BBC Radio 1 Viewing Figures

Dear All

Please make a note in your textbook:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2019/rajar-2018-q4

The Radio 1 Breakfast Show with Greg James has increased listeners by more than 300,000 in his first full quarter.

Latest Rajar data shows since Greg James started on the Radio 1 Breakfast Show, there has been an increase of listeners aged 10+ to 5.59m (Monday-Thursday), from 5.28m last quarter.

The same period (17 September-16 December 2018) has also seen a record for digital listening, with the proportion of digital listening now at 52.6%, and podcast listening also reaching a record high with 6.2 million listening to at least one podcast each week and 3 million 15-34 year olds.

Bob Shennan, Director of BBC Radio and Music, says: “It’s brilliant that our new and fresh Radio 1 Breakfast Show is doing so well, on air as well as digitally on BBC Sounds, social media and YouTube. Greg James is a superb DJ and we know his listeners love the show. We can see that a busy few months for listeners in the run up to Christmas has impacted on all radio listening in the UK, but despite that our radio breakfast shows demonstrate what an important role live radio still plays in people’s daily lives with millions waking up to BBC radio, whether it’s for brilliant music, great guests or comprehensive news coverage.

“Nearly 9 in 10 people continue to listen to radio in the UK but as we know listening habits are changing. We’ve made great strides in reinventing our overall audio offer so that audiences now and in the future can discover the very best of the BBC, whenever they want to. This is paying off and increasing numbers of people are listening to music, radio and podcasts on BBC Sounds with recent record figures.” All BBC radio’s weekly reach over the period (Q4, 17 September-16 December 2018) was 33.9 million (34.3m last quarter and 35.01m last year) and a share of 50.9% (51.7% last quarter and 52.8% last year).

BBC Radio 1 posted a reach of 10.19 million listeners aged 10+ (from 10.56m last quarter and 10.72m last year). There were 9.37 million 15+ listeners (from 9.6m last quarter and 9.8m last year) while the network’s share of listening was 5.7% (from 6% last quarter and 5.9% last year). The Radio 1 Breakfast Show now attracts 5.59m listeners 10+ (Monday-Thursday), up from 5.28m last quarter. This quarter saw 5.11million 15+ listeners (Monday-Thursday), compared to 4.88m last quarter and 5.32m last year.

How to present your NEA (Coursework) Part 1: Setting out your Blog

Dear Students

You need to set out your blog clearly and logically. Use this guide to help:

Make sure your posts are in this order, so that when we load up your blog, Post 1 is the first post we see, etc.

Post 1: Note to the Moderator (see separate post)
Post 2: Music Video
Post 3: Website
Post 4: Website planning
Post 5: Website research
Further posts:
• storyboard 
• location report(s) 
• notes on casting and mise-en-scène considerations 
• mock-up of my webpage 
• rough cuts/drafts 
• audience research and feedback

To help navigate your blog, please add the following labels to your posts and display the labels clearly in your navigation bar:
* Website research
* Website Planning
* Music Video Research
* Music Video Planning
* Audience Research
* Audience Feedback
Make sure you have at least 2 posts for each label.

How to present your NEA (Coursework) Part 2: Note to the Moderator

Dear Students

In the post below, see how to present your coursework - order in which your posts should appear on your blog, plus what to include:

Post 1 (the first post we see when we go to your blog, so the latest post):

Welcome note to the Moderator, reading something like this: 

Dear Moderator, My name is *Paul Bloggs* Candidate No. *XXXX*, and welcome to my A Level Media Studies blog. This is a record of the work I have undertaken for the Making Media (Component 03/04) non-examined assessment (NEA) within the OCR H409 GCE A Level course in Media Studies. 

I worked independently  on Brief 4: music video and online to produce a three-minute music video for a fictional dance band/artist signed to Universal Music, and the working website for the band/artist. My production is aimed at a culturally sophisticated, 16–25 class AB demographic.

Below you will find evidence of my research and planning for this task, including:

* my research into professionally produced music videos and artist websites that are similar in genre, style and form to those proposed in my chosen production brief. This includes:
              * My deconstruction, analysis and notes on these professionally produced music videos and artist websites that has developed my knowledge and understanding  of my chosen media form’s distinctive media language.
   This includes for example: 
• how genre conventions are employed 
• how and why intertextuality is employed 
• how combinations of media language elements such as camerawork, editing, soundtrack and mise en are mise en scène are used to create meaning and construct representations that address an intended audience. 

I have also analysed professional artist websites as part of my cross-media brief in terms of: 
• layout 
• navigation 
• use of language 
• use of images/text/audio/video.

PLANNING
In terms of planning, you will find below:
• storyboard 
• location report(s) 
• notes on casting and mise-en-scène considerations 
• mock-up of my webpage 
• rough cuts/drafts 
• audience research and feedback.

STATEMENT OF INTENT
You will also find below the Statement of Intent I have completed for my cross-media production My Statement of Intent outlines the ways in I proposed to link my media products to demonstrate my knowledge and understanding of the digitally convergent nature of my production. I also outline the ways in which I proposed to use the four areas of the media theoretical framework to communicate meaning and meet the requirements of the brief.

I hope you enjoy my work and find it both successful and interesting. Please use the navigation bar to access my work as organised into labels. There is also a link to the School's blog hub and my other classmates' blogs.

Another Mrs Williams Video

Another holiday music video inspired by the Year 13's work this year.

Warner Bros Harry Potter Trip

Great fun was had on our annual trip to Warner Bros Studios. Some exciting new additions this year - we could actually talk to some of the prop-makers, graphic designers and storyboard artists, mint a coin ready for the new Gringotts opening next month, and, of course, drink butterbeer in the cafe.

Music Video Madness

It's a while since I posted an original video, but, inspired by all the amazing work Year 13 have been doing on videos this week, I've made a remix to Mako's song 'Our Story' combining a whole load of others to show seven years of holidays at Landmark Trust properties with friends of ours. Seven years in under four minutes... Or in other words, it's taken me seven years to make this video...

Blogger of the Week and Essay of the Week

Last week we introduced a new category to the awards - Essay of the Week, won by Jazmin. This week's winner is... Jazmin again for an extremely well-researched essay on the political, economic and cultural contexts of the BBC Radio 1 Breakfast Show. Very close runner-up was Jemima, whose essay was also impressive.



Blogger of the Week this week goes to Lily, who has done some fantastic work on her website, include making her own domain name. Webtastic!!