MIGRAIN: Introduction to media index

 

  1. Introduction to Media - 10 questions
  2. Media consumption audit
  3. Semiotics: Blog tasks
  4. Language: Reading an image - media codes
  5. Reception theory - advert analysis and factsheet
  6. Genre: Factsheet questions and genre study questions
  7. Narrative: Factsheet questions
  8. Audience classification: Blog tasks
  9. October assessment learner response

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