Y 13 Media Studies Monday 14 th January

Y 13 Media Studies Monday 14 th January WALT: to analyse the institutional features of a contemporary British film

Y 13 Media Studies Monday 14 th January WALT: to analyse the institutional features within UK and European Television dramas Topic: Television Science Fiction/Thriller Humans The Returned

SAMPLE ASSESSMENT MATERIALS: EXAMS Component 1 Section A: Analysing Media Language and Representation Component 1 Section B: Understanding Media Industries Representation: 1. Compare how audiences are positioned by the representations in this Save The Children advertisement and the Water. Aid advertisement you have studied. In your answer you must: • consider how the representations construct versions of reality • consider the similarities and differences in how audiences are positioned by the representations • make judgements and draw conclusions about how far the representations relate to relevant media contexts. [30] 3 (a) Briefly explain what is meant by distribution. [2] Language: 2. How does media language incorporate viewpoints and ideologies in these front pages on 10 November 2016 of The Sun and The Daily Mail? [15] 4 (a) Explain how national and global audiences can be reached through different media technologies and platforms. Refer to Late Night Woman's Hour to support your points. [8] (b) How have recent technological changes had an impact on the production and distribution of newspapers? [10] (c) What is a media conglomerate? [1] (d) Explain how ownership shapes media products. Refer to The Daily Mirror to support your points. [12] (b) How do media organisations meet the needs of specialised audiences? Refer to Late Night Woman's Hour to support your points. [12] Component 2 Section A – Television in the Global Age Component 2 Section B – Magazines: Mainstream and Alternative Media Component 2 Section C – Media in the Online Age (a) To what extent can the set episode of Humans be seen as postmodern? [15] Vogue and The Big Issue Compared with the past, David Gauntlett argues that in the media today ‘we no longer get singular, straightforward messages about ideal types of male and female identities. ’ Evaluate the validity of this claim with reference to the set editions of Vogue and The Big Issue and the historical contexts in which they were produced. [30] Zoella and Attitude How far can aspects of identity be seen to affect the way in which audiences use online media? Discuss, with reference to Zoella and Attitude. [30] (b) Television production takes place within an economic context. Discuss the influence of economic factors on The Returned. [15] You should refer to relevant academic theories in your response.

1 (a) To what extent can the set episode of Humans be seen as postmodern? [15] In applying their understanding of postmodernism to Humans, responses may, for example, refer to some of the following: • the way in which the programme explores postmodern themes such as the relationship between identity and technology in a postmodern world/consumer society. • the way in which the ‘synths’ can be seen to embody Baudrillard’s notion of simulacra and the hyperreal. • the use of intertextuality (e. g. the ‘Asimov Blocks’ that are built into the ‘synths’ as an intertextual reference to Isaac Asimov’s three laws of robotics) • the way in which the programme ‘borrows’ and reworks material from existing media sources (e. g. the that it is a remake of the Swedish science-fiction series, Real Humans). Component 2 Section A – Television in the Global Age

1 (b) Television production takes place within an economic context. Discuss the influence of economic factors on The Returned. [15] In discussing the influence of economic factors on The Returned, responses may explore some of the following: • the need for Canal Plus, as a premium pay channel, to provide high quality original programming to attract and satisfy subscribers and the way in which The Returned can be seen to address this need � the importance of securing international distribution for the series due to its € 11 million budget, and the extent to which this can be seen to have influenced the programme’s production. • how the grant received from Creative Europe MEDIA can be seen to have a positive impact on the programme’s production values (as demonstrated in the bus crash sequence for example), thereby improving its capacity for export, which is one of Creative Europe’s key aims. • the significance of the locations used for filming (e. g. in terms of enabling the producers to secure funding through the Ile-de-France Regional Fund and the Rhône -Alpes Regional Fund). Component 2 Section A – Television in the Global Age

Television in the Global Age: An Introduction • Television has changed considerably since the advent of digital technology in terms of its production, distribution and consumption. It has become a global, rather than a national industry and has become increasingly commercial, with public service broadcasting forced to adapt its structure, role and function. International co-production is growing and broadcasters such as HBO have achieved global success. • Broadcasters are now ‘narrowcasters’, with multiple channels targeting different (sometimes more niche) audiences. • Audiences consume television texts in a variety of ways as the industry has increased portability via new platforms (tablet, mobile phone) and patterns of consumption have changed alongside this (the boxset and binge-watching, on-demand catch-up, Netflix, Amazon, etc. ). • Interactive social media channels such as You. Tube have increased accessibility for the ‘prosumer’ audience, and social media and viral promotion have become a crucial part of marketing television texts.

The Returned (Les Revenants) 5 minute Season 1 Summary: https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=Aadvodsiv. Y 8 • French release - 26 November 2012 on Canal+ • UK release - 9 June 2013 on Channel 4 • Length of show - 2 series, 8 episodes each (1 hour episodes) • Based on - French film They Came Back (Les Revenants) (dir. Robin Campillo 2004) • Created by - Fabrice Gobert. • Synopsis - The Returned opens in a small mountain community which is rocked to its core when several local people who are presumed dead suddenly reappear at their homes. Despite having passed away some years earlier, these ghostly characters appear in human form, they have not aged, and they are completely unaware of their own fatality. Determined to reclaim their lives and start over, they slowly come to realize that they are not the only ones to have been brought back from the dead. Their return augers torment for their community when a gruesome murder attempt bears a chilling resemblance to the work of a serial killer from the past. This is a homecoming like no other.

TV Genre • The Returned is difficult to categorise by genre. • It won an International Emmy for best Drama Series in 2013. • It has elements of a supernatural horror text. • Wikipedia classifies it as a ‘supernatural drama’, whilst IMDb classifies it as ‘drama, fantasy, horror. ’ • Rotten Tomatoes classifies it as ‘Mystery/Suspense’. • It is possibly closest to a zombie text because of its focus on the ‘undead’. • Gabriel Tate in The Guardian calls it ‘A zombie series like no other’. • https: //www. theguardian. com/tv-andradio/2015/oct/03/series-two-french-tv-showthe-returned

Genre What are the codes and conventions of a zombie text? RESISTS • Recurring situations • Elements of narrative • Style • Iconography • Settings • Themes • Stock characters Ryan Hollinger: The Accidental History of the Zombie Genre (10 mins): https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=FWa. Rh. TUmk. ZE

[THE RETURNED] - ZOMBIE GENRE? RECURRING SITUATIONS ELEMENTS OF NARRATIVE STYLE ICONOGRAPHY SETTINGS THEMES STOCK CHARACTERS • Pandemic • The dead return/rise • The dead move in hordes • Judgement Day • Zombie attacks • Flesh eating • Destruction of society • Collapse of law and order • Meeting of survivors • Holed up and besieged • Whittling down of group, one by one • Military/police intervention • Difficult decisions – killing loved ones for the good of the many • Bloody fightback – shoot’em up • Climactic battle • Power and resources go down • The ‘return’ from the dead as Todorovian disruption • Quest-based narrative – for survival • Narrative positioning with hero on a quest • Binary oppositions of living v dead, past v present, outsider v community • Faust storylines – making the wrong moral choice because of emotional attachment • Orpheus narrative archetype – deals with loss • Denouement – alternative scenarios • Flashbacks to previous existence • Narrative closure – offers Todorovian resolution for audiences • Restriction/derestriction of narrative • Enigma codes throughout • Disparate characters attempt to work together • Screaming victim(s) • Eerie child (exceptional powers) • Arrogant gung-ho type – often meets a sticky end • Archetypal warrior • Hero/protector • Disposable sidekick • The disrupted family unit • The character who can’t let go • New ‘family’ community created • Ripped clothing • Blank stares • Grasping hands • Blood and gore • Decaying flesh • Police/government notices/warnings • Inarticulate grunts • Body parts • Weaponry • Pallor • Blood • Mist/darkness • Existential themes – nature of human condition • Survival of the fittest • Sacrifice • Mortality and human • Man over-reaching – playing God by bringing back a life • Notions of order/chaos within society • Isolation v community • Allegorical – reflects anxieties of the time • Impact of violence on humanity • Humans as the real monsters • Social and ideological messages • Human resilience questioned • Themes of control • Fate • Disillusionment • Music soundtrack • Low key, often chiaroscuro lighting – OR • Bright, high key glare • Hard focus • Closed frames • Gritty (dependent on production values and budget) • Tracking shots • Desaturated colour palette • Red accents connoting danger and bloodshed • The Mall or community hub • Abandoned buildings/streets • Community setting • Enclosed spaces and closed frames • Isolated settings close to nature

French Poetic Realist Film Tradition [INFLUENCES] • • • Some 1930 s French films were categorised by their ‘poetic realism’. Directors such as Jean Renoir, Marcel Carné and Jean Vigo focused on aesthetics and had a lyrical style aimed at highlighting the poetry within reality. Shots were simply constructed but with an otherworldly purity from the lighting and camera techniques used. They often dealt with characters who were disillusioned, with perhaps one last chance at happiness. They were fatalistic in tone and had a sense of impending doom and the bittersweet irony of human existence. Key films La Grande Illusion (Renoir, 1937) Le Quai des Brumes (Carné, 1938) L’Atalante (Vigo, 1934) Impact of Poetic Realism on The Returned • • • Genre conventions are socially and historically relative – here the genre is influenced by French cinematic tradition. Visual style: spare and sharp but beautifully constructed. Lyrical aesthetics. Sense of impending doom – enigma codes – the dam, the horde. Fatalistic – Victor’s visions of the future. He has been likened to Cassandra in myth – doomed to foretell the future but be ignored. Nature of human condition – man’s mortality. Focus on the irony and bitter-sweetness of loved ones returning – but things have moved on. Displaced and marginalised characters who struggle to fit in. Last chances of happiness. Fabrice Gobert: ‘I love silences. . . I love people looking at each other. I love suspended time. ’ https: //www. theguardian. com/tv-andradio/2015/oct/03/series-two-french-tv-showthereturned

Task: Watch The Returned Episode 1 and identify the generic signifiers in the text. Identify the signifiers of the ‘zombie’ show (use RESISTS). Example features • What other genres/generic features are evident? Use the reviews below as starting points. • What is ‘old’ in terms of genre and what is new, ‘innovative and imaginative’? • Why has the genre changed/developed? Gabriel Tate in The Guardian calls it ‘A zombie series like no other’. • What makes it ‘different’? • Recurring situations https: //www. theguardian. com /tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/ • Elements of 2013/jun/09/the-returnednarrative recapseries-one-episode-one • Style • • • • • Iconography • Settings • Themes • Stock characters Mortality Rising from the dead The undead Pale faces Creepy child (Victor) Decaying flesh Feral hunger – eating flesh Movement en masse – the horde Police rule/control (Series 2) Cinematography – dusk shooting Soft focus Attack on Lucy Shock jump scares Clean and stark style Mist and darkness Narrative is fragmented – flashbacks Enigmas – Where have they come from? The dam?

Narrative Structure Tension Act Three Act Two Recognition Progressive Complication Act Four Repair Climax Task: Identify key plot point progressions in each Act Disruption Inciting Incident Act Five New Equilibrium Resolution Act One New Equilibrium Exposition Time

Stage The Returned Humans Equilibrium The bereaved have adjusted (or not) to the deaths of their loved ones. Hawkins family set-up. Absent working mother (Laura) Disruption The dead return – e. g. Camille to Léna, Jérôme and Claire; Madame Costa to Mr Costa; Simon looks for Adèle. “We’re going shopping”. Purchase of synth and introduction into household. Anita takes over domestic duties. Disrupts family routine Recognition The ‘undead’ realise they have been absent for years. Perhaps signaled by Laura’s increasing concern about the relationship between Anita and Sophie, then the enigma of Anita taking Sophie out in the middle of the night. Repair M Costa burns his house with his wife inside it and jumps from the dam; Victor appears to Julie and she takes him in; Lucy is stabbed. Anita’s flashbacks to the car in the water and holding someone. New Equilibrium Does the flashback operate as a type of closure? It ‘explains’ why the bus crashes. Is there closure? What about at the end of the series? Not here yet – narrative is episodic.

Theory The Returned Humans Postmodernism (Baudrillard) Binary oppositions (Levi-Strauss) Van Zoonen’s Feminist theory Bell hooks intersectional theory Allegory Hall’s Reception Theory Todorovian narrative structure Genre (Neale) 1 2 3 4 5

Binary oppositions Theoretical framework Creating questions out of questions • Past v present • Living v dead • Old relationships v new relationships • Serge v Toni • Simon v Thomas • M Costa v Mme Costa • Self-sacrifice v self-preservation • The horde v the police • Illusion v reality • Honesty v lies • The ‘truth’ v perception of truth • Camille v Léna • Julie v Mlle Payet • Death v rebirth • Immortality v mortality • The way events, issues, individuals (including self-representation) and social groups (including social identity) are represented through processes of selection and combination. • The effect of social and cultural context on representations. • How and why stereotypes can be used positively and negatively. • How and why particular social groups, in a national and global context, may be underrepresented or misrepresented. • How media representations convey values, attitudes and beliefs about the world and how these may be systematically reinforced across a wide range of media representations. • How audiences respond to and interpret media representations. • Theories of representation (including Hall). Representations are constructed through codes; stereotypes exist as a consequence of inequality of power, maps of reality and deviance – ‘otherness’. • Theories of identity (including Gauntlett). The media offer a more diverse range of e. g. characters from whom we may pick and mix different ideas. • Feminist theories (including bell hooks and Van Zoonen) at A Level. • Is the narrative entirely linear? If not, why not? Give examples. • Does the episode have a flexi-narrative? • Are there story arcs which run across the series/franchise? • Are there obvious codes (Barthes) around which the narrative is structured? Give examples. • Is it realist? • How are time and space manipulated within the narrative? • Narrative – Is it a flexi-narrative? Characters are complex, storylines interweave, we question what is real and what isn’t, it challenges the audience through enigma, confusion. • Linear/non-linear? Flashback/forward e. g. the bus crash, Léna and her boyfriend. Often complex manipulation of time and space challenges audiences. • Complex flexi-narrative with over-reaching story arcs – e. g. the dam, Victor. Part of larger narrative – only the beginning. • It’s a series so we expect an element of closure in the final episode. Here it is minimal. The supernatural sub-genre is reliant on enigma. • Intellectual puzzle for an active audience. Not ‘easy’ viewing as there are enigmas/ hermeneutics throughout – e. g. Why do only some of the dead return? Why is the water level dropping? Who is Victor? Who killed Lucy? How did Mme Costa die? • Symbolic and cultural codes – Barthes e. g. the apocalyptic symbolism of ‘the flood’; the use of colour; Faustian bartering of life/death; mythical quality of Lucy/Victor as foretellers of the future (the Cassandra figure). • Orpheus root story – focuses on loss and how we deal with this. • Proppian roles and functions shift as the multi-strand narrative progresses – is there a single hero? • Christopher Booker suggests a narrative archetype of ‘Rebirth’ which is applicable here. • Narrative ellipsis – much is not revealed. • Surreal /anti-realist elements at times – e. g. Victor in the middle of the road; the telepathy of the twins. Story arcs/character arcs • The dam, the flood – runs throughout • The quest for the truth • The returned – a different narrative strand in each episode, often interwoven with flashbacks and other narrative strands: - Camille and her family • Julie and Victor • Simon and Adèle • Thomas and Chloé • Serge and Toni - Lucy • The journey/transformation –the living and the returned learn from each other

Application of Theory – [The Returned] Liesbet Van Zoonen – Feminist Theory ‘[There is] a depressing stability in the articulation of women’s politics and communication. . . The underlying frame of reference is that women belong to the family and domestic life and men to the social world of politics and work; that femininity is about care, nurturance and compassion, and that masculinity is about efficiency, rationality and individuality. ’ – Van Zoonen Give examples from The Returned that illustrate this concept. Women • Marginalised (or absent) • Domestic • Sexualised • Nurturer Example Women are represented as nurturers (Claire and Camille, Julie and Victor) • Julie as nurse to M. Costa • Léna as sexual, if not overtly sexualised • Lucy as vulnerable victim in menial job • Males constructed through movement (active) • Silence and impassivity • Strength, muscularity and aggression • Competition – males as gladiators or combatants – ‘the spectacle’ • Constructed more through the intradiegetic gaze – the way they are looked at by other characters (e. g. with respect/fear) • Allows narcissistic identification without erotic gaze Is this the case in The Returned or are these constructed representations challenged Men • Efficient • Rational • Individual Task: Read the paragraphs from Van Zoonen’s essay ‘Feminist Perspectives on the Media’. Pages 33– 37, ‘Feminist Perspectives on the Media’ in Mass Media and Society (Curran and Gurevitch) Arnold (1996). What does she suggest are the key differences between a: Liberal, Radical and Socialist feminist perspective? Liberal Radical Socialist • Fighting for power through the equal, legal rights of women in society • Media perpetuate sex role stereotypes because they reflect dominant social values • Male media producers are influenced by this • Men are not the enemy– can live alongside each other as equals • Women can be superwoman – home, family, body and work. • Men control a patriarchal society through dominance and physical strength • Men have no place in feminist utopia • Believe in women dominating society • Reject typical gender roles • Media production is owned by men, operates to the benefit of the male and should be by women, for women • Concerns with class and economics – ‘power is located in socio-economic structures’ • Women’s ‘production of labour’ and the ‘economic value of domestic labour’ are not recognised • As this work is lower/unpaid, it is essential to maintain a capitalist society • Women as consumers in this society • Linked often to class, age and ethnicity • Advertising reinforces sexual objectification of women.

Application of Theory – [The Returned] Encoding/decoding bell hooks • Narrative: e. g. audiences identify/empathise with characters through the restricted nature of our narrative positioning • Humour – dialogue • Technical codes (language) – camera, editing, audio • Lighting – 70 s • Framing • Mise-en-scène (costuming, setting) • Performance • Barthes – cultural codes • • • bell hooks argues that feminism is a struggle to end patriarchal oppression and the ideology of domination, and that the position of the under-represented is by class and race as well as gender. ‘Women in lower class and poor groups, particularly those who are non-white, would not have defined women’s liberation as women gaining social equality with men since they are continually reminded in their everyday lives that all women do not share a common social status. ’ Task: Is ‘patriarchal oppression and the ideology of domination’ evident in ‘‘The Returned? Stuart Hall - the spectacle of ‘the Other • • • ’ Stuart Hall also discusses the notion that the powerful elite groups (white, male, middle class, etc. ), which control the media, create a ‘norm’ which reflects themselves. Representations of other groups are then constructed in terms of their difference to this – their ‘otherness’. ‘Stereotyping … is part of the maintenance of social and symbolic order. It sets up a symbolic frontier between the ‘normal’ and the ‘deviant’, ‘the normal’ and the ‘pathological’, ‘the acceptable’ and ‘the unacceptable’, what belongs and what does not or is ‘Other’, between insiders and outsiders, Us and Them. ’ Further reading - Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practice, S. Hall, ed. 2013 Sage, p. 258 Hall identifies three classic stereotypes of black people: A) as slave, willingly serving a white master B) as native, savage and uncivilised C) as clown or entertainer, to be laughed at but not taken seriously. The Returned as allegory • • ‘Pierre symbolizes the current mediatic characterization of Others as ‘savages’ that serve the purpose of presenting the West as human, and migrants as nonhuman. While Gobert has not openly said that the series was a reflection of the Syrian migration, it can be inferred from the series’ narrative arcs that the many similarities in script and scenario with Campillo’s 2004 film do reflect the same sort of malaise concerning the treatment of migrant Others in contemporary French society. Furthermore, in positing the character of Pierre as the voice of a traditional, Christian society that purposely rejects Others, drives them out of their ‘civilized’ town and into the woods, and characterizes them as the antithesis of humanity, Gobert is able to extend his criticism of the current situation in France. ’ Zombies and Refugees: Variations on the ‘Post-human’ and the ‘Non-human’ in Robin Campillo’s Les Revenants (2004) and Fabrice Gobert’s Les Revenants (2012 – 2015), Claire Mouflard, 2016 Task: How are the returned constructed as ‘other’? Use the digital resource to allow students to compare their ideas with those suggested. • Reflects contemporary issues – immigration, camps and the integration of refugees (e. g. Syrian) into French society • The returned as ‘other’ – non-human – the ‘horde’ • Temporary camps (Episode 8) • Origins of zombies in Haiti- – voodoo mythology – the native • Conflict, fear, savagery – flesh-eating • Serge as malevolent, destructive force within the ‘others’ – (shades of Islamic State? ) • Forced out of town, hunted down by police • The ‘others’ as destroyers – the dam. The returned cause apocalyptic events and destroy nature.

