You need to write an account of a single media text that you feel has changed your life - and you need to say why.
This needs to be a detailed account of exactly how it affected you when you first consumed it and how it continues to affect you now.
Did it engage with you emotionally or intellectually? Did it change your opinions? Did it make you do something? Did it change your habits or media consumption?
You must be analytical about exactly how it has the impact it does. e.g. If it makes you laugh then explain what is funny, if it makes you cry then analyse how your emotions have been manipulated.
You also need to consider the impact it might have on other people.
It can be absolutely anything but here are some suggestions:
- An album that determined your taste in music
- A film that totally engaged you on an emotional level
- A documentary or newspaper that made you feel completely different about an issue
- A TV show that challenges you on an intellectual level
- A video game which made you rethink exactly what it was that makes video games so appealing
- A comic book or magazine which altered your sense of style, fashion or outward appearance
Remember that you are analysing the media text itself and how it provoked that response in you...
...and always remember to label your post with your name!
