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1949 Ecuador War of the Worlds Rerun
led the people of Quito storming the radio station and starting a fire that killed six people
1968 Buffalo War of the Worlds Rerun
led to the police receiving over 4000 calls and the military being dispatched due to a broadcast by WKBW
Advertorials
adverts that resemble news stories and follow the same template as real posts, but the mode of address is closer to a press release than a journalist’s report
Amusement Park Model
the players can choose which sub-plots they want to do
Bend It Networks/Films
Gurinder Chadha’s film development company, had one hit with Bend It Like Beckham, which grossed over £100,000,000 at box office
Blairwitch Project
film was inspired by War of the Worlds. The premise is that three teenagers go into the woods to make a documentary about a local myth and never return and that the film is their found camera footage. After the film, the writers, Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez, began getting calls from police asking why they’d never heard of these missing persons cases
Billie Jean
the Michael Jackson music video that pioneered the idea of a linear narrative music video
Birmingham Six
six Irishmen who were sentenced to life imprisonment in 1975 for the 1974 Birmingham pub bombings. Their convictions were quashed upon appeal. Many believe that their convictions were due to pressure from the government to charge someone with the IRA bombings
Blank Space
a famous Taylor Swift linear narrative music video
Bohemian Rhapsody
a six-minute rock opera by Queen with a performance music video
Branching Narrative
where the narrative is impacted by player choices
Brixton Riots
a series of clashes between mainly black youths and the mainly white Metropolitan police that occurred as a result of racial tensions catalysed by the 1981 Sus Law
Broadsheets
typically around 29 inches by 23 inches and folded in half to create four distinct pages, primarily focuses on serious news such as political, economic and international topics, use longer sentences and paragraphs providing in depth analysis, audience tends to be more educated and interested in comprehensive reading
Bulletin
list of main news stories to be covered
Child’s Play 3
a Chucky film thought to have influenced Robert Thompson and Jon Venables
Clips of Actuality
clips that are filmed or recorded at the actual place
Cold Case Crime Drama
shows such as Unforgotten, Waking the Dead, The Missing
Columbine High School Massacre
a school shooting in 1999 inspired by Doom and Natural Born Killers
Cornerstone Films
production company involved in Blinded by the Light
Cue
an introduction to the top story, involving an outline of the key facts and figures, followed by pre-recorded clips and commentary
Diaspora
a scattered population whose origin lines in a separate geographic locale in particular, refers to involuntary dispersions of a population from its indigenous dispersions
Diaspora Identity
those driven to migration have developed a sense of ‘otherness’ which can be seen in multi-cultural music such as the Asian Network
Doom
a 1993 PS1 first-person shooter that inspired to Columbine High School Massacre
entertainmentOne
distribution company involved in Blinded by the Light
Everytime
an example of an artistic aspirations music video that shows Britney Spears fantasising about suicide
Femme Fatale
an attractive and seductive woman who causes disaster to any man who becomes involved with her
Film Noir
typically shot in gloomy greys, blacks and whites, thematically showed the dark and inhumane side of human nature with cynicism and doomed love, and they emphasised the brutal, unhealthy, seamy, shadowy, dark and sadistic sides of the human experience
Forensic Investigations Crime Drama
crime drama such as Silent Witness
Gendered Feminist Perspective
crime dramas such as Prime Suspect
Ghostwatch
a British reality-horror/mockumentary television film broadcast on BBC1 on Halloween Night 1992. Despite having been recorded weeks in advance, the narrative was presented as live television. During its first and only UK broadcast, an estimated 30000 calls were made to the BBC switchboard. Days after the broadcast, intellectually disabled teenager Martin Denham committed suicide as a result. It was based on the Enfield poltergeist conspiracy
Greetings From Bury Park
the autobiography of Sarfraz Manzoor that Blinded by the Light is based on, outlines his experiences growing up in Luton in the 1980s and discovering the music of Bruce Springsteen. The title is a play on Greetings From Asbury Park, a Bruce Springsteen album
Gurinder Chadha
director of Blinded by the Light
Ingenious Group
investment company involved in Blinded by the Light
Jaws
made many people scared of sharks and too scared to get in the sea and perpetuated many harmful stereotypes of sharks
Levantine Films
supported Bend It Networks with development, an investment company who had major success with Hidden Figures in 2016 which grossed £230,000,000 at box office
Leveson Inquiry
a public inquiry into how NewsCorp had hacked phones belonging to celebrities, politicians, members of the royal family, relatives of deceased British soldiers and victims of the 7/7 bombings
Like A Prayer
a controversial example of an artistic aspirations music video that involved a Black Jesus and postmodern techniques such as a curtain at the end
Linear Narrative
where the narrative is predetermined and always ends in the same way
Live Cross
a two-way interview with a correspondent or specialist
Lone Charismatic Rule Breaker Cop
Poirot, Marple, Frost, Morse, Luther
Mast Head
the large font title at the top of a newspaper
Michael Ryan
the perpetrator of the Hungerford Massacre, thought to have been inspired by violent video games such as Rambo
Middle-Market Dailies
a type of tabloid aimed at more educated people than red-tops, but less educated than broadsheets
Multi-Stranded Narrative
many players interact in one world building a complex set of narratives
Murder of Milly Dowler
Milly Dowler was a 13-year-old girl who was strangled by Levi Bellfield in 2002. Originally, police believed Dowler was still alive as her voicemails were being listened to. It later transpired that her phone had been hacked by NewsCorp and they were listening to her voicemails whilst she lay dead. This led to the formation of the Leveson Inquiry.
