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  1) What is the BBC's mission statement? The BBC'S mission statements were to Inform, Educate and Entertain these mission statements were from 1927 and are still up today. 2) How is the BBC funded? The money raided from the licence fee is used to fund the BBC and its shows and services. And the licence fee is £174.50.  3) What must the BBC do to meet its public service broadcasting responsibilities? (Look at the five bullet points in the notes above). - To provide information  - To provide learning for all ages - To produce creative output - To have diverse content that reflects all communities  - To reflect the United Kingdom and it's cultures and values to the world 4) Who is the regulator for TV and Radio in the UK? You can find details on this in the notes above. The regulator for TV and Radio is Ofcom ( The office of communications ) and they have a code of conduct that all media must follow like not having anything 14+ before 9pm , which is the watershed. 5) H...

  Audience 1) What audience do you think His Dark Materials is aimed at and why? Think about demographic and psychographic groups.  You can  revise Pyschographics here . His Dark Materials is aimed at families , as the episode airs on a Sunday night at 8 PM, and is also intended for people who enjoy reading Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials  books. It is also targeted at people who enjoy the fantasy  genre.  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: People can find identity through Lyra and Will as they are your normal teenagers, and Will is also from Oxford, like some other people.  Personal Relationships: People can form relationships with Will and Lyra because they are the main characters, and we get to see things from their perspect...

  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.) Camerawork, editing and sound:  To start off the episode they utilise epic non diegetic music (meaning the characters can't hear the music) to set the atmosphere for the rest of the opening scene and the rest of the episode. They also use an establishing shot of the "city in the sky" in order to hook the audience and communicate that it will have heavy fantasy themes. When ever they show us Mrs Coulter they almost always show her on a low angle shot because it makes her seem more powerful and portrays her as a strong and important villain. Before the chase scene, when Lyra peaks her head out to see what the sound was, there was a raise in tension using action...

  1) Who is the target audience for Doctor Who? Do you think it has changed since 1963? Mainstream family audience, and also to both males and females. As it is mainstream and made for families, the age can range from 10- 40+ 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: Susan can give teenagers identity as she is a teenager herself, and she wears casual clothes that a 1960s teen would wear. Ian and Barbara could give identity to teachers as they also care about what is going on in their students' lives. Personal Relationships: Audience members could form relations with Ian and Barbara, as they seem like the heroes for the majority of the episode. Diversion (Escapism): The genre is science fiction, and this offers diversion as it is different from reality, and it offers entertainme...

  1) Type up your  WWW/EBI feedback in  full  (you don't need to write the mark and grade if you want to keep this confidential).  Grade: 6       mark: 18 WWW: Another very good assessment; well done! you start brilliantly and show good knowledge of the magazine. EBI: Music video, evidence from the CSP required for top levels. 2) Read  the mark scheme for this assessment carefully . Write down the mark you achieved for each question:  Q1:  2/2 Q2:  6/8 Q3:  4/6 Q4:  3/3 Q5:  3/6 3)  Look specifically at question 2. Use the indicative content in the mark scheme for question 2 to write  three  connotations of the design and layout of Tatler. -  The natural setting connotes that the magazine is both fresh and modern, but from a classy, traditional base. - The model’s gaze, which connotes equality between the model and the reader, given the model’s body language, the cover star Emma Weym...

  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).  Camerawork and sound: overall slow and clunky camera movement and the sounds commonly have a futuristic theme and feel. Also a lot of the sounds create mystery and are enigma codes  Mise-en-scene: The actor placement and acting are quite bad and shows that the budget was low using todays standards. Also the costumes play into what the character is like, Susan wears casual teenage clothing, the Doctor wears unusual clothing perhaps in an attempt to fit in, Ian and Barbra both wear formal and normal clothing. Lastly, the random props and objects add onto the mystery  Narrative and genre: Many sci-fi themes like the control panel, the TARDIS, the junkyard holding a huge mystery and the VFX when the TARDIS is taking off. When we wer...