Music Industry

Live lounge                                                     12/9/22

L/O: to research the radio industry  

Commercial radio = Commercial broadcasting is the broadcasting of television programs and radio programming by privately owned corporate media.

Public service radio = broadcasting intended for public benefit rather than to serve purely commercial interests.

Public service radio = serves the benefit of the public.

Commercial radio = Paying = sky radio. Adverts= pay for private fm, heart, radio. Its also includes Music, Presenters, Advertisements, News, weather and traffic.

Pirate FM= They normally play PoP/ anything which is popular at the time. Pirate FM is local and advertises local shops. 

Pirate Fm notes

WWW: Music - News

EBI: Adverts 

Monday 26th September 2022                                 PSB radio 

LO: to research the radio industry 

- what does the term public service broadcast mean? 

 broadcasting which serves and benefits the public.

- who funds PSB radio? 

It is entirely commercially funded, and the vast majority of its income comes from TV and online advertising. TV licence. 

MONDAY 10TH OCTOBER

research the artist: Raye 

Background: South London ,Croydon she studied at Woodcote High School before being accepted to attend the BRIT School for two years before dropping out after she felt "confined...despite learning an extensive amount" Her mums from Gahanna and dads english 

Age: 24 years old (24 October 1997)

where shes from : South London , Croydon

genre: R&B

Current songs / albums : Raye's third EP, Side Tape, would arrive in May 2018 after the release of singles "Decline" featuring Mr Eazi, and "Cigarette" with Mabel and Stefflon Don, the former being certified Platinum in the United Kingdom and peaking in the top 20 of the charts. In 2019, Raye released the singles "Love Me Again", which later received a remix from Jess Glynne, "Please Don't Touch" and two David Guetta collaborations, "Stay (Don't Go Away)" and "Make It to Heaven", the latter also featuring producer Morten. These singles were followed by the 2020 releases; "All of My Love" with Young Adz, "Tequila" with Jax Jones and Martin Solveig and "Secrets" with Regard in 2020. The latter peaking inside the top 10 of the UK Singles Chart and being certified Platinum by the BPI.

Raye's first mini-album, titled Euphoric Sad Songs, was supported by the singles; "Love Me Again", "Secrets" with Regard, "Natalie Don't", "Love of Your Life" and "Regardless" with Rudimental as well as the promotional single "Please Don't Touch". The project was released on 20 November 2020.

In early 2021, "Bed" with Joel Corry and David Guetta was released. The single would peak at number three on the UK Singles Chart, becoming Raye's highest-charting single as a lead artist on the chart. The former lead single from her upcoming debut studio album, "Call On Me", was released in June 2021. Following her departure from Polydor Records, Raye released the song "I Don't Want You" with producer Riton.

Critical reception: Philip Logan of CelebMix praised the song calling the track "brooding, introspective and confessional" and adding "this is RAYE at her most frank and honest, delivering the songs relatable and conversational lyrics with delicate fragility, and blunt candour – yet still with a hint of that trademark “Rachel Agatha Keen” sass that we’ve all grown to love! As whilst there’s a genuine and tangible feeling of vulnerability that runs through the track, underneath all of the hurt, we uncover RAYE’s steely determination and willingness to forsake her own broken heart, to go into battle to try and win back the affection of her man."^[3]

Mark Savage of BBC News expressed similar praises stating that the track was "a funky, modern successor to [Dolly] Parton's classic, [Jolene].^[2]

Awards ect : Brit awards, global rewards , Ivor novella awards , pop justice £20 music 

BBC Radio and audiences       31/10/10

L/O to explore the BBC radio and audience behind the Live Lounge 

 

PSB is for the benefit of the public, they are free.

1. 10 radio networks, This brings the BBC's global audience close to the 500 million people target for 2022, which the BBC is on track to exceed in its 100th anniversary year and = BBC News, Sport, Weather CBBC and CBeebies, iPlayer and BBC Sounds, BBC Red Button and our vast archive. BBC World Service television, radio and online on more than 40 languages.

2.10

3.licence fee

4.pirate fm

5. 50

6. app

Radio one is for 15-29 year olds they target young audience and talk about pop culture using everyday language.

