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Media Paper 1 -Terminology

Section A Channel-surfing - Changing frequently from one program to another on a television, watching each one for only a short time.  Commercial TV Channel - A channel funded through advertisements Convergence - Process of joining different technologies into one device. E.g. mobile phone. Franchise - License from company of a product to use format/show/ideas. Mainstream - Mass audience; the ideas, attitudes, or activities that are shared by most people and regarded as normal or conventional. PSB - Public Service Broadcasting; regulators demand channels fulfil certain requirements as part of their license.
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Cuffs Revision

High camera angle of Brighton  Nudest beach - police interfere  Non-diegetic rock music - Jake Vickers is rebellious  Positive race representation - the black main character isn't a criminal(police officer) 2015 - shows the social and political climate Juxtaposition of the lighting going from dark to light in the car park low angle medium-close up of the policemen to show that they are more powerful than the criminal Dark lighting of criminals house connotes good light vs evil Jo Moffat - bad representation of female characters  Positive representation of a gay male - doesn't follow the stereotypes "sexuality is invisible" - represented as an alpha male as he's a lawyer Life in 2015 - people of filming everything - surveillance society negative of our time era  Chief in charge - traditional male stereotype, not a pleasant human as he cheats on his wife who has caner, cares about himself (selfish) Jake Vickers represents...

Lego Marketing

Blumler and Katz gratification theory Entertainment - Escapes reality as you can take part of it as your favourite character Intertextuality - Tells you about the movie  Personal Identity - Can identify with the morals of the main characters Relationships - We find things we can share and discuss with others.  Television campaign Posters McDonalds Happy Meal Commercial Break Intertextuality Film is made out of Lego - Children Plot is from The Matrix Superheroes Starbucks Sci-fi lighting of blue and white lighting - Post-modernist snapshot of the past 20 years of popular culture. Lego TV Advertising Adverts for products/charity Selling the product quickly with less narrative 7'O Clock during dinner time to target older audiences 7.27pm 9th February 2014 - five days before the release of the movie - ITV broadcast a world first ad break made out of Lego Commercials made of Lego British Heart Foundation  Confused.com BT Infinity Premier In...

Newspapers

Analysing the Observer/Guardian Online (Official website/Facebook & Twitter Masthead -  The masthead "The Guardian" is in a bold text at the top of the website, showing that "The Guardian" is the one who is superior, giving us, the audience the information. Colour Pallet -  The colour pallet is in the primary colours (red, yellow and blue), showing that's a more formal magazine.  Imagery -  The imagery used on this website are images of politically orientated people such as Theresa May and Brexit. This is showing that a more of a mature and older audience would take interest in this as younger people tend not to be as much invested in politics.  Typography - The typography used on this website is in a black and red colours. They key topics are in red, which stimulates people to click on the red as the colour red represents power and it's vivid, which is naturally attractive to humans. Therefore, the audience is curiou...

Mock Dirt Q4-7

Question 4) Describe what is by 'Public Service Broadcasting' (PSB). Use the BBC as an example in your answer. Public Service Broadcasting is television and radio programmes that are broadcast to provide information, advice, or entertainment to the public without trying to to make a profit.  All BBC public service television channels are PSB channels, only the main channels of each of the other public service broadcasters have this status. Question 5) The Avengers - Explain how social contexts influence television programmes. Refer to The Avengers from 1965 to support your answer.  The singing 60s was the decade of free love so people acted differently. The Avengers showed free love as Mrs Peel was acting very flirtatious to her boss, John Steed. This was because in the 1960s having sex outside marriage was common, and most likely they weren't caught. This was also the era of the first conception pill for women so women couldn't have sex without getting pregnant....

1960s Newspaper Case Study Covers

Magazine Analysis Case study 1: In this magazine it shows by the use of the tagline the 1960s were a decade of free love and they expressed that by making getting divorced legal. The use of the tag lines ,"so polite, this North Sea spy game" the use of the sibilance to describe the sea/storm of the 1960s shows that this is big news, and it has create a large impact of the people in the 1960s.  Case study 2: Case study 3:

News Industry and Technology

Inventions that have changed the print industry  1450 - Printing press Quicker to print out newspaper 1867 - Type writer Clearer that writing for newspaper 1844 - Telegraph Long distance communication 1816 - First camera Capture images 1870 - Radio telephone company Sending information out to an audience 1927 - First TV  Watching things from a TV instead of going to a theatre  1946 - ENIAC (first computer) Learning new information and a huge advancement into history 1983 - The internet came out Communication, information and entertainment