Ben Chebabo GCSE 2017 Blog

Television audiences: Television audiences in the 2010s are much more segmented than those in the 1960s. While BBC and ITV remain mass audience channels, the size of these mass audiences are getting smaller. Both the BBC and ITV offer channels that target specific audiences e.g. CBeebies, CBBC, BBC4, as well as mass audience channels. Audiences in the 2010s have a variety of means of accessing television-live on television, recorded on PVRs and streaming online. This means that audiences have increasing choice and control over their viewing and scheduling is losing its previously all powerful grip over television viewing. The Wednesday 8pm scheduling for Cuffs, was still significant, which meant that Cuffs needed to try to offer a diverse audience a range of characters in hope that they could identify with some of them. It also meant that the darker context expected of a police drama had to be balanced with lighter, family-friendly fare. Changes in social and cultural contexts mean...

Timeline Social context- How you have been influenced or affected by events in society (moving school, getting a new pet, family births/deaths). Historical context- How you have been influenced or affected by events and social changes from the past. (911, 67 bombing.) Cultural context- How you have been affected by music, clothing, religion, films, T.V. etc. What is a social, historical, cultural context and how might it influence a media text (Cuffs)? The influence of the rise in stabbing crimes occurring in Brighton during the 2010s is represented as a social and cultural issue in television programmes such as 'Cuffs'. This is evident when an Indian boy gets stabbed by a racist, typical white British male gang . The   UK government released a document on the rise in Hate Crimes. It reveals a 15% increase in reported racial/religious crimes since 2011. This social and cultural issue sends a message to a pre-washed mainstream audience to make them aware ...

Genre Sub Genre: Within the overall genre of television crime drama there will be groups of shows that share similar conventions, for example detective-led dramas. These are sub-genres. Genre Variation: Differences of genre and how media language illustrates this. How much film subverts or conforms the conventions and stereotypes of a genre. Genre repetition:  Repeating codes and conventions to conform to the genre.  Hybridity: A genre in fiction that blends themes and  elements from two or different genres e.g. rom-com.  Intertextuality:  The process of creating references to any kind of media text via another media text.  Genres:        Action-Dejango        Drama-Murder on the Orient Express        Comedy-Step Brothers        Romance-Fifty shades of  grey         Horro...