target audience for this media text? The target audience for the advert is for teenagers to young adults as that is the target audience for the fashion icon Kendall Jenner who is very recognizable across those ages so Popsi uses her publicity to her demographic age and target audience. 4) How would this audience access the text? E.g. where/when would they consume it? Using what device? This Med

Newspapers Which daily newspapers (if any) do you read?       I don't tend to read any newspapers but if available the daily mail. What sections of newspapers do you turn to first, and why?  Generally, I turn to the back of the newspaper for the sports pages if there are no major news stories that catch my eyes and read the sports section as a good pass time. What sections do you never read, and why? I hardly ever read the economy section or financial as it does not have a major effect on me but however it does I get notified about it on my phone. What kinds of stories do you usually read and why? Sports section as it is something that I am quite interested into and enjoy reading about these sections. Do you, or someone else, buy the newspaper you read? I'm not sure about who purchases but I tend to see it when I'm commuting so I tend to have a quick read. Do you look at the online versions of any newspapers? Which newspapers? Why do you visit their website and

1) Why did you choose A Level Media Studies? I decided to choose Media A-Levels due to after doing it during GCSE I found it is something that allows me to be creative and express myself and therefore a subject I should be able to excel at. 2) Did you take GCSE Media Studies (either here at Greenford or a different school)? I took GCSE Media Studies here at Greenford due to recommendations from fellow students. 3) If you answered yes to Q2, what grade did you achieve in GCSE Media? What coursework tasks did you complete? What would you say your strengths and weaknesses were in GCSE Media? I achieved a B in GCSE media and that was due to be having good coursework however my exam did let me down but i did excel during creative tasks such as movie posters. 4) What grade do you hope to achieve in A Level Media? A. 5) What are your current thoughts about your next steps after A Levels - university, apprenticeship, work? I have high aspirations to head towards Univ