Audience theory lessons

Conventions of Broadcast news: Parody!

How many conventions of TV news can you post in the clip from The Day Today?

Mock Exam

So this week we sat a mock exam for just over 1hr 30 minutes . Having our first attempt at what a real exam might be like. Although we didn't have the preliminary material / brief to work with.

The mock exam is below:

As I explained in class the preliminary material is released 4 weeks before the exam, and usually sets it up as a creative brief for us to work on. 

Below is the one from a couple of years ago, about Music Press:

Past paper_ TV Crime Drama

TV crime drama - Mark Scheme:

Year 11 Cover Work Period 1 + 4 Wednesday 4th Feb

Starter:

Watch the following clips and try to find 10 conventions of broadcast news intro titles:
(watch all 8 if necessary)



Main Activity:
Using the storyboard sheets provided (in one of the blue trays at front by the board!)

Try to storyboard a 20-30 second News Intro titles for a new news programme you have created.

Plenary:

Identify (in your books) how you have used conventions of real credits sequences in your own designs and how you have tried to appeal to you audience.

Cross media News lesson

Year 11 Lesson: Audience Research

Using the resources below can you try and find out the answers to the following questions:


A power point from Reuters News Agency:

1. What are the key findings of the reuters investigation ?
2. What percentage of people in the UK are interested in the news and how many are less interested?
3. Which country seems to be the most interested in the news?
4.What is the split in the UK between the 4 different platforms in terms of how people access news?
5. What are the three most popular types of news for people in the UK?
5. By how much has smartphone and tablet use of news grown in the UK in 2014?
6. Which age ranges generally use smartphones to access the news?
7. At what two times during the day does interest in news peak ?
8. Where are the top two places to access news (for uk consumers)?
9. What share of the market do new news companies like huffington post and buzzed have in the UK?
10. What are the top 3 social networks for news?


A selection of slides from OFCOM





Questions:
Which group in society consumes the most news across the 4 major platforms?

What is the single most important news source for adults in the UK?

What percentage of adults watch news?

What percentage of people use the internet as their primary source of news? what about TV?

What percentage of people only use BBCone for their news?

What percentage use three or fewer providers?

(fig.39) What percentage of 16-24s watch video news clips ? and make their own video news clips?



FINAL TASK:

(Answer in the comments section on this post)

What do you think news broadcasting companies can do to increase their share of the 16-24 market?
(300 words)

TV news and Narrative

Reps of gender lesson: