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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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Advertising Campaign

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a campaign run by an advertising agency which incorporates all the ways in which a product, event or service is beneficial to the audience; this can be through packaging, television, print or online adverts

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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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Avatars

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a player’s representation of themselves within a game

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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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Byline

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printed line of text in a newspaper or magazine that names the writer of an article

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Camera Movement

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the way the camera is moved during filming to add depth, interest and variation for the viewer, such as pan and track

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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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Coverlines

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the written text that features on the cover of a magazine, usually giving a preview of the content inside

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Crosshead
words used as a title or subheading to break up text in a newspaper or magazine
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Cue
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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Dateline
line that shows the date that a media publication or article was written or first published
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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
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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
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Doom
a 1993 PS1 first-person shooter that inspired to Columbine High School Massacre
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Editorial
an article in a newspaper or magazine that expresses an opinion on a topical issue
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entertainmentOne
distribution company involved in Blinded by the Light
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Everytime
an example of an artistic aspirations music video that shows Britney Spears fantasising about suicide
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Exhibition
where a film can be viewed, eg multiplex, independent art house cinemas, online and film festival
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Femme Fatale
an attractive and seductive woman who causes disaster to any man who becomes involved with her
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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
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Fly in the Wall
where a film can be viewed, eg multiplex, independent art house cinemas, online and film festival
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Forensic Investigations Crime Drama
crime drama such as Silent Witness
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Franchise
a small collection of connected media products derived from a single original source, for example, a film with a comic and video game also produced about it that generates sequels or is rebooted
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Gendered Feminist Perspective
crime dramas such as Prime Suspect
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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
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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
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Gurinder Chadha
director of Blinded by the Light
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Gutter
the space between two pages of text in a newspaper or magazine
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Headline
text, usually in a large font, at the top of a page or article in a newspaper or article, indicating what the content is to the reader
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Home Page
first page of a website that a user will access as a web address, usually containing navigation links to other pages of the website
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Hook
something within a media product that catches the attention of the audience and pulls them in, often an image or tagline
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Hyperlink
icon, graphic or text within a document that links to another file or object
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Ingenious Group
investment company involved in Blinded by the Light
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Jaws
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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Jingle
short and catchy piece of music used to promote a product, used particularly in advertising
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Jump Line
a journalism term for the line after or before an article telling you where an article continues or began
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Let's Play Video
style of video series documenting the play though a video game
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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
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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
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Lifestyle Magazine
popular magazine concerned with lifestyle, including men’s and women’s magazines
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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
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Linear Narrative
where the narrative is predetermined and always ends in the same way
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Links
clickable text or images that take users to different parts of a website
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Live Cross
a two-way interview with a correspondent or specialist
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Logo
visual image used to identify a product, brand or company
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Lone Charismatic Rule Breaker Cop
Poirot, Marple, Frost, Morse, Luther
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Mast Head
the large font title at the top of a newspaper
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Michael Ryan
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
a type of tabloid aimed at more educated people than red-tops, but less educated than broadsheets
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MMORPG
Massively Multi-Player Online Role-Playing Game online video game played by a very large number of people at the same time
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Mock-Up
rough plan of how the layout of a page of printed media will look
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Multimedia
technology that enables sound, video, text and graphic images to be used in the same media production
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Multi-Stranded Narrative
many players interact in one world building a complex set of narratives
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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.
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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
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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
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Hybrid
a combination of several different types of music video
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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
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Meaningful Symbolic
a mix of images hinted at the meaning with no perceptive narrative that creates enigmas with no resolution
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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
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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
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Neo Noir
the reimagining of film noir
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Nino Frank
coined the term ‘film noir’ in 1946
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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
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Nothing Compares to You
an example of a performance music video by Sinead O’Connor
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Opening Sequence
a film or television drama, often action-packed and ends on a cliffhanger; opening sequences are used to introduce key characters or to establish settings
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Outro
where the presenter signs off
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Political Conspiracy Crime Drama
crime drama such as Bodyguard
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Red Tops
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
the owner of NewsCorp
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Sandbox Narrative
where there is minimal narrative, like Minecraft
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Social Media/Networking
websites, platforms and apps that enable users to communicate with other people across the world
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Sound Bite
a short extract from a recorded interview or speech
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Spine
a quick overview of an article’s key points at the beginning of an article
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Standfirst
an introductory paragraph in an article which summarises the article
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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
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Strapline
a cross-column subheading, usually found in newspapers, magazines and websites, that emphasises part of an article or advert
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Strawberry Fields/Penny Lane
one of the earliest music videos; a performance music video by The Beatles
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Stinger
indicates the transition to the next program
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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
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Sus Law
a law based in 1981 giving police unilateral power to stop and search anyone deemed suspicious
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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
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Tagline
short phrases that sum up a product, can be used in print and moving image promotional material
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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
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That's How You Like It
an example of a performance music video by Beyonce
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Thirteen Reasons Why
a Netflix series thought to have caused an increase in rates of teenage suicide
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Titles
opening credits of a programme or film, including the title but often including information about key personnel and snippets of the product
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True Crime Crime Drama
crime drama such as Appropriate Adult, Des, Little Boy Blue, The Moorside, See No Evil
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User-Generated Content
any content created and distributed on a particular platform by a user of that platform
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Video Killed The Radio Star
the first music video played on MTV, by The Buggles
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Vox Pop
popular opinion as represented by informal comments from members of the public
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Voice Indent
a tagline at the beginning of a radio broadcast
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Walkthrough
a demo on how to play a video game, where the vlogger walks the audience through a tour of the product
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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
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Welles's Formula
where a news report is made as scary as possible so people have to listen
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Wrap
draws a report to a conclusion
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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
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You Belong With Me
an example of a linear narrative music video by Taylor Swift

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