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Monday 17 January 2011

Contemporary Textual Analysis

Nip/Tuck


MIGRAIN:

Media Language:

  • Theme tune with words in it saying "make me beautiful" and "a perfect life". - this shows how people may think when getting plastic surgery, that when they have it its to make them perfect, but in real life - that's not the case. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MaNO5r6PKs
  • The lighting would represent the real situations, as its set in a surgery the lights would have to be shown as a real surgery, by using real examples. 
  • All settings represent money, big houses, nice cars, nice clothes, drugs, sex - represent lots of money!
  • Non-Diegetic sounds being used to make the hospital/clinic sound more realistic, patients, machine sounds

Institution:
  • Produced by Warner Bros. Television:
  • Name known by people all over the world
  • Does all types of genres
  • Walt Disney is there competition meaning they will only bring out programmes which will bring more ratings and money
  • Broadcasted by FX networks
  • Both shown on Sky digital and Virgin media - Both accessible to everyone (have to buy)
  • Broadcasts all different types of genres, from original shows to rebroadcasts

Genre:
  • Medical Drama; Physiological Horror
  • Plastic surgery being shown, this would be medical references. With using medical words, real situations, or real investigation must of been used to help the story line, a behind the scene doctor?
  •  Physiological Horror - the show is very graphic and gory, this shows the science of it all. Not for the faint hearted, different episodes are different restriction depending on how bad the situations are.
  • With a genre like this these will be shown on FX or programmes which deal with sex, drugs and beauty. Sky one, FX, 

Representation:
  • Filmed in Miami, Florida, Hollywood, California (have to be made of money to even live there)
  • Both surgeons live two different lifestyles but both fancy money made
  • Women and men shown on Nip/tuck are either body conscience, addicted to plastic surgery, been persuaded by the surgeons etc. They may think they need the money lifestyle, and need to look like it.
  • Twins who have nose jobs, women who had tummy tucks, women who just have sex with the surgeons to feel acceptable.
  • People who watch it may find it acceptable to get plastic surgery just for insecurities.
  • Rich Playboys and Barbie dolls

Audience:
  • 18-50
  • From last couple of series it became more female based, mainly because of the relationships, surgery's, how to make yourself beautiful?
  • Two different surgeons with two different lifestyles; married and bachelor
  • Male view - Hugh Heffner lifestyle, sex, drugs, money 
  • Female view - married in a relationship who may have ups and downs

Ideologies and Values:
  • The audiences who watch have many different views on it. As the audience is such a massive gap between viewers people from generations have different views on the lifestyle and plastic surgery.
  • Different religions have different ways of perceiving it, an atheist will maybe accept it more than Christian or Muslim. This could go back to the religious views of how people are brought up.
  • People who are against it may watch it to get a different insight, maybe to watch to understand as they may not understand the people who do it

Narrative:
  • Theme/intro having mannequins to represent perfect, with lines drawn all over body to present perfect.
  • Two very different surgeons with different lifestyles.
  • Dr. Sean McNamara lives the family lifestyle, has a kid (Matt McNamara) and wife (Julia McNamara) who have their normal family ups and downs, rows over stupid things. The audience who watch it will probably relate more if there older, and more family orientated (women).
  • Dr. Christian Troy is a bachelor who has sex with different women, does anything for a lot of money. This could show how the males are attracted to the program, being stereotypical?
  • Both surgeons work together on different types of patients, whether or not they agree, they have a strong working relationship.
  • Komo news is local Seattle news
  • Producing news to different places using your local area.
  • "In Your Community" lets Seattle get local news from where they are
  • Watch live news, radio, connect with social sites etc
  • Footage:
  • Video used of a cartoon influencing young boys to copy their actions.
  • With it leading to a death, show may have been cancelled
  • News reporters - posh, smart - have no emotion - need to be serious on each subject to look professional
  • Names at bottom of screen - So that you know the name and its a friendly introduction so you feel comfortable around them when their telling you local news, also as its local news you feel more comfortable when the news readers are introduced - no awkwardness? even though its behind a screen
  • Having Seattle as the background of the studio, makes it known where they are, can relate, like other news - for example in the UK-  Daybreak uses the river Thames as their background as it can relate to the audience of where it is.
  • By having a japanese women present a news report on a japanese cartoon, makes the whole story more relevant? - or just a coincidence
  • Standing in front of the children sign - proving he is in a child ward where he died.
  • Showing a clip of the cartoon lets audiences be familiar with the cartoon if they don't know
  • Diegetic sounds used outside the studio to show real life, possibly make it hit home to the audience.
  • When talking to outside people, asking questions about who he was and what happened, makes the audience get a sense of who he is and how tragic it is. 
Institution:
  • Komo News
  • ABC are connected with Komo news
  • Team up with advertisers, local viewers, agents make a better website.
  • Advertisers of local companies can advertise their own stuff, making it community based.
  • Also have a iphone app in which you can use the GPS to find where you are to give you the local news (in Seattle) means their more connected with their audience. the app was developed by DoApp (http://www.doapps.com/)
  • DoApp is the leader in mobile and web development - who work alongside - mobile local news (most popular platform for TV News, and radio station to deliver content on mobiles), Kenex (real estate), adagogo (advertisement), mRemedy (Health care professionals)
  • Fisher interactive network (http://www.fisherinteractive.com/)
Genre:
  • News:
  • Presenting different issues each day to people in Seattle about weather, traffic, sport, entertainment etc.
  • Narotu making a big debate about children assisting a boy to do a trick seen from a cartoon, which means them being influenced by it. 
  • As its from a local town, people in Seattle can feel more hurt by it then say people in the UK, this means they have a stronger community bond.
  • Komo 4 News Shown at 5am , 11 am 4-5-6pm, 11pm giving different people different times to watch

