Index

1)Magazines:Tatler
2)Magazines:Reveal

Apple Beats 1 Radio

1) How have our music listening habits changed since 1960?

music habits have changed a lot since in the 1960 due the the vast availability to radio

2) When did Apple Beats 1 Radio launch and what is it?

they launched in 2015 and its a radio station released by beats.

3) What is the difference between Beats 1 Radio, iTunes and Apple Music?

 its different as their was many pirate stations before now their isn't anymore.

4) Why was Apple so keen to enter the online music world and compete with Spotify, Deezer and Amazon Music (and others)? that would allow them to adapt and make money

5) Why did Apple choose the three selected DJs for launch? 

6) How does the use of DJs differ from Spotify, Amazon Music and other streaming services? 

7) How does the content of the Julia Adenuga show differ from Radio 1? 

8) Why does Beats 1 radio give Apple the power to make or break new artists? Is this a good thing or a bad thing for the music industry?

9) Read the BBC feature on the launch of Apple Beats 1 Radio. Did the industry experts think it would be a success? Why?

10) Give arguments for and against the idea that Beats 1 will be a threat to traditional media industries (e.g. radio stations, record shops, online music retailers etc.)

Audience

1) Who is the target audience for Beats1 and Julia Adenuga in particular? Refer to demographics and psychographics.

2) Why do people listen to Beats1? Which aspects of Blumler and Katz’s Uses and Gratifications theory relate to Beats 1 and its audience?

3) Can the audience actively interact with the Apple Beats 1 Radio or are they passive when listening? How? Give examples. 

4) Is Apple Beats 1 aimed at a mass or niche audience? How does this differ to BBC Radio 1?

5) Do you think Apple Beats 1 radio will be popular with young audiences or are streaming services the future of audio-based media?

radio

Radio 1 Launch CSP: blog tasks

Work through the following questions to complete your first Radio case study on the launch of BBC Radio 1:

Historical, social and cultural context

the radio station offered is the pirates

 What was pirate radio and why was it popular?

 Why did pirate radio stop broadcasting in 1967?

 How did the BBC attract young audiences to Radio 1 after pirate radio stations were closed down?

 What was 'needle time' and why was it a problem for BBC Radio?

 How did BBC Radio 1 offer different content to previous BBC radio stations?

 Who was the first presenter for BBC Radio 1 and why did these new Radio 1 DJs cause upset initially at the traditional BBC?

 Listen to excerpts from the Tony Blackburn's first 1967 broadcast - how might it have appealed to young listeners?

 What conventions did Tony Blackburn's radio show borrow from pirate radio - which made it very different to previous BBC radio content?

Audience and industry

 What was the target audience for BBC Radio 1 in 1967?

 Why did Radio 1 initially struggle to attract young listeners?

 What audience pleasures did Radio 1 offer listeners in 1967? (Use Blumler and Katz Uses and Gratifications theory).

 How is the BBC funded?

 Applying Stuart Hall's Reception theory, what would the preferred and oppositional reading have been of BBC Radio 1 in 1967? 

Doctor Strange

1)disney, marvel studios Lucasfilm and Pixar.

2) Disney owning Marvel is a conglomerate as it bought it in 2009

3) Who regulates the film industry in the UK?

4) Its awarded a 12A by the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC).  It was deemed to have “moderate fantasy violence and injury detail”, yet was not too graphic

5) Doctor Strange uses a Microsoft Surface Tablet and it introduced a Doctor Strange character to their mobile and video games line-up
promotional Partners were established and promoted the film in various ways (Mobile phone company Honor, Google, Lamborghini, Microsoft, Yakult, Skype and Philips

6) You can tell it a blockbuster movie by the way it is able to make these crazy effects with CGI and use the massive sci-fi moments and the effects

7) What was the production budget for Doctor Strange was $165 million and it made 677 million at the box office?

8) Doctor Strange was a successful Hollywood blockbuster because it made back the money from making it the press for it the 

music video

1)the way people watch music videos nowadays is via you tube

2)It allows people to upload their music freely without having a label and having the ability to gain fame from the millions of viewing their video and 

3) P2P its a way of sharing music file on the internet It caused a huge issue for the music industry as it didn't allow them to get the money for the song as people were getting it for free.  

4) not as much as the people that have an industry behind them allows them to pump in money for their singer which gives them a massive advantage.

5)Fortnite shows that music industrys can reach out to a new audience by exploring other platforms that link to music but games or movies 


Arctic Monkeys: Industry

1) By making it on top of the pops.

2) people would take their music and share it online illegally.

3) Arctic monkey became famous as they were an indie band but one direction were a group that were on a TV show that had a wide audience and saw them before.

4) The technology has changed drastically compared to what it was before so there are so many options.

5) It has been positive as it allows them to advertise their music to people on a platform everyone uses.