INDUSTRY CRITERIA Industries Key Facts Vivendi Channel 4 • Processes of production, distribution and circulation by organisations, groups and individuals in a global context. This could begin with an overview/introduction to television industries – commercial and PSB. • The specialised and institutionalised nature of media production, distribution and circulation. • The significance of patterns of ownership and control including conglomerate ownership, vertical integration and diversification. • The significance of economic factors, including commercial and not-for-profit public funding, to media industries and their products. Look at C 4 here. • How media organisations maintain, including through marketing, varieties of audiences nationally and globally. Marketing and global reach of The Returned? • The regulatory framework of contemporary media in the UK. OFCOM, BBFC classification, watershed. • How processes of production, distribution and circulation shape media products. • The role of regulation in global production, distribution and circulation. • Regulation (including Livingstone and Lund) at A level. • Cultural industries (including Hesmondhalgh) at A Level. The Returned (Les Revenants) • 26 November 2012 on Canal+ • UK on 9 June 2013 on Channel 4 • 2 series, 8 episodes each • Based on the French film They Came Back • (Les Revenants) (dir. Robin Campillo 2004) • Season 2: 8 episodes • 28 September 2015 on Canal+. • UK on 16 October 2015 on More 4 • US on 31 October 2015 on Sundance. TV Vivendi is a French multi-media conglomerate whose assets include: MUSIC: • Universal Music Distribution, Decca Records, Island Records, Mercury Records, Roc Nation, Republic Records, Hip-O Records, Def Jam Recordings, Show Dog. Universal Music, Vevo. • Capitol Music Group, Apple Records, Blue Note Records, Harvest Records, Motown, Virgin Records. • Interscope Geffen, A&M Records, Geffen Records, Interscope Records. • Capitol UK, Decca Records, Island UK, Polydor Records, Virgin EMI Records. Channel 4 Launched in 1982 with an alternative programming remit. Page 3: Task: Look at the link to C 4’s ‘Creative Greenhouse’ Report, particularly pages 4 and 5, and answer the questions: http: //www. channel 4. com/media/documents/corporate/C 4_Key. Facts_2016. pdf • Is C 4 a public service broadcaster? Yes • Is C 4 a profit-making organisation? No • Is C 4 commercially funded through advertising? Yes • Is C 4 regulated by Ofcom? Yes • Does C 4 have in-house production facilities? No • What is meant by C 4’s ‘Social Enterprise’ or ‘Robin Hood’ model? Commercially-funded by advertising Not-for-profit: all surplus goes back into content ‘Robin Hood’ system: profit-making genres such as Factual Entertainment cross-fund lossmaking ones like News and Current Affairs. • List 6 of C 4’s key public service elements 1. Be innovative and distinctive 2. Stimulate public debate on contemporary issues 3. Reflect cultural diversity of the UK 4. Champion alternative points of view 5. Inspire change in people’s lives 6. Nurture new and existing talent. Canal+ French premium cable channel • Founded 1984 • Owned by Canal+ group (Studio Canal – major French film investor/producer; news, sport and entertainment TV across Europe and Africa) • Owned by Vivendi SA https: //www. vivendi. com/en • At year-end 2016, Canal+ Group had revenues of € 5. 253 billion FILM/TV UNITS: • Eagle Rock Entertainment, Poly. Gram Entertainment, Universal Music TV. • Canal+ Group. • Canal+, Canalsat Afrique, Calédonie Caraïbes, D 8, Studio. Canal UK. OTHER ASSETS: • Video hosting: Dailymotion (90%) Video games: Ubisoft and Gameloft (96%) Telecom Italia (20. 03%) Mediaset (12. 3%) • Vivendi Ticketing (retail) and concert venues; Paddington Bear Sundance ‘Since its launch in 1996, Sundance. TV has remained true to founder Robert Redford’s mission to celebrate creativity and distinctive storytelling through unique voices and narratives found in the best independent films. From delivering critically acclaimed Emmy®, Golden Globe® and Peabody Award-winning television featuring some of the world’s most talented creators and performers, to showcasing some of the most compelling and iconic films across genres and generations, Sundance. TV is a smart and thought-provoking entertainment destination. Sundance. TV is owned and operated by AMC Networks Inc. ; its sister networks include AMC, IFC, BBC America and WE tv. Sundance. TV is available across all platforms, including on-air, online at sundance. tv, on demand mobile. Marketing Task: analyse the trailer and other marketing materials. Identify how the marketing targets audiences How is the text marketed to target audiences? • Sold on genre with a twist – focus on trailer and reviews (link to Neale). • Sold on enigma – social media buzz. • Sold as a quality drama – marks of trust – Canal+, C 4, etc. Peabody and BAFTA awards used to target ABC 1 audience. • Sold worldwide (US spin-off for 1 series); subtitled versions in e. g. UK and Germany. • Coverage in magazines – ‘event’ of second series covered in TV listings guides. • Some merchandising (e. g. spin-off, novelisation, T-shirts) target collector/fan audience who become part of the fan community. • Magazine coverage in SFX and Total Film targets film fan, sci/fi horror audience. • Innovative, interactive website targets a younger, tech-literate audience. • As does Canal + strategy offering 360˚ virtual navigation of the town on multiple platforms. • Created series ‘brand’. These elements target different audiences. Theory – Hesmondhalgh argues that companies use these techniques to minimise risk and maximise profit. With its follow-up series 2 and spin-off American version, it reflects his notion of major media institutions formatting their own cultural products.

