Radio show name=Sunny Days 

Starts at 8:30am friday

Intro

Good morning welcome to the sunny days radio show. I’m Orna, and on this show we will be playing indie pop rock songs that give summer vibes, from bands you might not have heard of. In Between these songs we will have small breaks of chat, where we discuss indie video games and elaborating on what we call our all time favourites. But before we get into all of that, let’s start the morning off right, with hot rod and by dayglow followed by drop the guillotine by peach pit. Enjoy.

(Break for 2 songs)

(5 minute section) possibly more if when tested it runs over

“Allllrighttt were back and I have my live guest with me alice shingles with me today”

( alices says “hello it’s nice to be here”)

“ and she’s here to answer my question about indie video games.”

“Okay Alice starting off the interview, what would you say are your top 3 favourite indie games that fall into the categories of horror, adventure, and all time comfort games.”

(let her answer with the titles)(only catch horror one has to be little nightmares or a game that I can relate to little nightmares for the next question)

Ask her to elaborate and give a summary of the game for the listeners. Starting with horror, then adventure, then all time comfort game

(check time length of just answering these)

(Then if theres more time follow with this)

“Okay after hearing you mention the indie game little nightmares as your favourite horror game I would love to hear your opinions on I guess you could call it the prequel that came out just a bit ago called little nightmares 2. could you summarise the storyline for our listeners that might not have heard of it and could you give your overall thoughts on the game.

(let her talk about it summary and overall thoughts about the game plus rating out of 10)

And if there’s still time before she rates the game I talk about my theory on the huntsman and the loop theory depending if you don’t talk about it)

“Okay thank you alice for coming on the show it was great to hear your thoughts and theories about these games and i’m sure the listeners were glad to hear your opinions as well”

(alice replies back with “thanks for having me”or “it was a pleaser”)

End of live chat

“Okkkayyy back to the tunes next up we have Peach Tree Rascals with Things Won’t Go My Way, followed by peach pit again with one of their newer songs puppy grin. Enjoy.

(Break for 2 songs)

“Helllloo again now we are going to be going to a pre recorded segment where I went around asking students at hautlieu what video games impacted them the most and there thoughts on them now. Enjoy.”

(go to pre recorded bit)

“Wasn’t that eye opening. That segment hopefully might have given you listeners a game or 2 to try out next. Anyways our radio show is coming close to the end so we are going to end it how we began with the 2 same bands with there songs figure of 8 by the one and only peach pit and to end the show with a nice up beat tune called Listerine by dayglow.” 

(Break for 2 songs)

Outro

“okay that’s been sunny days radio show thanks for listening”

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Teen vogue– Teen Vogue is a former US print magazine and current online publication launched in 2003 as a sister publication to Vogue, targeted at teenage girls. Like Vogue, it included stories about fashion and celebrities. The magazine had also expanded its focus from fashion and beauty to include politics and current affairs.Teen Vogue‘s original price was $1.50.The publication began with four test issues, then published six issues in 2003 and ten in 2004.led by former Vogue beauty director Amy Astley under the guidance of Anna Wintour with Gina Sanders as founding publisher.

tomb raider-Tomb Raider is a 1996 action-adventure video game developed by Core Design and published by Eidos Interactive. It was first released on the Sega Saturn, followed shortly by versions for MS-DOS and the PlayStation.

Initial release date: October 25, 1996

Lara Croft’s character is how her pose, and clothing are clear examples of objectifying women.

Tomb raider is one of the first games with a female protagonist which I can see as a positive action done by the developers, but the way they have displayed her character is engunuin since on the one hand, it’s promoting female protagonist, but then on the other hand the cover has subliminal messages behind the character to make her more desired by sexualizing her.

-She is shown to be a sex icon, reinforced by her clothing and the way she pants and breathes heavily throughout the game. She is also know to have a 24inch waist and a 36inch bus.

