GCSE Media - Year 11

Section A: Music Revise the topic by reading through the music factsheet . Watch the music videos below. Read your copy of MOJO and look at this handout about Media Industry. Music Magazines Mojo Industry by Mrs Downie on Scribd You will be asked about:  Radio One Live Lounge MOJO Music Magazine Music Videos - Little Mix Black Magic and The Vamps Somebody to You Question One This short 1-mark question is about your knowledge of Media Industry relating to magazines, radio or music videos. Example question: Identify the regulator for radio in the UK. Revision tasks: Create a glossary of all of the audience or industry key terms. Memorise the regulators for magazines (IPSO or Impress) and radio (Ofcom). Learn the names of the owners of your set texts: Radio One (BBC, a public corporation set up by a Royal Charter) MOJO (Bauer Media) Question Two Explain one way in which music videos use media language to differ ...

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Use the two information sheets to revise the key terms you missed in the recent mock exam and then attempt the mock paper questions again in your book. The Lego Movie The Lego Movie Video Game Use these blog posts to help you revise how to use the key terms in your exam by clicking here You can also revise using this post about audiences by clicking here Why are films regulated at all? The BBFC categorises all films using an age rating system. Read this below, which helps you consider why The Lego Movie is classified as a U. The Lego Movie Age Regulation by Mrs Downie on Scribd Look at the set products for the Lego Movie again. Posters   Trailer UK Ad break Trailer Be aware that these adverts that are featured in the Lego 'TV Advert break' trailer are all real adverts that were being broadcast at the time The Lego Movie was released. Here is an example. Audiences would see the humour in these parodies and would recognise the well...

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Learning Objective: To understand how the media operates as a commercial industry on a global scale and reach both large and specialised audiences. The Lego Movie was an extremely successful production for Warner Brothers and Lin Films. The film was produced for $60,000,000 which it made back in its first weekend of release in the USA alone! Not bad for three days... Overall, it made a gross of over $311,000,000 according to BoxOfficeMojo. You will be expected to know the reasons for this success in the exam and therefore you should answer the following questions in as much detail as you can. TASK 1: Copy down the key terms and their definitions into your book. Keywords Intertextuality: the relationship between texts. Genre: a style or category of art, music, or literature. Convergence: The interlinking of computing and other information technologies, media content, media companies and communication networks. Conglomerate: a thing consisting of a number of different and dis...

Use this booklet to help you revise the Music element of the Music and News exam. You can answer the questions in your book. Year 10 Music and News Section a Revision Booklet by Mrs Downie on Scribd

Explain how broadsheet newspapers reflect the time and historical contexts in which they were published. There are a number of ways in which newspapers reflect their historical contexts, in the way these contexts influence their producers, their audiences and the world that they represent through their news stories. Britain in the 1960s was a more patriarchal society and this meant most journalists were men, that audiences expected patriarchal representations, and the mostly political news that featured on the front pages was about powerful political figures - nearly all men. Only one female politician - Mrs Castle - features in the three front pages below. Britain is becoming a multicultural society in the 1960s but still saw itself as white, and race relations as a 'problem'. What stories in these front pages reflect that tension in British society? The newspaper is trying to be liberal on 'race issues' but still presents a very white point of view. There is muc...

The Observer is a UK-based National Sunday newspaper. It is published in two different ways, as a traditional printed newspaper format and online. Print out a copy of the printed version below and stick into your books. Task 1: Using the  News Glossary , label as many conventions as you can around the image in your book. Watch the  BBC News Media Review 2018  to help you think about the impact of technology on the newspaper industry.  Task 2: Click on The Observer logo above to find the newspaper website. Print screen and then label your image of the online version of the newspaper with as many conventions as you can. Task 3: Answer these questions about the media language of the two news platforms (online and print). What stylistic features does The Observer newspaper format have? Analyse the front page (deconstruct the conventions using the news glossary to help you label all of the elements). Explain in detail how The Observer uses these...

