Yr 10 and 11 CUFFS

SOCIAL AND CULTURAL CONTEXTS OF 2015

PREP Study pages 37 to 41 of your text book OCR GCSE MEDIA STUDIES.
The focus is on changing attitudes towards gender roles, as is seen in Cuffs.
To understand change, you need to contrast it with The Avengers.

Be sure that you can write confidently about four male and four female characters in Cuffs.

Complete the 'revision activity' box on page 39, answering on your blog.

Yr 11 REVISION: CUFFS

Short, targeted revision tasks with questions. Research suggests that being asked to recall information regularly will aid your recall.

TV: INDUSTRY & AUDIENCE

We start at pg. 8 of the factsheet (below)
https://beta.ocr.org.uk/Images/423703-television-industry-and-audience-teacher-guide.pdf


1. Name one channel for each

• publically-owned PSB television providers 
  
• 
  
• commercially-owned PSB television providers 
• commercially-owned non-PSB television providers

2. PSB purposes: true or false?

• making viewers laugh

• Informing our understanding of the world 
  

• Representing diversity and alternative viewpoints 
  

• Reflecting the UK’s cultural identity 

3. PSB characteristics? h*** quality, **iginal, i**ovative; cha********,. WIdely *********,, dist*******

4. Give the word for "the period before 9pm and after 5.30am when programmes containing material unsuitable for children cannot be shown – this includes sexual content, violence, graphic or disturbing imagery and swearing."

5. This means that programmes such as Cuffs have to be very careful about their content, which might be seen to reduce the realism of the programme as, for example,......

6. True or false? 
The BBC has extra PSB requirements, written into its Royal Charter, because of its distinctive funding. These largely reflect those above, but include the purpose: ‘to reflect the UK, its culture and values to the world' 

7. The BBC has to simultaneously provide ‘distinctively’ PSB content while remaining popular enough to justify charging everyone the licence fee. It attempts to do this in television by offering a stable of channels which offer between them both mass entertainment and quality PSB programming.Which of these describes BBC1 and which BBC2:

• a niche channel that offers ‘programmes of depth and substance
• a mass audience channel for all the ‘unites and inspires the nation with high quality programmes across a range of genres’ 

8. True or false? 

0. Many BBC programmes are now made by independent television production companies 
   

9. Tiger Aspect and Cuffs  Say any three things that you know about Tiger Aspect or what kind of replacement programme was required

 

NEXT: SHORT QUESTIONS ON CUFFS

 

Yr 10 LEGO MOVIE VIDEO GAME

PREP 
Catch up with last Friday's prep (music video) if you forgot and then watch the Lego Movie Video Game walk through for example here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiJ76xKOAbs

The aim of the prep is to make connections in your mind between what you experience as a Lego movie video game player and the 'uses and gratifications' framework.

Yr 10 MUSIC VIDEO PRODUCTION

You are currently making a music video. Look at the requirements for the music video brief by opening the link HERE on our blog.

PREP tonight:
Write an account of how YOUR current music video production meets this brief.

You can add photos if it helps to explain.