Lara Croft – originally Laura Cruz name changed for US audience. Female archaeologist and action hero 

Issues of Gender representation. [Mulvey and the male gaze.] 

the voice- is a dominantly black media service that offers articles on news and entertainment

Founded: August 30, 1982

marshall mcluhan- elaborates on the point that media is the message but you will never fully understand the message without understanding the media it uses to get to you.

and the impact of that on individuals is that when technology becomes more accessible it truly create more separation as the more its accessible the more people

in terms of teen vogue and other sights like it it would personalise news feeds to ur liking or target marketing

free platform can be associated with the voice as its a non profit news page that interacts with the community

one on one market can be referred as well to teen vogue with direct or targeted articles one made

Strinati points out that ‘the distinction between culture and society is being eroded’ (231) and suggests that our sense of reality (the overarching metanarrative) appears to come from the culture (eg the media), rather than from society which is then reproduced, represented and relayed through media communication. In terms of media studies, this marks a juncture from previous conceptions of mass media communication, for example, as a ‘relay system’ – a process which just relays information and events in real time to a mass society, or the conception of the media as a ‘window on the world’ (Strinati:233). From a societal perspective the ‘real’ seems to be imploding in on itself, a ‘process leading to the collapse of boundaries between the real and simulations’ (Barker & Emma, 2015:242). A process which the French intellectual Jean Baudrillard would describe as IMPLOSION which gives rise to what he terms SIMULACRA. The idea that although the media has always been seen as a representation of reality – a simulation, from Baudrillard’s perspective of implosion, it is has become more than a representation or simulation and it has become SIMULACRUM not just a representation of the real, but the real itself, a grand narrative that is ‘truth‘ in its own right: an understanding of uncertain/certainty that Baudrillard terms the HYPERREAL.

4 How valid are Baudrillard’s ideas of simulation and hyperreality to understanding the
media?
You should refer to the Close Study Products Score and Maybelline to support your
answer.(20)

(propp)stock characters

The Hero – Richard

The Villian – Polly

The Helper – Annabel

The False Hero – The Mother 

The Donor – polly

The Dispatcher – Polly

The Princess – Annabel

(claud Levi)binary oppositions

rich vs poor

educated vs non-educated 

normal families vs destructive broken families

old vs young

incest vs normal

changing audience consumption patterns

Hesmondhalgh argues that its tricky to guarantee audience satisfaction as audiences taste in the media is constantly evolving

this can apply with no offence from the themes of the show trying to add more different representation to keep appealing to audiences who love crime shows. by having the different representation such as a more predominantly female cast along side with inclusive representation of people who suffer with down syndrome. this can expand to further audiences or catch more attention of previous crime show fans who might watch the show for personal representation or audiences who like more female representation in leading roles.

multisector intergration

Hesmondhalgh explains how media corporations can create cross brand profits in other production other than the original product

such as the killing and the made dv box set for it creates more profit. and the further cross promotion of the show on Netflix and channel 4 which links with multi sector integration.

Livingstone and Lunt

Q: What is the difference between a consumer based media regulation system and a citizen based regulation system?

citizen- based regulation= encourage media corporations to produce content that contributes to the social and cultural health of the societies in which they operate 

consumer based regulation= choices regarding content are largely devolved to audiences and where media makers are given as much freedom as possible to make the media that audiences want to consume

Q. What impact did the 2003 Communications Act have on media regulation?

tries to ensure that a single media organisation does not dominate the media landscape. but Livingstone and Lunt say “the act is too free and that there are very little accountability of citizens interests”. they’ve said the act was too light of an enforcement.

Q. What is the drawback of a self-regulated system?

companies can’t regulate themselves since what the public might complain is inappropriate the company might view as fine and there’s no laws or rules to hold them accountable. a good example of this is the Amanda Jane dowler incident.

Q. How do you regulate media content and organisations on a global scale?

to regulate on a global scale is tricky since its hard to choose who regulates who

neoliberalism

• the act can link to our case studies from what pattern of narrative all the case studies have. and how the reason for them all being so similar is on the public base interests gravitate toward the cliches or stereotypes. its a recipe that work so its away of garennting viewer ship and or profit back.

