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My Boy Jack notes

Dialogue

• Short, formal conversation
• Poshly spoken - matches the characters
• Authentic - Deliberately old fashioned
• All rehearsed and realistic
• 'Sir' and last name shows relationships aren't strong

Sound

• Diagetic sound of clock
• Summery weather - jolly music
• Asynercryme 

Audience

• Primary audience would be older people due to war times
• Big star (Daniel Radcliffe) appears to mass audience
• Represents change in values from WW1
• Difficult if you weren't born into high class family

TV Drama - Genre

• Historical genre
• Music, costumes and props show the genre
• Stereotypical as its war time
• Daniel Radcliffe appeals to young audience rather than older

Characters and Performance

• Daniel Radcliffe is very well known
• Characters posh and rich
• A few are slightly snobby
• Realistic as its a true story
• Sequence is upper class and well educated
• White British
• Jack is less important due to fathers job

Narrative sequences

• Clock shows time passing by, narrative time
• Daniel Radcliffe suggests high value production
• Clock appears twice to show real time
• One off production drama

Backstory

• Drama premiere, WW1 England, 1914
• Language used, cars show this
• Non fiction character, good reputation
• Higher and lower classes

Mise en Scene

• Countryside and manor houses show typical England at this time
• Clothes and props traditional for this time period
• Bright sunny day represents mood
• Formal clothing eg. Suits
• Guards opening doors and gates - important place

Camera

• First shot is establishing show, wide shot
• Close ups of car and driver
• Mid shots used for realism and feelings
• Long shots and track shots for car
• Over the shoulder shot during conversations

Editing

• Close up of clock shows time passing
• Parallel editing shows two people doing different things
• Start says 'England 1914' - sets the time

Social Class

• Rolls Royce shows upper class
• Posh speech
• Suits
• Fade up on posh clock
• Extreme close up of second hand
• Lots of space (Countryside) shows freedom

The role of a website for a film company

• Promotion of the film
• Advertise new films
• Fan interaction - build a relationship
• Display awards and achievements
• Information about the company
• Contact deatils
• Development - new schemes and project
• Archive/catalogue of films
• General marketing and publicity

My Boy Jack - Audiences

The opening of My Boy Jack appeals to the audience through many different theories and concepts. Firstly it can be used as a form of escapism. TV is one of the greatest forms of escapism for an audience, and this one-off drama will engage the audiences attention, helping them to forget about any worries or problems in their daily life.
Audience pleasures are also brought to the audiences attention in this opening scene, as emotional pleasure come in when you realise the different classes of people that there was at this time. The looking down on somebody as there father isn't as upper class as his shows what the different classes of people though of each other.
The father and son relationship shows the social demographics involved in this TV drama. and this shows a sense of realism so the audience in similar situations will be able to relate to this.

Audiences in Media

Exam Content

The 4 areas of my exam-

Mise-en-scene: (everything in the scene)
Props
Costumes
Lighting (back, key, fill)
Character
Body language Setting
Colour
Denotation/connotation
Iconography
Stereotypes (does it challenge Tessa Perkins theory?)

Camera:
Angles
Movements
Framing (positioning)
Focus

Editing:
Transitions
Effects
Speed/pace
Length of frames
Continuity
Shot reverse shot
180 Rule
Narrative time (screen, subjective, compressed, long take, simultaneous, replay, flash forward/back, ambitious)
Narrative theory (Todorov, Barthes, Propp, Levi Strauss, Enigma/action codes)

Sound:
Diegetic/non diegetic sound
Contrapunctual
Parallel
Bridges