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Year 11 - Paper 1 Baseline Assessment Learner Response

Year 11 - Paper 1 Baseline Assessment Learner Response:  1) Feedback:                                                                                                                                                         a) 22/42, Grade 5                                                                                                          ...

Kim Kardashian LIAR & Context

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 Context:  1. What is her background? Where is her family from? Who are her parents? Where did she appear early in her career? She is part Armenian, Dutch and Scottish but she lives in Los Angeles. Her parents are Kris Jenner and Robert Kardashian. She first appeared on reality TV shows ( Paris Hilton ) and in 2007 where she showed up in Keeping up with the Kardashians.  Language:  1. Describe 3 differences you can see between her Instagram and TikTok (look / pace / type of content). Her Instagram is highly curated and polished to seem like a professional beauty lifestyle, luxury influencer, while her TikTok is more authentic and shows her daily less glamorous days with short videos. On Instagram the pace of her videos is much more slow and creates posts with individual images while her TikTok is very much more fast paced with trending audios and may be the more the authentic version of being an influencer rather than the professional Instagram images. Her Instagram ...

Marcus Rashford CSP

Marcus Rashford CSP:  Context: Football: On Marcus Rashford's website, he has a career page which mainly focuses on who he plays for, how long he has played and he creates a positive brand image for his football career.  Campaigns: His website doesn't contain a lot of details about his campaigns but he focuses on his books he has helped write or written which appeals to many children.  Marcus Rashford does not have a balance between football and his campaigns but rather focuses heavily on his career and we can see because many of his photos is his football career and images of him on the pitch.  Language: 1) Three things we can denote:  focuses a lot on his football career ( images of him on the pitch ). he is a face of many different brands different options to look at ( about, career, book club, etc )  2) Three things we can connote:  he wants his audience to have a positive image of how he plays. he is a face of many brands such as Burberry and Nik...

GCSE Media Studies: Coursework

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GCSE Media Studies: Coursework:   Summer Project:  Task 1: Research and Textual Analysis       1)  Mise-en-scène & Visual Style: Costume: Marcus Rashford is wearing a football kit representing his country. The football kit shows the sport he does which is being a known football player for Manchester United.  Setting: This is a football setting showing where he plays. The setting has a nice atmosphere where people are coming together.  Actor Placement: Rashford is standing in a position showing his shoes. It also could be a way of advertising for the brand since it could be a sponsor. 2) Target Audience: The Target audience for people who have similar interests in football for children, teenager and adults. The website contains many images and small videos of Marcus Rashford playing this creates visual context for the audience who may come across the website. It makes it more appealing for the audience wanting to explore the website. ...

End of Year 1 Exam Learner Response

  End of Year 1 Exam Learner Response: 1) WWW: Good detail and knowledge across the longer questions.                                                                    EBI: Consider more media terminology such as codes to analyse.                                                                  Grade: 7 2)  Setting: Citigaze with empty houses, Actor Movement: Lyra and Will running.  3) Narrative features:  Todorov: The empty city creates a sense of disequilibrium – that something  has gone wrong and needs to be repaired or at least understood by the characters.  Music and sound effects are used during the chase scene to crea...

KISS BREAKFAST CSP

 KISS BREAKFAST CSP: Context: Deregulation and the Evolution of Radio 1. What is meant by the term ‘deregulation’ in the context of the UK radio industry?    O verruling previous strict laws, and shifting the power from the government over to a free market. 2. Explain how deregulation dismantled ownership laws.  Allowed big conglomerates to buy smaller radio stations and build bigger brand monopolies. 3. How has modern deregulation allowed Bauer Media Group to cut expensive local production costs for KISS Breakfast? It allowed Bauer to play KISS from one radio station but have access to everyone across the UK. 4. How does the regulation of traditional AM/FM radio frequencies differ from digital-only streams?  Sub stations like KISS afrobeat's and KISS 80's can be accessed via the app rather the radio itself so it doesn't have to undergo complicated laws. Industry: Conglomerates, Monetisation, and Multi-Brand Ecosystems 1. Who are Bauer Media Group (BMG)?  B...

KISS Breakfast on KISS Radio

  KISS Breakfast on KISS Radio:  Context: Deregulation and the Evolution of Radio 1. What is meant by the term ‘deregulation’ in the context of the UK radio industry? How does this contrast with how the UK government historically controlled the airwaves up until the 1970s? Deregulation refers to the systematic dismantling of these strict state rules, shifting the power from government regulators over to the free market. 2. Explain how deregulation dismantled ownership laws. How did this change allow multinational media conglomerates to sweep in and build massive national brand networks? Deregulation dismantled these barriers. This allowed multinational conglomerates like BMG to sweep in, buy up local stations. 3. How has modern deregulation allowed Bauer Media Group to cut expensive local production costs for KISS Breakfast?  It allows Bauer to strip away more expensive local studio productions and standardise music playlists.  4. How does the regulation of tradition...