Nordic Noir

    Nordic Noir- is a modern version of the film noir.

-In film noir the protagonists are detectives/private eyes.
-The main character in normally a detective.
-Characters (protagonist) go down hill which lead into many bad situations. (cycle of events)
- The key things about film noir is low contract lighting and low key lighting.


Mise-en scene (Everything in the shot) of Film Noir

-Reflect the mood of the characters and the theme of the film.
-It tends to have a pessimistic world view which is the other side of comedy.
-In traditional noir we tend to have a 'Femme Fatale' meaning deadly woman. They seduce the main character and then brings him to a dangerous situations.
-Film noir started in 1940's with a post war genre (reflects pessimism after war).


Nordic Noir

-Are north European novels that have been adapted for TV
-Based on crime novels (influenced by 1940's films which have similar characters).

Mise-en scene nordic Noir

-The landscapes are covered with snow.
-There are periods where there is low light or even no light depending on the season.
- This lighting remind of the film Noir

Example of Nordic Noir- The killing (2011)

Media Institutions- BBC 4

Audiences- Global audience because of the media convergent

Representation- Goes against the Femme Fatale as in Nordic noir female characters can become protagonist in the story.

Media Language- Mise-en scnece has taken the Scandinavian landscapes and made it into film  nordic noir because of the low light 

-Venetien blinds are a key in Nordic noir as they create shadows. They foreshadow what will happen when the story plot evolves. This can also suggest how people are imprisoned to the place their are in.


























Fact File on The Killing(Forbrydelsen)

Genre-police procedural crime drama also known now as part of the Nordic Noir genere
-Key Codes and conventions of Nordic Noir:
-Visual codes: Low key lighting a lot of snow and ice to get a high contrast look
-Though women charcters
-Bleak landscapes at night country side
-Cities rivers bridges backstreets neon lights city versus country


Insomnia
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the bridge trapped

'The Bridge' is a very famous series that has attracted a range of audience due to its way of presenting Nordic Noir. The main element of attraction are the characters as in 'The Bridge' there are two cop characters which begin to solve a crime that has been committed on the boarder of two countries Sweden and Denmark. The visual codes such as low key lighting are also key convention to this Nordic Noir drama as it follows the traditional way of presenting a crime film by having low key lighting which creates an enigma. The second film 'The killing' also meets the audiences expectations of Nordic Noir because it also uses the enigma code to hook the viewers attention, so they will want to watch it more until the find out what happened. Both of these films 'The Bridge' and 'The killing' have similar characters which are called archetypes for example there is always a sheriff or even two that solve the mystery crime, the victim, the murderer. These archetypes are very similar to the traditional noir genre characters, but they are a little different as they also remind us of those characters in the crime films.Finally, the film 'Trapped' might meet the audiences expectation because of the bleak landscapes as the trailer shows snowy condition with low key lighting, which reflects on the genre of the Nordic Noir.       

Revision Case Study on tabloids and broadsheet newspapers

                                                        REVISION

1) define what a tabloid newspaper is?

-Tabloid newspaper- is half the size of an average broadsheet.
                               - It focuses on such topics as Crimes, celebrity gossip and television.
                               -The layout of the newspaper has large bold font.

2) define what a broadsheet newspaper is?

-Broadsheet Newspaper- is a larger newspaper than tabloid newspaper that focuses more deeply into the topics they write about and it supports politics and shows different values.

3) Give some background information to the Daily Mirror

-The Daily Mirror is is a daily British tabloid newspaper which is owned by a company called Trinity Mirror. It was founded in 2nd November 1903 by Alfred Harmsworth. In the beginning when it was launched it was supposed to by a newspaper for woman and run by woman. It's size is much smaller than the broadsheet which is useful to those people that don't want to go into depth and are in a rush.

4) Give some background information on the Daily Telegraph

-The Daily Telegraph is a daily broadsheet newspaper which is published in London by the Telegraph media group and is accounted with the Britain's three big newspaper such as The Times, The Guardian. It was founded by Arthur B.Sleigh in 1855 and first named as Daily Telegraph & Courier.

5) Look at the front cover of the Daily Telegraph and write a paragraph  on the 'messages and values' i.e use the terminology 'denotation'- then explain the 'connotations' -consider the use of the colours, layout and font.

They layout of the daily Telegraph is quite simple and and tries to create a serious feel to it. The

Breakfast Show (Fat File)

             
                                   The Radio 1 Breakfast Show with Nick Grimshaw


-Radio 1 Breakfast show is a broadcast weekdays from 6:30-10:00 am.
-Started in 1967
-Nick Grimshaw took over in 2012 he was the 15th presenter
-BBC Radio 1 is broadcast on FM,DAB, Freeview, Freesat, Virgin Sky or online via BBC Radio Player
- The media platforms BBC Radio 1 can be heard on are.....
-If people can acctes on many platforms is called distribution/ originally you will only listed on the radio/ because of the distribution and the web you can listen it.
-It is produced by BBC
-Over 40 record are chosen to repeat on the morning breakfast show which is guided by the popularity from young people.
-Many older artists are not included as the network tries to keep an under 30 audience.
-The playlist are on their website
-They try to promote British artists
- They have throwback Thursday where they play older tracks.


