Short, targeted revision tasks with questions.

Yr 11 REVISION: CUFFSShort, targeted revision tasks with questions. Research suggests that being asked to recall information regularly will aid your recall.TV: INDUSTRY & AUDIENCE

1. Name one channel for each

• publically-owned PSB television providers- BBC
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• commercially-owned PSB television providers- ITV5
• commercially-owned non-PSB television providers - Sky, Sony

2. PSB purposes: true or false?

• making viewers laugh- FALSE

• Informing our understanding of the world- TRUE

• Representing diversity and alternative viewpoints- TRUE

• Reflecting the UK’s cultural identity- TRUE

3. PSB characteristics? h*** quality (HIGH QUAILTY), **iginal (ORIGINAL), i**ovative (INNOVATIVE); cha********(CHALLENGING),. WIdely *********(AVAILABLE),, dist******* (DISTINCTIVE)

4. Give the word for "the period before 9pm and after 5.30am when programmes containing material unsuitable for children cannot be shown – this includes sexual content, violence, graphic or disturbing imagery and swearing."- WATERSHED

5. This means that programmes such as Cuffs have to be very careful about their content, which might be seen to reduce the realism of the programme as, for example,...... - THE CRIMINA AVOIDS SWEARING

6. True or false? 
The BBC has extra PSB requirements, written into its Royal Charter, because of its distinctive funding. These largely reflect those above, but include the purpose: ‘to reflect the UK, its culture and values to the world'  - FALSE

7. The BBC has to simultaneously provide ‘distinctively’ PSB content while remaining popular enough to justify charging everyone the licence fee. It attempts to do this in television by offering a stable of channels which offer between them both mass entertainment and quality PSB programming.Which of these describes BBC1 and which BBC2:

• a niche channel that offers ‘programmes of depth and substance -BBC2
• a mass audience channel for all the ‘unites and inspires the nation with high quality programmes across a range of genres’ - BBC1

8. True or false? 

0. Many BBC programmes are now made by independent television production companies- TRUE

9. Tiger Aspect and Cuffs  Say any three things that you know about Tiger Aspect or what kind of replacement programme was required -   its a successful ‘independent’ production company which is part of a group (Endemol Shine Productions),