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editing planning

  1) Discuss what your preliminary exercise will involve – make notes on your blogpost of  location ,  sequence of events ,  casting  etc. Location - My house  event - i will enter a door and showcase this with a close up of my hand entering the door and another angle from within the room  casting - myself playing both roles   2) Write a short  script  for the preliminary exercise. Remember, scripts outline movement and shots as well as dialogue. The  BBC Writer's Room  is a brilliant resource for tips and examples of TV scriptwriting.  Here's a genuine TV script example from Luther  to check you are formatting your script correctly. person 1 : who are you  person 2 : im your long lost identical twin                   ive brought you here to tell you something  person 1 : what  person 2 : were not from this earth , were aliens from a distant planet who c...

editing feed back

  1) Type up your feedback/comments from your teacher. 2) Type up your feedback from fellow students. 3) Now reflect on your video. Did you meet the brief and successfully include the three key editing aspects we have learned? 4) What were the strengths and weaknesses of your final film? Write a detailed analysis picking out specific shots, edits and any other aspect of film language you think is relevant. 5) L earner response: what aspect of editing did you find most difficult? What have you learned from this process that will help you when you start the actual coursework later this year?

film industry final index

  1)  British Film Industry factsheets #132 & #100 2)  Blinded By The Light  case study research  3 )  Regulation - BBFC research and tasks 

tv final index

  1)   Introduction to TV Drama 2)  Capital: CSP case study and analysis 3)  Capital: Marxism and Hegemony 4)  Film industry assessment LR 5)   Deutschland 83: CSP case study and analysis 6)  Postmodernism and Deutschland 83 7)   TV: Industry contexts

Television industry contexts

  1) What does the article suggest regarding the traditional audience for foreign-language subtitled media? i f you'd mentioned to a colleague that you'd spent Saturday night glued to a subtitled European drama, you'd have been quietly declared pretentious, dull and, possibly, a little odd. 2) What does Walter Iuzzolino suggest is the key appeal of his 'Walter Presents' shows? fundamental part of their appeal. "We all love getting that insight into a different culture," says Deeks. "The unfamiliar setting gives a freshness to genre pieces." 3) The article makes an interesting claim for the popularity of subtitles in the multi-screen age. What does it suggest? due to globalisation we are more connected to other countries and their media is more accessible therefore becoming mainstream  4) What are the other audiences pleasures of foreign TV drama suggested by the article? escapism - go to different places in the world and you can immerse yourself ...

review

  24 March 2026  running man review

TV: Postmodernism and Deutschland 83

  1) What were the classic media representations of the Cold War? present the East and  West as binary opposites through codes and  conventions. The communist East is presented grey and  stark, no billboards, culture or entertainment and strict  limitations of citizens’ movements and availability of certain  foods (e.g. coffee and bananas). The capitalist West, in  contrast, is a world of department stores, restaurants and  cars, pop-culture and entertainment and free movement.  These texts traditionally offer a pro-West ‘them versus  us/ good versus evil’ ideological viewpoint through their  narratives and how characters are represented. 2) Why does Deutschland 83 provide a particularly good example for postmodern analysis?  All postmodern texts create a relationship with the past  and the first episode of Deutschland 83, ‘Quantum Jump’, does this with intertitles that frame its historical context. 3) Pick out some of the...