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BBC Radio Task

THE BBC  The BBC was first formed on October the 18th, 1922 making it 96 years old  Lord Reith was a Scottish broadcasting executive who established independent public service broadcasting and was hired by the BBC as the general manager.  Radio 1 was launched on the 30th of September, 1967 BBC's 5 public purposes: (1) to provide impartial news and information to help people understand and engage with the world around them, (2) to support learning for people of all ages, (3) to show the most creative, highest quality and distinctive output and services, (4) to reflect, represent and serve the diverse communities of all the UK's nations and regions and support the creative economy across the UK and (5) to reflect the UK, its culture and values to the world. Their mission is "to act in the public interest, serving all audiences through the provision of impartial, high-quality and distinctive output and services which inform, educate and entertain". The BBCs visi...
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Types of music videos

Narrative based music videos The lyrics often reflect within the story. This is a video that shows a performance but also has a narrative within it. It often replicates a film genre. For example, Coldplay 'magic' by Jonus Akerlund. Performance based music videos This is performing an act which pressents the artist or band throughout the entire song for example, 'American Idiot' by Green Day. Concept based music videos Its based around a single idea or concept and are usually unusaul or obscure. A concept video will include unusual images or narratives to maintain audience engagement. For example, Arctic Monkeys 'Fluorescent Adolescent' Parody based music videos Involves changing or coppying already existing music ideas or lyrics, or copying the particular style of a composer or artist, or even a general style of music. Hybrid based music videos
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music vids/ context

 "WHY IS THE MEDIA INFLUENCED BY SOCIAL AND CULTURAL CONTEXTS?" As part of your answer please include your own definitions and differences between culture and social contexts. Use the examples from the adverts we saw to illustrate your points. Culture is the values and beliefs of a person and social context is the values and beliefs of multiple people making up a group called society. media is influenced by this because they mediate their views to fit the audience. for example, in the gillette advert they talk about femisnism and sexual harasment which has only come out now due to things such as the me too movement and people such as R Kelly comming out as a sexual predator. this is only apparent now as two years ago people didnt know or care about this therefore they use social context advertise their product because they know peoples views on this. they use culture to gain different opinions because they know everyone will have strong beliefs on the very popu...
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Practical assesment HT2

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Key concepts: Denotation/connotation. Camera shot, angle and movement. Genre: codes and conventions. Representation: stereotyping. Audience appeal. Intertextuality. Plan: Key info: Royal wedding cost 10 mill, royals never financialy helped out with grenfell tower disaster. Grenfell killed 72 people. Royal family "invisible" in national disasters. Target audience:   Females   age 25-35  C2-C1 Idea: use intertextuality by making Meghan and Harry look like Disney princes and princesses and have them running away from the burning tower as their wedding is more important to them than financialy helping out the victims and their families of the Grenfell disaster. intertextuality: I'm going to use Disney princesses because women from my target audience love Disney it also links to Meghan Markle becoming a princess. The use of Disney prinesses links how the royals only care about their happily ever after and that Grenfell cant ta...
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Camera Movement K: Terminology for  camera movement. U: How camera movements create meaning and how they can be linked to genre. BAT: Create a quizlet to evidence your knowledge of camera movements and how they create meaning and how they are used.  How can they relates to genre. CO: To use Media language throughout your verbal and written communication. LP5: Camera Movement article one -  click here .
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lesson1 13/09/18

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Lesson Objectives: K : The importance of using digital technology in your media studies course. U : How to use "blogging" as your Media Book and revision booklet. BAT : Use blogging and other technology to record information effectively. CO : Use Media Terminology throughout verbal and written communication. Wider Reading (LP5):  Explore a series of educational media blogs to see examples of how other students use it - to be done at home. POPPLET: this app is a mindmap app that allows you to make mindmaps easily. PREZI: its a powerpoint app that you can share on there and the app analyses it to see if it was helpful. TIMETOAST: allows you to make timelines which can also be viewed by the public. YOUTUBE  VIDEOS: these can be volgs or videos uploaded onto youtube that is viewed by the pubic. EMAZE: this allows you to make presentations, websites, e-cards, blogs and photo albums with templates for them all A LINK TO ANOTHER WEBSITE: this is easy access to another ...
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