Representation:
  • As its from a little community, it makes us wonder why the boys where so influenced.
  • Codey Porter watching a cartoon where a character buries himself in sand.
  • Children May be Naive enough to copy and that it doesn't happen to everyone?
  • Might be a mis-representation of a young group of 10 year old boys - gullable, venerable, needs a sense of guidance
  • Mis-representation of parents- not looking after children properly, is it their fault?
  • 10 year old children copying a cartoon - maybe they are to influencial
Audience:
  • Komo News - 18-60 (community)
  • a family based news, as it has different platforms different types of people can listen so its wide range friendly.
  • As it has different times in whoch its on, different types of news can be show to the audience.
  • Has all different types of genres so that its not only sports based or entertainment based.
  • The audience of this news report would of been prime time, where families may be sitting down to watch TV

Ideologies and Values:
  • Audiences may think the parent may be to blame because of the things their child watches
  • depending on the audience and their background will effect them in different ways
  • it may make parent weary of what their child watches on a daily bases, and how far they can be influenced
  • how far would a parent go without having to wrap their children in bubble wrap
  • Who is to blame?
Narrative:
  • Shows the audience how a normal child can be so easily influenced over a cartoon
  • the news reports show the condolences of many people in their neighbourhood, but how far can it go?
  • the children who did it, didn't not realise he couldn't breath, thinking he was part of the cartoon. was it influence, or a plan?
  • Closed narrative in which the audience would make up their mind who the villain would be, or was it just fate.
  • chronological as their was loads of films before it, shows the progress or his death
  • Having a flashback of him when he was younger makes the audience think he's innocent, meaning it wasn't his fault.
Different Platforms:

James Bulger Case - John Venebles:



















MIGRAIN

Media Language:
  • As James Bulger was killed at just 2 years old by 10 year old boys Jon Venables and Robert Thompson
  • The story is a historical phenomenon and John Venebles was let out last year and then admitting to downloading child pornography
  • James Bulger was kidnapped and killed in 1993
  • He admitted downloading 57 pornographic pictures of children on to his computer between February 2009 and February this year.
  • The now 27-year-old Venables pleaded guilty to a second offence of distributing indecent photographs of February this year, and a third offence of distributing 42 images in February 2008
  • Set around the news room and around the court of where he was
  • As his identity is not allowed to be known, only old pictures can be shown. ]
  • Worlds like "spiraling", "out of control" etc to explain his self being.
  • Timeline of arrests, problems, what's happened since then



Institution:
  • Channel 4 News
  • News Division of British TV Broadcaster of Channel 4
  • Produced By ITN
  • Different type of news channels/times depending on what type of news
  • competing with news channels like FIVE, BBC 1, ITV at the same time.
  • You personally can advertise with Channel 4 unlike BBC as its TV licensing.
  • The most highlighted programs are documentaries
Genre:
  • News:
  • Presenting local news and also wider issues which may effect us
  • Presenting Entertainment, Local News, Wider Contexts etc.
  • More formal unlike news on BBC 3 that has more celebrity quick news, who will have different audiences.
Representation:
  • John Venebles pleading guilty to downloading and distributing child pornography after just recently being released
  • As he was given another name to protect himself, he still did wrong and ended up back in jail.
  • Some people who watch it may think keep him in jail forever, maybe so, but that would only make him more unstable than he is now.
  • He done his time (even though should of been more) but has still gone agaisnt the law, meaning he should get more time for second offence.
  • Is the news trying to put us against him?
  • By making it biased - they make the audience think twice
  • putting a story line of who he is and what he's done it turns us against him
Audience:
  • 20-50
  • Audiences will watch it can have their own opinion against him, even though the news will try and be biased and sway them in the different direction
  • As there is a good wide range of audiences who will watch this, they have the right to make up their mind, even though depending on what news you watch depends on yourself and the way you are.
  • Moral Panic against him - happens everyday, but because of the generations
Ideologies and Values:
  • People who were brought up in 1993 would of seen the Jamie Bulger story as a cry for help, and very unusual. This would of panicked audiences and kept their child safer and in reaching distance
  • Depending on your generation would depend how you would go about the story, maybe was a cry for help, influential standards etc.
  • To create sympathy and panic towards James and between you and Jon Venables.