Radio 2 has a demographic 35+, many ex radio 1 presenters are now radio 2 presenters.

BBC radio 4 has aan average demographic of 54, they talk quite formal and have serious chats.

They entertain and engage a broad range of young listeners . its target is 15-29 year olds. They support emerging artists - especially those from the UK a platform for live music.

They use light colours and use fun little games such as the murder mystery game to get the audiences attention, instead of it just being background noise. They have bright funky colours and they have a mix of different races and genders. 

They try to relate to the audience.

BBC RADIO AND AUDIENCES

L/O: To explore the BBC radio contextual issues and the audiences behind the Live lounge 

1. relate to the audience.

2. young adults/ teenagers

3. up incoming artists

4. UK artists 

5. live  music

6. to young

7. adults

1.

Has different races, talks about footy.

2.

Young artists might be on the list 

3.

Self explanatory 

4.

They have a show dedicated to help young people

DONT WANNA FUND BBC

they dont think its important that they have to pay the license fee for popular music which isn't seen as educating to them.

FUND BBC 

Appealing for young people and has shows to help them, Dosent appeal to older people so its not the same as commercial, Live performances. 

Media convergence is a term that can reefer to the merging of previously distinct media technologies and media forms due ti digitisation and computer networking = convergence 

Home work: 

In the last 10 mins they have played Kid laroi( stay )

Psycho (ANNE MAIRE AND AITCH )

Plane waves by clean. 

Regulation

They try to give warnings if the artists swear (before 9)

They advise younger audiences to click off and come back later.

Plurality ensures there is a diversity of view points available and consumed across and within media enterprises and they prevent any one media owner or voice having too much 

Radio 1 protects children under the 18 

Monday 28 November 

Live lounge appeal and format 

The BBC provide a no swearing policy before 9pm.

They give a pre warning for swearing in festivals for example, the black eyed peas.

If there may be any triggers to the content they talk about they would supply a warning and the amount of time to skip the radio for.

The benefits of broadcasting on 2 channels are, The artist get more fame, there are more listeners and it proved the BBC more money. 

Ricky and melvin are both 38, their first episode was aired in april 1st 2001,charlie has hosted the breakfast show at kiss with Ricky and melvin for ten years. Since 2001 the trio have won multiple awards such as the BRIT awards in 2010 and multiple BAFTA awards. 

The live lounge is also the name of a room in the radio 1 studio, where performances are broadcasted.

Artists are filmed in an intimate radio studio, often with little production.

What is the audience appeal of the Live Lounge?

The live lounge appeals to the audience and fits to the audience and fits to uses and gratification theory with, personal identity the audience may relate to the host.

The live lounge appeals to the audience and fits to the audience and fits to uses and gratification theory with, the information people may be interested to the artists up and coming events.

The live lounge appeals to the audience and fits to the audience and fits to uses and gratification theory with, Entertainment people may be enjoying the music playing or the convocations.

The live lounge appeals to the audience and fits to the audience and fits to uses and gratification theory with the show ending people may interact with one and other about the topics of the show.     

Monday 9th jan 2023 

Live lounge

BBC R1 Remit: The remit of Radio 1 is to entertain and engage a range of young listeners with a mix of contemporary music and speech. Its target audience is 15-29 year olds and it should also provide some programming for younger teenagers

How does the Live Lounge appeal to the target audience and meet the BBC remit?

what could you include? who the audience are, what appeals to them and what is the remit.

who are the audience? 15-29 year olds.

how is the audience appealed to? young presenters, young language.

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what is the remix? 

how is the remix met? Entertain- using live music from uk artists  

What evidence from the show could you use to support your answer?

The live lounge appeals to the live lounge bringing on  upcoming and well know celebrities( stormzy, tom holland, becky hill ect) and they may like, having young/ relatable presenters.

An example of this is on the 10th of October they brang on a upcoming artist Self esteem. 

This ensures that the live audience targets teenagers and young adults.

The Live lounge fits to the bbc remit through using young presenters,artists and showing live music which fits perfectly into the democratic of 15-29 year olds. 

