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Film Industry assessment learner response

1) WWW: Good knowledge shown of the industry and the CSP. In Q3, you addresses both sides of the argument in some detail and clearly engage with the media debate. EBI:  Keep an eye on written English: you almost write yourself out of the second mark in Q1. Q2 needed a little more specific reference to the Chicken CSP. Q3 needs to be a little more sophisticated for A/A*. It's not so much appealing to niche audience shouldn't be made- more a question of how they should be funded.   2) Q1: 2/2 Q2: 3/4 Q3: 7/9 3) Q2:  Strategy: Traditional marketing (posters etc) 4)  Q3: AGAINST SOCIAL REALIST FILMS! However, social realist films, such as Chicken shouldn't be made as it can be argued that niche films don't make as much revenue. As Hesmondhalgh discusses, the cultural industries are a 'risky business' and producers have no guarantee of profit. It is unreasonable to make studios to produce small social-realist films that are unlikely to attract ...

An introduction to TV Drama: Blog task

1) A serial television drama is a television show which has a continuous plot that unfold sequential episode-by-episode fashion. They are shows that possess narrative complexity. They typically follow more story arcs that span entire television seasons, or even in some cases, the entire run of the series. 2)  Many of them were shot like stage plays in TV studios- Doctor Who Largely aimed at a domestic audience- The Sweeny and Minder Until the early 1980s US TV drama series followed a set narrative structure. However the US police drama Hill Street Blues changed the shape of TV drama series- effectively transforming it into a serial. The drama focused on a precinct of characters, not just the protagonist. Doctor Who The Avengers Danger Man The Sweeny Minder 3) Police procedural (crime)- Monk Medical- Emergency! Period (costume)- The Marvellous Mrs. Maisel Science-fiction/fantasy- Agents of S.H.E.I.L.D Family- This Is Us Teen- Teen W...

Film Industry index

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

Film Industry: BBFC film regulation

1)  The British Board of Film Classification is an independent, non-governmental body which has classified cinema films since it was set up in 1912 and videos/ DVDs since the Video Recordings Act was passed in 1984. It is funded by the fees it charges for its services. In 1984 Parliament passed the Video Recordings Act. This act stated that, subject to certain exemptions, video recordings offered for sale or hire commercially in the UK must be classified by an authority designated by the State of Secretary. 2) Their  decisions  are reached by consensus.  Compliance  officers view DVD submissions on their own- solo viewing and they watch these in the BBFC cinema. They are rated in teams of two. With each work, Compliance Officers log details of what they watch, including: general context - plot, characters, outline of individual scenes timings of key moments, including camera angles, type of shots, on- and off-screen moments bad language, sex and drug re...