Advances In Technology
Another reason why people don't buy the newspapers that are on offer such as The Sun, Daily Mail and The Independent are people these days the transport centres such as trams and trains supply free metros which has caused people to not buy the newspapers which cost money because they know that they can go to a station and access and free metro. Also some people just go into the station and collect a newspaper so that they can get the update on the news without getting charged on a newspaper. The Metro wasn't a national or local paper we had the guardian for example which would be national also have the local version to where people lived. The metro was a niche product used for the connuters and this was there to cater for people's lifestyles.
British culture has changed quite a lot in the last quarter of the century because years ago there was many white people around and when you said British because you would normally see a family that have mixed from the countries England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland which made a white British background and this was the only ethnicity you would have seen. These days there has been a major increase in forgein cultures coming in Great Britain which has made British vary so much from not just having an all white background. They have British that are mixed from white and black, white and Turkish an similar backgrounds. These have changed the way people seeing each other by that everyone is British that lives in Great Britain and no-one will be discriminated by what ethnicity background you have.
Question 2
Question 3
The British soaps have changed to more of a multi-cultural society because they have put more multi-cultural people in to make it more realistic. This has then made it more appealing to the audience because they would feel that it's more like real life then a fake representation of life. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBLaD3A2jic&feature=fvst this is a clip on youtube which shows a clip of coronation street in the 1960s.
Another cultural change that had a impact on British soap operas was that different cultural restaurants and shops came to Great Britain and caused the soap to also bring them into their episodes. In the days before more forgein shops and restaurants came there was only take aways such as fish and chip shops and they has full English breakfast cafes but these days there are much more forgein foods that are now around such as kebab shops, Indian and Chinese restaurant which is realistic because there are many shops and restaurants around these days. They bring in these so that it shows that more cultures have come into Great Britain which is good because it shows that different cultures have come into Britain and showing that they can fit in and people would enjoy the food.
The picture on the top is a picture of a kebab shop that is coronation street which is a different cultured shop with the traditional kebab meat and on the bottom is a cafe that is a traditional English cafe because they do the full-English breakfast which is a traditional English food.
Multi-Nationalism
SOAP
Task One
1. The countries that watch eastenders aboard that are main viewers are Canada, India and Switzerland.
2. There are many countries that watch eastenders because they go around the world with loads of countries.
3. I didn't expect to see these results because after seeing these I thought to myself that because eastenders is a British show I would think that it would be watched by only British people but I think that it is a very good thing that they get broad casted around the world because the publicity will be very high.
4. The surprises of this would be knowing that eastenders gets broad casted in India is amazing that it get broad casted on the other side of the world.
Task Two
1. I think it is shown in other countries because they want their publicity to go up because they probably think that they need to increase their publicity which would help them overall as a programme because they will show that people would want to watch their programme which would also get them profit from people watching them.
2. Anyone watches the programmes because it is a programme that is made for anyone to watch that can relate to peoples normal day lives.
3. They watch it to see how people in England might live because the programme is made to show how the English culture live and act every living day.
Task Three
Economic reasons
SOAP
That the set of coronation street has expanded with being a studio based location to a real location base which made the set more realistic because the street looks more realistic and also people live there which brings a realistic atmosphere than a studio with a fake atmosphere from this is gives a verisimilitude feeling. Granda have invested a lot of money which helped them located to a real street and to get the street even more realistic by getting more props etc.
Broadcasting has changed on coronation street from broadcasting in black and white in the 1960s to coloured broadcasting in 1969. Then after 9 years of broadcasting in colour there was a situation were the camera staff wanted a pay rise but they didn't get what they requested so they chose not to use the newer equipment so on the 8th February, coronation street was broad casted in black and white and they used to record some days and do live shows because they didn't have enough time to do all the recording in a week, so they recorded on Wednesdays and did live performances on Friday. Then after achieving broadcasting in colour they then moved to tape from carrying on from film which made filming much quicker.
HD stands for high definition which coronation street announced in the early months of 2010 that they were going to use HD equipment and were going to film their episodes with it in May 2010. This then included the production teams equipment getting upgraded such as their cameras, production vehicles, lighting and editing facilities. They also got an upgrade from a standard definition tape based system to a state-of-the-art HD file based system.
