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Production Co-production (Two different companies) from different companies International Co-Production UFA & Sundance TV International Co-Production These are increasingly being produced because of: Resources like settings and money. If two companies come together it means they have more money to spend on shows. Companies like Netflix and Amazon are making many TV shows so smaller local companies like Sundance TV & UFA can't compete with Netflix, they don't have that much money but can combine with somebody else to do that. International Co-Production = International audience They did have a german audience but a more significantly larger english speaking audience. There could be some disadvantages such as: Overall poor profit at the end. Clash of ideologies We might lose some of this national identity, does it really have that german identity?  Context  UFA: UFA is a subsidiary of RTL RTL is a large television conglomerate they

Be asked to apply theory to our case study Evaluate how useful this is in relation to audience/ownership of set product Won't know until we sit the exam which theory will come up Don't need to explain the theory in detail but must evaluate it. ALL THEORIES IN DETAIL: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sG40mHx5kEUIhkD1EeEecnTKgN09HONTPg57P-QH7WU/edit Explain theory and how it is supported: Outline the theory in just two sentences How the theory is supported; PEE How is it NOT useful; PEE Conclude if it is useful or not. APPLYING THEORY: Audience Hall & Jenkins : The audience might be more likely to make a negotiated or oppositional reading to Daily Mail due to it reinforming dominant ideologies The Guardian challenges ideologies sometimes therefore the audience doesn't need to do so much work. Jenkins would support Citizen Journal and comments on the news website Jenkins could talk about how sharing on social media would create storyworks.

Structure / Marked out of 70 / Four Questions on News SECTION ONE Q 1 / Representation [10 marks] Q 2 / Media Language [15 marks] ( Refer to two unseen sources on the same story ) Q 3 / Audience, Ownership, Technology, Economics [10 marks] Q 4 / Apply a theory to Case Study [10 marks] ( Refer to your Case Studies ) Hour and 16 Minutes NEWS IS WORTH 45/70 MARKS OF THE PAPER SECTION TWO Not all three of these topics will come up but it will be 2/3 from these: Advertising (Could be something other than our case studies) - Analysis Music Video (Heaven Emeli Sande + Burn the witch Radiohead) - Analysis Magazine (Big Issue) - Be asked to analyse a front cover One will be a 10 marker and the other a 15 marker

NARRATIVE Social norms: Importance of family Politeness Is the Narrative linear? It's completely linear, everything is told in that chronological order. Multi Strand Narrative? Different narratives that are linked, clear dramatic narratives that stick to different protagonist. Not the case with Deutschland 83 as we have one clear protagonist and we follow his story. We can say that Stranger Things follows a multi-strand narrative whereas Deutschland 83 doesn't it follows one clear protagonist. Todorov: The equilibrium in Deutschland 83 is: We begin in the east, the world of Martin is the world in East Berlin. Martin is happy with this world, as we see in the first picnic scene its a world where family relations are genuinely good. What upsets this equilibrium is: The West upsets the equilibrium, Martin entering the West upsets the normal world that Martin was living in. This is quite strange, how the world begins with putting us in the East.

Opening + Semiotics: East Berlin The first thing we see is a building, looks more quite expensive, city-based, modern, looks functional rather pretty to look at. Tells us East Berlin isn't pretty but maybe functional, communism and eastern world is functional but dull. A bit bleak. Typewriter noise; comes up when we see text - connotes military, operation, we can see the genre of the show already just from the sound given; we're watching something historical and military. Then we start to hear the voice of Ronald Reagan. Mid shot of woman with her back to us, cold, she doesn't care, she's pushing us away. Ronald Reagan 'evil empire' speech - triggers a crisis of 1983. Use real footage of Ronald Reagan, not an actor, makes it feel more authentic, gives us a feel to the drama. Postmodernism Next scene - colours, plain, boring, dull, connotes dullness, coldness, East Communist side is dull, functional and boring. They end up laughing at the end of

Question 3: Context, Audience & Ownership Refer to set products - Guardian and Daily Mail Touch on Context Can touch on any of the following areas: way news is produced/distributed/circulated and how this affects the news. For example, news nowadays is produced online.  Digitally convergent media (you can access it on lots of different digital platforms; on your laptop or on your social media feed or watch it on certain news channels) Ownership/Regulation Daily Mail (Lord Rotheremere/Rotheremere family) makes most of its money from advertising Guardian makes most of its money from subscription Scott Trust etc, OWNERSHIP Define audience in terms of age, be clear on who the audience are. How the news reaches its audience Shirky/Jenkins  Distribution /Circulation: How news is distributed and then shared throughout the world. This affects news as it could be biased, for example Daily Mail focuses on soft news like celebrity news because they know it makes money. Online

Deutschland 83 / Language Context: Fictional Drama - Based on Real Historic Events What was happening in Germany / Berlin in 1983 Narrative made up Produced by The Sundance Channel + UFA Fiction American Company Created by Anna and Joreg Winger Anna Winger - Showrunner Anna Winger is American born, she wrote the show in English before having it translated. Her husband is german, they created the series together Importance of America in the creation of Deutschland 83, it's kind of as American as it is german. Premiered in 2015 Show on Channel 4 in the UK. Channel 4 - Early 1980s, same time as Deutschland is set, we get Channel 4. Channel 4 is a PSB (Public Service Broadcaster) Not in the same way as the BBC, but they do have PSB criteria they have to follow Set the exact same time as Stranger Things. Different representations of the time, USA was western had very capitalist ideas and Deutschland 83 depicts Berlin in 1983, which was split in half by a wall (

Representation will come up in question one and possibly four. Theories: Hall - Ideology, most representations reflect the dominant ideology. Most things we see in society just churn out representations we see already. Representations are constructed not fixed. Gilroy - Media 'Others' - Defines non-white people for their differences and nothing else. Van Zoonen - Classic feminist gender representation theory, gender representations depend on society and culture and change over time. Women are objects, spectacles, male-gaze. Butler - Gender studies, it's not fixed it's a performance. People act out Hooks - Intersectionality, the way that gender/class/ethnicity intersects. Black women's experiences aren't the same as white. Gauntlett - Online means you can be whoever you like, get your own identity. Linking these together: Post-Colonial Theories - Look at the experience of nonwhite BAME people; Hall, Gilroy, and Hooks. Feminist: Van Z