How does the Live Lounge appeal to the target audience and meet the BBC remit?

Monday 23rd January

Do now: SHMW

Exam format and questions

1. OFFCOM,BBC,They allow ads from other companys and get money that way, ? 

2. Listening to radio live is an advantage for audiences because they may not have anything better to listen to so they could just turn on radio 1 as background noise, usually its younger audience who have the time.

Accessing radio content online is better for the people who want to keep up to date with the show and they could of missed it due to work ect and it allows them to re run the show, usually its the older audience who may do this.

3.The producers of radio programmes target younger and older audiences by inviting artists, guests and celebrities such as stormzy, tom holland ect. They do this to gain a bigger audience from the following of each celebrity, this targets all audiences because most celebrities have a vast range of different ages, race ect who follow them. 

They also used slang such as "big up, " sick" for the younger audience to relate to as it could be one of there everyday slang they use. 

The Live lounge also talk about how the living prices have gone up as a way for the young adults to relate to. 

6/2/23

THE EXAM 

The Music section of paper 2 has 5 questions 

Question 1,2 & 3 could be on radio

Question 1: Farther, D, TV LICENCE

Question 2: Radio one targets their audience by bringing on artists/ celebrities  into the show, this targets them because if one of your favourite artists/ celebrities are on the show you would obviously click on it, there status gets them more views, for example Stormzy.

The live lounge entertains, educates and informs the public by talking about recent stories, the news and anything else major happening in the UK/world, they also add some live games that the viewers can participate in for rewards as some form of entertainment.

The radio one audience are active with the presenters by the radio one having games, viewers on and a way to message them, they have multiple ways to interact with them and be on the show with them.

The radio one audience can also be passive, lets say you dont want join in with the calls or anything u can listen to the other people on the call or just wait till that section is over and listen to music.

Question 3: 

How does the BBC provide to wider range of content? 

The BBC provides content to the age group of15-29 year olds they do this by referring to relevant topics in the modern day world, I also think they have alot of topics they can talk about when we are on about that friend group because they spend more time on internet.

Why do they do this?

They have such a vast audience age group that they might talk about "relatable" things to them, so then the audience might relate to then share with their friends to show how 'TRUE' this is. So in general they do it so they have a bigger audience. 

  

27/2/23

Dirt

1. Conglomerate = own a set of companies that produces different types of media. Warner bros, BBC.

Diversification = own radio stations and magazines.

 

2. Explain one way that radio stations target their audiences. Use the Radio Live lounge as an example: The radio 1 live lounge invites Guests so the fans of the guest can listen to the Radio and it brings more views, for example Stormzy. He attracts a 15-29 age group.

Target for Q3: make points about how the BBC Radio provide wider content on their radio stations: give examples on Radio 1 and why they have to do this linked to remit

3. BBC Radio provides a wider range of content than commercial radio for several reasons

Firstly Radio 1 provides a broad range of different new music 

This example is due to the remit and in particular that it states that radio should produce a broad range of new music 

We can identify this in the live lounge through them playing Ariana grande, George ezra and kalvin harris  

Music videos                               26/1/23

Things i expect 2 see in a music video - 

The artist,dancers,theme,cgi,singing,storyline,instruments,urban location.

L/0: TO EXPLORE THIS SECTION OF THE UNIT AND RESEARCH CHOSEN CASE STUDIES     

'sk8er boi' - avril lavigne 2002

'Teenage Dirtbag' - Wheatus 2000

Sk8er boi

1.Avril lavigne 

2.sk8er boi

3.Pop/rock/pop-punk

4.16 dec 2003 

5.tells a story told from the singer's viewpoint about her rocker boyfriend and a girl he knew in high school who rejected him because he was a skateboarder and she was a snob.

