Pritam's Media GSCE Blog

 1) What is the BBC's mission statement? Inform, Educate, Entertain  2) How is the BBC funded? The BBC is funded by the TV licence that are collected by the government  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. OFCOM 5) How is TV and Radio regulated by Ofcom?  OFCOM oversees all media channels and produces a code of conduct that all media channels must follow or have their licence to make content removed and/or be fined heavily 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 lea...

  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 . Aimed at a contemporary family audience for the BBC Sunday night broadcast slot (8.10pm) and is targeted at fans of the fantasy genre along with fans of the original books by Philip Pullman. It is rated for 14+ by HBO due to some scenes that may be frightening to younger children. The UK DVD release of His Dark Materials season 2 is rated 12 by the BBFC 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: Oxford/ our world , teenagers Personal Relationships: Will + Lyra , famous actors: Ruth Wilson and Lin-manuel Miranda  Diversion (Escapism): Dramatic and exciting. When the witch is on her way to the magestrium...

 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.) This is a fantasy television series that is set in a multi-world reality with action moving between worlds. Lyra, the main character, has grown up an orphan who discovers that there is a prophecy that foretells that she will change the world. Will is a fugitive (runaway) from ‘our world’ where he killed someone in self-defence. They meet in a third world called Cittagazze which is run down and neglected. They learn from some kids there that all the adults (and kids when they come of age) are hunted and drained of their energy and basically changed into zombies by evil black clouds called ‘Spectres’. Meanwhile, an evil villain called Mrs Coulter is on board a ship with the Magis...

  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- Q2 is strong and so the challenge now is to match that level throughout and develop our exam                  technique  EBI- Question focus        -Revise music video CSPs so you can provide evidence from the CSPs in your answers 2) Read the mark scheme for this assessment carefully . Write down the mark you achieved for each question:  Q1: 1/2 Q2: 5/8 Q3: 3/6 Q4:3/3 Q5: 2/6 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. Design - the denotation of one central image directly addressing the audience enables the audience  to see the aspirational Tatler reader – an upmarket, sophisticated woman - the choice of white and black font/typography against the ...

  Audience  1) Who is the target audience for Doctor Who? Do you think it has changed since 1963? I think the target audience is between the age 10-40+(family) and a mix of both genders. No because Doctor Who is like a how that you can watch with your family. 2) What audience pleasures are offered by Doctor Who - An Unearthly Child? 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: Susan teenagers. costume and pop music  Personal Relationships: Susan, Ian, Barbara ( teachers are kind of playing the roles of Susan's parents in a way). Audience is positioned   Diversion (Escapism): Mystery and curiosity about the Doctor, Susan and the TARDIS. Binary opposition- conflict    Surveillance (Information / Facts): information about TARDIS and also space travel, science, technology  3) What additional Uses and Gratifications would this e...

 Language and contexts 1) Write a summary of the notes from our in-class analysis of the episode. You can use your own notes from the screening in class or this Google document of class notes (you'll need your GHS Google login).  Camerawork and sound: It has slow and clunky camera movements; has ominous and mysterious music to signal that something bad will happen- turning point in the story. It may signal a beginning of discovery. The music also causes tension. Has different kinds of shots like medium close up shot to present the doctor as a villain Mise-en-scene: there is a mysterious and tense atmosphere in the junkyard. Susan is first presented as a typical 1960 teenage girl Narrative and genre: Has a variety of genres like sci-fi and futuristic. Includes a lot of enigma code and science fiction that strengthens the 1960 space race and how curiosity it caused around that time  2) How can we apply narrative theories to this episode of  Doctor Who?  Todorov's...