The video that was shown on the web page we looked at we could see from the responses from the production team and everyone that was shown on the video said that it has changed the of filming by making it much easier for everyone that is in the production team. It has made the video recording clearer and has made the quality of the picture look amazing and clear which has benefited the production of the show. This is also making it quicker to make the clips which means it would save money because they aren't taking as long to make the clips which will save them money making them. This is all the impact that HD has done for coronation street.
This was shot with a P2 high definition which provides crane shots from rooftops. The P2 HD is used at 100 mbs using akegan cameras the polecam toshiba camera which adds drama.
Coronation street are looking to improve the show by moving their base to Manchester which will provide the show with a bigger space for the new production team which will also upgrade all their equipment, technology and facilities for the years of 2012/13, the place that they would be moving to is called media city.
PRINT
The ways that print has changed over the years are that because newspapers back in the day many years ago used to be printed singly which would have taken it much longer to process because there would have been many pages needed to be printed so they have advanced it by making printer which of course would make it quicker and easier to print pages. One example of a printer would be offset printer which is used by a plate which makes ink on a rubber-blanketed cylinder, which makes to go onto the paper. Rotary printing press is when you get a image and you curve it around a cyclinder
There has been newer printers that have been made to improve the printing side of print such as thermal, laser and screen printing. The most advanced printer that has been introduced in the print is digital press which is the printing of digital images which is good because this would make the newspaper more appealing and more people would want to buy and read it.
The internet is also a big part of print advancing in technology because the way that newspapers get put on the internet is good because it makes it easier for people to get newspapers while they are on the computer and would also save money because they wouldn't have to buy newspapers everyday. These all have have a advance in technology because they have increased technology level and made people able to access things much easier.
Audience needs and Lifestyles
That the set of coronation street has expanded with being a studio based location to a real location base which made the set more realistic because the street looks more realistic and also people live there which brings a realistic atmosphere than a studio with a fake atmosphere from this is gives a verisimilitude feeling. Granda have invested a lot of money which helped them located to a real street and to get the street even more realistic by getting more props etc.
Broadcasting has changed on coronation street from broadcasting in black and white in the 1960s to coloured broadcasting in 1969. Then after 9 years of broadcasting in colour there was a situation were the camera staff wanted a pay rise but they didn't get what they requested so they chose not to use the newer equipment so on the 8th February, coronation street was broad casted in black and white and they used to record some days and do live shows because they didn't have enough time to do all the recording in a week, so they recorded on Wednesdays and did live performances on Friday. Then after achieving broadcasting in colour they then moved to tape from carrying on from film which made filming much quicker.
HD stands for high definition which coronation street announced in the early months of 2010 that they were going to use HD equipment and were going to film their episodes with it in May 2010. This then included the production teams equipment getting upgraded such as their cameras, production vehicles, lighting and editing facilities. They also got an upgrade from a standard definition tape based system to a state-of-the-art HD file based system.
The video that was shown on the web page we looked at we could see from the responses from the production team and everyone that was shown on the video said that it has changed the of filming by making it much easier for everyone that is in the production team. It has made the video recording clearer and has made the quality of the picture look amazing and clear which has benefited the production of the show. This is also making it quicker to make the clips which means it would save money because they aren't taking as long to make the clips which will save them money making them. This is all the impact that HD has done for coronation street.
This was shot with a P2 high definition which provides crane shots from rooftops. The P2 HD is used at 100 mbs using akegan cameras the polecam toshiba camera which adds drama.
Coronation street are looking to improve the show by moving their base to Manchester which will provide the show with a bigger space for the new production team which will also upgrade all their equipment, technology and facilities for the years of 2012/13, the place that they would be moving to is called media city.
The ways that print has changed over the years are that because newspapers back in the day many years ago used to be printed singly which would have taken it much longer to process because there would have been many pages needed to be printed so they have advanced it by making printer which of course would make it quicker and easier to print pages. One example of a printer would be offset printer which is used by a plate which makes ink on a rubber-blanketed cylinder, which makes to go onto the paper. Rotary printing press is when you get a image and you curve it around a cyclinder
There has been newer printers that have been made to improve the printing side of print such as thermal, laser and screen printing. The most advanced printer that has been introduced in the print is digital press which is the printing of digital images which is good because this would make the newspaper more appealing and more people would want to buy and read it.
