Introduction to Science-fiction TV drama

 

1) How does Class meet the conventions of a TV drama series?

There is dramatic narrative as the is continuity across the episodes. There is a story line which is followed episode by episode.

2) What conventions of the science-fiction genre can you find in the Class trailer? List as many as you can and use NCIS to help you.

Narrative

• Alien invasion
• Good vs Evil
• Saving the world

Characters 

• Teacher 
• Students
• Doctor Who
• Aliens

Iconoghrapy

• School
• Bright Lights
• Font of Class
• Weapons 

Setting 

• School
• Space
• Portal

3) What other genres are suggested by the trailer (e.g. horror)? Is Class an example of a modern hybrid-genre show?

• Romance and comedy (Romcom)
• Horror
• Sci-fi

4) Class is a spin-off from Doctor Who. At what point does the character of the Doctor appear in the trailer?

The Doctor appears when all the characters are in a classroom studying as she is their teacher.

5) Who do you think the target audience for Class is? Is this a typical target audience for the science-fiction genre? Give reasons for your answer.

The target audience for class is mainstream as a female audience like romance and boys like sci-fi and horror. Mainly aged to an age group from 10+ because of all the horror and mainly because of the sci-fi as the younger generation like sci-fi films more as they are interested more into it than older generations.

Year 1 reflection

 

1) Look at your tracker for Year 1 blog-posts (this will have been emailed to you by your teacher either before the summer or this week). Make a list of any CSPs you haven't completed. We will cover these in lessons later in the year but you WILL need to complete the blog tasks before you take any exams.

2) Which CSPs from Year 1 are you most confident on?

Advertising (OMO case study).

3) Which CSPs from Year 1 are you least confident on?

Ownership and control.

4) Your upcoming assessment will only be on CSPs from the first half of the year leading up to lockdown. Write a brief summary of the following CSPs to start your revision (Reveal magazine is done for you as ):

Doctor Strange:   Creation of Marvel. Given an age range of 12a because of the fantasy violence and injury detail. Budget was $165 million and $677.7 million on its box office. Used a lot of CGI.

I, Daniel Blake: About how the government is wrong. It is an independent cinema and a low budget film. Its budget was £2m and a box office of £11m.  

Magazines - Reveal: a celebrity magazine aimed mainly at working-class women focusing on gossip, celebrity and motherhood for just 99p. Offers quite a traditional, stereotypical representation of women.

Magazines - Tatler: Mainly aimed at a female audience and HIGHER CLASS . Uses a sans-serif font as it is more higher class and a traditional way of writing.

Advertising: OMO: An add for a washing soap. Mainly aimed at a female audience (Mothers). This is because the men used to do all the work and make money whilst the women do the domestic work e.g. cooking, cleaning and looking after their children.

Advertising: NHS Represent: Advertising and promoting people to give their blood to a blood bank to help people. They also try to mainly aim this to a BAME (Black, Asian and minority ethnic.)   community as there are hardly any BAME people giving blood. The NHS want them to represent their community and ethnicity by giving blood.  

Advertising: Galaxy chocolate: An advert of galaxy chocolate bringing back the dead super star Audrey Hepburn using CGI. This advert was set in her hit film 'Roman holiday'. This gives a feeling of NOSTALGIA to some people he grew up watching her movies and makes them feel young again.

5) List five things (e.g. CSPs/topics/terminology) that you will revise before your upcoming assessment.

• Film industry
• Magazine
• Music videos
• Radio
• Video Games