This poster is audience towards teenagers and above. The poster is bold and bright to give out the information that people want to know. The poster informs readers which bands will be playing at the reading festival. This changes how the poster is laid out as its more of a list, rather than a paragraph of text talking about one band. The language used is mainly just a few words. E.g for the place, they put `Leeds' rather than taking up a line just for the place of which it will be held. This text exerts power from the different boldness of text and how it is used against the back gound.
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You've amassed a great range of different test types here, Callum. A number have persuasive purposes, which is great for me - I 'd like to raid your blog as a source of texts to analyse in more details in my lessons, if that's ok with you.
ReplyDeleteYou address graphology and audience directly, with several points about how the texts have multiple purposes and, indeed, multiple audiences. I think you do this best when you move beyond fairly basic comments like "catches the eye" and "stands out" and begin to look at why the texts are structured in a specific way or how they are designed to be read.
You're also starting to probe the language itself in more detail, exploring the connotations of key lexis and trying to tease out the semantic value of certain words. The work we're doing at the moment on word classes and giving the different parts of speech their correct terms will help you become adept at identifying the language you want to categorise, as well as giving you ideas on how to track language features across the various texts when you are doing a grouping exercise in preparation for Qu1 of the exam.
Target: to look for ways a text uses modes of address (how it 'talks' to the reader) and verb forms (such as the use of modal verbs and passive structures) to set the register or mode of the text e.g. is it using informal and 'chatty' colloquial language or a more formal mode, which might be advising or instructing its reader.
Keep this standard of blogging up, though - this is a great start!
CMT