AC's exam media

  Newspapers Which daily newspapers (if any) do you read? I'm 16, nobody my age reads newspapers. What sections of newspapers do you turn to first, and why? None What sections do you never read, and why? The whole things. Don't read newspapers. What kinds of stories do you usually read and why? Historic or money related. Do you, or someone else, buy the newspaper you read? No Do you look at the online versions of any newspapers? Which newspapers? Why do you visit their website and not others? No,none, I don't. Magazines What magazines (if any) do you buy regularly?  Why/why not? I don't, w aste of money and time. What sections of the magazines do you read and not read, and why? I don't read magazines.  Television Approximately how many hours a week do you spend watching television?Couple of hours. What device do you use to watch television? PC What times of day do you usually watch television?  Night. What programmes do you like best and why? Anime as its simply exc...

  Part 1)  English  by Tarun Thind analysis 1)  What meanings are the audience encouraged to take about the two main characters from the opening of the film? That they are hoodlums, a pair of troublemakers who have no respect of the elderly. 2) How does the end of the film emphasise de Saussure’s belief that signs are polysemic – open to interpretation or more than one meaning? Well in the beginning and through the film, the two main characters are interpreted as the bad guys but at the end there is a plot twist of them being mute which then makes us feel bad as most of us judged the book by its cover. Part 2) Media Magazine theory drop: Semiotics  1) What did Ferdinand de Saussure suggest are the two parts that make up a sign? Signifier and signified. 2) What does ‘polysemy’ mean? When something has multiple meanings. 3) What does Barthes mean when he suggests signs can become ‘naturalised’? He means that sings can become so widely proceed...

 1) I choose media as it goes well with my other subjects. 2) I have never studied media before. 3) 4) A 5) Not sure yet, I'm young I got time. 6) Russo-Ukraine war as it has brought down world stability. 7) YouTube probably, I don't follow media news that much. 8) Sounds of freedom 9)TMNT 2012 10) Right now its about 2h average, although I did uninstall most social media to reduce my dopamine intake/addiction(dopamine detox) and to get off my phone and be more productive.