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Explore the different ways your three main texts target their audiences. (30 Marks) This essay will explore the different ways in which my three main texts target and attract an audience. The three main texts I will be focusing on are: Coronation Street, I'm a Celebrity.. Get Me Out Of Here and Sky Sports Coverage of football (SNF - Saturday Night Football). My three main texts targets their audiences in many different ways. One way in which audiences are targeted is through the style, tone, content, language and mode of address: - Coronation Street: Style/Tone/Language: Informal and formal. Chatty style, set and based in the city of Manchester, use formal language with some aspects of slang. Content: The programme Coronation street offers "comfortable reassurance", giving the audience what they would usually expect from a soap/episode (what is typical of the genre), whilst overtime also creating new story lines and characters but also follows the same style of l...

For my media investigation and production task I focused my work on the representations of heroes and villains within the crime and action genre. From this I expanded on the types of heroes and villains, their characteristics and common stereotypes through research into existing texts. In my research I focused on films such as: · Big Hero 6 · Superman (1978) · Wreck It Ralph · Despicable Me · 10 Cloverfield Lane · No Country For Old Men With this I also researched into the TV programme Game of Thrones along with Shakespeare's plays of Romeo and Juliet and Othello. For the practical piece, I produced a TV extract based around the representations of heroes, villain and eastern Europeans, working alongside my classmate Stefan Okopskyj. We decided to create a TV extract that focused on a drug deal between the Russian mafia and British agents as we found this was a good way to show the hero and villain stereotypes. For pre-planning I watched various film...

1) What are your main selling points of the advertising strategy? 2) What scheduling strategies are used? 3) How does the content appeal to and target its audience? (focus more on the style and the mode of address rather than the tasks/challenges/performances) I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! 1) Advertisements - Trailers and teasers are used before the show is aired and between episodes to advertise and tease for what may be featured in the episode.  https://youtu.be/2o3xu-LVT2c 2) Tent-poling: Putting a popular show (I'm a celeb) between two less popular shows (Celebrating the Carpenters and ITV news at Ten) - Bridging/Ratings war: Waterloo road and Top Gear over run as I'm a Celebrity starts (especially waterloo road as both that and I'm a celeb are targeting a similar audience - The show is broadcasted towards the end of the year (usually around November), at 9pm until 10pm. 3) Chatty style: Ant and Dec are informal and friendly towards contestants a...

How is your chosen industry regulated? Refer to your three main texts (30 marks) Introduction: - Explain what regulation is and why it is needed - Statement of intention, making sure that you refer to your three texts by name Main body: - Explain who regulars newspapers with a brief historical overview (PCC, Leveson enquiry, IPSO). Explain the make up the IPSO boards, with a comment about freedom of the press, self regulation and the relevance of this to democracy. - Explain the two functions of IPSO, explain specifically what the Editors Code of Practice is - Give examples of the code of practice in action (making sure there is at least one reference to each newspaper) - Discuss the references to the public interest and what this means - Give your examples of the complaints procedure in action (making sure there is at least one reference to each newspaper) - Discuss the references to the public interest and what this means. - Give your ex...

This essay will examine the representations, along with an exploration of existing heroes and villains in the action/crime genre, researching into what it takes for a character to receive their title. This will also show the perception of central heroes and villains, or a protagonist and an antagonist showing how they are binary opposites along with exploring their similarities and differences. Heroes and villains have always existed, even before the invention of film and television. One example of this is shown through the use of heroes and villains in plays and novels written by William Shakespeare. In Shakespeare’s 'Othello', villainy is portrayed through the character of Iago who is the main antagonist of the play, Iago being one of Shakespeare’s most manipulative and sinister villains. Another of Shakespeare’s villains is the character Lady Macbeth from the play Macbeth, a character who stops at nothing to become queen. Along with these villains Shakespeare also has man...