6.Teenage rebellion/illegal concert at the middle of 7th St and S Spring St in Los Angeles 

7.The artist

Teenage dirtbag

1.Wheatus

2.Teenage dirtbag 

3.Pop rock 

4.2001 Feb 5th

5.About a boy who is seen as a loser and is in love with one of the popular girl[ even tho she has a boyfriend] and then at the end he gets the girl 

6.Just shows what the lyrics was on about but it was all a dream

7.The artist/band/Jason briggs/the girl/ her boyfriend and school students 

Teenage dirtbag- to convey the meaning of the song 

Sk8er boi- To promote the artists image/ status for an audience and to promote the musical prowess for a specific audience

Wheatus- The narrative is the same as the lyrics. 

Avril- The narrative isn't the same as the lyrics. 

Teenage dirtbag- Lip syncing,live performance,Perform to cameras,Tells a story,filmed and edited like a movie,story matches lyrics.

Sk8tr boi- Lip syncing- Live performance, Main focus artist, Perform to camera, 

2nd February 2023 

L/O: to examine the use of media languae in music videos

Mise-en-scene:

Setting

Costume

Props

Lighting

Hair nd makeup

Colour

Performance(positioning,facial expressions,body language

They used this costume because it has a solider camo colouring on it which has connotations to being brave and being a solider 

In this video bruno mars has an expensive costume with his chain and robe, this shows that he is a rich, he also is in a expensive hotel showing his wealth even more.

She is bathing in diamonds, golden tap, make up looks good, see through bath  

Sk8tr boi

They all look like one and other because they are stereotypes for skaters.

She plays into the 2000s punk stereotypes with her heavy eyeliner and wristbands.7

They are rebellious and destroy/ vandalise main parts of LA

Teenage dirtbag 

Stereo typical school american bully because of the coat smug jock.

The main characters social ranking is low, everyone throws stuff at him and hes always alone. 

Set in school, hallways,outside.

09/2/23

1. setting- in Asda/ club because supermarket things 

2. hair and make up - 

3. costume -

L/O: To examine the use of media language in music language

They are wearing masculine clothes, reflects the punk and goth style.

Avril Lavigne and her friends are dressed like Punks .

Its achieved by using Heavy make up and Studded wrists.

This could suggest to the audience that they are rebellious.

In Avril Lavigne's music video, it is set in LA.

We know this as we are shown shots of the street and street signs.

In my opinion the video is set here because its popular

THE LOSER

1. The use of the costume on the loser is done well because its so strange 

2. Jason has no dress sense/ no one looks after him 

3. To look like a loser 

 The music video of Sk8ter boi and Teenage dirtbag use setting and costume to achieve similar effects, for example they both create identities from costumes, these are used effectively because it they made abvril look like a skater and punk with her rebellious actions through out the video and with Jason briggs him being alone , sitting alone , bullied helped him look like a loser.  

23rd feb 2023

Do now 

1. Same hair colour as the grass, alone, desert

2. Her story/herself.

3. low wide shot to show she's alone/ she has the same coloured hair. 

shot type,angle,movement

Dutch a shot in which the camera has been rotated around the axis of the lens and relative to the horizon or vertical lines in the shot

Teenage dirtbag- Naturalistic 

Skater boi- Expressionistic

1.long shot

2.close up/pov to show the main character bring filmed 

3.wide shot to show hes alone and has no friends  

1.high to show she's jumping on a car/ wrecking 

2.low to show the main bully in the centre 

3.dutch to create a sense of unease 

chaotic, shaky,quick,fast,rapid

slow, steady, slow, cinematic,smooth

The camera movement in teenage dirtbag is naturalistic, for example at one point of the video it slowly and calmly pans to the loser eating lunch alone. The cinematic camera works the tone because it relates/ shows the song in a video.

THURSDAY 9TH MARCH 2023

L/O: TO EXPLORE HOW SOUND AND EDITING ARE USED TO CREATE MEANING IN MUSIC VIDEOS

SOUND: 

2 types of sound/Diegetic and Non diegetic

Diegetic = Sound only the character can here

Non diegetic = Sounds only we can hear ect music  

Sk8tr boi

Diegetic sounds: spray cans, helicopter 

Its been included to show the realism on the crimes shes committing

Teenage dirtbag

Diegetic sounds: bully hiting bike, they included this adds realism to the bullying

Editing:

Includes: order of shots, continuity, transitions, shot duration, rhythm, special effects

