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summer project 2025

  I plan to produce a two-page spread for a magazine focusing on a celebrity's recent fashion choices and the affects of teenagers wearing make up. The article will analyse how wearing makeup is bad for your skin and how expensive items can be.  The first page will feature a large, high-quality photograph of the celebrity in a recent, iconic makeup. The accompanying text will provide a brief introduction and an overview of the celebrity's fashion journey. I'll use a clean, modern font for the headlines and body text to give the spread a sophisticated feel. The second page will break down specific elements of the celebrity's current style. I'll include a series of smaller photos, each highlighting different types of makeup  or accessory, such as  foundation and The text will offer insights into the designer brands they favour, and I'll add some quotes from fashion experts or the celebrity themselves to make the content more engaging. The page will end with a ...
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KISS FM Breakfast show CSP

  1) Read page 2. What is KISS FM's mission? encompassing music entertainment and community engagement 2) Look at page 3. What is the target audience for KISS FM? As well as writing the key statistics from the media pack, try and suggest what  psychographic groups  would fit the KISS audience too. KISS has tried to move with the times by engaging on social media with its listeners and by bringing in DJs who they think will appeal to a younger target audience. Jordan and Perri took over the KISS FM Breakfast show in summer 2020 after previous hosts Rickie, Melvin and Charlie left for BBC Radio 1. 3) Now look at page 5 - The KISS network. How does KISS use digital media and technology to reach its audience?  leveraging digital media and technology to engage its 15-34 year-old audience across various channels. 4) Now look at the other side of page 5. What content do KISS Fresh and KISSTORY offer and how can audiences access those stations?   KISS Fresh fo...
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TV industry contexts

  1) What is the BBC's mission statement? act in the public interest serving all audiences through the provision of impartial high quality and distinctive output and services which inform, educate and entertain  2) How is the BBC funded? uk licence fee 3) What must the BBC do to meet its public service broadcasting responsibilities? (Look at the five bullet points in the notes above). educates and entertainment  4) Who is the regulator for TV and Radio in the UK? You can find details on this in the notes above. OFCOM  5) How is TV and Radio regulated by Ofcom?  Setting standards  6) How do Doctor Who and His Dark Materials help the BBC to meet the  BBC's remit to inform, educate and entertain ? offering a blend of entertaiment 
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Television: His Dark Materials - Language and Representation

  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.) You can currently  watch His Dark Materials on BBC iPlayer here . Camerawork, editing and sound:   A range of different futuristic sounds and sci-fi music to emphasise the mysterious atmosphere in the junkyard and the TARDIS. Mise-en-scene:  Teenagers dressed like they are in the 60's.   Lighting in-between the episodes contrast calm and normal feeling when in school transitions to a dark and gloomy feeling when building up to the search for Susan and when inside the Junkyard. Props - The old antiques inside the junkyard is shown and the police box representing the Tardis 2) How does His Dark Materials fit the conventions of the  fantasy TV genre ? Todorov's Equilibrium: The...
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Television: His Dark Materials - Audience and Industry

  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 . 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:  Devoted fans of the fantasy genre would enjoy His Dark Materials as it includes conventional aspects of fantasy TV, through the daemons, the witches, the tear in the sky, etc.  Personal Relationships:   Audiences could form parasocial relationships with any of the characters of the show, although it's more likely these relationships would be formed with the protagonists rather than the villains.  Diversion (Escapism):  Audiences can find diversion in essentially all aspects of the show, however, the most obvious example of t...
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Magazines and Music Video assessment learner response

  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).  WWW- you are picking up the marks for the terminology questions so now need to work on CSP questions. EBI- Learn/revise the CSP'S in more detail so you can refer to them in longer answers  2) Read  the mark scheme for this assessment carefully . Write down the mark you achieved for each question:  Q1: 2/2  Q2: 2/8 Q3: 2/6 Q4:3/3 Q5: 1/6 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 choice of white and black font/typography against the natural setting connotes that the  magazine is both fresh and modern but from a classy, traditional base. This is likely how the  Tatler audience would like to see themselves  - the fact cover star Emma Weymouth is mixed race sugges...
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Television: Introduction to TV drama (Doctor who)

  1) How does this  His Dark Materials  trailer meet the conventions of a TV drama series? they use common Tv conventions  2) What genre (or genres) are suggested by this  His Dark Materials  trailer?  fantasy, adventure, and drama genres.   3) What kind of characters and narratives are introduced in this trailer? an alien time lord who travels through time and space in the TARDIS along with human companions who serve as audience surrogates  4) What settings appear in the trailer? ancient 5) Who do you think the target audience for  His Dark Materials  is? Give reasons for your answer. family audience 
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