The internet is also a big part of print advancing in technology because the way that newspapers get put on the internet is good because it makes it easier for people to get newspapers while they are on the computer and would also save money because they wouldn't have to buy newspapers everyday. These all have have a advance in technology because they have increased technology level and made people able to access things much easier.
Audience needs and Lifestyles
There are many materials that can provide us information which are newspapers, books, magazines and leaflets and the major one that provides us the most information and media would be newspapers which is the best for getting information. People used to get news from paperprint and they used to be passive reading which isn’t getting into the paper compared to online stories which would have a comment box at the bottom of the story which would make the it more interactive because people can involve themselves and to be interactive with other commenters and also newspapers are adding blogs into papers which are making them more interactive.
Another reason why people don't buy the newspapers that are on offer such as The Sun, Daily Mail and The Independent are people these days the transport centres such as trams and trains supply free metros which has caused people to not buy the newspapers which cost money because they know that they can go to a station and access and free metro. Also some people just go into the station and collect a newspaper so that they can get the update on the news without getting charged on a newspaper. The Metro wasn't a national or local paper we had the guardian for example which would be national also have the local version to where people lived. The metro was a niche product used for the connuters and this was there to cater for people's lifestyles.
Cultural Changes
SOAP
Question 1
British culture has changed quite a lot in the last quarter of the century because years ago there was many white people around and when you said British because you would normally see a family that have mixed from the countries England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland which made a white British background and this was the only ethnicity you would have seen. These days there has been a major increase in forgein cultures coming in Great Britain which has made British vary so much from not just having an all white background. They have British that are mixed from white and black, white and Turkish an similar backgrounds. These have changed the way people seeing each other by that everyone is British that lives in Great Britain and no-one will be discriminated by what ethnicity background you have.
Question 2
Britain is a multi-cultural society and we can see this from Coronation street because many years before when the show first got aired and show to the public there wasn't any other ethnicity than white because when the show was made which was in 1960 there wasn't many other ethnicity's than just white, so they didn't have any other cultural backgrounds, just white. We can now see that from the episodes that are present there are many different cultures that are involved in the episodes because these days they need to be realistic to the present day and because there are many different cultures in the episodes they have made it realistic so that people won't feel discriminated against.
This clips shows when the show was recently new and had a white cast and didn't have multi-cultural actors in it.
This clip shows more of a recent show in 2004 where Dev and Sunita get married and shows the way of how their culture get married and shows a multi-cultural event on a programme where before there would only have been white cast members.
This clip shows more of a recent show in 2004 where Dev and Sunita get married and shows the way of how their culture get married and shows a multi-cultural event on a programme where before there would only have been white cast members.
Question 3
The British soaps have changed to more of a multi-cultural society because they have put more multi-cultural people in to make it more realistic. This has then made it more appealing to the audience because they would feel that it's more like real life then a fake representation of life. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBLaD3A2jic&feature=fvst this is a clip on youtube which shows a clip of coronation street in the 1960s.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvniGV8ftik this shows a clip of coronation street that is more realistic because the clip is from this year.
Question 4
Youth culture has had an impact on British soaps because in the 1960s they didn't have as much youth characters which would have made less youth watch the programme because it wouldn't relate to them but because there was more adults which related to the adults which made the figures of adults watching more of this programme then youths. The picture on the right shows the casting of Coronation street in the 1960s where there are no youth characters which is the cause of more adults watching the programme. The result of less youth watching the programmes was a big impact on the directors decision by involving more youth characters in the cast of the shows. The impact of them adding more youth characters in the programmes has made the show's publicity increase a lot because they had youth and older generations watch the programmes. The picture below on the left shows the cast of Coronation street 2011 which has children, teenagers and adults in their cast which has help the publicity of Coronation street increase.
Question 5
Another cultural change that had a impact on British soap operas was that different cultural restaurants and shops came to Great Britain and caused the soap to also bring them into their episodes. In the days before more forgein shops and restaurants came there was only take aways such as fish and chip shops and they has full English breakfast cafes but these days there are much more forgein foods that are now around such as kebab shops, Indian and Chinese restaurant which is realistic because there are many shops and restaurants around these days. They bring in these so that it shows that more cultures have come into Great Britain which is good because it shows that different cultures have come into Britain and showing that they can fit in and people would enjoy the food.
