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End of Year 1 exam: Learner Response

  End of Year 1 exam: Learner Response 1) Type up any feedback from your teacher in full (you do not need to write the mark/grade if you do not wish to). 2) Look at the mark scheme document linked above. Question 1.1 asks about mise-en-scene. What do we use to remember mise-en-scene? Give one example answer from the clip too - you'll find example answers in the mark scheme. 3) Question 1.2 asks about narrative features in the extract. Look at the mark scheme to pick out three possible answers for this question.  4) Now focus on Question 2 - the 20 mark essay. Use the mark scheme to pick out one way Doctor Who reflects 1963 and one way His Dark Materials reflects 2020.  5) Reflect on your overall work and exam performance this year. What three things do you need to work on or revise in Media for Year 11? 

CSP - KISS FM

1 - What is KISS FM's mission KISS FM aims to deliver music and entertainment that reflects young audiences' lifestyles through radio, digital platforms, and live events 2 - What is the target audience for KISS FM? Mainly aged 15 to 34 , KISS FM targets a young, music-loving audience interested in pop culture and digital media. 3 - How does KISS use digital media and technology to reach its audience? KISS uses social media, streaming, apps, podcasts , and on-demand content to stay accessible and relevant to its audience 4 - What content do KISS Fresh and KISSTORY offer and how can audiences access those stations? KISS Fresh plays new hits; KISSTORY features throwback tunes. Both are available via DAB radio, the KISS Kube app , and online streaming. 5 - What are the different ways audiences can actively engage with the KISS radio brand? Listeners can join competitions , interact through social media , and message or call during shows. 6  - Are listeners to the KISS Breakfast ...

Radio 1 Launch CSP: blog tasks

  Radio 1 Launch CSP: blog tasks Historical, social and cultural contexts 1) What radio stations were offered by the BBC before 1967? the BBC Home Service, the BBC Light Programme, and the BBC Third Programme 2) How was BBC radio reorganised in September 1967? What were the new stations that launched? BBC radio 1 2 3 4  3) What was pirate radio and why was it popular? pirate radio became popular in the 1960s due to the BBC's limited programming of popular music, particularly rock and pop 4) Why did pirate radio stop broadcasting in 1967? due to marine broadcasting offences act  5) How did the BBC attract young audiences to Radio 1 after pirate radio stations were closed down? Hired popular pirate radio operators 6) What was 'needle time' and why was it a problem for BBC Radio? Its a limited amount of time that recorded music could be streamed on radio 7) How did BBC Radio 1 offer different content to previous BBC radio stations? It focused one younger audiences by streami...

TV industry contexts: blog tasks

  1)  What is the BBC's mission statement? to inform educate and entertain  2) How is the BBC funded? television licence  3) What must the BBC do to meet its public service broadcasting responsibilities?  To provide information (that is supposed to be balanced) To support learning for people of all ages To produce creative output To have diverse content (such as with its representations) To reflect the United Kingdom, its culture and values to the world 4) Who is the regulator for TV and Radio in the UK? You can find details on this in the notes above. The BBC is regulated by OFCOM (the Office of Communications). OFCOM oversees all media channels 5) How is TV and Radio regulated by Ofcom?   produces a code of conduct that all media channels must follow or have their licence to make content removed and/or be fined heavily.  This includes what can be shown before the  9pm watershed  and various other quality standards. 6) How do Doctor Who...

television final index

  TV: Industry Context Television: His Dark Materials - Audience and Industry Television: His Dark Materials - Language and Representation Doctor Who: Audience and Industries Doctor Who: Language and Representations Television: introduction

His Dark Materials - Audience and Industry

  Audience 1) What audience do you think His Dark Materials is aimed at and why? Think about demographic and psychographic groups.  You can  revise Pyschographics here . its for teenagers that are interested in fantasy genre and also like a open world series  2) What audience pleasures are offered by His Dark Materials - The City of Magpies? Apply Blumler and Katz's Uses and Gratifications theory to the episode. Make sure you provide specific examples from the episode to support your ideas. Personal Identity: the audience can connect to lyra and build a connection  Personal Relationships: lyras and wills relationship grows  Diversion (Escapism): the fantasy world is a escape from the real world  3) Thinking of the 3 Vs audience pleasures (Visceral, Vicarious and Voyeuristic pleasures), which of these can be applied to His Dark Materials? Refer to specific scenes or moments in the episode to explain your answer.  Vicarious: We experience a mag...

Television: His Dark Materials - Language and Representation

  1) Write an analysis of the episode - using  your notes from the screening in class .  Make specific, detailed reference to moments in the text using media terminology (e.g. media language - camera shots and movement, editing, diegetic/non-diegetic sound, mise-en-scene etc.) Camerawork, editing and sound: many special sound effects with many different camera angles and shots also we see a lot computer generated images  Mise-en-scene : each character had many different costumes for there world or clan  Narrative and genre: the genre is fantasy and kind of steampunk as we see a coil powered submarine  2) How does His Dark Materials fit the conventions of the  fantasy TV genre ? it has many parts of fantasy as it has talking animals / demons as well as floating city / castle  3)  Applying Propp's character theory, what  character roles  do some of the main characters in His Dark Materials fit into?  Mrs coulter - villain, lyra -...