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TV industry contexts: blog tasks

  Complete the following questions on the BBC and industry contexts: 1) What is the BBC's mission statement? The BBC want to provide information, to support learning of all ages, produce creative output, have diverse content and to reflect the United Kingdom, it's culture and values to the world.  2) How is the BBC funded?  The BBC is funded by the TV licence fee. The licence fee is currently £159 a year and must be payed by an household that wants to watch live broadcast TV or IPlayer. This pays for the BBC TV, radio, website, and IPlayer.  3) What must the BBC do to meet its public service broadcasting responsibilities? (Look at the five bullet points above) The BBC must encourage diversity  and put needs of audience before making the profit, (put community first), must appeal to smaller audiences with variety of programming. they should not be biased or in favour of political values just because it is funded by the government. they should not make money and doesn't need

His Dark Materials: Language and Representation blog tasks

  Language and close-textual analysis 1) Write an analysis of the episode - using 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:    Beginning: In the recap scene at the start of the episode they edit it to create excitement and cover the narrative. They use different camera angles to show different meanings of the scenes, for example: high angle shot of Lyra to make her look innocent and low angle shot of Mrs Coulter to show her power. In the recap they use music an voice over to set the scene and explain the past episode.  The middle: in the middle of the episode they use wide shots to show the setting and low angle shots of Lyra to make her look more dominant and powerful. the edit it to make it faced paced when L