Half-term revision

Half-term revision

• Avengers: 'The Town of No return' (ITV Saturdays 1965, 9:05pm)
• Cuffs: 'The Luck of the Draw' (BBC1 Wednesdays 2015, 8pm)
• Social historical contexts of 1960s and 2010s

Low mark questions:

• A PSB is ran and funded by the public to benefit them, instead of for commercial interests. A PSB should also follow a remit.
• Dan Lin, Roy Lee and Warner Bros produced and distributed The Lego Movie.
• The BBFC regulates the film industry
• A tent pole film is a film expected to make large profits, which can then be used to support other projects.
• Themes from one or two different genres is genre hybridity
• Bauer owns Mojo magazine
• OFCOM regulates TV and radio
• Diversification is when a business branches out into other areas.
• BBC1 is a mass audience radio station.
• BBC1 Xtra is a more niche audience radio station.
• Bringing together different platforms is called
• Radio and websites distribute the Live Lounge
• P: people can listen to the music they identify with. I: people can find out information about artists. E: people find enjoyment in listening to music. S: people can share what they like about different artists.
• Two generic conventions of music videos could be singing along or performing.
• Two forms a music video might take are narrative and performance.
• The term for describing a mix of styles and genres in a music video is called genre hybridity.
• British magazines are globalised because they are owned by different companies around the world.
• Bauer media is diversified because they own companies in different industries, such as magazines and radio shows.
• Print magazines can gain revenue by selling copies and selling advertising spaces within their magazines.
• Middle-age males are likely to read Mojo.
• Intertextuality is where a piece of media refers to other work within it.
• Genre hybridity is when a piece of media includes themes of different genres.
• The owner of The Observer is The Guardian.
• The regulator of newspapers is the ASA.
• The term for the use of different platforms for the same content is convergence.
• A tabloid newspaper offers soft news aimed at a downmarket audience.
• Two demographics for the online Observer is affluent and well travelled.
• One way that newspaper owners explicitly exercise control over their newspapers is by appointing editors with similar viewpoints.

Cuffs: 2015

• Attitudes to sexuality: people were very open to different sexualities as it was legal and accepted by the vast majority of people, shown by one of the officers and a lawyer being gay.
• Attitudes to gender: women had a lot more equal rights with men, however in Cuffs the senior officer is a male.
• Attitudes to age: younger people were more equal and had more freedom.
• Attitudes to ethnicity: ethnic minorities vastly accepted, shown in Cuffs by having officers of black, white and asian origins.
• Attitudes to the police: police had unfair pay/hours and received a lot of abuse, shown when the officer gets pushed over on the beach.

The Avengers: 1965

• Attitudes to sexuality: homosexuality in the 60s was decriminalised so attitudes towards it were becoming more positive.
• Attitudes to gender: in the 60s there were no heroic female characters until The Avengers, when Emma Peel was shown as a strong female character.
• Attitudes to age: younger people were seen as rebellious by more conservative older people who were tied down by their jobs. The younger people were very style conscious, had their own styles (hippies, mods and rockers) and were often involved in many political movements such as the protests for gay rights and female rights.
• Attitudes to ethnicity: the vast majority of the UK was white in the 60s, and racism (especially to people from the UK's opponents in WW2) was very prominent.
• Attitudes to The Cold War and espionage: people in the 60s were very scared of invasion from foreign countries, which can be seen when Emma and John go to the town and people are scared of them because they aren't locals.

Editing: what to look for

• Order of shots/shot choices: can reveal what motivates the edits/what they are trying to show the audience, shows which perspective is more privilege
• Continuity: creates realism, tells a story with narrative continuity, helps make sense of the action by implying spatial relationships and smooth transitions between shots
• Transitions: implies a passage of time and a change in location, emphasises a connection (like what the character is thinking/remembering/dreaming about)
• Shot duration, pace and rhythm: reflects narrative context, short shot = fast paced action and urgency, long shot = slower pace, conveys intensity/intimacy, allows the facial expression and other aspects of mine-en-scene which would otherwise be missed.
• Special effects: adds realism for audience