COMPONENT 2: TV IN THE GLOBAL AGE, 'LIFE ON MARS' AND 'THE BRIDGE' INDUSTRY, REGULATION AND CONTEXTS

LESSON 19-23 IN THE SERIES. This five- lesson resource is part of a tailored unit to help students understand the differences between writing for Component 1 and 2. I have designed the ‘Life on Mars’ and ‘The Bridge’ lessons separately so as to focus on all of RAIL (Representation, Audience, Industry and Language (Media) respectively, up until this point. However, due to time restraints and the crossover in Industrial features and audience between the two texts, I have decided to combine both texts in to two final lessons blocks, one for Industry and one for Audience. This five-lesson structure features:

-Examiner Expectations
-Assessment of retained knowledge on all industrial terms and the 3 Industrial theoretical framework theorists students need to know for the exam.
-Idents
-Ownership and funding of ‘The Bridge’
-Monopolies/ oligopolies/subsidaries/conglomerates/multi-nationals and synergy
-Financing TV
-An interview with the Director of ‘The BRidge’ and the importance of ‘Creative Europe’ funding
-PSB V Commercial channels
-Royal Charter, the BBC’s and BBC4’s remit and their mission statement / ideologies
-Globalisation and Cultural Imperialism
-TASK 3: So, in your opinion and with a consideration of ‘LOM’ and ‘The Bridge’, does the BBC both adhere to it’s mission statement to ‘Inform, Educate and Entertain’ as well as all 5 aspects of the Royal Charter?
-Acquisitions
-TASK 4: What are the advantages and disadvantages to buying in content/ programming from other institutions/countries? I have included some bits on this slide to aid you (with supporting quotes and information to generate discussion/debate).
-Non-Linear Viewing
-Audience Fragmentation and Water Cooler TV
-On-Demand services
-OFCOM and Scandi Regulation
-TV Spots, marketing of both shows and a viewing of the differences in building hype.
-IS THE BBC VERTICALLY OR HORIZONTALLY INTEGRATED? (With tailored support for students).

-SAMS QUESTION WORK THROUGH- (b) Television production takes place within an economic context. Discuss the influence of economic factors on The Bridge. [15] This comes with support slides that detail theory of two of the three named framework theorists as well as two other Industry theories to impress the examiner; Pluralism and Market Liberalism

THIS RESOURCE INCLUDES A WORKSHEET, A H/W TASK AND DEPENDENT ON HAVING THE EDUQAS YEAR 1 REVISION GUIDE AND AN EXTENSION H/W TASK (MEDIA PACK FOR ‘LIFE ON MARS’

NOTE: I am following EDUQAS Teaching Model 1 in my teaching/ SOW and my school is only providing Media Studies at A-Level, as a Two- Year Course. Moreover, each lesson has a task whereby students RAG (Red, Amber, Green) what they have learnt in the lesson against an Examiner checklist (Differentiation, peer assessment).

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