Ali-AbanGCSEMediaStudies

  Historical, social and cultural contexts 1) What radio stations were offered by the BBC before 1967? Home light third  2) How was BBC radio reorganised in September 1967? What were the new stations that launched? Radio 1 2 3 4  3) What was pirate radio and why was it popular? American pop radio  rather than English radio. 4) Why did pirate radio stop broadcasting in 1967? Marine Offence acts.  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? 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? focused one younger audiences more pop  8) Who was the first presenter for BBC Radio 1 and why did these new Radio 1 DJs cause upset initially at the traditional BBC? Tony Blackburn 9) Listen to excerpts from the T...

TV FINAL INDEX  1)  TV: Introduction To TV 2)  Doctor Who: Language and Representation 3)  Doctor Who: Audience and Industry 4)  His Dark Materials: Audience and Industry 5)  His Dark Materials: Language and Representation 6)  TV Industry Context

TV industry contexts   1) What is the BBC's mission statement? Inform Educate and Entertain 2) How is the BBC funded? The government funds through its tv licence 3) What must the BBC do to meet its public service broadcasting responsibilities? (Look at the five bullet points in the notes above). Give information support people of all ages. 4) Who is the regulator for TV and Radio in the UK? You can find details on this in the notes above. Of Com 5) How is TV and Radio regulated by Ofcom?  Their is a Tv licence which is put and if breached you will be fined.   6) How do Doctor Who and His Dark Materials help the BBC to meet the  BBC's remit to inform, educate and entertain ? Answer this question in at least 150 words. Doctor who educates and entertains its audience, it teaches its audience about space and for modern audiences it also gives them a chance to see how TV was like back in the 1960s. Doctor who also entertains through its sci fi like the TARDIS. His Da...

  His Dark Materials: Audience and Industries  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 .   Teenagers,  Aimed at a contemporary family audience for the BBC Sunday night broadcast slot 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: They may have been in some the form of performance in Hamilton Personal Relationships: Will and Lyra  Diversion (Escapism): The different and fantasy world allows the viewers to escape to this  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...

  His Dark Materials: Language and Representation: Language and close-textual analysis 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.) You can currently  watch His Dark Materials on BBC iPlayer here . Camerawork, editing and sound: epic music close up shots and low shots on powerful characters like Mrs Coulter Mise-en-scene: different costumes for different worlds. Narrative and genre: Props character theory, fantasy, binary oppositions. 2) How does His Dark Materials fit the conventions of the  fantasy TV genre ? Characters from different worlds, Demons 3)  Applying Propp's character theory, what  character roles  do some of the main characters in His Dark Materials fit into?   Will plays a hero character and Mis...

  1) Type up your WWW/EBI feedback in  full  (you don't need to write the mark and grade if you want to keep this confidential).  WWW- This is the steady progress from the last assessment with the potential to move up further EBI- Revise the music Video: You don't know the CSP which cost you in Q5. A great lesson for future exam. 2) Read  the mark scheme for this assessment carefully . Write down the mark you achieved for each question:  Q1: 2/2 Q2: 4/8 Q3: 3/6 Q4:3/3 Q5: 1/6 3)  Look specifically at question 2. Use the indicative content in the mark scheme for question 2 to write three connotations of the design and layout of Tatler. the cover star Emma Weymouth wearing a ballgown in the gardens of a stately home connotes the wealth and luxury that Tatler readers aspire to. The mise-en-scene (costume, make-up, pose, expression) all emphasise these aspects the choice of white and black font/typography against the natural setting connotes...