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News Unit

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What is News? Information about events  A broadcast or published report of news A person or thing considered interesting enough to be reported in the news  Informative but has become entertainment Fake News Political Profit Educate  Influence/Persuade  Facts  Newspapers are NOT PSB (like the BBC) they are commercial publications.  Over three quarter (77.8%) of the British press is owned by a handful of Billionaires Over a quarter (27.3%) of the press is owned by Lord Rothermere and 24.9% by Rupert Murdoch- between them these 2 men have over 50% of the printed press.  Newspapers and their online publications (Example of synergy/convergence) are not legally obliged to provide a un-bias public information service. These are ethical and moral codes of press conduct but the printed press is self regulatory industry. Fake News  Cottingley Fairies- Orson Welles War of the Worlds   Franklin D. Roosevelt- presiden...

Radio 1 Live Lounge Case Study

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Released on 16th October 2006 Target audience 15-29 Radios 1's live lounge is a collection of live tracks played on Jo Whiley's radio 1 show. It consists of both covers and the bands own songs. Radio 1 introduced Live lounge after the internet became popular to listen to music which meant radio 1 lost customers. They introduced live lounge to regain customers. On BBC iplayer, Deezer iplayer radio app Harry Styles English, singer, songwriter and actor  His music career began in 2010 when he auditioned for the British singing competition "The X Factor" and was brought back to form the boy band One Direction. He is 25 years old Net worth- £58 million Available on Youtube, Spotify Deezer, Google play and Tunein. Genre- Soft rock, Folk music, Britpops, Pop music and rock. Harry Styles has been known for his love of old school, classic rock. It surprised most when  he decided to cover a classic band called Fleetwood Mac The chain from the album Rumours. Ha...

Television Industries and Audience

Publicly owned TV channel - Where the funding comes from the government, some examples may include: radio television and other electronic media outlets Commercial tv channel -Is a private broadcasting of television programs and radio programs. Convergence - merging of mass communication outlets watershed - The strict rules about what can be shown on tv before 9pm segmented market - The activity of dividing a broad consumer or business market  Mainstream -Abbreviation used to refer collectively to the various large mass news media that influence many people. Self-regulating - It involves controlling a persons behaviour Franchise -A collection of several derivative works that have been produced Channel-surfing - The action or practise of surfing through television programs PSB - Public Service Broadcasting TV Licence - covers you to watch or record live tv programs on any channel Scheduling - refers to the timing pattern  of an advertisement which is represented as pl...

Music Video Sound Case

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Explain how sound is used differently in your music video case studies to present themes the target audience can relate to. Music videos media language such as the use of colour to create different effects to fit the meaning of the song and the musicians image. Teenage dirtbag and Sk8er Boi use very different post production techniques. Mise en scene is used in skater boi music video. The skate costumes and emo makeup connotes that the type of music is indie sub culture that would attract the young audience. The camera angles are high angles zoom out  

Music Videos Case Studies

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Explain one way in which music videos use media language to differ from each other. refer to one example of contrasting media language in 2 music videos you have studied to support your answer.  Music videos use media language such as the use of colour to create different effects to fit the meaning of the song and the musicians image. sk8er boi and teenage dirtbag have some differences and similarities.