The picture on the top is a picture of a kebab shop that is coronation street which is a different cultured shop with the traditional kebab meat and on the bottom is a cafe that is a traditional English cafe because they do the full-English breakfast which is a traditional English food.
PRINT
Multi-Nationalism
SOAP
Task One
1. The countries that watch eastenders aboard that are main viewers are Canada, India and Switzerland.
2. There are many countries that watch eastenders because they go around the world with loads of countries.
3. I didn't expect to see these results because after seeing these I thought to myself that because eastenders is a British show I would think that it would be watched by only British people but I think that it is a very good thing that they get broad casted around the world because the publicity will be very high.
4. The surprises of this would be knowing that eastenders gets broad casted in India is amazing that it get broad casted on the other side of the world.
Task Two
1. I think it is shown in other countries because they want their publicity to go up because they probably think that they need to increase their publicity which would help them overall as a programme because they will show that people would want to watch their programme which would also get them profit from people watching them.
2. Anyone watches the programmes because it is a programme that is made for anyone to watch that can relate to peoples normal day lives.
3. They watch it to see how people in England might live because the programme is made to show how the English culture live and act every living day.
Task Three
1. The ways that eastenders are shown around are by them making actual channels that eastenders would be shown around the world because it would be cheaper than actually paying other channels to broad cast their episodes.
2. They would watch the episodes on special channels that are made for the countries that want to watch it such as BBC1, they sometimes also watch programmes on channels that would show channel one in England being on a countries transfer channel.
3. The episodes would be shown on BBC iplayer as well because it is a catch up website.
4. Technology helps eastenders being broad casted around the world because the internet needs technology for it to show episodes of eastenders all over Britain and also the world.
5. Some countries would show subtitles on eastenders in another country because they might not know the English language which would need them to have subtitles.
PRINT
Multi-nationalism in print is very good for business terms and also helping people find information about different countries etc. It is good because in different countries they would have all newspapers from different countries such as for example Turkey have such newspapers as The Sun, Daily Mirror and magazines such as the Heat. This is good to have because its shows that they are doing this so that when tourists come out to different countries they would be able to read about whats happening in the country they come from and also the country would get extra money from getting money from the sales of the paper.
We can overall see that people are mixing around in different countries because if they are investing in newspapers from different countries then it shows that people will want to read them and because people from that country wouldn't be that interested in those newspapers, so then the tourists would read those papers not the people that actually come from and live in that country. Multinational print can be used in the term of a producer who would make things and then show them to the public which are then the consumers. A good example of a producer that has made himself multinational in print is Rupert Murdoch who is an American business man within print fro example he made his own print products in England and Australia which is a great achievement from coming all the way from America. He has also has a news enterprise in the USA and from all this makes him a multinational producer. Then with the consumers they would receive and get all these print items, in history BBC world servers (radio) which helped the online news get more views because the listeners on the world servers have been loyal viewers which makes a loyal listenership, they also made the online news have different languages which makes it multinational because they provide different languages on the online news website.
Economic reasons
PRINT
Activity one
Part 1:
They have said that there are newspapers that have cost more than £1 like the Daily Telegraph and same as the Independent while the financial times retail at £2 but sell the newspaper at 90p which they lose out on £1.10p.
Part 2:
That the prices of the newspapers have risen by 20p from £1-£1.20p on Monday-Friday papers and the weekend papers have also risen by 20p from £1.90-£2.10p. They also raised the price because of the rivals the newspaper has which are the Daily Telegraph, Times and The Independent which are cost at £1 but on saturdays they were priced at DT- 90p, T-£1.50p and TI- £1.60p which are high priced which they would need to put their prices higher so they will have a chance to make profit and get their newspaper publicity.
Activity two
Circulation is a newspaper circulation is the number of copies it distributes on an average day.
Readership is the readers of a newspaper, magazine, or book regarded collectively: "it has a readership of 100 million".