AUDIENCE CRITERIA Audiences Examples – target audiences Example – audience response Additional detail How media producers target, attract, reach, address and potentially construct audiences through media language and representations. • How media industries target audiences through the content and appeal of media products and through the ways in which they are marketed, distributed and circulated. This will be through a combination of marketing and media language. • How audiences interpret the media, including how they may interpret the same media text in different ways. • How media organisations reflect the different needs of mass and specialised audiences, including through targeting. • How audiences use media in different ways, reflecting demographic factors as well as aspects of identity and cultural capital. • The role and significance of specialised audiences, including niche and fan, to the media. • The way in which different audience interpretations reflect social, cultural and historical circumstances. • Reception theory (including Hall). Encoding and decoding, preferred, negotiated and oppositional readings. Who is the audience for The Returned? Think about gender, age, psychographics (e. g. VALS), socio-economic group, interest. Is there more than one audience? Justify your response. • How does the text itself target audiences? Consider genre, narrative, star and character, representations, intertextuality. • How does the marketing target audiences? See Marketing notes. Use the digital resource to give students the opportunity to compare their ideas with those suggested below: • Primary Target Audience – fans of zombie/supernatural texts = mainstream audience. 15+ (primetime TV slot). • Cross-gender appeal – male audiences may identify with e. g. Simon (role models) aspiration. Female audiences of different ages may identify with e. g. Camille/ Adèle. • Experiencers may enjoy the vicarious thrill of the genre. • C 4 audience is traditionally ABC 1 - may also be attracted by the highbrow kudos of the subtitled text. Similar audience to fans of e. g. Nordic noir (similar scheduling) • Secondary audience – fans of zombie/supernatural texts– hybrid generic elements in the text – more alternative/niche audience – younger fans e. g. students. 360˚ marketing including interactive websites and multi-platform reach. • Alternative audience because of non-linear, surreal narrative structure and lack of closure. • Inherited fan bases – from e. g. Twin Peaks or fans of a. MC programming (The Walking Dead). The audience models are on printable cards – group discussion which can be differentiated. • Identification – Uses and Gratifications Model. Link to context – audiences may identify with the characters as the concept of bereavement and loss is universal. • Diversion – Uses and Gratifications Model. Audiences use the text as escapism. There are elements of fantasy and the surreal in the text which divert us from our own mundane existences. The non-linear narrative also helps with this. There is also diversionary appeal in the development of the relationship between Simon and Adèle – a bittersweet love story – and the family focus (maternal sacrifice, etc. ) which may hold more appeal for a female audience. • Enigma – Who is Victor? Why is the dam receding? • Testimonial – On DVD cover – quotes from e. g. Time magazine (ABC 1 audiences). Sundance branding. Two-step Flow. These act as opinion leaders and audiences believe in the show’s quality because of this. • Social interaction – Uses and Gratifications Model. Audiences may discuss the text (watercooler effect) or tweet/comment/follow on social media. They may attempt to ‘solve’ the intellectual puzzle that is posed. • Audiences may consider their own attitudes by comparing them to those of e. g. Claire or Adèle. Awards • International Emmy for Best Drama series • Peabody Award • 100% on Rotten Tomatoes • Facebook 109, 000 likes; 106, 000 followers • Also FB fan sites and fan fiction • IMDb – 8. 2 score • Cult audience • The most watched original fiction created by Canal+ of all time • Voted best 2013 drama by The Guardian. Audience pleasure. • Audience expectations of genre – pleasure in seeing expectations fulfilled (Neale) • Pleasure of intellectual puzzle – enigma codes • Reality – creates audience empathy and identification (U and G) • Escapism – diversion • Aesthetic pleasure – it looks beautiful • Star/character identification • Moral messages – reinforces/challenges dominant ideologies • Catharsis • Narrative pleasures – recognition of patterns which are then varied • Voyeurism, scopophilia Readings - Stuart Hall Extended writing task: Write a paragraph on each of the following questions • What is the preferred meaning of The Returned? • How is this encoded? • What other readings might this text generate?

Humans Season 1 & 2 Recap https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=o. Dbt. Xl 8 NWW s • Release Date: Series 1, Episode 1 (2015) • Original Broadcaster: C 4/a. MC (UK/US) • Production Companies: Co-production between C 4 - commissioned Kudos Film & TV, distributors Shine Ltd and a. MC in the US • Adaptation: Based on the Swedish series “Real Humans” which ran for 20 episodes across 2 seasons • Reception: C 4’s highest-rated drama since 1992. 2 series of 8 episodes each. • Synopsis - A suburban family buys the latest tech gadget--a robot servant--in this remake of a Swedish series. In Season 1 of HUMANS, when Joe (Tom Goodman. Hill) brings Anita -- later known as Mia (Gemma Chan) -- a robotic assistant known as a "Synth" into the family home, the repercussions change their lives forever. As Toby (Theo Stevenson), Sophie (Pixie Davies) and Joe become enamored with Anita, Mattie (Lucy Careless) and Laura (Katherine Parkinson) realize something is amiss. Meanwhile, Niska (Emily Berrington), a conscious synth, seeks help from her human brother Leo (Colin Morgan) after an incident places their unusual family in danger; and Pete (Neil Maskell), a police officer investigating Niska's actions, is shocked when his partner Karen (Ruth Bradley) reveals her secret past. Elsewhere, retired scientist George struggles to keep his aging synth Odi from being decommissioned; and Laura and Mattie assist Leo as he tries to uncover the truth behind his father's work. • Key themes - The series explores a number of science fiction themes, including artificial intelligence, consciousness, human-robot interaction, superintelligence, mind uploading and laws of robotics.

Channel 4 is: • a public service broadcaster • a non-profit-making organisation • commercially funded through advertising • regulated by Ofcom Channel 4’s key public service elements 1. Be innovative and distinctive. 2. Stimulate public debate on contemporary issues. 3. Reflect cultural diversity of the UK. 4. Champion alternative points of view. 5. Inspire change in people’s lives. 6. Nurture new and existing talent.

[HUMANS] RECURRING SITUATIONS ELEMENTS OF NARRATIVE STYLE ICONOGRAPHY SETTINGS THEMES STOCK CHARACTERS • What if…? • Exploration of space • Battling aliens/machines • Creating a monster (or machine) • Hubris/overreaching/playing God • Self-sacrifice (for the greater good) • Robots develop human characteristics • Explanation of laws governing environment • A central quest • Personal freedom is threatened • Manipulation of mind and memory • Attack by the creature/virus/aliens • Countdown to destruction • Usually clear disruption of equilibrium • Reliance on enigma codes throughout • Narrative positioning with hero(es) on a quest • Binary oppositions of earth v space, human v alien, man v machine • Flashbacks and manipulation of time and space • Narrative closure offers Todorovian resolution for audiences • Restriction/derestriction of narrative • Often epic/mythical in scale with recognisable archetypal situations and characters • GFX - particularly in title sequence and SFX • ES of settings - closed frames or vast open spaces • Usually glossy - UK/US, dependent on production values and budget • Music to suit mood and pace – parallel or contrapuntal • Verisimilitude • High key and low contrast OR low key, chiaroscuro lighting • Slow panning shots • Hard focus • Colour palettes of cold white/silver/blue/gree n • Sci-fi jargon – technical • Technology – screens, data etc. • Robotics • Spacesuits • Lasers and hi-tech weaponry • Control panels • Reflective surfaces and clean lines • Scientific iconography • Sociological debates – hierarchies • Science v humanity • Man v machine – reflects society’s fears about technology • Divided society and prejudice (ideological context) • Freedom and slavery • Nature/nurture • Sacrifice • Mortality • Man over-reaching - playing God • Notions of order/chaos within society – reflecting contemporary fears (e. g. 1950 s sci-fi and Communist threat) • Mad scientist/creator of the monster • Final girl – tough female survivor • Aliens – aggressor or misunderstood • Robots or AI – sentient and emotional or not • Corporate rep - usually villain • Eccentric professor • Super-intelligent sidekick • Dystopian settings • Destroyed future worlds • Parallel universe • The future • Different times • Space/spaceships • The Lab • Distant planets • Inside the machine or production line

