Media Exam Examples

Reflection

Ownership:

-       Microsoft, Mojang

-       BBC

-       Disney

Q1

	Jungle Book 1967	Jungle Book 2016
Production	Storyboarding Xerography- Photocopying Musical soundtrack	CGI SFX- backgrounds Angel falls Animatronics 3D Cameras
Distribution - Marketing	Posters, merchandise, interviews on the radio	Super bowl trailer Social media – snap chat filter, twitter, Fb YouTube Website VR experience
Exhibition and Exchange	Cinema Disney vault Later VHS DVD	3D, platforms for seeing the film Cinema Netflix Sky Phones, Tablets, PC

Q2

BBC remit and Ben Cooper’s plan.

Production 630- 1-, music choices, presenter banter, gets celebrity interviews, friends/mates around the table, Nixtape – Give examples of real games, gimmicks what happens on his show, Type of music played.

Marketing – Social media R1BS, Social media Grimmy – Promote each other, website, cross-promotion between DJs, YouTube videos, Giveaways, Radio 1 weekend, teen awards.

Distribution – Radio, DAB, phones, FM, Spotify, podcasts, TV.

Audience – 15-29 Males/Females – how is the audience being targeted.

Q3

Notch- 2009 – YouTube, players share what they created, word of mouth below the line marketing, massive fans, community, play on PC.

Mojang - 2010, Licence, servers, further developed the game, Xbox, PlayStation – Minecon

Microsoft – in 2014- bought for 2.5 billion dollars – merchandising, more platforms, international, fans have to pay for extra things.

Video Games Introduction

Video game- A game played by electronically manipulating images produced by a computer program on a monitor or other display.

Action/Adventure. – Fable, The last of us, Dying Light

Simulation. – Sims, SimCity, Prison architect.

Horror. – Outlast, Until dawn, Slenderman

RPG. -

FPS. COD, Halo, Rainbow Six Siege

MMO.

Sports. – Fifa, f1, NBA

Sandbox. Minecraft, Roblox

Strategy., Halo wars, Direct Action, Act of War

Fantasy.

Kids.

Puzzle solving. Professor Layton, Mario,

All the computer consoles.

Sandbox.

Computer company. – Xbox.

Bootleg games. – Platforms.

Servers.

The Big issue introduction and Key terms

Circulation- Number of copies a magazine sells.

Readership- Not just who buys a magazine but the total number of people likely to read it.

Mass audience- Readership on a very large scale.

Niche audience- Narrow group of readers with a particular interest.

Subscription- Where a reader pays for a set number of copies of a magazine in advance at a lower price and receives them by post.

Masthead- The title of the magazine.

Plug- Text that ‘plugs’ a feature that will appear inside the magazine.

Puff- A story that is given prominence on the cover.

Cover Star- The ‘star’ featured on the cover.

Anchorage Text- Text that anchors the main image and gives it context/meaning.

Banner- Text that runs across the lower section of the cover.

Without advertising, no magazine could survive. If a magazine did not contain ads, then its cover price would be three or four times greater.

Written by professionals.

Setup by John Bird and Gordon Roddick.

Sold by homeless people to make money.

Hand up not a hand out.

Social enterprise.

Went Global.

Since 1991 over 200,000,000 copies sold.

Profound social effect.

Lord Bird MBE (now a politician).