14s Media
Louis Snaith
Don't steal my stuff, thank you
1. How does sound create meaning? (in the extract)
- Diegetic sound in the cafe, making the atmosphere sound normal. - Faced paced music during the robbery connotes danger, excitement. I needed to talk about the connotations. 3/5 2. How far does the extract depict the police's point of view (10 marks) - Close up on police juxtaposed to long shot of criminals, gives us more detail of police. - Costume of criminals was stereotypical, hides their identities meaning we cant connect to them. - Sinister music for criminals, adds to effect we shouldn't like them. I needed to give more of a judgement supporting my examples and terminology. But I gave good examples. 8/10 3. How far does the extract try to create a sense that it's portraying real life? (15 marks) - Shot outside on location, natural lighting. - Diegetic conversation between policewomen, ordinary. - Non diegetic music creates drama for the audience, but isn't real. - Multicultural and gay and female characters show England in a good light but also could be to fit PSB of diversity rather than realism. - Not as violent as real life, swearing, the BBC can't include. I needed to say things which make it less real, also to talk about representations of different people, and it's the BBC which include different representations. Give more detailed analysis. 9/15. 4. What is PSB (5 marks) - Television or radio channel on terrestrial TV - Ofcom regulator for TV and radio - Distinctive high quality programmes. - Reflect diversity of Britain. - Making original programs (British) rather than cheaper American programs. - BBC, owned and paid for by the public. I needed to explain more of what it does. 2/5 5. How social contexts influence the avengers? (10 marks) - Influence of gender inequality on TV - Progressive as Peel is an intelligent career woman. - Influence of social attitudes towards sexualities. Emma confident in sexuality, and as a sex object. The assumption that everyone is heterosexual and reflects marginailisation of LGBT groups before legalization. - Generation Gap - The cold war I needed to use ket terms 'Generation Gap' 'Cold War'. 5/10 6. PEGI 1/1 7. Why would the company release a video game linked to a film (4 marks) - Synergy, how it helps a video game and a film. I explained my examples and reasons clearly. 4/4 9. Genre codes in The Lego Movie poster campaign to appeal to family audiences (10 marks) - Action genres, fantasy, dragon - Hybridity, superhero's, audiences who recognize these characters. - Explosions - emmet, introducing a new character audiences can relate to Emmet, normal. - Tagline, intriges audiences, allows a narrative on an underdog which everyone likes. - Range of character, female sidekick. - Bright colors. -Safety of Lego. I needed to talk more about the effect on the audience, go into a bit more detail. 7/10
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1. Emma Peel can represent women in society. She has more of a role in society because of her fashion and how she helps John Steed with their missions, even though John Steed is more powerful. Emma Peel is definitely more recognized in society, they both have individual scenes, where Peel goes to the school and Steed to the airfield. They both find information on the case, and they both rely on each other.
2. Emma Peel represents it to become more equal, how she is a main character and is a women. She was also wearing the 60s fashion, wearing catsuits, and this was a first for women to wear such a variety of clothing which was quite revealing. And this wouldn't be acceptable 10 years ago, so she represents women becoming more accepted. 3. Once the show aired in 1965 (the episode we watched) this was just a few years before the legalisation of LGBT consent, which can show that the producers couldn't have homosexual people in their show because it would create a lot of controversary. It's the same with black people or others who are mixed race. 4. Black people were still seen as different at the time and would have again created arguments, and since there weren't many shows at the time. They had to please their audience so they could get views. The Avengers had a rule to not have colored people in their show. 5. Steed represents the old wartime generation and Peele represents the young radical generation. Steed can be seen as the old wartime generation because when he investigates the air field, he salutes. Also he is very traditional with what he wears, also he acts very posh, and likes to get the job done. Emma Peele can be seen as the youth radical generation because of her fashion, she wears some crazy outfits. Also her fencing scene how she challenges Steed to fence and how she gets coached by the more experience man on how to fence. Also when they find Smallwood dead, Peele is asking questions which Steed knows the answers to. 6. The social anxieties of the Cold War link to the episode because in the episode these people were imposters who took over a small town un-detected. And people thought that that was happening where there were secret workers who were actually spies, so the imposters in the show can represent communist in the Cold War. And how their plan was to have it spread. 7. Firstly, they are featured in almost all scenes, and they share their thoughts with the audience and we follow them mainly through the episode, where as we don't know what the towns people are always doing because there aren't many shots of them. Also music is used when Peel and Steed chase down the townspeople, like in the sewers. Also Steed's and Peel's have props which create humor to the audience, like Steed's gadgets: the hat and the full English tea set. This makes the audience like Steed and Peel more. We don't know much about the townspeople, they know more than us, they have basic outfits and are very secretive so we can't sympathize with them at all. Representation of England: Carrying an umbrella where ever you go. Making tea at various points in the show John Steed carry an English tea set when he travels All of the men wearing suits Emma Peeles fashion They travel on the bike, evolution of transportation Bloodhounds The pub. Representation of Gender: All men wear only suits Women wear lots of different fashions, catsuit, short skirts. In fight scene Emma takes on the girl and John takes on all the men. Fencing scene Emma was winning but eventually loses. Differences between film then and now: Black and white & now it's in color Use of backdrops, whereas now we use a real setting or green screen The evolution of green screens has made it look more real. Sound effects have got better Stunts have become more advanced No equipment to show it's a film set is recognized in the films More advanced cameras, with drone shots. More storylines which are complex where as with the Avengers just one plot. The episode starts out with a man appearing on a beach with a bag over him where he came from the sea, the man comes out of the bag and is in a suit and we later find out he is an imposter.
Then it cuts to John Steed going to Emma Peeles home to tell her news the they will be going on a 'seaside adventure' to the small town of Little Bazley but before that they have a little fencing fight to show the audience they are partners and friends. Then they get on the train where the show how British they are with one of the Detectives gadgets which is filled with a boiling kettle, tea set, cupcake set and other foods and here they meet a man who is visiting his brother who is a blacksmith in Little Bazley. They have some chats and become friends and go to the hotel together. Here they see that there is something weird about the town, there is barely anyone there. and all of the windows are boarded up. And all of the people who are in the hotel act very weird around the new arrivals and you can tell their is something weird with the town. They both decide to do some investigations where Emma goes to the school and the Church and John goes to the airfield and the beach. Here they both find various clues on what is happening in the town and figure out that the people they have met are all imposters pretending to be other people, their are some fight scenes where they re-group together later. The man who they met on the train tries to find his brother who is the blacksmith but when he goes he finds an imposter who kills him with dogs. Then Emma and John go underground a find a base filled with explosives and they realize what their plan was. A submarine was on the coast of England and people were sent up to take over the little town unnoticed and slowly take over the other small towns and keep going until they took over the whole of the UK, but John and Emma manage to get in a fight with the Imposters which is the school headmaster, the school inspector and the Vicar, and they kill them and they save the UK. Their could be some deeper meaning as the imposters could represent Communism in the Cold War slowly spreading but eventually taking over the world.
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