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KISS Breakfast on KISS Radio

Context: Deregulation and the Evolution of Radio 1. What is meant by the term ‘deregulation’ in the context of the UK radio industry? How does this contrast with how the UK government historically controlled the airwaves up until the 1970s? deregulation means to dismantle the initial systematic requirement set by the government, ultimately switching to a free market. this contrasts due to there being less political content in the radio  2. Explain how deregulation dismantled ownership laws. How did this change allow multinational media conglomerates to sweep in and build massive national brand networks? this causes the radio restrictions to become more relaxed or completely removed. this change allows radio stations to have more creative control over their content 3. In a heavily regulated era, radio stations faced strict penalties or license loss if they abandoned local programming or dropped community news quotas. How has modern deregulation allowed Bauer Media Group to cut expen...

End of Year 1 exam: Learner Response

  1) Type up any feedback from your teacher in full (you do not need to write the mark/grade if you do not wish to). haven't received any yet 2) Look at the mark scheme document linked above. Question 1.1 asks about mise-en-scene. What do we use to remember mise-en-scene? Give one example answer from the clip too - you'll find example answers in the mark scheme. we need to describe the camera angles and shots when talking about a clip from a scene (e.g.- they used a close up shot in lyra's face to show her emotions clearer) 3) Question 1.2 asks about narrative features in the extract. Look at the mark scheme to pick out three possible answers for this question.  - talking about Propp's character theory -talking about narrative theory -talking about props and costumes and how they represent the character 4) Now focus on Question 2 - the 20 mark essay. Use the mark scheme to pick out one way Doctor Who reflects 1963 and one way His Dark Materials reflects 2020.  DW- docto...