CATEGORY	FAMILIARITIES: from your chosen CSP’s	DIFFERENCES: from your chosen CSP’s	THEORY
CHARACTERS	In the Missing & Witnesses the main detectives have a ‘natural’ instinct and ethics for law and order / good and bad	In the Missing & Witnesses the main detective is not the typical ‘male hero’ Missing French, old, retired, limping. In Witnesses young, bold, female, French, immigrant, single mother	PROPP, presents the idea of STOCK CHARACTERS, inc ‘hero’, ‘false hero’, ‘princess’ (Witnesses), ‘father figure’, ‘despatcher’ (Missing)
NARRATIVE	in no offence and the killing the similar in narrative would be both of the victims were young women since the usual trop is that women are the ones to be rescured	differences in narrative would be the difference in scenes as no offence is in the city and the killing is placed in a rural area	CHATMAN / FREYTAG /TODOROV
THEMES	similarities in themes would be how both of the programs have women leading roles		LEVI-STRAUSS the use of key themes to structure stories and characters around familiar themes: family, community, law and order, justice. Often set up as binary oppostions: right/wrong urban/rural, young/old, good/bad
REPRESENTATION			PIERCE / BARTHES / SAUSSURE: SEMIOTICS radical and reactionary representations of police, family, law and order, through a range of signs (visual, graphic, audio, narrative, thematic etc)
TECHNICAL CODES / LANGUAGE OF MOVING IMAGE (music, setting, props, lighting, use of camera, editing etc)

No Offence

No Offence is a British television police procedural drama on Channel 4, created by Paul Abbott. It follows a team of detectives from Friday Street police station, a division of the Manchester Metropolitan Police.

No Offence provides a wide range of representational areas to explore; gender, place, class, ethnicity, race etc.Negative and positive use – or subversion – of stereotypes, particularly around the representation of women and the police.Representation of issues – series 1 deals with the disappearance and murder of children with Down’s Syndrome and raises questions about attitudes to and treatment of people with disabilities.

The production, distribution and circulation of No Offence shows how audiences can be reached, both on a national and global scale, through different media technologies and platforms, moving from the national to transnational through broadcast and digital technologies

No Offence was broadcast on Channel 4, can still be accessed on All4, it was also broadcast in France.

The Killing

The Killing is a Danish police drama television series created by Søren Sveistrup. It was first broadcast on the Danish national television channel DR1 on 7 January 2007, and has since been transmitted in many other countries worldwide.

The Killing provides a range of representational areas to explore, including gender roles, family structures and the political class. It can be argued that these are innovative representations which have been influential in the development of the genre. Part of The Killing’s original appeal was in its representation of Danish culture to a UK audience.

The Killing was the catalyst for the wider distribution of foreign language crime programming on UK television, its unexpected success influencing BBC4’s scheduling but also that of other UK channels. The Killing was produced the Danish national public service broadcaster DR, providing the opportunity to study PSB in a different national context.

To what extent do television producers attempt to target audiences national and global audiences through subject matter and distribution?

subject matter. cultural links such as feminism and the representation of down syndrome in no offence

Curran and Seaton mention good points to consider with how a media product is distributed, especially in tv. such as the time its brand casted can all factor in for what audiences the network is aiming for subject matter. cultural links such as feminism and the representation of down syndrome in no offence

commercial media- is a organisation that makes products for profit

No Offence launched with 2.5 million viewers, Channel 4’s biggest midweek drama launch for more than three years. In France, the first episode of No Offence aired on 29 February 2016 on France 2 and was watched by 5.46 million viewers, 20.4% of the TV audience.

horizontal intergration-DR1 (DR Et) is the flagship television channel of the Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR). It became Denmark’s first television station when it began broadcasting in 1951 – at first only for an hour a day three times a week. owned by DR (formerly Danmarks Radio),officially the Danish Broadcasting Corporation in English, is a Danish public-service radio and televisionbroadcasting company.

the killing was produced by channel 4 owned by Channel Four Television Corporation which then is owned by the UK Government Investments

media concentration/convertgients-(Concentration of media ownership (also known as media consolidation or media convergence) is a process whereby progressively fewer individuals or organizations control increasing shares of the mass media.)

