Rishi A Level Media Blog 2 Mr Halsey

1)  https://alevelmediablog2rishi.blogspot.com/2024/07/introduction-to-radio.html 2)  https://alevelmediablog2rishi.blogspot.com/2024/07/bbc-radio-1-newsbeat-blog-tasks.html 3)  https://alevelmediablog2rishi.blogspot.com/2024/07/media-paper-2-learner-response.html 4)  https://alevelmediablog2rishi.blogspot.com/2024/07/war-of-worlds-blog-tasks.html

1) Type up your feedback in full (you do not need to write mark/grade if you do not wish to).  2) Read  the mark scheme for this exam carefully , paying particular attention to the 'indicative content' for each question. Firstly, focus on the unseen question and identify  two  aspects of the poster that you could have written about in your answer. 3) Look at the indicative content for Q1 again and make a note of any  theories  or examples of  media terminology  you could have used in your answer. 4) Now focus on the TV 25-marker. Read  this exemplar response for the TV question  and pick out  three  arguments, phrases or theories from the essay that you could use in a future question on Capital and Deutschland 83. 5) Finally, identify  three  things you need to revise for Media Paper 2 before your next assessment or mock exam.

Media Factsheet Read  Media Factsheet #176: CSP Radio - War of the Worlds . You'll need your Greenford Google login to download it. Then answer the following questions: 1) What is the history and narrative behind War of the Worlds? Orson Welles’ radio adaption of War of the Worlds has become notable not for the broadcast itself but for the reaction it received, and the subsequent press reporting of the audience’s reaction to the broadcast. It is often highlighted as an early example of mass hysteria caused by the media and used to support various audience theories. 2) When was it first broadcast and what is the popular myth regarding the reaction from the audience? Broadcast live on 30th October 1938, popular myth has it that thousands of New Yorkers fled their homes in panic, and all across America people crowded the streets to witness for themselves the real space battle between earth and the Martians. The Trenton Police Department (close to the site of the fictional invasion) re...

  Newsbeat analysis Use  BBC Sounds to listen to Radio 1 . Select a Newsbeat bulletin (8am or 12.45pm are good options) and then answer the following questions:  1) What news stories were featured in the bulletin you listened to? Music news  Podcasts 2) How does Newsbeat appeal to a youth audience? Allowing quick information keeping up to date with trends and having a large social media presence and having audience talks and polls.  3) How might Newsbeat help fulfil the BBC's responsibilities as a public service broadcaster?  Newsbeat provides news as well not only music.  Media Factsheet #246: BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat Read  Factsheet #246 BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat . You'll need your Greenford google login to access it. Answer the following questions: 1) How is the history and launch of Radio 1 summarised in the factsheet? If you studied this as part of GCSE Media you will already know much of this. Newsbeat started in 1973 but to understand this...

BBC Sounds Read  this Guardian feature on the launch of BBC Sounds  and answer the following questions: 1) Why does the article suggest that ‘on the face of it, BBC Radio is in rude health’? BBC Radio is in rude health. It has half the national market, with dozens of stations reaching more than 34 million people a week. Radio 2 alone reaches 15 million listeners a week and for  all the criticism of the Today programme  (“editorially I think it’s in brilliant shape,” says Purnell), one in nine Britons still tune in to hear John Humphrys and his co-presenters harangue politicians every week. 2) According to the article, what percentage of under-35s used the BBC iPlayer catch-up radio app? The man tasked with making this work is Jason Phipps, a former Guardian employee who joined as the corporation’s first commissioning editor for podcasts earlier this year. He says there is a need to reconsider the entire tone of how the BBC tells stories, shifting away from rigid form...

1)  https://alevelmediablog2rishi.blogspot.com/2024/05/music-video-introduction-blog-task.html 2)  https://alevelmediablog2rishi.blogspot.com/2024/07/lil-nas-x-old-town-road.html 3)  https://alevelmediablog2rishi.blogspot.com/2024/07/postcolonial-theory-blog-tasks.html 4)  https://alevelmediablog2rishi.blogspot.com/2024/07/music-video-specials-ghost-town-csp.html 5)  https://alevelmediablog2rishi.blogspot.com/2024/07/postmodernism-in-music-video-blog-tasks.html 6)  https://alevelmediablog2rishi.blogspot.com/2024/07/tv-assessment-learner-response.html

  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: Q2 shows clear potential: knowledge of csp, and key messages. Now you need to add exam technique and depth to this for the higher levels. EBI: revise postmodernism for Q1 for Q2 you need to intro the ideological element of the question what is the message to the audience?  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 The increasingly blurred nature of film genres in the contemporary media landscape. Sequels and parodies often offer intertextual references and audience pleasures linked to recognition of other films, franchises, genres or stars. Possible theories: Steve Neale – similarity and difference; Schatz – genres are dynamic and go through cycles. Ki...

1) How does the article define postmodernism in the first page of the article? If you ask an academic the question ‘what is postmodernism?’ you will most likely come away with an answer you’ll only understand with the aid of a dictionary and a reading list as long as your arm. This article aims to give you a basic understanding of the concept, and give you some pointers on where to look if you want to research it further. 2) What did media theorist and Semiotician Roland Barthes suggest in his essay ' The Death of the Author '? That a writer’s opinions, intentions or  interpretation of their own work are  no more valid than anyone else’s. 3) What is metatextuality? Metatextuality is where a text draws attention to the fact that it is a text. It points to the process of its own creation. 4) What is the repeated phrase on the cartoon on postmodernism on page 28? Postmodernism is a movement that distrusts all established philosophies and frequently experiments with the medium tha...

The Specials - Ghost Town: Blog tasks Background and historical contexts Read  this excellent analysis from The Conversation website of the impact Ghost Town had both musically and visually . Answer the following questions 1)  Why does the writer link the song to cinematic soundtracks and music hall tradition? Starting with a Hammond organ’s six ascending notes before a mournful flute solo, it paints a bleak aural and lyrical landscape. Written in E♭, more attuned to “mood music”, with nods to cinematic soundtracks and music hall tradition, it reflects and engenders anxiety. 2) What subcultures did 2 Tone emerge from in the late 1970s? 2 Tone had emerged stylistically from the Mod and Punk subcultures and its musical roots and the people in it, audiences and bands, were both black and white. Ska and the related Jamaican Rocksteady were its musical foundations, sharpened further by punk attitude and anger. It was this anger that Dammers articulated in “Ghost...