Ideas for The Critical Investigation and the Linked Production Piece

The strongest critical investigation and linked production piece which I had left over from a choice of three was (critical investigation) 'The life style of young children' with (linked production piece) 'A magazine for parents helping them understand their childs lifestyle'. I feel that this idea would be a great choice to pursue as for one it is rather unique in comparison to the other ideas I have come across and two, most linked production pieces have tended to be in the 'moving image' category, which again emphasises on the uniqueness of this idea.

Critical Investigation:

Exploring the lifestyle of young children would be a great critical investigation to pursue as the youth of today are constantly given a bad label by the media and others alike. It would be interesting to see a pupil challenge the stereotypes inflicted upon todays youth and explore as to what extent these stereotypical views are accurate or not.

Linked Production Piece:

It would be a refereshing change for the pupils to produce a magazine as their production piece as most pupils are considering the moving image option. It would be especially interesting to see how the pupil's text production skills has improved since the last time they did them.

Words From My A-Z Dictionary That Will Help Me With This Work Are...

STEREOTYPE: the social classification of a group of people by identifying common characteristics and universally applying them in an often oversimplified and generalised way, such that the classification represents value judgements and assumptions about the group concerned.

DEMOGRAPHICS: information conserning the social status, class, gender and age of the poulation.

REPRESENTATION: the process whereby the media construct versions of people, places and events in images, words or sound for transmission through media texts to an audience.

CRITICAL AUTONOMY: the ability to research a topic, to assess and evaluate evidence and to come to an informed personal judgement.

OBJECTIVITY: a presentation of a media text from an unbiased or objective standpoint, without institutional bias.