Eleanor Webster Media Studies Year 1

  Discuss how the representation of age would appeal to the target audience of radio one. Radio one is a radio station owned by the BBC and first began in 1967, with its first DJ being Tony Blackburn, who is now known for his show on BBC radio 2 which is targeted towards an older audience 30-55. When radio one first began, it wasn't popular with a younger audience as they had an oppositional view of the show because it wasn't seen as 'cool' as during that time the BBC stood for traditional, conservative ideologies which did not appeal to younger audiences. This contrasts with its primary audiences now as radio ones main audience is men and women aged 15-29. This happened because radio one decided they needed to make multiple changes in order to appeal to this particular demographic, so they began looking into new technology, changed the presenters of the show to younger people to that audiences could release...

  Explain how different newspaper audiences might interpret the same content in different ways. Refer to the front covers below to support your answer. Newspapers base their stories off their political beliefs which  means that a newspaper  which has right-wing views will most likely have a right-wing audience . For example, the political position of the Daily Mail is right-wing, which is contrasted by the Mirror who write their  stories based off their left-wing views.  The Daily Mail's cover tell audiences  straight away that they're  a right-wing newspaper, as they have Theresa May on the cover looking as if she's in the middle of a speech, which  shows power and strength. Just by doing this, audiences  are able  to tell this is a right-wing focused newspaper and are in full support of the Governments decisions. The news values on this cover consist of threshold as its a big UK election, elite persons and nations as the cover talks ab...

  Multiple narrative strands are the key convention of long form television dramas. Discuss how far you agree with this statement in relation to the set episode of the long form television drama you have studied. Stranger Things episode one sets up the multiple narrative strands in the long-form television series, and has multiple narratives that are at different points in their narrative structure to keep the interest for their primary audience .  All forms of shows and movies tend to follow the classic Hollywood  narrative structure which includes an equilibrium , disruption, recognition, resolution and the new equilibrium . This narrative structure was made for stories to be told effectively in film and tv, so audiences   wouldn't  get confused about what part of the story is happening at a certain time. This structure is used slightly different in long-form television dramas, such as Stranger Things as they need to use this narrative structure across multipl...

  Explain how magazine front covers represent social, cultural and political events. Refer to Source A to support your points. the Big Issue has a primary audience  of male and female, middle-class, middle-aged, well educated people who have left-wing views. This tells us that their coverage of stories in their magazine are going to center  around a left-wing view.  For example, on the cover of The Big Issue's magazine featuring the story on Donald Trump the audiences  eyes are drawn towards this characture, style version of Donald Trump, which mocks his place of power, being the president of the United States. This initial  look into how The Big Issue presents their political stories, and it also links to reception theory as their primary target audience  will agree with what is featured on the cover as they hold the same political views  as the magazine, whereas id a person with a right-wing view saw this cover they would have an oppositional re...

  Explain how economic contexts influence film production. Refer to Disney’s The Jungle Book (2016) to support your points. Disney as a company holds a lot of powers in the film industry and is known by the majority of people as it has released classic films since the 1920's, so its known by multiple generations. As they've grown as a company they have managed to buy other well-known film companies such as Marvel Studios, Lucasfilm and tv channels too, in order to have ownership over large franchises including, Star Wars and Marvel.  Disney usually sticks to the same cycle when creating their films, a film idea will start as an investment product, then they will market and advertise that product, then will sell the product and achieve a good profit, and finally will either buy more products like film studios or the cycle will repeat for another new film. Overall, Disney tends to play it safe when releasing new films as they want to achieve a large amount of...

  Explain how ongoing audience interaction influences the production of video games. Refer  to Minecraft to support your answer. Minecraft was a game originally made for programmers and coders to help understand different software. this meant that the game was aimed towards quite a niche audience, so the creators weren't expecting a large audience or a large profit from the release of this game.  Before the games release there was no advertisements across any social media platforms for the game in order to gain a larger audience, so the creators of the game never expected the reaction that they got when the game was released. In the games first month of release it managed to gain 1 million downloads which later developed the social and audience interaction for the game. factors like social and audience interaction are very important in order to decide whether a game is going to be successful or not.  When Minecraft was first released, it had two gaming...