Exam Essay Structure

Your answer can include fiction (films), non-fiction (news papers), self-representation (facebook, youtube, twitter) YOU HAVE TO WRITE ABOUT AT LEAST TWO OF THESE TYPES OF MEDIA.

Remember Harry Brown, Fish Tank, The Inbetweeners, Attack the Block, The London Riots news coverage, The Internet and self mediation.

Examples of past representations of youths and compare them two how youths are represented now, Similarities and differences. Have they changed? Plato Quote. Do you think the representations have changed or are they still similar?

You can talk about how Mods and Rockers evolved over time after the WW2 because they were rebelling against society. Before there was just children and adults nothing in between.

What is the impact of stereotyping. What power does the audience have to believe or disbelieve this?
Talk about all theories e.g Moral Panic, youth as an empty category, cultural hegemony, Stuart hall and reading the texts and their messages. Statistics on result of these representations on attitudes and beliefs VS the reality of the issues.

Increasing media = increasing mediation? Representation by others/ by selves (facebook/youtube/youthtube). Be critical of who is offering the representations and for what purpose.

Mediated: How the media shapes your world and the way you live in it

YOU MUST INCLUDE YOUR OWN PERSONAL OPINIONS this may fit nicely in your last paragraph talking about your opinion of what future representations of youths will be and what you are basing this on. connections must be made between examples of opinions and theories that apply to your opinion.

Structure:
- Intro - choose a quote you like. And then rewrite it/summarise it in your own words. link to issues of identity, representations, and the media. state your focus (social group and texts) Say you are looking at representations of youth in newspapers, facebook, films

- historical example (Quadrophenia)
- Contemporary examples
- connect examples together
- conclusion (return to start) prediction of the future.

Remember to reference your examples (director, date, the film, name of newspaper and date) you will get more marks if you do this.

Paragraph structure: quote - paraphrase - critique
one text older than 5 years old (Quadropenia)
other texts with last 5 years (all other things we have looked at (films, newspaper articles, youtube, facebook)

Essay Structure/paragraph structure:

Intro

Historical representations
-example - significance - quote - critique

Contemporary examples
-example - significance - quote - critiqueContemporary examples
-example - significance - quote - critiqueContemporary examples
-example - significance - quote - critiqueConnections/effects

Conclusion
- return to start
- summarise key idea
- prediction of the future

Section A
Section B
(exam: 2 hours long)