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The Radio Industry Keywords: Commercial / Public services radio broadcasters  Other types of radio station (e.g college, community) National / Local / Global / Online  Station Profile: Personality and Identity  Logo and Visual Elements  Cross-platform marketing  Scheduling  Speech-based radio: Genres (e.g discussions, call-in, news, documentary) Conventions (e.g use of presenter, contributors, studio / outside broadcast) BBC RADIO The BBC summarised: The BBC produces promotional videos. Cross-platform advertising promotes their station e.g tv channels. Websites for each station.  Phone calls in are a way to engage with the audience as well as being cheap to call. E.g Jeremy Vines lunchtime radio on BBC Radio 2.  Discussions are lead by the presenter, e.g Miles Jump in the News Quiz on BBC Radio 4.  The new digital-only: BBC 1Xtra- New urban music, plus news, original in-house live music se...
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Film Industry including Mainstreams & Independent Mainstream and Independent films have the same regulation of BBFC which stands for The British Board of Film Classification which is also a non governmental organisation, founded by the film industry in 1912. Looking at vertical gratification, it shows how the company maximises their income and how they own all the stages in which they need to market. It can be said that Black Panther is a mainstream film, so in other words a high budget film which is also shown through its trailer. Its brought to the attention that their has been huge costs on their set design and costumes as various scenes were filmed abroad as the picture shows. It can be clear that this is a mainstream film by how the characters are clearly defined, showing a clear distinction between the hero and the villain. Stereotypes can be used to portray this, which allows the audience to gain quick knowledge and understanding of who the characters are and thei...
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            https://mobile.twitter.com/meghansfilm/status/97872742249233203 - Watch till the end of the trailer Tag line:Will you be next? Addresses audience Clue to story line   Gives away genre  Creates a fearful ideology around the trailer Poster 1 and 2: This is a teaser poster Prop from film is used Red links to danger Shows title, tag line, director and producers Director and Producers are the main selling points Evaluation Our film poster consists of many technical codes and conventions of a horror film, which is supported our chosen colour schemes. For example our first poster uses a touch of red to connote the blood which is technically our give away that its is a horror                  

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Newspaper analysis  We decided to call our newspaper 'The Generator' which supports our idea that we generate the latest news stories for people to be updated with what's happening around them. The Generator is a tabloid newspaper, which means it is less formal and more appealing to the eyes of younger audiences. It was decided that the masthead was going to be written in white as it makes it clearer to read, but also white refers to goodness or purity which reading the paper fulfils our readers minds with good news.  Our news stories were based on adverts linking to the town of Coulsdon but also includes stories like our main story " Beast from the East " which is related to a wide majority of the public the purpose of our main story was to highlight the major problems the snow had caused. This was why we wanted to make this our main story as it also informs the readers about transport. The headline " Beast from the East " is emphasised by ha...
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Straight Outta Comp Straight Outta Compton is a mainstream film which was directed by F. Gary Gray and released on the 14th August 2015. It's duration is 2 hours and 27mins and follows the genres of drama, biography, history and music. The estimated budget was around $28,000,000 and within the first week it's opening weekend in the USA rose to $56,100,000. In total the USA grossed $161,197,785 and the cumulative worldwide gross was $201,634,991. Straight Outta Compton was nominated for 1 Oscar, 27 wins, 40 nominations and on imdb.com it is rated a 7.9/10. The cast consists of O'Shea Jackson Jr., Jason Mitchell, Corey Hawkins and many more. This film is targeted to those who are fans of members in the cast/ genre/ hip hop/ rap/ young black males so which they can relate to the story of the film. It was produced by Ice Cube and distributed by the universal pictures. The film was filmed in Compton, California and Los Angeles and its been said by costume designer Kelli Jone...
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Assassin's creed liberation Assassin's creed liberation is an action-adventure video game which was developed and published by Ubisoft. It was directed by Julian Gollop and produced by Martin Cape. This game is a franchise (an offshoot) and was originally exclusive for PlayStation Vita, however on October 30th 2012 the game was released alongside Assassin's creed III. The the game was re-released as Assassin's creed: Liberation HD for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Microsoft Windows.   The game is set between 1765 and 1777, during the French and Indian war in the 18th century, New Orleans, which features the games first female protagonist who is an African-French assasin who goes by the name of Aveline de Grandpré. It can be said that the plot of this game is that it's set in a fictional history of real world events which follows the centuries of the struggles between Assassin's who, with free will fight for peace and the Templers who had desi...
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Call of Duty: Black Ops Zombies can be identified as something like a spin-off of a spin-off game in 2011, which in other words is the game of the Call of Duty series Zombies mode and developed on to the sequel to Call of Duty: Zombies. Ideaworks Game Studio were the ones who developed the game alongside the publisher, Activision, introducing the 2 platforms used: the iOS in December 1st 2011 and the Android in August 2012. Call of Duty: Black Ops Zombies presents the player with a zombie experience on the mobile platform, alongside other Call of Duty series. The game gives the option to play solo or to truly experience a battle by opting to a multiplayer with up to 4 people using the voice chat feature. It also includes ranks which are based on Experience Points and consists of completing one level to reach to the level above and reach the total of 50 levels. The game uses avatars commonly known as characters who in this case are first person shooters. This also allows the play...