Questions

Waterloo Road



2) Read this Waterloo Road Wikipedia entry and write down the number of seasons and episodes broadcast and the channels they have appeared on. 


In 2014, it was confirmed that the 10th series of Waterloo Road would be the last. The first episode was broadcast on BBC One on 9 March 2006 and the final episode on BBC Three on 9 March 2015. Waterloo Road ran for 10 series, 200 episodes and exactly 9 years.


3) How does Waterloo Road meet the key conventions of TV Drama?




4) Write down three storylines (or narratives) from Waterloo Road - note which season the storyline appeared in. They can be from the first episode above or from another season if you wish.





5) Why might audiences have enjoyed Waterloo Road?

 Teachers and education professionals may be interested in "Waterloo Road" because they might like to see how other schools, particularly failing schools, are run as the ideas may be completely different to the professionals..


Doctor Who

1) Watch these extracts from the classic Doctor Who episode 'Blink':

 

 


2) Read the opening of this Wikipedia entry for Doctor Who and make notes on why the show is so popular.

  Six years after it returned to our television screens, Doctor Who remains one of Britain's most highly rated shows. 



3) Now read this Wikipedia entry for the episode above - 'Blink'. Why is 'Blink' considered to be one of the best Doctor Who episodes ever?



3) List the key conventions of TV Drama that you can find in Doctor Who.



4) Write down three storylines (or narratives) from Doctor Who - note which season the storyline appeared in. They can be from the earlier episodes (such as 'Blink' above) or from the most recent series if you wish.



5) What audience pleasures are provided by Doctor Who?

Waterloo road

What does the clip suggest about this particular storyline for Waterloo Road? What do you expect to happen? How might the new character impact on existing storylines





Narrative:The clip for Waterloo Road introduces several narrative strands. In this clip the audience is introduce to Gabriella who is a new character to the series. The audience believes that she is going to cause a lot trouble with the school. There is going to be conflict between the boy that Gabriella kissed to get the lipstick off and the other girl
at 0:58. There is a disequilibrium because of Gabriella kissing the boy.


Character:The characters are typical of a TV Drama in the sub-genre of a teenage drama and largely follows Propp's theory of character types. The clip introduces key characters like the teachers and Gabriella who is a new addition to the school. A stereotype to introduce is Gabriella being very rebellious when she kissed the boy just to get the lipstick off. There is also the mother who is very protective over her child.In 0:36 Gabriella is putting on makeup and lipsticks which shows all girls care about is there looks.

Iconography:


In the clip it tells us that the students are wearing full school uniform and the teacher has a clipboard 

  

The movie that I have chosen to analyse is Spectre, which is an action movie that follows the world renowned ‘James Bond’. Spectre follows Bond as he tracks the person who has been sending people to kill him, IMDB suggest that spectre is about “Bond peeling back the layers of deceit to reveal the terrible truth behind SPECTRE’’.

 The film studios for Spectre are Columbia pictures, Sony pictures entertainment and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Sam Mendes the director of Spectre has also directed Skyfall which was another James bond movie which was made in 2012. Daniel Craig is one of the James Bond actors that has starred in six of the James Bond movies. The first teaser trailer of spectre was on the 27 March 2015 and the other was 22 of July 2015 which was many months earlier than the movie and this was a good way to promote the movie. When people look at the James Bond poster they will obviously see Daniel Craig is James Bond just by looking at the poster.

The trailer for Spectre uses many narrative techniques used by Hollywood action movies as theorised by Vladimir Propp. There are character types such as the hero James Bond (Daniel Craig) as he saves people from danger, the villain as Ernst Stavro Blofeld (Christoph Waltz) as he has been following James Bond since the first movie and sends people to try and kill him and he is responsible for the kidnapping of the victim Madeline (Léa Seydoux). In action movies we typically see heroes, villains, and victims; therefore the trailer will appeal to the target audience.

The trailer has a lot of Barthes action codes like the car chase with the Aston Martin DB10 and the Jaguar CX-75 in Rome this makes the potential audience make them go to the edge of the sit experience when watching the car chase. This tells us in the trailer that is mostly an action and drama movie that’s what the audience feels like. In the trailer it has a few enigma codes like