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BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat: Blog tasks

  Newsbeat analysis Use  BBC Sounds to listen to Radio 1 . Select a Newsbeat bulletin (8am or 12.45pm are good options)  and then answer the following questions:  1) What news stories were featured in the bulletin you listened to? News about greta thunberg, football in Scotland and wales and criminal offences in England  2) How does Newsbeat appeal to a youth audience? Newsbeat uses cover music, multiple stories at a fast pace and reporters from different places to attract a younger audience  3) How might Newsbeat help  fulfil the BBC's responsibilities as a public service broadcaster?  By providing news and information for young people  Media Factsheet #246: BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat Read  Factsheet #246 BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat . You'll need your Greenford google login to access it. Answer the following questions: 1) How is the history and launch of Radio 1 summarised in the factsheet? If you studied this as part of GCSE Media you will already ...

Introduction to radio: blog tasks

  Read  Media Factsheet #224 Understanding the Industrial Context of Radio . This will give you a wider perspective on industry contexts for radio with particular focus on the industry theorists (Hesmondhalgh, Curran & Seaton, Livingstone & Lunt). Answer the following questions:  1) Read the first two pages of the factsheet. How does the Factsheet argue that radio still has cultural significance in the digital age?  Radio content sparks the imagination in totally different ways than visual mediums and is a reason it still remains hugely popular  2) Look at the page 4 section on media theories. Briefly summarise the ideas of Curran and Seaton, Hesmondhalgh and Livingstone and Lunt. Curran and Seaton is media output concentrated in the hands of a few. Hesmondhalgh is the media but profit before creativity  Livingstone and Lunt is media regulation should have  a consumer based approach  3) What is the definition of public service broadcasting...

Music Video: index

  1)   Music Video: Introduction - factsheet questions 2)  Music Video: Old Town Road CSP 3)  Music Video: Postcolonial theory 4)  Music Video: Ghost Town CSP 5)  Music Video: Postmodernism and music video

TV assessment: Learner response

  1) Type up your feedback in  full  (you don't need to write the mark and grade if you want to keep this confidential). 16/34 grade:c www: good attempt to engage with ideology ebi: needs more understanding of how fictional texts are not ideological 2) Read  the whole mark scheme for this assessment  carefully. Identify at least  one  potential point that you missed out on for each question in the assessment (even if you got full marks for the question). -Pastiche,  Kingsman: The Secret Service is a parody (there are definitely suggestions of comedy) the poster as a whole asks to be taken seriously. In a parody, audiences would likely expect a tagline that confirms the comic nature of the film. The only text appearing here is: ‘From the director of X Men: First Class’ which would suggest the film is trying to attract an audience looking for serious, action/superhero-based entertainment. - media products – particularly fictional genres such as...

The Specials - Ghost Town: Blog tasks

  1)  Why does the writer link the song to cinematic soundtracks and music hall tradition? To link the lyrics and the video as it’s a ghost town, the video shows a sense of dominating buildings and no people  2) What subcultures did 2 Tone emerge from in the late 1970s? Punk and ska  3) What social contexts are discussed regarding the UK in 1981? High unemployment and a lot of riots with young people  4) Cultural critic Mark Fisher describes the video as ‘eerie’. What do you think is 'eerie' about the Ghost Town video? The low angle shots of buildings to make them seem powerful, the switch of calm and dull to fast and excited in the video shows how eerie it is, as they could do what they liked  5) Look at the final section (‘Not a dance track’). What does the writer suggest might be the meanings created in the video? Do you agree? The writer suggests the video shows urban decay and a sense of hopelessness, I somewhat agree as usually London is busy and not ...