My intention for my 3 adverts are to use the following theorists,Propp’s character functions, and Peirce’s Sign Theory, or Semiotics. I want at least 2 of my adverts to have some mention of the game i created on the front cover, “oakvally”. I plan to incorporate them in a sponsor ad or a game bundle advert.

For my first advert I planning to create a game bundle advert for 3 different games. 

I plan to use out of the following 2 layouts as my display for this advert;

(competition layout of with a ^ formation of 3 games)

or

(page is split into 3 slashes showing action shots of the 3 games)

I think both of the layouts have their potential but the advert layout that’s divided into 3 might either be more eye catching to audiences or simply might fit correctly for an A4 and might work better as a landscape advert. But on the other hand the use of triangles to display the different games in the bundle could be another promising layout and will work with the A4 sizing. 

For my second advert I want to do a sponsored advert of a console sponsoring my game oakvally. Examples of possible companies I could use to cross platform are, PS4 or twitch. These two companies would have different effects in sharing the game across audiences. Using PS4 would give the intention for audiences to buy the game and can give a good wide reach across different audiences for users who have a PS4. this is still very useful but it wouldn’t engage the audience as much as being sponsored by twitch as it would reach a wider range of audiences who enjoy indie games and would be streaming the game playthrough through the platform which then is more free promotion and engages the audiences and can mean there more likely to buy the game since there favourite streamers have played it. The target audience would be the same age range of  young teens for oakvally and followers of PS4 or twitch.

For my third advert I want to attempt to use silhouettes for a more simplistic but effective style for video game characters. This will be an advert for a separate game that would be coming out on PS4. I want to see how simplistic I can go with the advert but still have it look professional and realistic to what you would get in a video game magazine. I’ve seen this stype be used on PS4 covers and I think it displays a more subtle but effective show of strength and confidence of the character without having to physically show those emotions on their face. It’s a good way to make the audience, instead, focus on the body language of the character because, that is the only thing the designer has allowed them to see.

(the PS4 advert reference for advert 3)

front cover layout references

content page layout references

double page references

colour scheme references for part of 2d advert

3rd Advert References

Curran and Seaton present the view that a free press relies on a free market where individual newspapers can compete through their political stances and points of view where individual newspapers can compete through their political stances and points of view.

Analyze the ways that The i and the Daily Mail attempt to establish a distinctive identity within this free market. To what extent has this been successful? Refer to the specific edition of your case study – for both papers – as well as, on-line versions of these publications.

Curran and Seaton elaborate, and further explain the theory byJurgen Habermas on the topic of, the “Free Press”. The theory of the “Free Press” was the idea that the press should be uninfluenced, or be persuaded by large corporations enforcing their ideologies, and views in the daily news. The Liberal theory is the freedom to publish in the free market, to “ensure that the press reflects a wide range of options and interests in society.” quoted by Curran from the liberal theory of press freedom. Where giant conglomerates are not driven by logic of profit and power, but instead to benefit and inform the public sphere. Curran quoted “The UK regards press freedom as an absolute freedom, the government leaves it to the market forces to decide which press products survive”.Or in other words Curran describes the market as survival of the fittest. The news has become a product to be bought, and sold instead of what should be, the expression of all information without a hidden agenda of profit. Therefore, we can link this information from Curran and Seaton to our case studies, theiand the Daily Mail. In addition, we can see theorists work about audience theory such as Habermas, Chomsky, together with Gramsci, through theiand Daily Mail’s similarities, and or traditions of both newspapers.

