Kaye: Media Coursework Blog 2 - Mr Bush

  Work through the following tasks to build a detailed case study for   Capital . This will give you plenty of background information to use in an exam question. Remember, for this CSP the question could be on any of the key concepts: language, industries, audiences or representations. Reviews and features Read the following review and feature on  Capital : Guardian review by Sam Wollaston London Evening Standard: five things you need to know about  Capital 1) What positive points does the review pick out about  Capital ?  What criticisms are made - either of the TV drama or the original novel? Good points that were viewed were that there was that the cast was brilliant. They mentioned Toby Jones who played Roger, saying that his character was predictable with a weary heart character. They also mentioned the idea of using star power from the film Harry Potter, Gemma Jones which could allow Capital to gain more audiences from Harry Potter loyal fans and supp...

  Read the whole of Factsheet and answer the following questions to show your comprehensive knowledge of the television drama genre: 1) What is serial television drama? Write your own definition. Serial television drama tells a story which also delivers a narrative resolution. Also, this is chracterised by continuous storylines that has features of deep chracter development, which also has a lot of cliff hangers. 2) List five of the TV dramas discussed in the history of the genre on page 1 of the factsheet. How has the genre evolved over time? The 5 TV dramas: History -Eastenders -Casuality -Holby city -Doctors 3) List the sub-genres of TV drama featured in the factsheet. Come up with your own example of an existing TV drama to fit each category. The sub-genres of TV drama are: -Police Procedural (crime) - true detective -Medical - The Good Doctor -Period (costume) - Pride & Prejudice -Science-fiction/ fantasy - Doctor Who -Family - Parenthood -Teen - Never Have I E...

  Your final Film Industry index should include the following: 1)  British Film Industry factsheets #132 & #100 2)  Blinded By The Light  case study research  3)  Regulation - BBFC research and tasks 

  1) Research the  BBFC  in more detail.  This  BBFC Wikipedia page  may help. What is the institution responsible for? The institution is responsible for national classification and censorship of films.  How is it funded? Funded by public service fees. What link does it have to government? The link to the government is to regulate and statutory responsibilities for content.  2) Read this  BBFC summary to Age Ratings  and the  BBFC classification guidelines .  Write a paragraph about each of the different ratings: U  - An age rating that is suitable for all ages, but not all U - rated content is aimed at children. Most of the content shown as  U-rated content is usually arund the positive framework. These also offers a counterbalance to any violence shown in the content. It also is unlikely to unsettle a four year old but it might be unpredictable.  PG - It is for general viewing but there could be some scenes th...

  Background reading and production research Read the following interviews and features on  Blinded By The Light : Writer Sarfraz Manzoor on the story behind the film - Guardian Manzoor again on the promotion of the film and audience reaction Variety feature on the best films from the 2019 Sundance Film Festival   1) What is the story behind the production of the film? Safraz Manzoor was a teenager in Luton when he met a friend for life and discovered his musical hero. Now that fateful encounter is the subject of a major film. 2) What was the audience reaction to the film? People say they were touched by the depiction of to tell of the friendship of Jave and Roops, to the extent that people now tweet me to tell of the friend who was "their Roops" - the one who introduced them to a life-changing musician or band.  3) Why is the Sundance Film Festival such an important part of the film industry - particularly for lower budget films?  Sudance Film festival is impor...

  Use our brilliant Media Factsheet archive  on the M: drive Media Shared (M:\Resources\A Level\Media Factsheets)  to find Media Factsheet  #132  on  British Film . You can  find it online here - you'll need to log in using your Greenford Google login .  Read the whole of Factsheet and answer the following questions: 1) Write a one-sentence definition of what makes a film British. What makes a film British is the idea of the people making the film are British as well as the funding of the film is within Britain. 2) What is the difference between a Hollywood production context and production context of a British film? Hollywood production context is the idea of the films having high budgets and have reliance on the use of star power both in cast and crew. Whereas, production context of a British film can either be have a low or high budgets. Also, the production context of British films have the characteristics of a British culture. 3) When did the...