Waterloo Road...
Scheduling details:-
Channel- BBC one
Date- Wednesday,21st January 09
Time- 8:00 pm
Duration-60 mins
Audience- Mostly aimed at teenagers,and adults as is it is set in a secondary school, with students, teachers and parents.
Conventions- The characters- In the drama we know that Taylor is a student and that he is a bad boy, Taylor is often misunderstood, but often cheeky and likeable. we know that because it shows us that he fights with his class mates and always making troubles.
Brief Summary,
Drama featuring inner-city school teachers trying to balance their personal lives with their challenging and sometimes hopeless day jobs.
Davina's reputation is at stake when she is accused of racism by a Maori supply teacher with an alternative approach to education. Meanwhile, Earl Kelly's behavior pushes Tom to breaking point, leading him to question his future as Head of Pastoral Care. Also, Rachel struggles to hide her true feelings when she discovers Melissa and Eddie are a couple.
Sound- uses Diegetic dialogue and Non diegetic sound where at the start of the episode it uses non diegetic soundtrack which shows us the start of the day, and everyone is getting ready to start their new day at school.
Conventional editing for dialogue, cutting from speaker shot reverse shot which shows us the students behaviour and the reaction of teachers on them.
Saturday, 24 January 2009
Tuesday, 13 January 2009
THE BILL
The Bill....
Scheduling information - I recently watched the two episodes of "The Little Girl Lost" on ITV 1 on Wednesday 7 Jan 09 and Thursday 8 Jan 09 at 8pm.
Brief summary of the storyline - DI Samantha Nixon is leading the Little Girl Lost investigation: Seven-month-old baby Charlotte went missing in the night from her family home. The parents, Clare and Tom Wainwright, weren’t there at the time; Anna Georgiou was a former suspect in the suspicious death of baby Charlotte. Anna was also guilty of leaving Charlotte alone in the house for around an hour in the middle of the night.
Anna admitted during questioning that she found baby Charlotte dead upon her return from the party. Her boyfriend Simon helped make it seem the house had been broken into and robbed. Clare became the prime suspect following her daughter's suspicious death – however she had gone missing. It was realized Clare was probably suffering from post-natal depression.
Target Audience - I think that THE BILL police drama is mostly aimed at teenagers and adults who are interested in crime investigations and how police solves each investigation.
The ways in which this representation is conveyed - it is set in a police station where we could see how each cap tries to solve and investigate each issue, by showing how they discuss and investigate together as a team.
This tells the audience that the police tries to prevent any crime happening and dealing with all investigations and helping people in a way, in order to be successful, the police need to appeal to the audience and are therefore represented in a stereotypical way that the audience can identify with, this includes how police are represented by police cars, uniform, atmosphere and the work place.
Binary oppositions - There are some examples of binary oppositions that have been used in the episodes that I have seen such as good/bad, helpful/aggressive,
Intended overall message is that police work together as a team to try and solve people's issues and investigate them to find out the solution for each issue.
Scheduling information - I recently watched the two episodes of "The Little Girl Lost" on ITV 1 on Wednesday 7 Jan 09 and Thursday 8 Jan 09 at 8pm.
Brief summary of the storyline - DI Samantha Nixon is leading the Little Girl Lost investigation: Seven-month-old baby Charlotte went missing in the night from her family home. The parents, Clare and Tom Wainwright, weren’t there at the time; Anna Georgiou was a former suspect in the suspicious death of baby Charlotte. Anna was also guilty of leaving Charlotte alone in the house for around an hour in the middle of the night.
Anna admitted during questioning that she found baby Charlotte dead upon her return from the party. Her boyfriend Simon helped make it seem the house had been broken into and robbed. Clare became the prime suspect following her daughter's suspicious death – however she had gone missing. It was realized Clare was probably suffering from post-natal depression.
Target Audience - I think that THE BILL police drama is mostly aimed at teenagers and adults who are interested in crime investigations and how police solves each investigation.
The ways in which this representation is conveyed - it is set in a police station where we could see how each cap tries to solve and investigate each issue, by showing how they discuss and investigate together as a team.
This tells the audience that the police tries to prevent any crime happening and dealing with all investigations and helping people in a way, in order to be successful, the police need to appeal to the audience and are therefore represented in a stereotypical way that the audience can identify with, this includes how police are represented by police cars, uniform, atmosphere and the work place.
Binary oppositions - There are some examples of binary oppositions that have been used in the episodes that I have seen such as good/bad, helpful/aggressive,
Intended overall message is that police work together as a team to try and solve people's issues and investigate them to find out the solution for each issue.
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