Thisath's Media Coursework

Maybe they mean hot as in the temperature of the Caribbean Islands? I'd agree with that!  In a way, my interest into looking into Death in Paradise was influenced, like with Victoria, by Doctor Who. In early 2017, Kris Marshall, the lead character in Death in Paradise was a favourite for the next Doctor, so I was intrigued in his work. However, I never got around to actually watching the show till late June this year, when I noticed most of Season 5 was on BBC iPlayer. Noting that it was indeed a detective crime drama, I decided to watch a random episode, S05E04, to see why the show was as popular as was... ...and I don't still have an answer to that. I honestly can't comprehend how the show is even in its 7th season, or why BBC even deems it worthy of a slot on BBC One. However, I don't think it's necessarily the shows fault that I find it so unappealing; after all, it's catering to a much older audience than me as indicated by the age of the cast who...

  I love Victoria. I'm not someone who usually watches ITV (or live TV for that matter), but when Victoria started airing in 2016, it  was one of the few times I'd ever turned on my TV to catch a show live. For the entirety of Season 1 and Season 2, I was there watching. Eventually, my family joined too. We are all big fans of the Victoria series now. What sold me, a Doctor Who fan, was getting to follow a much beloved main actor, Jenna Coleman, onto the job she left Doctor Who for. What made me stay was the wonderful supporting cast (Rufus Sewell in particular performed tremendously well), the rather brilliant soundtrack, and endearing writing, which occasionally surprised me with moments of brilliance that I wouldn't normally expect from a 9pm drama. There was the period sets, the period dressing and the exploration of Victorian against modern values  (which were, admittedly occasionally cliche and sometimes a tad forced) that formed the backbone of the show t...

Inspired by a independent study of a friend's, I decided to look at past Coursework projects by students at our school. While they weren't the same brief as us, they do attempt to make an opening for a crime drama, which is what I'm planning on doing. http://online.clickview.co.uk/libraries/categories/f6b652a2-0389-0ead-4cf4-07fa4c61bd14/2011?sort=productionyear I won't be analysing each individually, as there are quite a few, and most of them exhibit the same problems that I aim to avoid. It's worth mentioning that these videos are over 7 years old, and were probably filmed and edited with much less powerful equipment than we have today. That's not to say the standards for crime drama in that time period was bad, though, because there are plenty of great programmes in that time, such as Dexter for example. One of the first issues was the camera work, and the camera quality itself. In many shots, dark settings were used without thought of lighting, which l...

Lighting is so important. Lighting is more important than your camera. Lighting is more important than you. While that last line of my terribly crafted introduction is (probably) untrue, but I definitely agree with the first two. One of my aims with this project is to get a professional look. In my analysis of previous coursework projects by other students, one thing I couldn't get past was the lack of a realistic crime drama feel. It was the lack of a professional feel. Having done some research into lighting in real films, I see now that a large part of achieving that professional look lies in the understanding of lighting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Y6bB86HmdA&ab_channel=FilmRiot This is the first video I watched in my research into lighting. It has some very useful tips on working lights over a key subject. What struck me the most, however, was the examples they showed of different lighting demonstrated in film scenes. I don't think I ever realised th...

This is an article from MediaMagazine on Broadchurch that I thought was  rather interesting as it went into detail into how Broadchurch was crafted to be as successful as it was. I've embedded it below, and at the bottom I've put a few things I noted and what I think about it. MediaMagazine 45, September 2013 Reading Broadchurch Downton Abbey and now Broadchurch... That's two big heavyweight dramas which have consolidated ITV's status as the channel for drama and 'event TV'. Broadchurch was a murder mystery that kept nearly 10 million viewers guessing who killed 11-year-old Danny Latimer. It was a tense and beautifully shot series which unravelled slowly over two months. ITV claims it was the most tweeted TV drama ever. So, Jane Milton asks, how did ITV create the 'TV' event of the year? If I think of 'event TV', I might consider the final of Britain's Got Talent, The X-Factor or the London Olympics 'Super Saturday' go...

Broadchurch is one of ITV's most popular and best known crime drama series. It originally premiered in March 2013, and was commissioned to have 3 complete seasons, with the last season premiering and ending in 2017. Series 3 was ITV's most watched crime drama ever, clocking in 11 million views. The premise of the show is the mysterious murder of a 11 year old boy, Danny in a quiet, closely linked British village on the coast of Dorset. The first season, which was so amazing that I watched it all one sitting, in one night, follows how the family of the child, the mother of which, Beth, is played by Jodie Whittake, deal with the death of a family member, and the relationship between the two lead Detectives, played by the much acclaimed actors David Tennant and Olivia Colman. It's obvious that the star billing for this show is one of the key attractions. As too is the location, an ordinary, but perhaps rather cliche "small town" with a nosy judgemental community...

In America, Millennials  are loved as a generation on which to hate on. They're often blamed for having "killed" the department store, the car industry, diamonds, marriage, and even bars of soap.  While it's comical, and probably not necessarily  their fault that these industries and institutions no longer have the value they did, it's not unfair to say that even outside America,  millennials are a rather revolutionary generation. But who even are they? The term " Millennial " is a name given to a generation of people born between (roughly) the early 80s and late 90s/early 2000s. The coursework brief defines it as 18-35 year olds. The generation is characterised by "increased use and familiarity with communications, media, and digital technologies". Divided by sub headings, in following paragraphs, I break down what their generation represents as part of wider society, particularly in Britain. One of the biggest problems I faced in compi...