Key Stage 4 Paper 1: Presentational Devices

Objective: To improve responses when answering questions on presentational devices

On your own, you have 2 minutes to list as many presentational devices as possible.

Now compare your list to the people around you.

Did you have anything on your list that was NOT a presentational device?

Now compare your list to Mr Ramsey’s!

Key Stage 4 Paper 1: Presentational Devices

TEXT BOXinc. caption

RELATIONSHIP OF WORDS TO

IMAGESLOGO

PHOTOSCamera angle

Who or what?

PARAGRAPHS

LAYOUT

alignment

spacing

symmetry

BORDERSBACKGROUNDCOLOURS

ILLUSTRATIONS inc. splat marks,

graphs, maps, tables

FONT

Size, styleSUB-

HEADINGSHEADINGS

BULLET

POINTSCOLUMNS

What effects can some of these devices have?

Objective: To improve responses when answering questions on presentational devices

Key Stage 4 Paper 1: Presentational Devices

Objective: To improve responses when answering questions on presentational devices

Now spend another 2 minutes trying to remember as many of these as possible.

Key Stage 4 Paper 1: Presentational Devices

‘Select 3 presentational devices from the Shout magazine cover and explain how they attract its target audience?’

Look at this Paper 1, Section A question

Now look at the following answer, supplied by a candidate

Objective: To improve responses when answering questions on presentational devices

Key Stage 4 Paper 1: Presentational Devices

I would not by the shout magasine. Because it is a bit for a babyish and the colors round the outside of the girl are to attract its target audence by using blues and orange and pink which is a girls colour and this is good. It is use some captial letters to make words stand out and this is about fashon and beuty which is what girls are into. The title shout means I want to shout about the magasine, but me or my mates would not by it. There is a picture of a boy band at the bottom left which is more famous than the girl in the middle who I do not know but she is smiling and it means she is firendly and firendly people buy this magasine. There is allteraton saying “mad about your mobile” which is good, and so is the girly stuff like boyfriends and fashon and beuty. There is lots of things on the page and because it is packed full of stuff then people who read this might be busy to. There is repeton of sparkly free things at the top over the tittle. and coloms around the girl. I fink the girl does all the stuff in the coloms and this is why she is smilling.

Key Stage 4 Paper 1: Presentational Devices

In small groups, discuss the positive features of this response (there are a few!)

Now, discuss what advice you would give to this candidate to improve their work?

Objective: To improve responses when answering questions on presentational devices

Key Stage 4 Paper 1: Presentational Devices

Using the Shout magazine cover, write an improved response to the question:

‘Select 3 presentational devices from the Shout magazine cover and explain how they attract its target audience?’

Objective: To improve responses when answering questions on presentational devices

You have 3 minutes to make notes about any presentational devices, from the text, that you will use in your response

Then write your response over the next 12 minutes

Key Stage 4 Paper 1: Presentational Devices

Key Stage 4 Paper 1: Presentational Devices

Now swap your work with a partner and provide some comments that you think will help to improve the quality of their response.

Feedback this improvement to another person in the class (but this cannot be the owner of the essay!)

Return to the person whose work you are seeking to improve and give them the improvement strategy

Objective: To improve responses when answering questions on presentational devices