That the guardian is having a circulation of 230,541 on an average daily circulation which is good because that is a lot of copies which at the price of the guardian is quite good because it has raised up to £1.20p on the week days and on the weekend it has risen to £2.10p which is a goos pricing for the newspapers to be sold. On the week days they are making £1,383,246 and on the weekend they make £968,272.20p so if we can see they make a nice amount on money from an estimate with the statistics of the daily circulation and the prices of the newspapers. Its a broadsheet and not a tabloid because of the prices.
Activity three
The daily circulation has increased from 2010 to 2012 because the competition has got much harder to sell newspapers.
1. I believe that this is good because they are making more sales with the amount of daily circulations being produced.
2. The other reason is that because of the rivals they have made the increase in daily circulation.
I have research on the internet and found The Sun newspaper which cost 14p in the 1980s which I have a picture of and shows that the paper cost 14p in 1980 and now in 2012 it cost 30p which mean over the years it has got more expensive and the economy has increased which has made the papers get more expensive and increase by 16p in 32 years. There is a paper that is from 1992 and it is priced at 25p which shows it has increased slowly not just a instant increase in price, so we can see that the newspapers have increased but slowly. I researched on the internet and found out that the Telegraph has subscriptions which made the money from the selling of the newspapers on the other hand, The Independent always had adverts in the newspaper which made their revenue. The Guardian was a free newspaper but they started to put more adverts in to make more revenue and end with a profit.
SOAP
Task 1
Stunts and complex physical action aren’t often in soaps, especially in daytime serials. Such story events often take place offscreen and are referred to in dialogue instead of being shown. This is because stunts or action scenes are difficult to adequately depict visually without complex action, multiple takes, and post production editing. When episodes were broadcast live, post production work was impossible. Though all serials have long switched to being taped, extensive post production work and multiple takes, while possible, are not feasible due to the tight taping schedules and low budgets. Some soaps employ a number of conventions, and many researchers have attempted to list some of the typical characteristics. e.g. , Sonia Livingstone [1990 : 54] believes the common soap opera features include :transmission at regular, frequent times, often daily; predominantly aimed at female viewers , occupying day-time/early evening slots; use of fairly constant and large cast, over many
years, and a faithful audience; cheap production costs, regarded as low
prestige entertainment; concern with daily activities, centred on a small
community and/or large family; simulation of real time and realistic events; interwoven narratives, with overlapping resolutions; 'cliff-hangers' to ensure committed viewing; focus on female characters and 'feminine' or domestic concerns. to give further dimension to these characteristic features, one should also consider Brown's list [cited in Fiske, 1987 : 179/80] : resists narrative closure; multiple characters and plots; abrupt segmentation between parts; emphasis on dialogue, problem solving and intimate conversation; male characters are generally 'sensitive men'; female characters who are often professional or otherwise powerful in the world outside the home; the home, or some place that functions as a home, as the setting for the show.
Task 2
Eastenders had to cut down to 16 actors per episode because of the recession which caused them to cut down the amount of actors acting in one episode and to also had to let such actors leave like Sid Owen, who plays Ricky Butcher, and Danniella Westbrook, better known as Sam Mitchell. They have saved from this, the savings, including a freeze on executive pay and reduced fees for the biggest stars, followed 7,200 job cuts over the previous four-and-a-half years. The annual budget for EastEnders remains a closely guarded secret.
Task 3
The BBC spent an amount of £102.5m last year on six TV soaps – including
EastEnders, Casualty, Holby City and Doctors which they then drop 20% of
overall in real terms in the past eight years.
Task 4
The show eastenders,
got £700,000 on their anniversary half-hour show that was live which happened last year. The corporation bosses have an extra million pound which was over and above costs which was needed to fund the 25th anniversary programme.
The figures reveal in a report by the National Audit Office (NAO) into the way the BBC manages the costs of a continuing drama, also this shows the Eastenders soap will spend around £7 million on cast this year. this information shows the amount spent on the soap is increasing.
The cost of six key dramas, like EastEnders and Casualty, has reduced by a fifth in real terms over the past eight years.
With the audience declining, the NAO study shows that the cost per viewers from the six programmes had actually risen by 9% in actual terms over the same time of periods.
