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  BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat: Blog tasks Newsbeat analysis Read the notes and listen to the extracts from Newsbeat above before answering the following questions: 1) Use  BBC Sounds to listen to Radio 1 . Scroll to a Newsbeat bulletin (8am or 12.45pm are good options) and write notes on how the bulletins may:  a) appeal to a youth audience  b) help fulfil the BBC's responsibilities as a public service broadcaster.  Media Factsheet #224: Industrial contexts of Radio Read  Media Factsheet #224 Understanding the Industrial Context of Radio . You'll need your Greenford google login to access it. Answer the following questions: 1) Read the first two pages of the factsheet. How does the Factsheet argue that radio still has cultural significance in the digital age?  Radio content sparks  the imagination in totally different way than visual mediums and this is why it still remains hugely popular with audiences.  Spotify streaming services have created functions like Spotify  Radio which acts

  Introduction to radio: blog tasks Create a new blogpost called 'Introduction to Radio' on your  Media 2 Coursework blog  and complete the following tasks: BBC Sounds Read  this Guardian feature on the launch of BBC Sounds  and answer the following questions: 1) Why does the article suggest that ‘on the face of it, BBC Radio is in rude health’? It has half the national market, with dozens of stations reaching more than 34 million people a week. Radio 2 alone reaches 15 million listeners a week and for   all the criticism of the Today programme  (“editorially I think it’s in brilliant shape,” says Purnell), one in nine Britons still tune in to hear John Humphrys and his co-presenters harangue politicians every week. 2) According to the article, what percentage of under-35s used the BBC iPlayer catch-up radio app? Purnell says just 3% of under-35s use the iPlayer catch-up radio app, which will soon be axed. 3) What is BBC Sounds? BBC Sounds, a new app and website that  will brin

  Coursework: Summer Project 2023 1) Research: TV crime drama extract analysis  TV crime drama extract 1: Narrative and genre Top Boy (Netflix) How is the narrative and the crime drama genre communicated to the audience? The shows first opening scene sets the scene for the series by showing montages  of London. However they deliberately show the rugged and unclean part of to link to the crime genre and the narrative of drugs, illegal actives and youth. The actors dialogs are mostly slang which also adds to the crime drama genre. TV crime drama  extract  2:   Mise-en-scene P eaky Blinders (BBC) What do you notice about the use of mise-en-scene to create meanings for the audience? Think CLAMPS. The costumes communicates a lot in Peaky Blinders as it creates the feeling that the series is set in the 1920s which adds more meaning to the narrative . The lighting used is mostly lowkey and back lighting creating an uneasy feeling and mystery which is an important accept to the series g