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1) Music Video: Introduction 2) Music Video: BLACKPINK - How You Like That CSP 3) Music Video: Arctic Monkeys - I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor CSP

  Arctic Monkeys: Audience 1) What do we know about the Arctic Monkeys audience? Think demographics, psychographics and how they got into the band.  The audience of artic monkeys are likely to be a white, middle class and young. Psychographic groups might be reformers and explorers 2) What audience pleasures are offered by the music video for I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor? It includes diversion and the son is upbeat and fast paces 3) Pick out three particular shots, scenes or moments in the video that would particularly appeal to Arctic Monkeys fans. Why did you choose those moments?  a) The opening shot of the band walking down the stairs, which establishes their cool and confident demeanor .  b) The shot of lead singer Alex Turner singing directly to the camera, which creates a sense of intimacy and connection with the audience   c) The shot of the crowd dancing wildly and singing along to the chorus, which captures The excitment at a artic monkey concert 4) How did fans take

  Answer the questions below to complete your introduction to the Music Video topic:  1) What are the key conventions of music video?   - Movement, Actors, Camerawork and Visual Effects 2) What is intertextuality? - Intertextuality is when one media text references another media text – through genre, conventions, mise-en-scene or specific cultural references. 3) When did music videos first become a major part of the music industry?   - 1981 4) What launched in 1981 and why were music videos an important part of the music industry in the 1980s and 1990s? MTV and the reason why it was an important part of the music industry is because It communicates to the audience as if they were talking to them but singing. 5) How are music videos distributed and watched in the digital age?   -  In 2005 the launch of YouTube changed the way that consumers access and enjoy music video. Now self-promotion is more common.   The rise of new and digital media paved the way for

 1) Magazines Tatler magazines CSP 2) Advertising assessment learner response 3) Magazines Heat Magazines 

  Audience 1) What are BLACKPINK fans known as - and what would the demographics / psychographics be for the BLACKPINK audience? They are known as BLINK Fans and the demographics and psychographics would be Teenage and young girls 2) What audience pleasures are offered by the music video for How You Like That?  They are offered personal relationship and diversion 3) Pick out three particular shots, scenes or moments in the video that would particularly appeal to BLACKPINK fans. Why did you choose those moments?  Close shot, wide shot and very close shot and the reason this was used because it gives the audience a personal and exciting experience 4) How was the How You Like That music video marketed and promoted to the audience? -They were marketed by social media and promoted by adverts from different companies 5) Why is K-pop a global phenomenon and what has helped it to become so popular? It is a globally famous star because it created something that is both Korean and English at the

  1?) the gender adverts won't load but from whast i can infer is that they are both stereotypical. One advert has someone that is a fat girl and the other shows they would be a slave just for mone and wealth   2)  Women is the the 1950-60s have to do everything in the house e.g. cooking, cleaning etc.   3) Women are supposed to have bodies of what everybody wants   4) over the last 60 years, women have gain more respect from men saying their weren't their slaves and they had the power to fight back so nowadays, you will most likely see a man cooking or cleaning in an advert.

  1) What is independent cinema and how is it different to Hollywood blockbusters? usually produced by smaller production companies or individual filmmakers 2) What is I, Daniel Blake about? Daniel Blake, 59 year old , who has worked as a joiner most of his life in the North East of England needs help from the State for the first time ever following an illness. 3) Who directed I, Daniel Blake and why is this important? KEN LOACH He’s never had Hollywood success, mainly because he’s never wanted it. Loach’s style is social realism  telling stories that represent the lives of ordinary working-class people and the social issues they face 4) How was I, Daniel Blake promoted to an audience? List at least  three  different methods used by the film's marketing campaign and  how  they targeted their audience. campaign and how   they targeted their audience projected onto the Houses of Parliament  Loach appeared on BBC Question Time to talk on issue giving the film extra credibility 5

1)  Walt Disney studios and Marvel. 2)  When one company owns a controlling stake in smaller companies that connects each others businesses each separately. 3)   The movie uses props that is very dangerous to use such as swords motorcycles fire etc. 4) Marvel and Walt Disney used posters and social media to promote the movie to create a buzz for the audience. 5) The budget for the Black Widow was $200,000,000 and they made around $379.80 million dollars at the box office. 6)  I wouldn't consider black widow a big blockbuster movie because the movie was good overall, but this is one of the movies that have made the lowest profits in all of their Disney marvel movies. 7) The film industry in the UK is regulated by the British Board Of Film Classification. 8)  The age rating for Black Widow is PG-13 because it contained lots of elipsey, explosions and blood and some language that is not appropriate for the younger ones. 9)  The website gives the audience a buzz. For ex

  Create a new blog post called ' Media assessment learner response ' and complete the following tasks: 1) Type up your feedback in  full  (you don't need to write the mark and grade if you want to keep this confidential). 2) Read  the mark scheme for this assessment  carefully. Write down the mark you achieved for each question:  Q1: 0 Q2: 1 Q3: 1 3) Identify one of your  stronger  questions. Why did you do better on this question? Use the mark scheme to help you with this. Question 4 becuase i had good question focus 4) Identify one of your  weaker  qu-estions. Why did you score lower on this particular question? Use the mark scheme to help you with this. Question 5 becuase i did not revise camera shots 5) Finally, write a  new , detailed paragraph for  Question 3 - the unseen text 12 mark question . Use the mark scheme to identify anticipated content you can add to your response and make sure you refer to the text and write in detail.  Direct address of main image from t

  Heat case study: blog tasks Work through the following tasks and questions to build a detailed case study for  Heat  - 21-27 November 2020. This will give you plenty of background information to use in an exam question on magazines. Introduction - Heat Media pack 1) Look at the  Heat Media Pack . Go to  page 2 : the Heat mission. Write  three  things that Heat offers its readers under 'print'.  They bring unique quality experience The   heat has the celeb contacts to give readers the exclusive every time. It is led by BAFTA judge Boyd Hilton 2) Now go to  page 3  of the Media Pack - celebrity focus. What does the page say that Heat offers readers?  Their journalist have the answer to the readers before they even asked this means they are 2 steps ahead. 3) Now look at  page 4  of the Heat Media Pack. What other content does Heat magazine offer its readers aside from celebrity news? 4) Look at  page 5 . What is Heat magazine's audience profile? Write all the key details of

  Media language 1) What different examples of  typography  can you find on the cover of Tatler? What are the connotations of the serif and sans serif fonts? The typography they use is colour scheme and different size fonts. 2) How do the  cover lines  appeal to the Tatler target audience? Off duty royal dressing refers to the royal family and tatlers family love them 3) What are the  connotations  of the Tatler colour scheme on this particular front cover? The women is wearing a pink and blue dress so it could mean she is having a gender reveal party 4)  How is the  central image  designed to create interest in the magazine? Find three reasons for your answer. (E.g. the model, the mise-en-scene such as props, costume and make-up, body position, facial expression etc.) The women is mixed race, she is marchioness of bath which means she is one of richest people in the uk and her costume is a very rich and expensive. Representations 1) What celebrities or famous people are mentioned on t