Media Blog 2 (Frankly)

  Media Factsheet #224: Industrial contexts of Radio Read  Media Factsheet #224 Understanding the Industrial Context of Radio . You'll need your Greenford google login to access it. Answer the following questions: 1) Read the first two pages of the factsheet. How does the Factsheet argue that radio still has cultural significance in the digital age?  The medium of radio is the trail-blazer of twentieth century broadcast forms of communication and even though digital platforms such as iTunes, Spotify, YouTube and many more platforms may be challenging it, it still reaches billions of people. In some developing countries in Africa where people still have limited or no access to the Internet – radio is still the dominant medium to inform and entertain them. Radio is a global medium. Radio is also a medium for all sorts of formats: drama, comedy, variety, magazine format, zoo format (a show where presenters chat informally), shock jocks (deliberately provocative talk show hosts), soap

  BBC Sounds Read  this Guardian feature on the launch of BBC Sounds  and answer the following questions: 1) Why does the article suggest that ‘on the face of it, BBC Radio is in rude health’? It has half the national market, with dozens of stations reaching more than 34 million people a week. Radio 2 alone reaches 15 million listeners a week and for  all the criticism of the Today programme  (“editorially I think it’s in brilliant shape,” says Purnell), one in nine Britons still tune in to hear John Humphrys and his co-presenters harangue politicians every week. 2) According to the article, what percentage of under-35s used the BBC iPlayer catch-up  radio app? just 3% of under-35s use the iPlayer catch-up radio app, which will soon be axed. 3) What is BBC Sounds? BBC Sounds is a walled garden streaming media and audio download service from the BBC that includes live radio broadcasts, audio on demand, and podcasts. 4) How do audiences listen to radio content in the digital age? They’re

TV crime drama extract 1:  Narrative and genre How is the narrative and the crime drama genre communicated to the audience? Crime Drama referenced : Mr  Inbetween (Season 2 Episode 9 'Ray Kills the Pedophiles) -Its very clear a kidnapping has taken place at the store, even though we don't see it we know it's happened as there's a shift in tone right after Ray's daughter's friend has been kidnapped and when we see it happen from the CCTV back up. This serves as the beginning. We then follow Ray and his daughter as he visits his friends who also are involved with things like cybercrime, and it's through this where he's able to find out who the kidnapper is. This serves as the Middle. Ray travels on his own to the location as stated by the address, he then breaks into the house where discovers that multiple people have been lured to the basement - children to adults. He the manages to free the kidnapped and locks the aggressors in that same basement. It the