Linear = presented in chronological order 

Non linear = out of order no clear distinction of time or story   

Pace:

Sk8ter boi: Pace of the music video matches the beat, fast pace song and editing 

Teenage dirtbag: Pace of the music video matches the beat, slow tempo

Sk8ter boi has a faster tempo then Teenage dirtbag to engage the audience and has more cuts as the clips are a short duration whilst Teenage dirtbag has a slower pace to create a story of the music video, the pace of cutting is quite slow in teenage dirtbag compared to sk8tr boi maybe due to sk8tr boi being faster paced. The special effects is the dream in Teenage dirtbag.

Explain one way in which music videos use media language to differ from each-other

One way which music videos use media language such as editing to show how each music video differ from one and other, for example, Sk8tr boi by Abril Lavigne use a quicker tempo and shorter duration of clips which fits perfectly into the rock genre she was looking for, each clip would change after each beat and to contrast, Teenage dirtbag uses a slower pace and a longer duration of clips to add some realism to the characters and create a better understanding story which is quite common for a indie genre, however compared to Sk8ter boi it is quite different, the only similar thing they have is that the clips change after each beat 

Thursday 23rd March 2023 

Do now

Stay at home wife F

bringing the money M

Weak F

Strong M 

Show less emotion M

Over dramatic F

Tie 

bad kid

1. Avril Lavigne = rebellious

2. Punk rock genre = weird

3. Teenagers = rule breaking

4. Setting = City Plymouth

5. Gender = opposite for the girls most of the time

6. Ethnicity = white

7. Sexuality = boy and woman

1. Band = normal / casual / goofy / loved

2. Ethnicity = White 

3. High school = Bullies, classes

4. Teenager = Jocks, popular people and the nerds 

5. Gender = plays the gender stereo types  

6. Sexuality = Men and woman

7. The main female  and female protagonists: Male is a nerd and female is a popular girl

Thursday 30th march 2023

1. none in SB, TB nerd in love with popular girl 

2. both straight

3. SB rebellious,TB Bullies 

4. TB normal stereo type, SB rebellious, leader like 

5. White for both

6. SB: Leader, rebellious. TD: Goofy, likeable

7. SB: Skater, artistic and against the rules, TB none really

8. SB: Non stereo typical for the abril more masculine, Good street in La, A illegal concert. TB, Fits stereo types, normal school, normal school concert  

Thursday 20 April 

DO NOW 

4Mark question

compare how gender representation are constructed in music videos? [refer to 2 music videos that have u studied]

In sk8tr boi, Abril is made to look like as a rebellious skater. Two ways they have done this is by her actions and clothing. She started an illegal rave in the middle of a street, she also wears baggy clothes chains and dosent show much skin. 

Sk8tr boi is a contrast to teenage dirtbag by playing into the normal stereotypes, of female and male. They have the classic jock,nerd and popular girl. The classic jock is seen as the dominant character who normally bullies others, The girl is always seen wearing stereotypical feminine clothes.  

10 mark question

Explain how stereo types are used in music videos.

refer 2 two music video you have studied to support your answer 

Serotypes are used in music videos because they are easy to recognise and identify character

In sk8tr boi they use the teenage rebel stereotype. We see teenagers doing loads of rebellious thing like gratifying walls, abseiling down walls and setting up an illegal street concrete. this shows a lack of respect for rules which fits into the teenage rebel stereotype.

In Sk8tr boi they also use Abril to contrast the common teenage girl stereotype to emphasis the fact that she's a rebellious teenager. ways they do this is by  her appearance. She's seen multiple times wearing very masculine baggy clothes (MISE-ENSCENE), Gratifying and destroying objects to create a very clear  juxtaposition of abril and the common female stereotypes. 

In Teenage dirtbag they use common stereotypes of female. we see the girl wearing very feminine clothing such as dresses(Mise enscene),this is a contrast to sk8tr boi as it fits perfectly into the common stereotypes, the girl is also presented as nice and kind as she disapproves the bullies action which is a vey common stereotype of mothers.