Theoretical framework • The way events, issues, individuals (including self-representation) and social groups (including social identity) are represented through processes of selection and combination. • The effect of social and cultural context on representations. • How and why stereotypes can be used positively and negatively • How and why particular social groups, in a national and global context, may be underrepresented or misrepresented • How media representations convey values, attitudes and beliefs about the world and how these may be systematically reinforced across a wide range of media representations • How audiences respond to and interpret media representations • Theories of representation (including Hall). Representations are constructed through codes, stereotypes exist as a consequence of inequality of power, maps of reality & deviance - “otherness” • Feminist theories (including bell hooks and Van Zoonen) at A Level [Humans] Application of Theory Binary oppositions • Man v machine • Anita v Laura • Captivity v freedom • Progress v regression • Family v institution • Appearance v reality • Individual v society • Conscious v unconscious • Past v present • Male v female • Old v young Audience pleasure • Audience expectations of genre – pleasure in seeing expectations fulfilled (Neale) • Pleasure of intellectual puzzle – enigma codes • Reality – creates audience empathy and identification (U & G) • Escapism – diversion • Star/character identification • Moral messages –plays on contemporary fears • Safety • Catharsis • Narrative • Voyeurism, scopophilia – the ‘gaze’ Story arcs/character arcs • Anita and the Hawkins family – Tristan love triangle – Joe, Anita, Laura • Laura’s relationship with Mattie • Dr George Millican, social services and Odi • Leo and his quest to recover the “conscious” synths • The corporate mission – Elster, Hobb • Niska and her journey, the brothel • Pete and Jill Drummond – Simon the synth physio and their relationship • DS Karen Voss and relationship with DS Pete Drummond Creating questions out of questions • Is the narrative entirely linear? If not, why not? Give examples • Does the episode have a flexi-narrative? • Are there story arcs which run across the series/franchise? • Are there obvious codes (Barthes) around which the narrative is structured? Give examples • Is it realist? • How are time and space manipulated within the narrative? These are on printable cards for differentiated group discussion • 3 Act Structure? Part of larger narrative - only the beginning • Old v young • Linear/non-linear - is it? Manipulation of time and space challenges audiences • Surreal /anti-realist elements at times. Flashbacks and montages • Intellectual puzzle for an active audience. Not “easy” viewing • Often Proppian roles • Plot driven, punctuated by clues which become narrative markers- enigmas/hermeneutics throughout. • Lacks denouement and satisfying conclusion • Narrative - Is it a flexi-narrative? Characters are complex, storylines interweave, we question what is real and what isn’t, it challenges the audience through enigma, confusion • Complex cross-cutting between past/present and lines of action • Journey/quest structure – to find the synths, for family harmony- link to Campbell/Vogler.

[Humans] Application of Theory Encoding/decoding Elements of Construction • Narrative : e. g. audiences identify/empathise with characters through narrative positioning • Humour - dialogue • Technical codes (language) – camera, editing, audio. Look at use of deep/shallow focus. • Lighting • Framing • Mise-en-scène - costuming, setting • Performance (including intradiegetic gaze) • Barthes - cultural codes • • • • Non-diegetic audio track reflects heartbeat – “birth” of a synth. We initially see only her feet in the mesh “delivery bag”. She is an object to be bought and sold. Sophie comments “Can we change her if she’s not pretty? ” Female value lies in physical appearance. She is “revealed” – to them and to the audience as a spectacle. Reaction of Sophie and Joe as she is revealed – she gasps, he does double-take. “To-be-looked-at-ness” Programmed for “standard domestic model …basic housework” – female as domestic Use of CU on eyes/face and panning shot as reveal occurs Costuming is bland uniform in grey/green (connotations of sci-fi). Lack of embellishment suggests utilitarian nature of the “product” but also draws attention to her physical beauty. “My primary user” suggests she is simply an appliance “used” by the humans “She’s ours” – ownership of the object. Her voice is low, attractive and without emotion – a seductive machine. Joe grins sheepishly like a younger boy faced with an attractive woman – “Hello, Joe” Contrasted with Laura who is costumed in more natural (but duller) browns through crosscutting. Anita is presented to Laura holding cleaning products – the perfect domestic female, in opposition to Laura as the frazzled, emotional working mother. Referred to by Laura as “a machine” Focus – use of deep and shallow focus to connote dominance e. g. Laura in background, Anita clear in the foreground. Construction of femininity (Judith Butler) through costume, reaction, performance. How is “patriarchal oppression and the ideology of domination” evident in “Humans”? • • • Creation of sentient synths by male David Elster – initially to replace his wife Laura is “replaced” by a synth (domestically, maternally and eventually sexually) because she is struggling to manage home/work effectively and is seen as imperfect by her family. The decision is taken unilaterally by husband Joe who is impressed by the perfect, beautiful, domestic Anita (initially created as a babysitter and reaffirming the notion of woman as nurturer) The salesman is male – selling a woman - as are the corporate figures who dictate their use The majority of the ethnic actors are synths (“servants”) emphasizing Stuart Hall’s notion of the black “slave” stereotype. This is particularly apt when looking at Anita in the home and Fred when fruit picking (overtones of cotton-picking slaves). They are referred to as “just freaks”, emphasizing their “otherness”. Anita conforms to the racial stereotypes identified by Alvarado of “sexualized” and “exotic”. The attitudes of the males, particularly towards Niska in the brothel – “using” women who are clearly not equal. The physio synth Simon is a hypermasculine (Zaitchik & Mosher) stereotype – and replaces Pete Drummond in Jill’s affections.