Changes in style
Activity one
Part 1:
They have said that there are newspapers that have cost more than £1 like the Daily Telegraph and same as the Independent while the financial times retail at £2 but sell the newspaper at 90p which they lose out on £1.10p.
Part 2:
That the prices of the newspapers have risen by 20p from £1-£1.20p on Monday-Friday papers and the weekend papers have also risen by 20p from £1.90-£2.10p. They also raised the price because of the rivals the newspaper has which are the Daily Telegraph, Times and The Independent which are cost at £1 but on saturdays they were priced at DT- 90p, T-£1.50p and TI- £1.60p which are high priced which they would need to put their prices higher so they will have a chance to make profit and get their newspaper publicity.
Activity two
Circulation is a newspaper circulation is the number of copies it distributes on an average day.
Readership is the readers of a newspaper, magazine, or book regarded collectively: "it has a readership of 100 million".
That the guardian is having a circulation of 230,541 on an average daily circulation which is good because that is a lot of copies which at the price of the guardian is quite good because it has raised up to £1.20p on the week days and on the weekend it has risen to £2.10p which is a goos pricing for the newspapers to be sold. On the week days they are making £1,383,246 and on the weekend they make £968,272.20p so if we can see they make a nice amount on money from an estimate with the statistics of the daily circulation and the prices of the newspapers. Its a broadsheet and not a tabloid because of the prices.
Activity three
The daily circulation has increased from 2010 to 2012 because the competition has got much harder to sell newspapers.
1. I believe that this is good because they are making more sales with the amount of daily circulations being produced.
2. The other reason is that because of the rivals they have made the increase in daily circulation.
I have research on the internet and found The Sun newspaper which cost 14p in the 1980s which I have a picture of and shows that the paper cost 14p in 1980 and now in 2012 it cost 30p which mean over the years it has got more expensive and the economy has increased which has made the papers get more expensive and increase by 16p in 32 years. There is a paper that is from 1992 and it is priced at 25p which shows it has increased slowly not just a instant increase in price, so we can see that the newspapers have increased but slowly. I researched on the internet and found out that the Telegraph has subscriptions which made the money from the selling of the newspapers on the other hand, The Independent always had adverts in the newspaper which made their revenue. The Guardian was a free newspaper but they started to put more adverts in to make more revenue and end with a profit.
SOAP
Task 1
Stunts and complex physical action aren’t often in soaps, especially in daytime serials. Such story events often take place offscreen and are referred to in dialogue instead of being shown. This is because stunts or action scenes are difficult to adequately depict visually without complex action, multiple takes, and post production editing. When episodes were broadcast live, post production work was impossible. Though all serials have long switched to being taped, extensive post production work and multiple takes, while possible, are not feasible due to the tight taping schedules and low budgets. Some soaps employ a number of conventions, and many researchers have attempted to list some of the typical characteristics. e.g. , Sonia Livingstone [1990 : 54] believes the common soap opera features include :transmission at regular, frequent times, often daily; predominantly aimed at female viewers , occupying day-time/early evening slots; use of fairly constant and large cast, over many
years, and a faithful audience; cheap production costs, regarded as low
prestige entertainment; concern with daily activities, centred on a small
community and/or large family; simulation of real time and realistic events; interwoven narratives, with overlapping resolutions; 'cliff-hangers' to ensure committed viewing; focus on female characters and 'feminine' or domestic concerns. to give further dimension to these characteristic features, one should also consider Brown's list [cited in Fiske, 1987 : 179/80] : resists narrative closure; multiple characters and plots; abrupt segmentation between parts; emphasis on dialogue, problem solving and intimate conversation; male characters are generally 'sensitive men'; female characters who are often professional or otherwise powerful in the world outside the home; the home, or some place that functions as a home, as the setting for the show.
Task 2
Eastenders had to cut down to 16 actors per episode because of the recession which caused them to cut down the amount of actors acting in one episode and to also had to let such actors leave like Sid Owen, who plays Ricky Butcher, and Danniella Westbrook, better known as Sam Mitchell. They have saved from this, the savings, including a freeze on executive pay and reduced fees for the biggest stars, followed 7,200 job cuts over the previous four-and-a-half years. The annual budget for EastEnders remains a closely guarded secret.
