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Fitness - young families - explorers

MISSION STATEMENT - 

1980's Context

Historical context -

• Ronald Reagan - right wing
•  The Cold war 
• Margaret Thatcher - right wing
• AIDS outbreak

Social and Cultural context-

• Disco and synth music
• Extravagant hair and makeup
• MTV 
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Media Context-

• Spielberg 
• Sci-fi
• Back to the future
• Dirty Dancing
• ET
• First mobile phones
• 2nd and 3rd Star Wars films
• Alien
• Poltergeist
• The Thing
• Ghostbusters
• Pac-Man/arcades
  
  
  
  

Stranger Things

 tribute to the 80s

4 boys - Mike Wheeler - leader - dungeon master - rich

Will Byers - outcast - gay - poor - disappears - lives in the woods - dad left

Dustin Henderson - loud - cowardly - disability 

Lucas Sinclair - black American - picked on for his race

Eleven - Given  a number - sci-fi - mistaken for a boy - shaved head - lab experiment - lacks identity - telekinesis

Johnathan Byers - outcast

Nancy Wheeler - 'good girl' - studious - good grades - corrupted by Steve

Steve Harrington - reputation as a slag

Joyce Byers - overworked - frantic - single mother

Barb - friends with the pretty girl

Hopper - drunk - disgrace of a police chief - dead daughter

Principle - black - in charge in the 80s

Mr Clark - friend of the boys - science teacher

Benny - owns a diner - helps eleven - dies for being caring

Long Form TV Drama

•  Synoptic module - summary of everything.
• Media language, representation, audiences, industry and theorists
• compares big budget American drama and a more niche foreign language drama - first episode of each
• 40 marks - 30 marker and 10 mark theory question

Stranger Things-

• 4 seasons
• Netflix original by the duffer brothers
• Will goes missing
• set in the 80's
• El was raised in a lab
• Will is cycling on the same bike as used in ET
• Set in Hawkins Indiana
• Will is an outsider of the group - gay, poorer than the others with a single mum

Types of TV drama - 

• Longform TV drama -used to be restricted to 20 episodes ALWAYS - Netflix changed the game by allowing as many episodes as they wanted
• Soap
• One-off
• Short form TV drama
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LUPIN-

• On release was the most watched non-English show on Netflix - since overtaken by squid game
• season 1 split into 2 5 episode parts
• About a high profile thief - seems revenge fueled
• set in France
• centered around the Louvre
• Heist
• French history and culture
• High intensity
• ethnicity
• Arsane Lupin isn't the main character but the French sherlock Holmes but with thievery - mc bases his personality and crimes off his stories

Radio 1

 BBC license fee covers 57 radio stations

9 TV channels

BBC online 

BBC IPlayer

BBC World Service

S4C - Welsh Language TV channel

Local TV

Broadband and infrastructure

Political Contexts - 

Conservative since 2010

BBC stance - Slightly left wing as it is paid for by license fee and it is a public service

Sit Down Stand Up with     Tom Holland - 

Random calls - have to guess if they are sitting down or standing up - often call celebrities or big names - also shows best moments on social media.

lots of graphics and animations for all the Radio minigames

Big names include Greta Thunberg, Stormzy, Lorraine, Timothee Chalemet.

Unpopular Opinion R1BS - With Benedict Cumberbatch

Gregg allows listeners to call in and discuss their unpopular opinion with a celebrity - bridges the gap with celebrities and normal people

BBC Radio 1XTRA -substation of BBC radio 1 that supports and celebrates black music ranging from R&B to hip-hop - UK and global music

has MANY hosts - no main one but all from different cultural backgrounds

718k listeners

BBC radio Dance - 

Lots and lots of hosts

place a mix of back to back current and future and classical electrical dance music

BBC radio 1 relax - 

Chill music to get listeners into a calm headspace

many hosts 

6.6k listeners

launched in 2021