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My name is Saskia Malhotra, I am 17 years old and am attending Hills Road Sixth Form College in Cambridge where I am studying Media, English Combined and Psychology. This blog is for my A-Level Media coursework. The task we have been set is to create an audio-visual sequence from a television programme and associated print materials to promote the same programme. My audio-visual sequence must be from one of the following points in the narrative/structure of my new television programme; a key turning point, a point of significant conflict or a resolution and be between 2:30 - 3:00 minutes long. To publicise my television programme, I must create a front cover and double page spread feature article to feature in a new lifestyle magazine. The cross-media production I create must be for one of the commercial broadcasters; ITV or Channel, targeting an audience of 18 - 25 year olds 'millennials'. I am planning on completely several step-by-step tasks to complete which will hel...
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