Reflect and perfect

Analyse how far the extract depicts the polices point of view rather than the criminals.

At the beginning of the extract we are watching the police officers point of view. It show them having a relaxing lunch in a restaurant only to be interrupted by the diagetic machine, communicating that a crime had occurred.

As well as that, within the duration of the crime taking place, the camera focused just on the police officers with, close up and establishing shots, to connote their fear by focusing on the face and body language. As well as that the criminals have black masks on to connote mystery and therefore we are unable to identify the criminals facial expressions to see how he may be feeling unlike the officers.

Finally, on the police chase, they only film the events occurring in Jake and Ryan's car, how they're handling the criminals and their plans to try and catch them. They create a sense of tension and worry whether the criminals are going to get caught.


How far does the extract try to create a sense that it's portraying real life? 

A way the show shows reality is through a diverse cast. Every character conform their own stereotype. For instance, throughout the extract you can identify that Ryan takes the authoritative role. This conforms to the stereotype, of black people usually being part of the crime, as he is the main police officer, as black people are present in everyday life, black people  would feel connected to the show as in reality, they dont conform to those stereotypes anymore.

Another way the extract creates a sense that it's portraying real life is in the restaurant. In the restaurant they are having a normal conversation which conveys people in the police force are also normal human beings, it shows this through it showing the police officers, back rounds and personalities not just the crime aspect. As well as that they use non diagetic in the restaurant, this conveys normality, due to normal music playing in the back round is what happens in everyday life, it makes us feel connected to the show and forget its just a programme due to it's realistic touches.

Assessment Guidance

Exam will last  for 1hr 45mins:
30 mins screening an extract  from the show and note taking 1hr 15mins to answer the questions.

Make a table of camera language, editing, MES and sound.



Language:

• Camera angles
• Sound
• Editing 
• Mise-En-Scene
• Connotations
• Annotations

Audience:

• Active
• Passive
• Mass
• Niche
• Uses and gratification

Representations:

• Stereotypes 
• Counter-types
• Dominant representations
• Positive 
• Negative  

Industries:

• Tv
• Film
• PSB
• Regulator 
• Newspaper
• Magazines
• Video games

Context:

• Social
• Cultural
• Political 
• Historical 

Avengers Narrative

A story is all the events surrounding a group of characters in a place at a certain time.

A narrative is a selected way a story is told:

• Does it follow some sort of structure 
• Does it have conventions 
• Doors it have a beginning, middle and an end
• What characters? Protagonist, antagonists and props theory 

Types of TV drama's

• Single drama/film 
• Soap (continuous drama TV shows like Eastenders)
• Soaps generally have massive casts
• Serial (A Tv show that runs in seasons such as Riverdale)
• Anthology ( A series with a completely different stories and different characters)
• Long from series dramas (Different seasons but the storyline in through every episode or across multiple seasons)
• Long from series with some experimentations (Plays around with how many hours are in a series and how many episodes)

Linear narrative - A sequence narrative with a beginning, middle and an end in that order. Linear narratives provides a straight forward sequential representation of events leading to a single resolution. As such easily accessible to audiences that are the dominant form in a mainstream media representations.

In the Little Red Riding Hood there is a state of equilibrium because everyone in a sate of neutralness. A disruption in the equilibrium is when she meets the wolf, The wolf disrupts the balanced, happy nature of the story. There is a recognitions of the disruption when the wolfs in the grandmas house. The  attempt to repair the damage when there is an alteration between the wold and Red Riding Hood. The new equilibrium is when the grandma is alive and everything is happy. 

The incredibles uses Todorov  heory at the beginning everyone loved the superhero's, suddenly after one incident people started to dislike hero's and wanted to ban them, after a while of secretly saving the day the people were beginning to like them again and accept them.

Cuffs is known as a character led narrative with multiple storylines, its a serial drama.

The Avengers is now as a long form and serial drama.

Cuffs:

Equilibrium = There is no commotion in the city.

Disruption = Bus crashed into shop then goes onto stealing the ATM's.

Recognition = The police call for backup and try to intervene .

Attempt to repair = The police go onto the car chase to stop them.

Return to new equilibrium = Criminals have not been caught yet.

The Avengers:

Equilibrium = Peaceful atmosphere, the fight with Peel and Steed.

Disruption = When everyone finds out who the main characters are and attack them.

Attempt to repair = They fight back and win.

Return to equilibrium = They end up going back home to their peaceful atmosphere.