First beginning with thei, theiis a newspaper brand that began in 2010 on the 26th October. The i was launched as a sister paper to The Independent. Then later was acquired by Johnston Press in 2016, after The Independent shifted to a digital-only model. Then in November 2019, the paper and the digital model, were both bought out by Daily Mail and General Trust plc. Theidoes not particularly have the clearest audience profile according to the website “statista”, with their data showing the age range being 15+ for its readers and having a slightly more following of women than men. The way theiis presented, can also be a reflection on its readers. As theihas more pictures in comparison to other newspapers, which could reflect the certain class of the population, theiis trying to target. which with the previous data it would seem more middle/lower class. Theinewspaper focuses on politics and social inequalities which appeals more to Habermas’ free press theory as their focusing on hard news that has beneficial properties to the public sphere. The political stance of theiis radical and inline with the idea of the unbiased press compared to most conglomerate owned newspapers, being swayed to one or the other. Theiparticularly shows mixes or right, and left points off view which gives a more equal point of view on news stories. Unfortunately, theinewspaper approach and style of presenting news stories, with unbiased or equal opinions on both sides, as curran phrases ‘anyone is free to start a daily national newspaper, but few can afford even to contemplate the prospect’. Which for the i’s prospects correlates with the data from “statista” that theihas been decreasing in sales and was declining by 38% from June 2019. A newspaper’s life depends on its viewpoints, and presentation of news being desired, and the constant showfront of hard news that theipresents compared to a lot of current newspapers, who fill feed excessive amounts of soft news for profit, it becomes more the dominant ideologies for our newspapers to be not only, be a source of information about the public sphere. But tied in with the use of Elihu Katz theory of Uses and gratifications or even Maslow hierarchy of needs, the news has in addition become more of a platform for sources of enjoyment and or escapism than the basic feed of information to the public sphere.

The daily mail on the contrary could be also seen as just of a liberal press as thei,however the daily mail has always shown more extreme views referring to right wing views, with substantially less left-wing views being favoured in their news stories. Examples of these extreme right-wing views, one headline comes to mind from the 16th of July 1993, reading “Abortion hope after ‘gay genes’ finding“. This headline was commenting on the Xq28 gene, the Mail’s was criticisedas “perhaps the most infamous and disturbing headline of them all”. According to a December 2004 survey, 53% ofDaily Mailreaders voted for the Conservative Party, compared to 21% for Labour and 17% for the Liberal Democrats. Curran also states that “the national press was overwhelmingly right wing”. We can link this with Noam Chomsky argument that the mass media “are effective and powerful ideological institutions, that carry out a system-supportive propaganda function, by reliance on market forces, internalised assumptions, and self-censorship, and without overt coercion”, by means of the propaganda model of communication. So, in other words, Chomsky is explaining why their audience’s media’s political stance is the way it is. These conglomerates coerce their audience’s over time with propaganda and opinions to shape their audience to a line with their opinions.

Thus, with changing their audience, it makes sense to cater their news for the most profit to the larger demographic of the manipulated, political opinions of their audience. which from that survey was Conservative(right winged). Throughout the years the pattern of click bait and right-wing headlines, is a clear tactic of physical click bait, woven in an excessive amount of soft news contributing, to entice readers.

The daily mail is considered as one of the top newspapers in England winning “The National Newspaper of the year award” 7 times from 1995 across to 2019. And with the internet becoming more popular as the 2000’s progressed, this conglomerate adapted to the change, and not only kept producing papers, but spreaded their product across various online platforms with its own website and appearing on apps such as snapchat. This ensures that the daily mail reaches many more audiences or using the media term globalized across the world. Crossing platforming opens their product to more audiences therefore giving a higher chance for more profit overall.

In conclusion the daily mail and theinewspaper both had very separate identities in the public sphere from their presentations, their business tactics, and media theorist tactics by using uses and gratifications to appeal to readers on a more physiological level appealing to the hierarchy of needs that Maslow describes as the fundamentals that every person needs. The references to Gramsci, and Chomsky’s work, of how these conglomerates control and manipulate the readers views and opinions over time. It showed that from these theories that have been learned and adapted over the years the one newspaper who has lived through it all and has used it to their advantage is the daily mail. Theiwas the slightly more radical of a newspaper out of the two, with its shorter life span, before being bought out. Shows us how important these theories, and past media knowledge is to stay in the public interest. Am I saying that the daily mails presentation is the only conglomerate of news that works in today’s society? No, but I will say that from the theory of cultivation, you must adapt your audience over time and appeal to their fundamentals, to keep yourself afloat in the mass ocean of media sources and products.