Essay

the girl who sings sk8er boi is Avril Lavigne. the song is for young people although older people listens to the song aswell. also there is a band called wheatus but they sings a song for the age of 10 upwards because its mostly about young people. both of the songs are the same because of the young ages. 

explain how and why producers of radio programmes target different audiences. refer to the radio 1 live lounge to support your answer?

producers of radio programmes target different audiences because they refer to radio 1 live lounge in the response.

listening to figures for BBC radio 1 are according to the recent RAJAR figures. like October 2017 quarterly figures, and also the producers of the radio programmes are in the station that have to rise to the challenge. reaching and maintaining audiences including younger generation so like the age of 15 and above. sometimes the younger generation doesn't listen to the radio 1. A lot of popular musicians can be downloaded and listened to whenever people like to.

using well known artist such as harry styles covers a iconic rock classics like the chain by fleetwood mac. not only the targets the radio 1 primary target audience of 15-29 year olds also older fans of the most popular band (fleetwood mac).

prime crime drama conventions

narrative

when your watching a police crime series u are expecting to see suicide's, shooting, sexual contact and drugs near the start or the middle of each episode because people are hopping to see that to happen. and all of the characters are against each other or in love with each other.

main characters

All the main characters are:

• police officers: they most be fast to catch the criminals and are illegally aloud to shot if they have to. 
• detectives: they most be able to see what the criminals have been up to and to see where they are going.
• criminals: most run away if they been caught and to sell drugs. they mostly be killing are trying to have sex with people without their concern.

there are also victims that have to help the detectives and the officers to catch the criminals and give them description of the people (criminals) who killed their friends, family or seen someone getting killed, also themself. they have to make sure that they try to give as much description as they can.

locations 

there are different locations for each people (criminals, officers and detectives):

• police station: for the officers and the detectives.
• pub: dealers and criminals.
• homes: victimes. 

cuffs exam practice

Q1) why was the pre-watershed scheduling of 8pm significant in terms of the representations they could offer?

the episode has suicides, mens bottoms and homo-sexuality. kids might be watching this so it is appropriate to watch with your children because it is on at 8am and it should be on at 9pm when they are asleep.  it also show that TV is getting desensitised.

Q2) how were the following areas represented in the episode:

• ethnicity
• gender
• sexuality

the episode is a very good at representing live in 2010s because of ethnicity, gender and sexuality. representing ethnicity as positive and negative because of there is a black cop as a hero. the stabbing at the shop with the indian young man who got killed with a screw driver.

this is represented in 2010 because of gay marriage on the series cuffs because there are two people who is gay and in love.   

cuffs: series 1, episod 1

main characters

pc jake vickers

pc ryan draper 

ds jo Moffat

chief super robert vickers 

dc carl hawkins 

pc donna prager

pc lino moretti

di felix kane 

storylines

setting

overall tone/ appeal