[Humans] Application of Theory Hesmondhalgh: The Cultural Industries “Humans” How is ‘Humans’ marketed to target audiences? Hesmondhalgh argues that whilst the traditional arts industries (e. g. theatre, ballet, opera) have been subsidised because they are “legitimized” culture, media industries are equally high risk but have no subsidy “cushion”. Some of the risks are: • No guarantee of profitability • Expensive production costs • Cheap reproduction • Big hits are disproportionately profitable • Digitised content enables piracy Media producers must therefore attempt to minimize risks to maximise profit. • Vertical and horizontal integration • Cross-media conglomeration and convergence • Developing a repertoire of tried and tested stars, genres, adaptations, franchises – “formatting” their own cultural products • Controlling release schedule/copyrights to create artificial scarcity • Control of circulation through distribution/marketing, including the internet • • • Sold on genre with a twist – focus on trailer. Sci fi but family drama, with some action in Leo sequences. (link to Neale) Sold on narrative enigma and “what ifs? ”- trailers and posters are driven by hermeneutics Sold on novelty – “water-cooler” effect of “guerrilla” marketing techniques and social media buzz • Sold on stars – William Hurt taps into US/global market, as does Carrie. Ann Moss in Series 2; Colin Morgan (‘Merlin’) , Will Tudor (‘Game of Thrones’) attract the fantasy audience. Gemma Chan – single image – appeals aesthetically to audience – she becomes the spectacle - male gaze? Sold as hyperreality, reflecting ideological context (taps into society’s fears about AI) Sold as a quality drama from a. MC and C 4 – mark of trust – link to industrial context and reputation. Sold worldwide (adaptation from “Real Humans”, global reach) Coverage in magazines and television - front pages of TV listings guides. Comic Con – “event” Some merchandising (key rings, T-shirts for Persona Synthetics available) Fanboy/fangirl audience. Created series “brand” becomes iconic These elements target different audiences (link to Media Audiences PDF) How does ‘Humans’ target audiences? • • • Primary Target Audience – fans of TV drama - C 4 and a. MC - mainstream audience. 15+ (postwatershed TV slot). Cross-gender and age appeal – audiences may identify with e. g. Leo, Joe, Laura, Karen (role models) - aspiration. Audiences may find characters attractive, e. g. Anita, Leo, Niska. Secondary audience - fans of science– fiction – hybrid generic elements in the text - more alternative/niche audience – young males. Alternative audience because of non-linear elements and enigma. Experiencers may enjoy the vicarious tension of the sci-fi/thriller. Tertiary audience – the box-set viewer- attracted by the marketing and publicity to a genre they may not normally watch. Inherited fan bases – from original e. g. ‘Real Humans’; from a. MC “The Walking Dead”, “Breaking Bad”, from Kudos : ‘Life on Mars’, ‘Ashes to Ashes’, ‘Broadchurch’. Fans of stars – Will Tudor, Colin Morgan (younger TA – fantasy intertextuality with ‘Game of Thrones’ and ‘Merlin’); older TA – William Hurt. How do audiences responds to ‘Humans’? Identification – Uses & Gratifications Model. • Link to context - Modern audiences identify with the characters as the different world is so similar to our own, mirroring our own fears and concerns. • This is helped by the surface realism and verisimilitude within the text. Universal themes (love, loss, betrayal) are explored and the domestic, familiar, family drama strikes a chord with a range of audiences. Diversion – Uses & Gratifications Model • Audiences use the text as escapism. • There are elements of fantasy and the surreal in the text which divert us from our own mundane existences. • The non-linear narrative with Anita’s flashbacks also helps with this. • There is diversionary appeal in the development of the relationships and the different lines of action. Leo’s story is more action-based. Enigma codes and narrative devices – as most science fiction, ‘Humans’ is based on “what ifs? ” In Episode 1, audiences are drawn by the hermeneutics surrounding Anita’s past, and questions are raised throughout– will Laura and Joe regain their relationship? Why did Anita take Sophie into the night? Will Niska escape? Are the synths really sentient? Two-step Flow. Testimonial – on DVD cover – quotes from Mail on Sunday and Independent (BC 1 audiences) The papers act as opinion leaders and audiences believe in the show’s quality because of this.

[POSTMODERNISM] • Baudrillard argues that the media create hyperrealities based on a continuous process of mediation. What is encoded as ‘real’ (and what we decode through media products) is not ‘real’ but instead a ‘simulacrum’ which offers us a hyperreality (“A real without origin or reality” – Jean Baudrillard) that we accept as real because we are so consistently exposed to it. • Thus media images have come to seem more “real” than the reality they supposedly represent. • ‘Our mental pictures of the perfect body, house, meal and sexual relationship have been created through exposure to constantly recycled media depictions that have no basis in fact – but it is these images that create our expectations’ (Em Griffen (2012) A First Look at Communication Theory, p 319). • Lévi-Strauss suggested that media texts are now made up of “debris” that we recognise from other texts and these are combined – “bricolage”. This may be heard in e. g. a musical “mash-up” or remix.

Modernism – philosophical movement – transformations of 20 th century Western society – rejected certainty of Enlightenment thinking and religious belief – “make it new” – stream-ofconsciousness novel, abstract art, self-conscious style, experimental form, rejection of realism – creative revolution (science, art, technology) – power of human beings to create, improve and reshape environment – progress and growth emphasised. Post-modernism – as cultural production peaked, post-modernism became a new movement that critiqued the modernist era with scepticism, deconstruction and a post-structuralist mode of analysis – it is marked by a cyclical return to previous styles but adding new contextual meaning through bricolage. Deconstructing – picking apart media to find out the motive and purpose of a product, to the point of abstraction Subversive – challenging the conventions of previous media – anticonformist in nature Hybridity – the blurred boundary between high culture and popular culture – genres blend, sources of influence vary – media forms are juxtaposed Hall-of-mirrors/ paradoxical – from Escher’s drawn architectural illusions, to story-in-a-story narratives – to oxymoronic notions such as ‘loving hate’ – ambiguity and illusion reigns in the post-modern world Hierarchies of taste - - Blurring of high and low culture to create new meaning Self-conscious – one could argue that post-modern thinking is very narcissistic – looking in on oneself, taking one out of an experience and into theoretical – conceptual art for conceptual art’s sake (the Emperor’s New Clothes effect) Simulacra and Simulation (Baudrillard) - Blurred boundary between the real and imagined - Distinction between media and reality has collapsed - Reality defined by images and representations - This meta-conceptual realm is a form of hyper-reality - Deals with the ambiguity of polar opposites – artifice and authenticity Music video and postmodernism - the ‘three minute culture’ – the MTV generation length of peoples’ attention spans – fast editing, intense imagery - Relevant theory: Lyotard/Baudrillard/Jameson – ‘structures of feeling’ and ‘cultural logic’ - Guy Debord - Society of the spectacle – overly visual culture that pursues high levels of stimulation JEAN BAUDRILLARD What is post-modernism? ‘Truth’ is merely a concept – there is no right or wrong, merely interpretations – propaganda or ‘taste’ are the deciding factors regarding which ‘truth’ prevails at any given time - Sense of reality dominated by media images - Cultural forms can no longer hold up a mirror to reality because reality itself is saturated by advertising, films, TV, video games and print media - Truth claims via images are more problematic thanks to Photoshop technology – reality is distorted to either beautify or implicate, sometimes unrealistically - Mediation – media reality is the new reality – society must mediate between cultural forms in order to decide on the prevailing ‘truth’ Causality – many stories no longer follow a structured cause-and-effect pattern but mess with linearity and consequence – some stories decide to subvert the notion of ‘meaning’ Meta-narratives – disjointed narrative structures that play with casuality and linearity – usually associated itself with avant-garde movements Bricolage - fusing two cultures can change its meaning – punk socialists (particularly bands like The Clash) would have a very different ethos to swastika sporting neo. Nazi punks - Iconography can be adapted when combined with icons from another cultural expression, and therefore create a very new meaning The zenith of cultural production – culture ‘eats itself’ – everything has been made – therefore, culture must remake itself in abstract and cyclical forms of self-reference - Many artistic products are influenced by its predecessors to the point of parody, homage and intertextuality - anything can be art - Reflection of an ‘alienated’ society – personas and characters are reinvented (ie. Madonna, Michael Jackson, David Bowie) as the pursuit for identity subverts conventions