Task 3
The BBC spent an amount of £102.5m last year on six TV soaps – including
EastEnders, Casualty, Holby City and Doctors which they then drop 20% of
overall in real terms in the past eight years.
Task 4
The show eastenders,
got £700,000 on their anniversary half-hour show that was live which happened last year. The corporation bosses have an extra million pound which was over and above costs which was needed to fund the 25th anniversary programme.
The figures reveal in a report by the National Audit Office (NAO) into the way the BBC manages the costs of a continuing drama, also this shows the Eastenders soap will spend around £7 million on cast this year. this information shows the amount spent on the soap is increasing.
The cost of six key dramas, like EastEnders and Casualty, has reduced by a fifth in real terms over the past eight years.
With the audience declining, the NAO study shows that the cost per viewers from the six programmes had actually risen by 9% in actual terms over the same time of periods.
Changes in style
PRINT
Activity one
Part 1:
They have said that there are newspapers that have cost more than £1 like the Daily Telegraph and same as the Independent while the financial times retail at £2 but sell the newspaper at 90p which they lose out on £1.10p.
Part 2:
That the prices of the newspapers have risen by 20p from £1-£1.20p on Monday-Friday papers and the weekend papers have also risen by 20p from £1.90-£2.10p. They also raised the price because of the rivals the newspaper has which are the Daily Telegraph, Times and The Independent which are cost at £1 but on saturdays they were priced at DT- 90p, T-£1.50p and TI- £1.60p which are high priced which they would need to put their prices higher so they will have a chance to make profit and get their newspaper publicity.
Activity two
Circulation is a newspaper circulation is the number of copies it distributes on an average day.
Readership is the readers of a newspaper, magazine, or book regarded collectively: "it has a readership of 100 million".
That the guardian is having a circulation of 230,541 on an average daily circulation which is good because that is a lot of copies which at the price of the guardian is quite good because it has raised up to £1.20p on the week days and on the weekend it has risen to £2.10p which is a goos pricing for the newspapers to be sold. On the week days they are making £1,383,246 and on the weekend they make £968,272.20p so if we can see they make a nice amount on money from an estimate with the statistics of the daily circulation and the prices of the newspapers. Its a broadsheet and not a tabloid because of the prices.
Activity three
The daily circulation has increased from 2010 to 2012 because the competition has got much harder to sell newspapers.
1. I believe that this is good because they are making more sales with the amount of daily circulations being produced.
2. The other reason is that because of the rivals they have made the increase in daily circulation.
SOAP
Task 1
Stunts and complex physical action aren’t often in soaps, especially in
daytime serials. Such story events often take place offscreen and are referred to in dialogue instead of being shown. This is because stunts or action scenes are difficult to adequately depict visually without complex action, multiple takes, and post production editing. When episodes were broadcast live, post production work was impossible. Though all serials have long switched to being taped, extensive post production work and multiple takes, while possible, are not feasible due to the tight taping schedules and low budgets. Some soaps employ a number of conventions, and many researchers have attempted to list some of the typical characteristics. e.g. , Sonia Livingstone [1990 : 54] believes the common soap opera features include :transmission at regular, frequent times, often daily; predominantly aimed at female viewers , occupying day-time/early evening slots; use of fairly constant and large cast, over many
years, and a faithful audience; cheap production costs, regarded as low
prestige entertainment; concern with daily activities, centred on a small
community and/or large family; simulation of real time and realistic events; interwoven narratives, with overlapping resolutions; 'cliff-hangers' to ensure committed viewing; focus on female characters and 'feminine' or domestic concerns. to give further dimension to these characteristic features, one should also consider Brown's list [cited in Fiske, 1987 : 179/80] : resists narrative closure; multiple characters and plots; abrupt segmentation between parts; emphasis on dialogue, problem solving and intimate conversation; male characters are generally 'sensitive men'; female characters who are often professional or otherwise powerful in the world outside the home; the home, or some place that functions as a home, as the setting for the show.
Task 2
Eastenders had to cut down to 16 actors per episode because of the recession which caused them to cut down the amount of actors acting in one episode and to also had to let such actors leave like Sid Owen, who plays Ricky Butcher, and Danniella Westbrook, better known as Sam Mitchell. They have saved from this, the savings, including a freeze on executive pay and reduced fees for the biggest stars, followed 7,200 job cuts over the previous four-and-a-half years. The annual budget for EastEnders remains a closely guarded secret.
