Media Coursework

Radio: Final index We have now finished our work on the latest targeted close-study products - Radio. Next we're on to coursework!  Before we start the coursework, we need to complete a short Radio index to ensure we've completed the three tasks for this unit.  As ever, this will highlight if you've missed anything through absence, trips or exams and allow you to catch up if you have fallen behind with anything in the last fortnight.  Your Radio index should include the following three tasks: 1)  Radio: Introduction to Radio 2)  Radio: Life Hacks 3)  Radio: War of the Worlds For your index, the text should link to  YOUR  corresponding blogpost so you can access your work on each aspect of the case study quickly and easily. This also means you if you have missed anything you can catch up with the work and notes and won't underperform in future exams due to gaps in your knowledge. Note:  there will be a baseline assessment at the star...

1) Type up your feedback in  full  (you don't need to write the mark and grade if you want to keep this confidential). WWW: Balanced answers to each questions: paragraphed well EBI: Closer analysis of the CSPR- details and media terminology  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). Q1:  A scope of various kinds are proposed on the publication – for example the foundation is nearly  space (science fiction); the silver image out of sight insinuates comic books/Marvel universe; the lady on the left proposes combative techniques or kung-fu motion pictures – this is fortified by the swoon pictures out of sight (man in mid-air kick on right-hand side); the helicopter in the upper right alludes to the war film sort.  Q2:  Computerised appropriation i...

Music Video: end of unit index We have now completed our work on Music Video and need to complete a short index to ensure we haven't missed any vital notes or research.   As we've established now, keeping an index of all your work is extremely good practice from a revision perspective. This keeps the vital CSP information fresh in your mind and also  highlights if you've missed anything through absence or trips. This is particularly important with your end-of-year exam approaching.  Music Video: index Your final Music Video index should include the following: 1)  Music Video - introduction and factsheet questions 2)  Music Video theory and This Is America analysis 3)   Common -  Letter to the Free  context and analysis 4)  Michael Jackson -  Billie Jean  context, analysis and MM article For your index, it needs to link to  YOUR  corresponding blogpost so you can access your work and revision notes quick...

TV: End of unit index We have completed excellent in-depth studies of  Capital  and Deutschland 83 . We now need to create an index to ensure we haven't missed any vital notes or tasks.   As you know, keeping an index of all your work is extremely good practice from a revision perspective. This keeps the vital CSP information fresh in your mind and also  highlights if you've missed anything through absence or trips.  TV index:  Capital  &  Deutschland 83 Your TV index should include the following: 1)  Introduction to TV Drama 2)   Capital: Case study 3)  Capital: Representations scene analysis notes 4)  Capital: Representation essay question 5)   Capital: Marxism and Hegemony 6)  Capital: Applying Marxism 7)  Deutschland 83: Case study 8)  Deutschland 83: Close-textual analysis notes 9)   Deutschland 83: Postmodernism 10)  TV: The rise of foreign-language TV dramas 11)  TV: The i...

Radio: Life Hacks Our first CSP for radio is the BBC Radio 1 show  Life Hacks . Our key concepts for Radio are industries and audience so these are the contexts we need to consider when studying the texts. Previously on: The Surgery Before being merged into Life Hacks, The Surgery was an evening radio show on BBC Radio 1 that ran between 1999 and 2017. Most recently, it was on every Wednesday at 9pm and ran for 60 minutes. It featured presenter Katie Thistleton and advice from Dr Radha Modgil. It worked like an agony aunt column in old teenage magazines and took on controversial subjects such as gender identity, sexuality, relationships and mental health. It featured texts and calls from listeners and the post-watershed slot meant adult topics could be discussed. The Surgery > Life Hacks In November 2017, The Surgery was merged into a new Sunday afternoon show called Life Hacks that runs between 4pm – 6pm presented by Cel Spellman and Katie Thistleton. This mostly...

1) What is the history and narrative behind War of the Worlds? it is a communicated adjusted from H.G Wells' 1898 novel.  2) When was it first broadcast and what is the popular myth regarding the reaction from the audience? first communicated on the 30th October 1938 and the legend is that their crowd responded significantly. 3 ) How did the New York Times report the reaction the next day? The NY Times detailed it as "Radio Listeners in Panis, Taking War Drama as Fact" 4) How did author Brad Schwartz describe the the broadcast and its reaction? "viral-media wonder." and the show really offered a "captivating window into how clients connect with media substance, spreading and reinterpreting it."  5) Why did Orson Welles use hybrid genres and pastiche and what effect might it have had on the audience? he did that since it made more individuals to trust it as it paralleled to writings that the group of spectators were at that ...