Webinar notes for paper 1

 News: 

Question layouts:

Question 1: 10 marker

link 2 unseen covers/homepages to theory.

Question 2: 15 marker

Usually unseen comaprison using 2 sources, one being your set product - they can be online sources.

Question 3: 10 marker

Context or industry question.

Question 4: 10 marker

Choice of theory.


The Guardian: 

A broadsheet which sometimes can be called quality tabloid. 

Brand identity of The Guardian - white font, blue background.

Typical broadsheet conventions seen on The Guardian covers:

  • high ratio of text to photography.
  • significant central image - which normally relates to hard news.
  • Normally an elaborated language code - links to the idea of the target audience being educated.
  • Formal mode of address.
Hard news = politics, economy, health, education
Normally has stories linked to culture, arts, film in the masthead, so it's not just hard news. 

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