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Developing your own

Research project

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LO

To narrow your collective identity /representation focus

To source suitable texts To structure your research

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HW

Build a dossier of research including:

Source texts from two or more platforms

Analysis of texts using semiotics Discussion of texts in relation to SHEP

applying suitable theory

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G325 detail

Representations

Two detailed studies of the images of

particular groups or places across arange of media.

Alternative images of these groups or

places across the media. General issues of representation and

stereotyping within the media.

Problems of producing fair and

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Assessment detail

Similarities to AS study only with arefined focus, increasingconfidence, flexibility andsophistication.

Textual analysis and the

development of the criticalanalysis retain their importance.

The big difference from AS to A2 is

the move beyond how a text

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Example Dossier

trailer trash teens

Texts: primary research into texts films, TV programmes, talk shows, print,

online, games, etc.

Theories: moral panics, hegemony,realism, stereotyping, feminism,

Wider secondary research: newsarticles, academic studies, governmentresearch, audience responses

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Read

Article on Fish Tank

highlight how textual analysis, theoryand discussion are combined in the

essay

Attempt your own paragraph on a textof your choice or example of mine

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Essay

Write a comparison of therepresentations of Mia in Fish Tankand Precious.