Arctic Monkeys: Audience

1) White people who would be into meaningful music.

2)Diversion and personal identity.

3)The camera shot and the colour scheme change and have a unique style about them.

4)The video was done so people could feel like they were back in the 1980s.

5) Only the people that shot it and arctic monkeys would know who helped.

The Times

language

1)the main story on the outside is all about how the Scots wants to remain in the UK.

2)The main story on the inside is all about how 

Muirfield has been welcomed back to Open after vote allows in women golfers.

3) They like to apply more text compared to images.

4) You can tell this by the way they present their paper and the stories they talk about. They don’t report on basic stories that are unneeded.

5) The times is mostly siding with the Conservative party?

Industries

1) the Times is owned by News International.

2) The Times's circulation in 2018 was 435,000 and 

in 1990 it was 800,000.

3) The reaction of the times for the internet was to make an online website so their readers could access the website and read it there.

4) Immediacy, amplitude and surprise.

5)the decline has happened due to the fact that

people can access the news much faster than though

read the newspaper 

Audience

1)The Times target audience is older with over half 

the audience aged 55+. In terms of social class, they are overwhelmingly in the ABC1 social classes - and largely the A or B groups within that group

2)It appeals to the audience as it has a high to a

middle-class audience and they want to read about

the important things.

3) The golf story will be interesting to the audience

as the view that it has a form of sexism in it will be

intriguing to the audience.

4)the audience is the one who shapes the way the

media is portrayed and that’s the reason newspapers

write their paper in a way that their audience will like it.

5) These are the people that were reading it when it was very common to read a newspaper and are still interested to read them.

Representation

1)Great Britain seems to be a desired place to be 

whos government is in a good place with the view 

Scotland would want to stay as if they didn't leave

life would be good.

2) How does the Times represent the gender in the 

Muirfield golf feature They seem to favour the men

and are implying that the men are the reason the

women are allowed to enter the place.

3) Treats the big companies as being corrupted and 

evil as they are seen as untrustworthy.

4) It focuses on the fact the person was transgender being prejudice towards him due to his sexuality and putting him in a bad light. 

daily mirror

 Language

 1) Masthead: the title on the head of the newspapers

Incentive: what is said to attract the reader

Pug: to catch the readers eye

Splash Head: The main news story

Slogan: the summary of the story

Dateline: line up with the date

Kicker: the headline of the story

Byline: writer of the story

Standfirst: an introduction of the story at an angle

2)The cost of the daily mirror cost 60p on Mondays to Friday.

3)The main story on the daily mirror for this CSP is the "fraud cop" who are grilling the MP who is being accused of fraud in the general election.

4)The promotion of a free £5 bet on the Cheltenham festival which can be purchased by signing up on the Stan James website. This would appeal to the mirror readers as they are most likely either struggling financially and trying to make it rich or resigned living off a pension.

                              

5)The balance of the daily mirror front page is roughly a third images while the whole bottom half is a title. There is a very little amount of text but its put in a corner of the front cover.

Audience

1)The target audience for the daily mirror would be aimed at mostly towards the working/lower class.

2)It would appeal to them as a major part of the front page is for a betting company. This would lead to people buying it to get the free bet so they could win some money on a bet. This is a good target to aim betting ads at as the people would be low on funds.    

3)The 'prey and display' parking story in the Daily Mirror makes the readers intrigued as the story is informing the readers that there are sneaky people checking for car tickets. These people are trying to catch people off-guard so they can give them a ticket. 

4) Someone may be interested in the newspaper as it is advertising free bets for people giving them the chance to win big money.

5) Newspapers are normally read by older people as they grew up reading them and as they got older people stopped using newspapers.

Representation

1) It represents them in a negative way as it is sided with the labour party.

2) It represents them as sexist as its implying that the men are the reason why the women are allowed but it should be that the women wanted to join by themselves without permission of men.

3) It's showing that the car parkers are the prey that is being hunted without their knowledge by the ticket inspectors.

4) It represents the old people as nervous and shook as they are very conscious of the inspectors and are desperate to not get fined.

5) The mirror represents rich people as filthy and money laundering who are desperate to keep the money all for their own financial benefit.

Industries

1)The daily mirror is owned by parent company Reach plc.

2) The Daily Mirror's circulation in the 1990s was around 3 million a day in 1990 but has declined at a plummeting rate to 500,000 a day in 2019.

3)The Daily Mirror has reacted to the decline in print sales and the growth of the internet by moving to making internet editions of their paper and putting adverts for ad revenue which makes up for the news article being free.  

4)The IPSO is the largest independent regulator of the newspaper and magazine industry in the UK and exists to promote and uphold the highest professional standards of journalism in the UK.

5) Some people want stronger regulation of British newspapers as it is a good way for news to be informed to the world in a way that is simple and not a lot of hassle.