Music Television
launched in 1981, MTV was the brainchild of Robert Pittman, a channel hosted by Sky that only played music videos. It was aimed at tech-aware and music-buying young adults, and had global appeal
Artistic Aspirations
where the song is part of a piece that attempts to create a deeper link to ideas in a song, such as Madonna’s Like A Prayer
Hybrid
a combination of several different types of music video
Linear Narrative
where the song soundtracks a story that mirrors the song. It is empathetic to the story mood of the song and weas pioneered by Michael Jackson’s Billie Jean
Meaningful Symbolic
a mix of images hinted at the meaning with no perceptive narrative that creates enigmas with no resolution
Performance
involves live concert footage of the artist performing or wandering around to add meaning, mood, tone or context, such as Sinead O’Connor’s Nothing Compares to You
Natural Born Killers
1994 American crime film about two people who experienced traumatic childhoods and went on to become lovers and mass murderers, which is said to have inspired a multitude of copycat crimes
Neo Noir
the reimagining of film noir
Nino Frank
coined the term ‘film noir’ in 1946
Non-Linear Narrative
although the narrative is linear, how someone gets from point to point is up to them, e.g. Venice ending in Tomb Raider II
Nothing Compares to You
an example of a performance music video by Sinead O’Connor
Outro
where the presenter signs off
Political Conspiracy Crime Drama
crime drama such as Bodyguard
Red Tops
a type of tabloid, report on politics and international news but tend to include more celebrity gossip and scandal
Rupert Murdoch
the owner of NewsCorp
Sandbox Narrative
where there is minimal narrative, like Minecraft
Sound Bite
a short extract from a recorded interview or speech
Spine
a quick overview of an article’s key points at the beginning of an article
Stephen King’s Rage
a book by Stephen King about a school shooter that is now banned worldwide due to it inspiring a multitude of real school shootings
Strawberry Fields/Penny Lane
one of the earliest music videos; a performance music video by The Beatles
Stinger
indicates the transition to the next program
Sundance Film Festival
an annual function since 1985 in Utah run by a non-profit by Robert Redford’s non-profit Redford’s Sundance Institute. The festival gathers together producers and audience to introduce new perspectives through independent films
Sus Law
a law based in 1981 giving police unilateral power to stop and search anyone deemed suspicious
Tabloids
typically smaller in size with colourful front pages, emphasize sensational stories, celebrity gossip and scandals, use a more informal and provocative style, with shorter articles and more pictures, targeted towards a broader audience, typically those who want entertainment and bite-size news
Tango’s Orange Man
a controversial Tango advert from 1992 directed by Matt Forrest that had be banned after school children started copying the violence in it
That’s How You Like It
an example of a performance music video by Beyonce
Thirteen Reasons Why
a Netflix series thought to have caused an increase in rates of teenage suicide
True Crime Crime Drama
crime drama such as Appropriate Adult, Des, Little Boy Blue, The Moorside, See No Evil
Video Killed The Radio Star
the first music video played on MTV, by The Buggles
Vox Pop
popular opinion as represented by informal comments from members of the public
Voice Indent
a tagline at the beginning of a radio broadcast
War of the Worlds
a 1938 radio drama directed by Orson Welles based on the novel by H.G.Wells, which caused widespread panic because people thought the world was genuinely being invaded by violent aliens from Mars
Welles’s Formula
where a news report is made as scary as possible so people have to listen
Wrap
draws a report to a conclusion
Yesterday
a paranormal romcom jukebox musical about The Beatles that appealed to the same niche audience as Blinded by the Light and was released at the same time
You Belong With Me
an example of a linear narrative music video by Taylor Swift