Ownership and Funding

-The radio 1 Breakfst Show is produced by the Brithish Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and broadcast on BBC Radio 1.
-It is a Public service broadcaster
-Two types of broadcasters are commercial or public service
    -commercial channels make money by selling advertising space- the adverts sponsor the products

     -Public service broadcaster don't sell advertising space and the public pay through a license fee           for the programmes and they get government funding. 

      -PSB they have a remit to 'educate, inform and entertain'

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Uses and Gratifications theory- about active audiences

1) Information

2) entertainment and leisure

3) sense of identity- (copying fashions, emotional experiences, coping with different issues more sympathy to people)

4) Community-something to talk about, things to do with other people. Socialising etc. 
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-Radio 1 is trying to entertain and engage a broad range of young listeners with a distinctive mix of contemporary music with speech.
-Its target audience is 15-29 years
-And it should also provide some programming for younger teenagers.
-It should offer a range of new music
-Support artists especially the ones from the UK.
-Radio 1 is funded by TV licence
-Radio one has a YouTube channel with 1.4 billion views on their videos
-BBC radio 1 should provide education
-BBC have interactive forums allowing listeners to share experiences eg. phoning the radio
-The Breakfast show had 9.7 million listeners and the numbers are dropping to 5.7 million.



How dis the episode of the breakfast show that you have studied meet the remit of BBC?

Remit- is to educate, inform and entertain 

The remit of the BBC is to educate inform and entertain. The BBC who produce Radio 1, is a public Service Channel. That means it does not sell advertising space and is owned by the public. The Radio 1 Breakfast show aims to support young artists from the UK, it aims to target audience between 15-30, they want to promote campaigns and have new and programmes on the radio channel that are relevant to young people. On Thursdays they have a throwback Thursday which will play retro music to appeal to a wider listeners. To reacha wider audience the channel needs to publicize across its wide range of media platforms such as YouTube, IPlayer, Virgin, Sky, Freeview, Freeset, DAB.


Now listen to the programme to complete the answer:


Introduction immediately address the essay question

Body of the essay give examples
-P,E,A/E
-Point- it aims to inform the audience throuh regular news bulletins every 30 minutes for instance
-Example
-Explain- this news topic will appeal to the target audience of 15-30 year olds.

Point-the breakfast radio show is entertaining and inter active with the audience for example.

The audience members can pick a song every half hour. Los of new artists promoted with tracks

Explain

Point:

There 


How does the episode of the breakfast show that you have studied meet the remit of BBC?

Remit- is to educate, inform and entertain 

The remit of the BBC is to educate inform and entertain. The BBC who produce Radio 1, is a public Service Channel. That means it does not sell advertising space and is owned by the public. The Radio 1 Breakfast show aims to support young artists from the UK, it aims to target audience between 15-30, they want to promote campaigns and have new and programmes on the radio channel that are relevant to young people. On Thursdays they have a throwback Thursday which will play retro music to appeal to a wider listeners. To reacha wider audience the channel needs to publicize across its wide range of media platforms such as YouTube, IPlayer, Virgin, Sky, Freeview, Freeset, DAB.



The remit of the BBC is to educate, inform and entertain. The episode that I have looked at was from 2017 which was broadcast on BBC Radio 1. The BBC who also have many Radio channels such as BBC Radio 4 Extra, BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 1 ect. which are a PSC channels (Public Service Channel) meaning that it does not sell advertising space and it is owed by the public. So when

Minecraft (Fact File)

                                                          Minecraft

Example Exam Questions:

Explain the impact of digitally convergent media platforms on video game production, distribution and consumption. Refer to Minecraft to support your answer.

Production
-How the games have been developed through time

-Convergent- means that you can have many things on it.

-Genre sandbox game
-Made in 2009
-Global games market is now worth in excess of US$ 100 billion and UK is 4 billion
-China is the fastest growing sector, currently enjoys US$ 24.4 billion versus America's US$23.6 billion.
-Improvement of the internet speeds has lead games to develop
-Minecraft is a sandbox game, created and developed by Swedish based Mojang Studios.
-It had started but wasent really popular as the company didn't have money fro advertising.
-The game was first placed on sites such as Penny Arcade.
-On January 2011 the beta version of the game had passed over one million purchases in just only one month.
-By April 2011 Persson estimated that US$33 million of revenue had been made.
-In November 2011.
-By 2012 it went on Xbox
-In 2013 Minecraft Pi edition meant for educational purposes for novice
-In 2014 Microsoft acquired Minecraft intellectual property for 2.5billion.
In 2015 it 121 official copies of the game have been sold across a variety of forms and platforms