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Year 11 Paper 1 assessment: Learner response

  Year 11 Paper 1 assessment: Learner Response Create a blogpost called ' Paper 1 assessment learner response '. 1) Type up your feedback in full (you do not need to write mark/grade if you do not wish to). Mark=24 Grade=5   Feedback: WWW:These are some excellent answers here-the film industry/Black widow in particular.The challenge now is hitting that top level throughout the paper. EBI :Revise narrative theory and Galaxy Tatler + social/cultural contexts Q is weaker so revise this type of question  Learn vertical integration 2) Look at the  mark scheme for this assessment . For Question 2 (12 mark unseen) use the indicative content in the mark scheme to identify three points that you could have referred to in your answer. Verbal codes (use of language) • The text is positioned over the top of the tyre to signify the challenge and create synergy between the image and the message in the text. • The word battle has connotations of fighting and trying to triumph over an enemy. •

Radio: Launch of Radio 1 CSP case study

  Radio 1 Launch CSP: blog tasks Historical, social and cultural contexts 1) What radio stations were offered by the BBC before 1967? bbc radio home bbc light bbc third 2) How was BBC radio reorganised in September 1967? What were the new stations that launched? bbc radio 1 and bbc radio 2 3) What was pirate radio and why was it popular? Pirate stations did not have restrictions like the BBC and so they could play more music. They were, therefore, more popular with young people than the BBC.  ‘Pirate’ radio stations who could produce these shows for young people, but were beyond the control of regulators. 4) Why did pirate radio stop broadcasting in 1967? The 1967 Marine Broadcasting Offences Act officially outlawed pirate radio stations. The Government had closed the legal loophole that allowed these stations to broadcast and these had a British audience of 10 to 15 million. 5) How did the BBC attract young audiences to Radio 1 after pirate radio stations were closed down? The people

Television: Final index

  1)  Television: Introduction to TV drama 2)  Doctor Who: Language and Representation 3)  Doctor Who: Audience and Industries 4)  His Dark Materials: Language and Representation 5)  His Dark Materials: Audience and Industries 6)  Industry contexts: the BBC and public service broadcasting

Doctor Who Language and Representation: blog tasks

  Language and Representation: blog tasks Create a new blogpost called  Doctor Who: Language and Representation blog tasks  and complete the following questions on your blog: 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).  Schoolteachers Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright are concerned about one of their pupils, Susan Foreman, who seems to have a very ‘alien’ outlook on England. They have come to her listed address to investigate. They arrive in a junkyard and find a police box, which proves to be no ordinary police box. When Ian and Barbara enter, they discover it to be much bigger on the inside than the outside. In the TARDIS is Susan and her grandfather, the Doctor. Fearing that Barbara and Ian will give away the secret of the TARDIS, he kidnaps them and takes the machine to the Stone Age, where they

Television: His Dark Materials - Language and Representation

  His Dark Materials: Language and Representation blog tasks 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.) The main character Lyra goes to a place which is a secret world that they have in the show Lyra then goes through the gates of the New World and meet someone called Will who ended up going through similar gates as her and they decided to work together and try and leave the place. Lyra has a Demon which Will does not have and they live in the new place and see these two kids who tell them that all the adults have gone and the spectres got them. They ask what suspect it is. A. Spectre is a creature that takes parents grown-ups who are of age and kills them. A character in the show called Mrs Coulter goes on board with the

Television: His Dark Materials - Audience and Industry

  His Dark Materials: Industry and Audience blog tasks Audience 1) Read this  audience rating guide for His Dark Materials . Based on the screening and this article, who do you think the target audience is for His Dark Materials and why? What about psychographic groups?  You can  revise Pyschographics here . Rated for 14+ by HBO due to some scenes that may be frightening to younger children. the psychographics groups are the explorers  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:  Personal Relationships: actors form relationships to fans Diversion (Escapism): there's  other worlds so the viewers can imagine they are  3) Thinking of the 3 Vs audience pleasures (Visceral, Vicarious and Voyeuristic pleasures), which of these can be applied to His Dark Materials? Refer to spe

Doctor Who: Audience and Industries blog tasks

  Audience and Industry: blog tasks : Audience 1) Who is the target audience for Doctor Who? Has it changed since 1963? 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: Personal Relationships: Diversion (Escapism): Surveillance (Information / Facts): 3) What additional Uses and Gratifications would this episode provide to a  modern  2020 audience? entertainment and diversion and partially information. 4) Thinking of the 3 Vs audience pleasures (Visceral, Vicarious and Voyeuristic pleasures), which of these can be applied to An Unearthly Child? Voyeuristic as it can be their escape from reality 5) What kind of online fan culture does Doctor Who have? Give examples. Fandom Name is WHOVIANS Industries 1)  What was the television industry like in 1963? How many channels were there? 2 bbc and

Preliminary exercise feedback and learner response

  1) Type up your teacher's feedback  in full  plus a summary of the comments you received from other students in the class. If you've received your feedback via email, you can simply cut and paste it from the email into your blog. - Nice use of editing to show the person disappearing-try and use different angles/cutaways for this  -Excellent use of music and suspense -Definite elements of fantasy genre which is great to see -Ending is creepy but i'm not sure i fully understand it ! -Camerawork-good shaky camerawork+movement -Audio levels-make sure you can hear dialogue! 2) Using a combination of your own reflection on the preliminary exercise and the feedback you were given, write three WWW bullet points (What Went Well) and three EBI bullet points (Even Better If) for your preliminary exercise.  WWW:  Good use of fantasy and camera shots.  good narrative,  use more camera angles and cutaways. EBI: Lower music as you can't hear the dialogue,  dialogue could be louder.