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  Introduction to radio: blog tasks BBC Sounds BBC SoundsRead  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’? 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? Relying on pensioners to provide the audience is not sustainable for an organisation that relies on convincing the vast majority of the public to pay for its services. Although millions of young Britons continue to tune in to traditional BBC

  TV assessment learner response  1) Type up your feedback in  full  (you don't need to write the mark and grade if you want to keep this confidential). WWW: Q2 shows some good knowledge of the CSPs so now we need to add exam techniques to push towards the higher levels. EBI: Q1 is a great lesson in question focus: you need to answer the question! Revise postmodernism and for Q2 you need to discuss ideologies: what is the message to audiences? 2) Read  the whole mark scheme for this assessment  carefully. Identify at least  one  potential point that you missed out on for each question in the assessment (even if you got full marks for the question). Q1:  The poster is an excellent example of bricolage: the juxtaposition of old and new texts, images, ideas and narratives to create new meanings.  There are many examples of intertextuality: the main central image suggests a bridge  between James Bond and Austin Powers (bond parody) with Tower Bridge in the background  reinforcing Londo

  Music Video: index Your final Music Video index should include the following: 1)  Music Video: Introduction - factsheet questions 2)  Music Video: Old Town Road CSP 3)  Music Video: Postcolonial theory 4)  Music Video: Ghost Town CSP 5)  Music Video: Postmodernism and music video

  1) How does the article define postmodernism in the first page of the article? If modernism is beginning  to question authority, then  postmodernism is making fun of  authority to its face. Postmodernism  takes this concept of questioning  traditional structures, representations  and expectations and pushes things  a step further. 2) What did media theorist and Semiotician Roland Barthes suggest in his essay ' The Death of the Author '? In 1967 the French  literary critic Roland Barthes released  his essay The Death of the Author. In it,  he challenged tradition when he said  that a writer’s opinions, intentions or  interpretation of their own work are  no more valid than anyone else’s. To  give a simple example, this means  that just because Ridley Scott thinks  Deckard is a replicant, doesn’t mean  that you, the viewer, have to think  this if you don’t want to. 3) What is metatextuality? Metatextuality is where a text draws  attention to the fact that it is a text.  It poin

  Background and historical contexts Read  this excellent analysis from The Conversation website of the impact Ghost Town had both musically and visually . Answer the following questions 1)  Why does the writer link the song to cinematic soundtracks and music hall tradition? Starting with a Hammond organ’s six ascending notes before a mournful flute solo, it paints a bleak aural and lyrical landscape. more attuned to “mood music”, with nods to cinematic soundtracks and music hall tradition, it reflects and engenders anxiety 2) What subcultures did 2 Tone emerge from in the late 1970s? 2 Tone had emerged stylistically from the Mod and Punk subcultures and its musical roots and the people in it, audiences and  bands, were both black and white. 3) What social contexts are discussed regarding the UK in 1981? Around the UK in 1981,  England was hit by recession and away from rural Skinhead nights, riots were breaking out across its urban areas. Deprived, forgotten, run down and angry, these