Friday, 11 January 2019

Long Form TV Drama: Stranger things.

What is form form TV drama?
Long Form Television Drama. You will engage in one in-depth study of television as an evolving, global media form. You will study one complete episode of a contemporary English language long form TV drama and one complete episode of a non-English language long form TV drama.

Key terms:
Easter Eggs 
Time shifting
VOD
PVR
Streaming 
Terrestrial TV



Stranger Things poster analysis -
Setting,
Themes,
Icons,
Narrative, 
Characters, 
Intertextuality, 
Historical references

Stranger things 
Intertexuality: ET, Back to the future, The shinning.
Steven Kings retweets- prime advertisement
set in the 1980's
Junior  high school boys trying to find their missing friend 
Twin brothers created strangers things 
Fan art work 
Netflix, rebels breaking the rules.
weaponized intertextuality 
fan service 
creative misprision

Stranger things representations:
'Beyond the binary' Characters move beyond good or bad.
ST. Steve Harrington and happer are examples of more complex characters.
novelistic- multiple story lines and characters that are over a number of episodes and seasons
systemic change

Representations
Teenagers 
Family life & relationships
Mothers 
Absent fathers 
Police 
Government 




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Deutschland 83- representation- screen grab and analysis.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1r36RS_DcuCOVpmS1pqZCX4zsvXKWB-FixLj5Mp-dYyQ/edit?usp=sharing