Narrative:
  • Jon Venables would be sent to prison again for distributing child pornography, by just coming out of prison not long before, set up roar about how long his prison sentence was and maybe it should be longer
  • some how the different methods of punishment were brought in
  • Closed narrative
  • showing time line of his faults make the audience feel worried/scared about him
  • Different Platforms:
E-Media:
Print

Media Box Online - Knife Crime


Migrain:


Media Language:

  • Media Box give money to youths who want to make a video to make a difference and show awareness to a certain situation - in this case knife crime
  • Based outside in an estate - to maybe prove this is where it happens more
  • A lot of close up used to show emotion between the person talking about the situation and the audience. - The boy explaining why he was show stabbed and the women explaining the issues to the camera - having the close up shot can show the closeness between you and the person
  • Natural lighting would of been used to show outside the estate
  • Diegetic sounds have been used apart from the music involved.
  • Grime music being played at beginning.

Institution:
  • Youtube
  • People can upload any videos they like of either themselves, other people, of films, reactions etc
  • Other institution's have their own channels in which they can show their own shows - for example channel 4 - 4OD can show their programs to the audience through youtube.
  • Have 34 different languages allowed
  • Copyright is one main issue as people don't take it serious which may end up to the account being deleted.
  • Media Box
  • Media box is in association with channel 4 documentaries
  • gives people 13-19 or 25 if they have disabilities, money is given to them to make a video to bring awareness to young people
  • Media box is associated first light, media trust, skill set, UK film council - lottery fund, communities and local government.

Genre:
  • Amateur documentary
  • Youth related documentary in which youths make it themselves, making it good awareness to people of the same age

Representation:
  • presenting awareness to young people about certain situations
  • telling audience why and how knife crime has become such a big issue
  • challenging the black stereotype of who believe knife crime revolves around
  • all black "cast" proving that you can get pass the stereotype
  • negative story - need to pass over the stereotype and need to stop knife crime all together, the reason it is and needs to stop

Audience:
  • Predominately 13-25 year old
  •  braking barriers
  • trying to identify the problem and solving it by saying the problems and showing the resolution

Ideologies and Values
  • People who live in an estate who may be in trouble and cause it, can have something to help
  • they may need different reassurances that there not the only one with problems
  • knife crime is on the up and mostly in youths, so youths making a video will raise awareness
  • by being a black "cast" the stereotype can be helped in saying its not them
Narrative
  • Open Narrative - the story is not closed as the issue is not resolved, 
  • flashbacks used to show how you an change your ways
  • by being a simple story everyone will understand - no facts or statistics used just plain experiences
  • we can all be hero's if we want and dont have to let knife crime effect us.

50 Cent - Ok, You're Right




Migrain:


Media Language:

  • Music video showing a surgery of some sort getting raided by (clown) masked men 
  • Music at beginning before the actual music starts sounds circus music is played in a eerie way to represent the clowns taking over.
  • the lighting is mostly from the guns or inside the surgery 
  •  all 'invaders' have the same mask and clothes on, showing no one can be recognized and officers would probably be confused in looking for one person when hey all look the same
  • freeze framing at the beginning and the camera wandering through the scene is almost as if its a virtual tour until the gun fires to the beat starting the music video officially
  • non-diegetic sounds are used, for example the gun never makes a real sound as it starts from the beat, sound effects added after to make it seem real
  • when 50 cent is in the chimney/confined space, the camera usually changes from close ups to wide shots, showing his actions to the audience, and also when close up it shows no emotion as its only the mask.
  • no facial expressions used from masks, unless 50 cent take it of then most of the time he's smiling, showing the situation isn't serious and a bit of fun

Institution:
  • The music video is made by 3 different institutions - Aftermath Records, Shady Records and Insterscope Records.
  • By them all teaming up to make one video this will mean they will all get more money in the long run. As all of them are owned by different companies - more audiences will listen to the music video as they all have different audiences.
  • For instance Sony wouldn't team up with other people to make a music video because they can handle the money they throw out and they will get it back, this may not necessarily be the case for these institutions s they need to share money to make money.
  • As Eminem has his own record label, 50 cent can join as their friends in the business and the money they make can be made together,  Eminem can sign 50 Cent up at any time.

Genre:
  • Music Video - Rap and Hip Hop
  • Music video which talks about violence, money, alcohol, women etc. This is usually the main topics around rap music, showing a bad influence to the audience. Even though its on an album 

Posted by KirstyK at 22:44  

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1 comments:

Media1st@BDA said...

Fantastic 'layout' of analysis. However why is 'Komo' news one of your text choices? It seems very niche and random?

I do think your textual choices (considering the fact that they are what your entire CI will be based on) are not 'meaty' enough. You can disagree and move ahead, but be sure that you have given yourself enough 'range' to work with.

Well done.

TASK 2 is due next Tuesday. Look at it and complete carefully!)

19 January 2011 at 13:31  

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