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Genre (Neale) 5 types of film - Form finding itself - Classic - Stretching Boundaries - Parody - Homage Rick Altman - Semantic Elements – example: thriller genre – guns, urban landscapes, victims, stalkers… A collection of features and props create an umbrella term of a genre. - Syntactic Elements – themes, plots – more ambiguous and harder to identify within a genre, but crucial all the same. Daniel Chandler - definitions of genres tend to be based on particular conventions of content (such as themes or settings) and/or form (including structure and style) shared by the texts belonging to its grouping. “Genre is a repetition with an underlying pattern of variations. ” “Difference is absolutely essential to the economy of genre. ” Main Film Genres Film Sub-Genres Action Animation Adventure Biopic Comedy Detective/mystery Crime/gangster Disaster Drama Fantasy Epic/historical Film Noir Horror Rom-com Musical Sports Romance Supernatural Science Fiction Thriller-suspense War Western Robert Stan (Stereotypical Minefield) – believes genres are made up by critics and regularly compartmentalise and label products rather than letting it transcend. Films previously made, within a certain genre, establish certain expectations regarding what key features will appear in the film. Steve Neale declares that ‘genres are instances of repetition and difference’ (1980) adding that ‘difference is absolutely essential to the economy of the genre’ and that we derived pleasure in how the genre is manipulated. Altman thinks that genre classification: - bridges multiple concerns. - defined by industry, recognised by audience. - clear, stable identities and borders - gives individual films belonging to a group. - is transhistorical. - undergoes predictable development. - located in particular topics and structures. - have fundamental characteristics. - have a ritual or ideological function.

[INTERTEXTUALITY] ‘Humans’ contains many intertextual elements with which audiences may be familiar. These include: • Black Mirror – Nosedive: life mediated through technological advances. • Elster – Hitchcockian reference to Vertigo in which Gavin Elster “creates” the perfect woman to serve his own ends – voyeurism. • The Stepford Wives– domestic, beautiful, subservient female robots replace real women (male conspiracy) – misogyny. • “AI” – Odi is treated like a son by George Millican. Odi (ODI) references the Open Data Institute founded by Tim Berners-Lee. • Blade Runner – synths becoming sentient – conscious. Niska is reminiscent of Pris – the “basic pleasure model”. • ‘Asimov blocks’ in their programs (Laws of Robotics outlined e. g. in I, Robot). • Remake of Real Humans. • Hawkins family – close to Stephen Hawking.

CONTROL NATIONALISM Ideology FASCISM TOTALITARIANISM NATIONALISTIC SOCIALISM TRADITIONALISM AUTHORITARIANISM STATISM [Source: David Mc. Candless ‘Knowledge is Beautiful’] anti-freedom FUNDAMENTALISM NATIONAL COMMUNISM REPRESENTATION AUTHORITARIAN dictate state focused CONSERVATISM SOCIALISM NEOLIBERALISM Right LEFt SOCIAL DEMOCRACY COMMUNITARIAN LIBERALISM ECONOMY TARIAN PROGRESSIVISM welfare of the people welfare of the economy DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM LIBERTARIAN CAPITALISM LIBERTARIAN freedom of the individual ANARCHOSOCIALISM ACTIVISM LIBERTARIANISM INDIVIDUALISM SYNDICALISM MUTUALISM ANARCHOCOLLECTIVISM ANARCHOCAPITALISM ANARCHOCOMMUNISM LIBERTARIAN SOCIALISM ANARCHISM CONNECT relate CHAOISM anti state

PRODUCERS AND AUDIENCES Uses & Gratifications Theory • Katz, Gurevitch and Haas (1973) saw mass media as a means by which individuals connect or disconnect themselves with others. They developed 35 needs taken from the largely speculative literature on the social and psychological functions of the mass media and put them into five categories: • Cognitive Needs: Acquiring information, knowledge and understanding • Media Examples: Television (news), video (how-to), movies (documentaries or based on history) • Affective Needs: Emotion, pleasure, feelings • Media Examples: Movies, television (soap operas, sitcoms) • Personal Integrative Needs: Credibility, status • Media Examples: Video • Social Integrative Needs: Family and friends • Media Examples: Internet (e-mail, instant messaging, chat rooms, social media) • Tension Release Needs: Escape and diversion • Media Examples: Television, movies, video, radio, internet

Language Representation Industry Audience Linked to social, cultural, economic, political and historical contexts. Imagine UK – Season 7 Episode 9 And Then There Was Television, 19 December 2006 http: //www. bbc. co. uk/programmes/b 007 cjkz BBC and Public Service Broadcasting Watch the documentary and answer the following questions: 1. Why are Lord Reith and John Logie Baird so important in terms of the development of TV? 2. How did television develop during the 1930 s? 3. What was the impact of WW 2 on TV, especially Post War? 4. What television genre developed during the late 1940 s and into the 1950 s? The BBC’s own homepage has a wealth of information, historical timelines, factsheets and clips about ‘The Digital Revolution’, information about PSB, funding and the Licence Fee: http: //www. bbc. co. uk/historyofthebbc BBC Research Task: In pairs, look at the BBC website on the ‘Inside the BBC’ section and make notes on the following: 1. How did the BBC develop historically? Create a brief timeline (historical context). 2. What is Public Service Broadcasting? 3. How is the BBC structured? 4. What is the Licence Fee, how is it collected and how is it used? 5. Why does this make the BBC different?