Part 1: English by Tarun Thind analysis 1) What meanings are the audience encouraged to take about the two main characters from the opening of the film? That they are stereotypical antisocial teenagers who are involved in gangs and crime 2) How does the end of the film emphasise de Saussure’s belief that signs are polysemic – open to interpretation or more than one meaning? It subverts the typical negative stereotypes of teenagers and presents them as intelligent and more responsible than all the adults and other people they encounted in the film Part 2: Media Magazine theory drop - Semiotics Greenford Media department has a subscription to Media Magazine - a brilliant magazine designed exclusively for A Level Media students and published four times a year. We strongly recommend you read it regularly and also set plenty of work for the course based on the articles inside. You can find our Media Magazine archive here and for this task need to go to MM68 (page 24) to read the
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