Lydia's Media Blog

How does intertextuality create meaning in this source? The big issue has used the Swedish Abba reference because each member of parliament's views link with the song lyric or title that is supposedly what they're saying. Nicola Sturgeon, David Cameron, Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage all have speech bubbles coming out their mouth's which link to their political views. Sturgeon's is ''Breaking up it never easy, I know'', which links to the fact she is aware that the separation will cause many issues and wont be very straight forwards, but there is hope for a better future because of it. Cameron's says ''Knowing me, knowing EU'' which is a play on words as the original lyrics are actually ''you'' not ''EU'', however they've wanted to include this feature. It implies that Cameron feels well knowledged about the EU, and also believes he has a strong link to it. Johnson's bubble states '...

The Guardian and The Daily Mail Similarities Both the Guardian and the Daily Mail are laid out fairly similarly, as they both have small mastheads and their column style is mainly t ext based and hardly features any pictures, if any. They probe to be a uthoritative and have a persuasive tone. The opinions of the writers are clearly outlined in the subheading of each section of text, and each comment or story is based off current affairs. Each paper usually has around 2-3 different comment articles. Differences Due to it being left-wing, t he Guardian is much more politically-based and in comparison, the Daily Mail i sn't as formal or as factual. The main focus of the Guardian is on the main stereotypes, politics and terror attacks, where as the Daily Mail tends to talk more about celebrities, their views on issues around the world, or just their most recent big event. Another big difference between the two newspapers is their vocabulary. The words they include in thei...

1) What Media Language have you used in your title sequence and how do they follow the codes and conventions of this element of a TV Drama? In the first clip used on our title sequence, we have used non-digetic sound. This is because it is when the theme tune starts playing, and so we have used the non-digetic sound effect as the instruments creating the music cannot be seen on screen. The editing technique we have chosen at the start of the next clip that features, is slow motion editing. This is to add drama into the shot, as we see a police badge falling in slow motion into a dark back ground. Along with this eerie shot comes more non-digetic music, of a piano playing 'mysterious' and eerie music. Next we have used an establishing shot of a public lake with the sun rising behind it. The establishing shot allows the audience to see a fairly isolated lake, but doesn't focus on any particular feature in the shot. Not only does this make the audience question how that sce...

Phillipa Knoxx is a 35 year old woman living in St. Albans. She works for the Hertfordshire Constabulary as a detective in the C.I.D (Criminal Investigation Department0. Unknowingly, she has undiagnosed dissociative identity disorder, which leads her to have a second personality that she is oblivious to. In the scenes prior to the title sequence, we see her drowning a small girl around the age of the audience, but unaware to the audience. We then get introduced to her character as a detective and a new face, Emily Leonard, who we later learn shares a house with Phillipa. A few days later there is a search for a missing young girl, and we see Phillipa alone, looking around a public lake. She is searching whilst out of hours, which gives the audience an insight of how dedicated she is to her job. Around 9pm, she is approached by a 15 year old boy who informs her that she's found the body. She follows him closer towards the lake, when we start seeing fl...

Daily Mail http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4939872/Active-shooter-reported-Las-Vegas-Mandalay-Bay-Resort.html In this article from the Daily Mail, we are drawn into the story due to t he word ''terror''. This is because we instantly relate this to terror attacks, which have recently become more popular around the world, and so we want to know the background. The many factors are also included in the story, with numbers and percentages to give extra information. Therefore, a large audience will rely on the Daily Mail to give them answers to their questions. Unlike many other news papers, the Daily Mail actually gives us 13 bullet points about the story, before actually starting it. This again may add more information which any audience will be interested in. The newspaper sensationalises the story by using the term ''terror'', as it wasn't aware of the person responsible at the point the story was written. Because of this, the writers ...