Marcel Media Coursework

 Media Magazine - Netflix and the Cultural Industries  1) What does the 'industry' concept in A Level Media Studies refer to? The ‘industry’ concept refers to the companies that create and distribute media texts, the standard practices of media production, as well as the regulatory and legal frameworks in which the companies operate. 2) What does David Hesmondhalgh argue with regards to how the creative industries have changed since the 1980s? since the 1980s there’s been a significant shift in cultural production. Cultural industries have moved closer to the centre of economic action, there has been an increase in media corporations owning companies in different sectors of the industry, globalisation has meant media texts can circulate more easily across borders reducing North American dominance 3) Choose the three most significant points Hesmondhalgh makes regarding the changing cultural industries. Why are these the most significant in your view? • Advertising ‘dollars’ hav...

https://mediamacguffin12.blogspot.com/2021/03/tv-capital-marxism-and-hegemony.html  Task 1: Mail Online review of Capital 1) Re-read the Mail Online review of Capital. Why does it suggest that Capital features a left-wing ideology? The hardest worker on the street was an illegal immigrant, determined to pay her way and not touch a penny of benefits. She was deported, though she did find time to teach English to some of her fellow saints at the detention centre. 2) Choose three quotes from the review that are particularly critical of Capital and paste them into your blogpost. Do you agree with the criticisms? Why? A Muslim man whose only crime was to burn the odd Union Jack The hardest worker on the street was an illegal immigrant Everything British came in for a dose of loathing 3) What scenes or characters from Capital could be read as promoting left-wing ideology? We can use Quentina to help the reason of a left-wing ideology. While Quentina is a hard working illegal immigrant wh...

  Introduction: Reviews and features 1) Find one positive aspect and one criticism of Deutschland 83 in reviews. It’s a perfect moment in a near-perfect series. Deutschland 83’s first episode of eight was the most-watched foreign-language drama in UK history. With the least ambiguous title ever 2) Why does the second Guardian article suggest the Germans didn't like the show?   By focusing the story around Martin Rauch, a young East German border guard going undercover in the west, it doesn’t just make the viewer empathise with a Stasi agent on a human level – in the way The Lives of Others did – it makes us engage with the socialist regime’s worldview, in which a military exercise in West Germany poses a potentially existential threat. 3) Find three 'below the line' comments from either of the Guardian articles. What did the audience think of Deutschland 83? Do you agree with the comments? I was left a bit disappointed by the programme. But I guess it was made for an intern...

  Introduction To TV Drama 1) What is serial television drama? Write your own definition. A serial TV drama is multiple drama stories expanded into a series of episodes. Like drama, the story mainly focuses on one narrative while the serial focuses on many stories with multiple beginnings and multiple endings. 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 Avengers (1961-1969) and Danger  Man (1962-1968) were discussed. They were aimed at  the domestic market. This model of making television drama was not  widely adopted by the industry until the 1990s. Today all television  drama is all shot on film and made like a film, with the same high  quality productions values.  3) List the sub-genres of TV drama featured in the factsheet. Come up with your own example of an existing TV dramas to fit each category. Police Procedural NCIS Medical Grey's Anatomy Period Chern...

 Factsheet #132: British Film 1) Write a one-sentence definition of what makes a film British. Fitting into British culture and appeal. 2) What is the difference between a Hollywood production context and production context of a British film? Hollywood production have more budgets to spend on different type of productions. For example on heavy CGI, Equipment. British production contains more story and character driven. Unlike Hollywood movies where the sort of have a code withing all of the movies. Which there is hero, there is a villain, and a goal must be achieved. 3) When did the James Bond franchise start? In 1962 with the movie Dr.No 4) In terms of film censorship and graphic content, what began to change in British film in the 1970s and 1980s? The 1970s sees a rise in British Films of sexual content, both the act of sex and sex linked to violence with films like A Clockwork Orange (Warner Bros, 1971) coming under a lot of scrutiny. The 1980s see the rise of videos and the ‘vi...