Observer front covers  You are expected to be familiar with two contemporary front covers and three historical front covers (The Observer 30 October 1966, 6 November 1966 and 20 October 1968) The historical Observer newspaper covers were chosen to help you gain a knowledge and understanding of how media language was used to construct representations in the 1960s and the contexts that affected those representations. You must study the contexts associated with the set covers and develop an understanding of the differences between how these media products illuminate the changing contexts of the 1960s and the present day, enabling you to develop a detailed understanding of how they appear in mainstream news media and its associated social and participatory media. Consider: • the various forms of media language used to create and communicate meaning on newspaper front covers  • how selection, combination and exclusion of elements of media language can influence meaning on n...

The Observer Online  You are expected to be familiar with The Observer Online, including the use of social and participatory media. Click on the image above to be taken to the Observer homepage. This publication has been chosen as it is unique in that it explores one possible economic future for news organisations by monetising online content through voluntary donations and membership. You must study the home page of The Observer and at least one other page in order to investigate continuities in the form and content of the pages. You must follow the links for a number of articles and journalists to help illustrate the media language used, representations constructed, modes of audience address and the scope and scale of The Observer’s online content. Social and participatory media  You need to look at these different social media links to look at how they are used to appeal to readers in the light of new technologies, such as the internet. You may need to acces...

Explain one way that music videos use media language to differ from one another.  Music videos are marketing products, designed to appeal to the target audience by portraying the artists as somebody they aspire to be like or could relate to. Watch The Vamps Somebody to You and Little Mix Black Magic music videos below and consider how the way the band and characters in the video are presented are designed to appeal to their own music fans.

These books are designed to support Media Studies GCSE students to pass the exams. They will help you with your preparation for next week's Music and News exam. We have them in stock in the library for £5.

1. Look at the mise-en-scene of the key image on this front cover to connote the conventions of the pop music genre. 2. Comment on the use of colour and font in both the masthead and the anchorage text. 3. How does the artist's pose and the language register suggest the magazine is offering secrets and insights to the target audience? 4. How would this magazine appeal to the target audience and can you name the demographic? Challenge Task: Compare this with how representation of the musicians is used on the extract from Mojo.

Led Zeppelin  were an English rock  band formed in London in 1968. The group consisted of guitarist Jimmy Page , singer Robert Plant , bassist and keyboardist John Paul Jones , and drummer John Bonham . The band's heavy, guitar-driven sound has led them to be cited as one of the founders  of heavy metal.  Their style drew from a wide variety of influences, including blues, psychedelia and folk music. Jimmy Page was the founder of the band and  is widely considered to be one of the greatest and most influential guitarists of all time alongside Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix. Robert Plant  is regarded as one of the greatest musicians in the history of rock music. Singer  Plant enjoyed great success with Led Zeppelin throughout the 1970s and developed a compelling image as the charismatic   rock-and-roll front man, similar to his contemporaries, The Who singer Roger Daltrey, Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones and Jim Morrison of...

What are the conventions of Music Magazines? Label your image of the front cover.

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Masthead – The name and logo of the magazine. The Lead – the introductory paragraph of an article. Usually written in bold or capitals. Body copy - refers to the text of your written articles, which should be produced as a printed presentation to accepted industry standards, e.g. correct use of language, font size, word limits etc. Usually written in columns. Serif font – fonts like Times New Roman, or Baskerville Old Face, which have little bars (serifs) on the end of the letters. Sans serif font – fonts like Impact, or Agency FB, which do not have little bars (serifs) on the end of the letters. Drop Capitals – Really big letter, which start off an article. Cross Head – Small sub-heading used to split up a large block of text. White Space – white parts of a page other than text or pictures. Mode Of Address – How the magazine talks to the audience. Sell Lines – Text on the cover that helps to sell the magazine to the audience. Kerrang!...