EXAM Q5

There are quite a few references about social context throughout Avengers. One example is when we see a pair of men's boots in a primary school. You wouldn't see a pair of these in a school for children. This shows us that this programme was based around the time of the war because soldiers would be wearing the boots that they showed on screen.

Another reference was in the pub where we could see spitfire planes attached to ropes, which were attached to the ceiling. This again is a reference showing that it could've been based around the war time as spitfire planes were used in the war.

A final reference about social context is when we see a cupboard filled with rations for the soldiers that were involved in the war. This shows us that they have stocked up on food as they are thinking that maybe there could be a third world war breaking soon. This also links to the war.

Overall, I feel that there are many references of social context and a majority of them link to the war. 

ANALYSE HOW FAR THE EXTRACT DEPICTS THE POLICE'S POINT OF VIEW RATHER THAN THE CRIMINAL'S POINT OF VIEW - NOTES

• The voiceover at beginning
• The accident on the beach, who do we sympathize.
• Experience of training

At the beginning of the show, we can hear a voiceover at the start. This voiceover is from a police officer who is saying that "it takes courage and conviction to become a police officer." This line is depicting the police's point of view as they are talking about the police officers and how heroic they are and how they need to be strong and courageous to do the job they are doing. 

On the beach, there are a group of people from a stag and two people from the public. As the public call the police officer over, he can tell that the people from the stag are drunk. The members of public are trying to get them off the beach and the police officer ends up getting punched in the nose by someone from the stag. When this happens, we feel sympathy for the police officer as this shows us how hard and difficult their job can be at times.

Overall, I feel that we see much more of the police's point of view, rather than the criminal's. When we see the police's point of view it shows us what situations the police have to go through and how hard their job is. 

EXAM Q1: SOUND IN CUFFS

In this extract from cuffs, we hear a variety of different sounds. We can hear other police officers talking through their radios and we can also hear sirens. As we can hear the talking through the radios, we can hear a description of someone who the police are trying to find as they describe him as "dark hair, wearing a brown coat and dark trousers." This indicates to us how busy the police are as they have stopped for a few minutes and they are already trying to find someone else. This shows an effect of realism as what they are doing in this episode, could be happening right now in real life.
We also hear some police sirens from the car chase, earlier on in the extract. The way that the background music was added in then made it seem really tense as we don't know what could happen next. This siren effect is loud and brings attention to the audience as it makes them feel like they are involved in the car chase scene.

PRACTICAL LESSONS

In our lesson, we watched a trailer for Forest Gump followed by a swede, which is a recreation of a clip in a movie. After we watched this, we got into groups of 3 and then we went outside and filmed a swede of Forest Gump. In my group there was Ben, Daisy and I. We filmed from different angles and different views, especially when Forest Gump was running, we showed that he went from one place to another to make it look like he has run for ages. It was our first times using the cameras, so I think we all enjoyed it and got used to the cameras.
When we finished filming, we went back inside and started editing on iMovie. We watched a tutorial and then started editing on the Macs. I am looking forward to finishing off the edit as I think that it will turn out very well.

THE AVENGERS: MUST SEE TV

• All women beautiful
• Men stylish
• Too unreal to be true
• Humorous 
• Man holds umbrella - looks innocent
• Man obsessed with hats
• Many different women characters
• There are 3 series of the show

TV SCHEDULING

• ·        BBC1 Sunday 10 September 9 p.m. Strike
• ·        BBC1 Monday 11 September 9 p.m. Rellik
• ·        BBC1 Tuesday 12 September 9 p.m. Doctor Foster
• ·        BBC1 Wednesday 13 September 9 p.m. How to Stay Young
• ·         BBC1 Thursday 14 September 9 p.m. Ambulance
• ·        BBC1 Friday 15 September 8:30 p.m. Celebrity MasterChef
• ·        BBC1 Saturday 16 September 8:45  p.m. Casualty

Does long form narrative seem to be a popular form?

Yes, because on 3 out of the 7 nights, shows repeat every week at the same time.

CUFFS

The function of an opening sequence for a TV programme, is so we get to know the characters, and what they are like, e.g. their personality and how they act as a police officer in this programme. Also, when they played the title sequence for the programme, they were crediting the characters and the music and visual effects played behind it went really well with the programme.

The opening sequence appeared to the audience because the effects in the background of the title scene were quite vintage and the different colours were good as the music went well with it in the background.

The opening scene tells a story about Brighton's diversity as it was shown on a beach, and Brighton is quite popular for Brighton Pier and the beach so it showed what Brighton is about and how they act on the beach. Also, they hit the police officer and he got up and by that time, they ran away and he couldn't catch them.

The spread of the different characters engaged with the audience as there was a wide range of characters as there were police officers, someone who got stabbed, a group of people who were trying to beat up someone and it showed a variety of different reasons on why people get arrested and for what reasons.

I think it should be after the watershed as the first scene is on a naked beach and also there were a lot of blood shown. There were also people stabbing people and I think that it would be better to be aired of TV after the watershed as I feel that some parts were inappropriate to be shown to younger children.