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WWW: Your blog is up to date which is fantastic – it shows your commitment to the subject and that you are organised and meeting your deadlines. This is so important across all of your GCSEs so well done! EBI: You could attempt the extension tasks on more blogs to really push your understanding of the course content LR: Copy and paste this feedback into a new blogpost called ‘Blog feedback and learner response’. Then, as your learner response write what you think the most  difficult  topic we’ve covered so far has been and why. See if you can complete one extension task as well.   Read this  Guardian review of His Dark Materials - The City of Magpies  and also read some of the comments 'below the line' (BTL). Do you agree with the review? What about the comments?  Religion, mortality and talking animals combine to gift us a series that captures Pullman's magnum opus in all  its  glory. Try this  critical Irish Times review of His Dark Materia...

  1) What is the BBC's mission statement? The BBC's mission is defined by​​ the Royal Charter​: to act in the public interest, serving all audiences through the provision of impartial, high-quality and distinctive output and services which ​inform, educate ​ and ​entertain​. 2) How is the BBC funded? The BBC's main source of funding is  the licence fee , providing roughly £3.7 billion of its current £5 billion annual income. 1 The remainder is generated through other, non-public means. 3) What must the BBC do to meet its public service broadcasting responsibilities? (Look at the five bullet points above) To serve all the audience that watches BBC 4) What is regulation and how is the BBC regulated? We are  regulated by Of com which issues an Operating Framework and an Operating Licence for our UK public services . 5) How do Doctor Who and His Dark Materials help the BBC to meet the  BBC's remit to inform, educate and entertain ? It helps by education is that they...

  1) Read this  audience rating guide for His Dark Materials . Based on the screening and this article, who do you think the target audience is for His Dark Materials and why? What about psychographic groups?  You can  revise Pyschographics here . I think the target audience is 14 and above this is because it was said on the web that 14 and above will  be fine to watch the series. 2) What audience pleasures are offered by His Dark Materials - The City of Magpies? Apply Blumler and Katz's Uses and Gratifications theory to the episode. Make sure you provide specific examples from the episode to support your ideas. Personal Identity: The identities are the young boy, girl, the witches and other characters.  Personal Relationships: That the young boy and girl gets along in the city of magpies. Diversion (Escapism): The fantasy in the series is a science fiction. 3) Thinking of the 3 Vs audience pleasures (Visceral, Vicarious and Voyeuristic pleasures), whi...

In the series, they used editing for parts so the actors can take breaks and summarise their lines. They used sound for objects for the audience to hear. They also use  Camera angles: high angle shot of Lyra to make her look vulnerable/innocent. They used props for different scenes in a fantasy world into the modern world. They used different types of costumes to see the audience which world they from. In the series they used settings like in the episode city of the sky. The show fantasy genre is witches, supernatural (daemon animals) reveal emotions of characters. The character in the show does quest and adventures into worlds and unravel the mysteries they have. The family genre is younger characters, parents/child narrative. The respiration of the female characters are strong and independent. 2) How does His Dark Materials fit the conventions of the fantasy TV genre? The fantasy TV genre is a science fiction and sci-fi series by different races in different planets. 3)  App...

  Representations 1) How are  women  represented in His Dark Materials ? Are gender stereotypes reinforced or subverted? Think about Lyra and Mrs Coulter here. Women are represented as witches and strong people in season2. 2)How are  men  and masculinity represented in His Dark Materials? Think about Will and Lee Scoresby here. Men in doctor who are represented to be good and evil with power to stop the witches. 3) How is  age  (e.g. teenagers; older people) represented in His Dark Materials ? Does the show reinforce or challenge stereotypes about young people? Think about Lyra and Will plus the abandoned children they meet. Also think about Mrs Coulter and other adults. Age shows to be bad because when they get to another world, the creatures will only attack adults 4) How is  race and ethnicity  represented in His Dark Materials ?  Are stereotypes reinforced or subverted? Race are not racist during today than in the 1900's. 5) How are...

  1) Who is the target audience for Doctor Who? Has it changed since 1963? teems, adults and elderly people because it based on science fiction  and the characters are teenagers, adults and old people. 2) What audience pleasures are offered by Doctor Who - An Unearthly Child? Apply Bumbler  and Katy's  Uses and Gratifications theory to the episode. Make sure you provide specific examples from the episode to support your ideas. Personal Identity: teenagers,adults and elderly people Personal Relationships: The female teacher and the student  Diversion (Escapism): shows stuff about time travel and space about enigma codes Surveillance (Information / Facts):  3) What additional Uses and Gratifications would this episode provide to a  modern  2020 audience? This episode provides to a modern 2020 audience is the colour of the show because when the first episode was released there wasn't colour until colour TV's  were invented. 4) Thinking of the 3 ...

  1) Write a summary of the notes from our in-class analysis of the episode. You can use your own notes from the screening in class and we'll also post a Google document of class notes too (you'll need your GHS Google login).  Camerawork and sound: they use theme tunes in doctor who episodes. The episodes have flashback, medium  shots, close-up scenes. As the time travel machine takes off (tardis), it goes to another time on the planet. Mise-en-scene: Susan introduced dancing and dresses as 1960's. The setting takes place at a abandoned junkyard.  Narrative and genre: doctor who is based on sci-fi and science fiction series .  2) How can we apply narrative theories to this episode of   Doctor Who ?  that there going to be cavemen people in the next episode. 3) In your opinion, what is the most important scene in the episode and why? The most important scene in unearthly child in doctor who is when the TARDIS takes off. It time travels in anot...