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1949 Ecuador War of the Worlds Rerun

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led the people of Quito storming the radio station and starting a fire that killed six people

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1968 Buffalo War of the Worlds Rerun

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led to the police receiving over 4000 calls and the military being dispatched due to a broadcast by WKBW

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Advertorials

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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

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Amusement Park Model

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the players can choose which sub-plots they want to do

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Bend It Networks/Films

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Gurinder Chadha’s film development company, had one hit with Bend It Like Beckham, which grossed over £100,000,000 at box office

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Blairwitch Project

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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

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Billie Jean

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the Michael Jackson music video that pioneered the idea of a linear narrative music video

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Birmingham Six

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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

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Blank Space

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a famous Taylor Swift linear narrative music video

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Bohemian Rhapsody

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a six-minute rock opera by Queen with a performance music video

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Branching Narrative

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where the narrative is impacted by player choices

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Brixton Riots

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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

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Broadsheets

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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

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Bulletin

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list of main news stories to be covered

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Child’s Play 3

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a Chucky film thought to have influenced Robert Thompson and Jon Venables

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Clips of Actuality

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clips that are filmed or recorded at the actual place

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Cold Case Crime Drama

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shows such as Unforgotten, Waking the Dead, The Missing

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Columbine High School Massacre

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a school shooting in 1999 inspired by Doom and Natural Born Killers

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Cornerstone Films

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production company involved in Blinded by the Light

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Cue

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an introduction to the top story, involving an outline of the key facts and figures, followed by pre-recorded clips and commentary

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Doom

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a 1993 PS1 first-person shooter that inspired to Columbine High School Massacre

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entertainmentOne

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distribution company involved in Blinded by the Light

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Everytime

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an example of an artistic aspirations music video that shows Britney Spears fantasising about suicide

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Femme Fatale

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an attractive and seductive woman who causes disaster to any man who becomes involved with her

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Film Noir

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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

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Forensic Investigations Crime Drama

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crime drama such as Silent Witness

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Gendered Feminist Perspective

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crime dramas such as Prime Suspect

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Ghostwatch

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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

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Greetings From Bury Park

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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

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Gurinder Chadha

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director of Blinded by the Light

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Ingenious Group

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investment company involved in Blinded by the Light

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Jaws

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made many people scared of sharks and too scared to get in the sea and perpetuated many harmful stereotypes of sharks

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Levantine Films

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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

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Leveson Inquiry

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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

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Like A Prayer

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a controversial example of an artistic aspirations music video that involved a Black Jesus and postmodern techniques such as a curtain at the end

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Linear Narrative

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where the narrative is predetermined and always ends in the same way

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Live Cross

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a two-way interview with a correspondent or specialist

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Lone Charismatic Rule Breaker Cop

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Poirot, Marple, Frost, Morse, Luther

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Mast Head

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the large font title at the top of a newspaper

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Michael Ryan

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the perpetrator of the Hungerford Massacre, thought to have been inspired by violent video games such as Rambo

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Middle-Market Dailies

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a type of tabloid aimed at more educated people than red-tops, but less educated than broadsheets

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Multi-Stranded Narrative

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many players interact in one world building a complex set of narratives

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Murder of Milly Dowler

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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.

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Music Television

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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

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Artistic Aspirations

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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

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Hybrid

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a combination of several different types of music video

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Linear Narrative

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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

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Meaningful Symbolic

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a mix of images hinted at the meaning with no perceptive narrative that creates enigmas with no resolution

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Performance

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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

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Natural Born Killers

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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

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Neo Noir

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the reimagining of film noir

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Nino Frank

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coined the term ‘film noir’ in 1946

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Non-Linear Narrative

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although the narrative is linear, how someone gets from point to point is up to them, e.g. Venice ending in Tomb Raider II

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Nothing Compares to You

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an example of a performance music video by Sinead O’Connor

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Outro

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where the presenter signs off

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Political Conspiracy Crime Drama

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crime drama such as Bodyguard

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Red Tops

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a type of tabloid, report on politics and international news but tend to include more celebrity gossip and scandal

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Rupert Murdoch

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the owner of NewsCorp

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Sandbox Narrative

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where there is minimal narrative, like Minecraft

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Sound Bite

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a short extract from a recorded interview or speech

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Spine

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a quick overview of an article’s key points at the beginning of an article

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Stephen King’s Rage

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a book by Stephen King about a school shooter that is now banned worldwide due to it inspiring a multitude of real school shootings

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Strawberry Fields/Penny Lane

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one of the earliest music videos; a performance music video by The Beatles

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Stinger

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indicates the transition to the next program

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Sundance Film Festival

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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

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Sus Law

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a law based in 1981 giving police unilateral power to stop and search anyone deemed suspicious

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Tabloids

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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

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Tango’s Orange Man

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a controversial Tango advert from 1992 directed by Matt Forrest that had be banned after school children started copying the violence in it

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That’s How You Like It

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an example of a performance music video by Beyonce

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Thirteen Reasons Why

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a Netflix series thought to have caused an increase in rates of teenage suicide

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True Crime Crime Drama

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crime drama such as Appropriate Adult, Des, Little Boy Blue, The Moorside, See No Evil

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Video Killed The Radio Star

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the first music video played on MTV, by The Buggles

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Vox Pop

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popular opinion as represented by informal comments from members of the public

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Voice Indent

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a tagline at the beginning of a radio broadcast

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War of the Worlds

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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

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Welles’s Formula

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where a news report is made as scary as possible so people have to listen

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Wrap

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draws a report to a conclusion

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Yesterday

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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

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You Belong With Me

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an example of a linear narrative music video by Taylor Swift

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