The Avengers audience questions

The Avengers audience questions

1. The avengers show is clearly targets teens to young adults as it is set after watershed so it has to be targeted at the older age as they wanted that age to watch their show.
2. The avengers has a lot of flirtatious content in it so this appeals to the older people watching the show, instead of the children as its after wateshed.
3. Due to ITV and the general use of TVs the audience are allowed to watch this television show.
4. The show only really showed white people and no blacks were on tv until a couple of years ago when they got their equal rights.
5. The show clearly lacked of technology of today as it wasn't invented yet like coloured shows and better quality microphones which made the show seem speed up and not worked on.
6. This escapism was most evident in game shows and talent contests, but drama series such as The Avengers would also offer escapism through their representation of a world of competence, sophistication, humour, and a heavy hint of sexual tension and eroticism. As a typical drama series, The Avengers offered an entertaining combination of repetition and difference with a new Proppian villain very week for the central pairing to fight against – the two sometimes swapping the ‘damsel in distress’ role – with familiar signposts along the way (e.g. the programme usually ended with the pair driving away from the scene of their triumph). Spy dramas were a familiar and perhaps dominant genre in the 1960s, both in television and film and suave, sophisticated and hyper-competent show.
7.  a passive audience is an audience that merely observes and event rather than actively responding it. There's been a few studies done on what is called the 'audience effect'. Those studies seem to show that a passive audience works well for some performers that don't require a whole lot of skill.
8. a passive audience could interpret the avengers as England being a very white and heterosexual country unlike a non passive audience would go against there being no coloured or gay people.

Avengers title sequence HW

1. The music in the opening sequence at first is very light and has no genre but suddenly gets deeper and starts to seem more like action opening  scene and music.
2. The whole opening is in black and white and the quality of the music instantly allows the viewer to realise that it was based in the 1960s well a while ago.
3. Patrick Macnees character in the opening is seen as a sneaky fighter, you can tell as most of the frames with him in is shown with him with a weapon or his umbrella.
4. The flower prop makes the pair of them look like they're a couple and brings them together because of how similar they are.
5. Diana Rigg is seen as a powerful woman which she is a very strong fighter, you can also tell she is very feminim due to the rose she was holding in her hand in one of the frames.
6. ?
7. The music had to be edited into the sequence also the music was probably edited to sound better and not terrible.
8. The costume of Diana made her look like a sexy feminine character and so did the flower, also they both had weapons making them look like the spys they were.

EXTENTION

The opening for the show 'Cuffs' was all in colour and flashing images whilst 'the Avengers' one was in black and white and much slower, they both use props to show what the characters are like, like 'Jack Vickers' with a hand cuffs and 'patrick Macnees' with his gun. This show how television has adapted to our days at 2010 due to the colour and the quality.

Industry ownership,scheduling, regulation and fundings in the 1960s

Industry  ownership, scheduling, regulation and fundings in the 1960s


The BBC began in 1936
ITV began in 1955( and was the one competition BBC had)

• TV during the mid 1960s only had 3 channels, BBC, BBC2, ITV
• Television were small, expensive and only available is black and white
• Programs were limited  only available certain times of the day. When nothing was broadcasted the national anthem would play
• Channel surfing didn't exist like today as there were inly 3 channels
• BBC had monopoly over the industry, prior to ITV, there were no advertising on television soon after it became popular
• When ITV began it became a duopoly (2 main competitors)

Funding:

1. How were ITV funded? The ITV was funded by advertisement on there shows and small companies that they owned and by America.
2. What issue does ITV face through commercial funding? The issues that ITV faced was that they had to stay to the ITA rules which were limited number of adverts and cannot sponsor adverts and regarding when and how long advertisement could be on and television advertisement was a new thing so not many advertisers didn't know how popular they would be.
3. How did the popularity of the avengers impact the production values? ABC invested 2million dollars(15millionold brit currency) for season 4 of the avengers, this allowed the show to have better picture quality, bigger sets, more casts, better stories and bigger and much higher budgets .

Regulations:

British television production was protected by the rules of the public service broadcasting that limited foreign content. This was different to world television which was dominated by the USA.

Due to ITV being the channel of the time it faced no competition for advertisements which meant that the commercial television could be highly regulated. Of course the ASA standards and society have changed since then.

ITV opened its channel at 4.20PM with a daytime soap and showed a range of children shows. Adult programs came on after.

In 1964 the watershed was introduced at 9PM. This allowed for more adult programming such as the avengers. ITV shutdown at midnight, by which time it was assumed audiences would be asleep.

1. What is the watershed? The watershed is the time 9pm and it stops most children shows for more adult themes like fighting and sexual scenes at the time where children stopped watching.
2. Why was the watershed created in 1960? The watershed was made in 1960 as more adult shows were starting to be produced like the avengers.
3. How might watershed affect themes and content within avengers? In the avengers it is seen as very sexual so all of the sexual and fighting scenes would be taken out and changed so that it would be appropriate for the youth.

Scheduling and figures:

The avengers was scheduled at 9.05 on a Saturday on ITV, this was prime time. By the fourth series it had attracted 7million homes and episodes often appeared on the top 10 television shows.

Remote control had not been invented yet so people had to physically get up and change the channel.

Why did the time slot for the avengers impact the large viewing figures? The time slot for the avengers was good as it was right after the watershed so everyone would be watching also its on a Saturday so everyone one is watching (Prime time).

1960s mood board