In Teenage dirtbag they also use the common Nerd stereotype to use as a punching bag  to create jokes to entertain the viewers, they do this by showing the "nerd' in ridiculous homeless like clothing(mise enscene),showing him under signs with 'loser' on it and by also using the girl as the common popular girl crush that he would never expect to get. 

10/7/23

mojo magazine

1. Mojos genre is classic modern rock

2. Bauer media publishes mojo

3. 30+

4.

5. Good quality , respected

Mojo audience

L/O: TO EXPLORE AND DEFINE THE MAGAZINES TARGET AUDIENCE 

• Luxury brands are the most successful magazines, huge online competition
• Uses high quality photos, familiar conventions, high quality printing, this adds the brands high quality tone
• Not a luxury magazine but has some features of it like semi glossy paper

Mojo covers both current and established musicians

From mojo you get CDS every month

Mojo covers Artists ( popular ones ) the most

Targets working/middle class

The monthly thing targets more mid class

predominantly female readers

 Small circulation of 68k compared to cosmopolitan has over 1M

65% OVER 35

share of mid class and working class readers

They get access from MOJO/ cds

Listening to music

well educated, Music family

Jolly

Close 2 music since young

Covers his fav type of music whilst also getting to know more.

MOJO U&G 

Personal - reflects audiences passion

Identity - info artists

Entertainment -  music, reviews ect cd

Social interaction - talk about it

Active Audience - can start whenever you want in a magazine 

Tuesday 5th September 2023 

• The artist drake appeals to both men and woman because he talks quite alot about his emotions and he himself can be quite feminine at times.
• The colours used are quite neutral no stereotypes.

Cultured - violin- musical- classical talent = skill 

Masthead- script, type - traditional, elegant + high class

red-educated cultured- Red = Love/ royalty/asian culture/passion fix more classical

Language- Reader well educated Classical music because of terminology = names

Modana first big hit song was Holiday in 1983 which proves the audience are interested in quality music from different decades 

Personal identity for Modana, Looks gothic, rebellious so people could relate to that, its also Satanic.

MOJO U&G

L/O: to explore the appeal of Mojo magazine to is target audience 

Music magazine audience is active because you can choose the magazine to buy and what to read like what genre.

USES & GRATFICATIONS 

Personal identification

Information

Entertainment

Social interaction

INFORMATION

The information is all over the page from multiple people.

Entertainment

Free cds, dramatic visuals a famous superstar who died as the cover [hendrix]

SOCIAL INERCATION

You can talk to people about the content in the magazine. 

MUSIC VIDEO

Media language - 

Camera work - All angle shots [ Low, High, Carted , Arial ], Hand held 

TD/SB, establishing shot, shows the setting high school in usa, low angle to show avbril is respected 

Editing - Fast paced, juxtaposition

Mise en scene - Props. Costume and makeup

Sound - Music, Sound effects 

Tuesday 16th January 

Congolomert is when a company expands into other genres of business eg radio and newspaper.

Q2

Content of Music to attract on older audience a radio station station could play older music or have a set programme to feature music from 60-70

Q3

Themes/Issues

Teenage dirtbag, exclusion eating alone, school life getting bullied

Skater boi, gothic, rebellion street concert stood on a car 

Q4

Social group:  can be young, old, females, male just a group of people

Representation: old,female,male,young eg

Differences of representation: old vs young, male vs female, classical music vs rock

Q5

How far i agree Media Language different

Intro- extracts 1 and 2 use Media language differently to show different messages.

Mid-  Mast head used differently in Mojo to Gramophone, Image, Layout image ect

Conclusion- In Conclusion the media language such as the fonts, colour pallet and lexis is used differently by each extract to portray different messages, creating vastly different values.

Q8

Profit - make money/ revenue 

Create a fan base - after can buy merchandise ect

Q9

Video game released first = more promotion and awareness

Wider audience - older audience video game 10+ film younger of U 

Extends enjoyment of the film , allows multiple characters and info into the characters eg emmet

MORE PROFIT

Q10

Convention= what is expected 

Trailer- 2mins short, best parts, music, dialogue, intro to characters, voice over, action.