Practice questions for 1b

“Media is communication.” Discuss the ways that you have used media language to create meanings in one of your media products.

“Media texts rely on audience knowledge of generic codes and conventions in order for them to create meaning.” Explain how you have used or subverted generic conventions in one of your production pieces.

“Media texts will never be successful unless they are carefully constructed to target established audience needs or desires.” Evaluate the ways that you constructed your media text to target a specific audience.

“Media texts rely on cultural experiences in order for audiences to easily make sense of narratives”. Explain how you used conventional and / or experimental narrative approaches in one of your production pieces.

“Representations in media texts are often simplistic and reinforce dominant ideologies so that audiences can make sense of them.” Evaluate the ways that you have used/ challenged simplistic representations in one of the media products you have produced.