Task 3
The BBC spent an amount of £102.5m last year on six TV soaps – including
EastEnders, Casualty, Holby City and Doctors which they then drop 20% of
overall in real terms in the past eight years.
Task 4
The show eastenders,
got £700,000 on their anniversary half-hour show that was live which happened last year. The corporation bosses have an extra million pound which was over and above costs which was needed to fund the 25th anniversary programme.
The figures reveal in a report by the National Audit Office (NAO) into the way the BBC manages the costs of a continuing drama, also this shows the Eastenders soap will spend around £7 million on cast this year. this information shows the amount spent on the soap is increasing.
The cost of six key dramas, like EastEnders and Casualty, has reduced by a fifth in real terms over the past eight years.
With the audience declining, the NAO study shows that the cost per viewers from the six programmes had actually risen by 9% in actual terms over the same time of periods.
Changes in content
Activity one
Part 1:
They have said that there are newspapers that have cost more than £1 like the Daily Telegraph and same as the Independent while the financial times retail at £2 but sell the newspaper at 90p which they lose out on £1.10p.
Part 2:
That the prices of the newspapers have risen by 20p from £1-£1.20p on Monday-Friday papers and the weekend papers have also risen by 20p from £1.90-£2.10p. They also raised the price because of the rivals the newspaper has which are the Daily Telegraph, Times and The Independent which are cost at £1 but on saturdays they were priced at DT- 90p, T-£1.50p and TI- £1.60p which are high priced which they would need to put their prices higher so they will have a chance to make profit and get their newspaper publicity.
Activity two
Circulation is a newspaper circulation is the number of copies it distributes on an average day.
Readership is the readers of a newspaper, magazine, or book regarded collectively: "it has a readership of 100 million".
That the guardian is having a circulation of 230,541 on an average daily circulation which is good because that is a lot of copies which at the price of the guardian is quite good because it has raised up to £1.20p on the week days and on the weekend it has risen to £2.10p which is a goos pricing for the newspapers to be sold. On the week days they are making £1,383,246 and on the weekend they make £968,272.20p so if we can see they make a nice amount on money from an estimate with the statistics of the daily circulation and the prices of the newspapers. Its a broadsheet and not a tabloid because of the prices.
Activity three
The daily circulation has increased from 2010 to 2012 because the competition has got much harder to sell newspapers.
1. I believe that this is good because they are making more sales with the amount of daily circulations being produced.
2. The other reason is that because of the rivals they have made the increase in daily circulation.
SOAP
Task 1
Stunts and complex physical action aren’t often in soaps, especially in
daytime serials. Such story events often take place offscreen and are referred to in dialogue instead of being shown. This is because stunts or action scenes are difficult to adequately depict visually without complex action, multiple takes, and post production editing. When episodes were broadcast live, post production work was impossible. Though all serials have long switched to being taped, extensive post production work and multiple takes, while possible, are not feasible due to the tight taping schedules and low budgets. Some soaps employ a number of conventions, and many researchers have attempted to list some of the typical characteristics. e.g. , Sonia Livingstone [1990 : 54] believes the common soap opera features include :transmission at regular, frequent times, often daily; predominantly aimed at female viewers , occupying day-time/early evening slots; use of fairly constant and large cast, over many
years, and a faithful audience; cheap production costs, regarded as low
prestige entertainment; concern with daily activities, centred on a small
community and/or large family; simulation of real time and realistic events; interwoven narratives, with overlapping resolutions; 'cliff-hangers' to ensure committed viewing; focus on female characters and 'feminine' or domestic concerns. to give further dimension to these characteristic features, one should also consider Brown's list [cited in Fiske, 1987 : 179/80] : resists narrative closure; multiple characters and plots; abrupt segmentation between parts; emphasis on dialogue, problem solving and intimate conversation; male characters are generally 'sensitive men'; female characters who are often professional or otherwise powerful in the world outside the home; the home, or some place that functions as a home, as the setting for the show.
Task 2
Eastenders had to cut down to 16 actors per episode because of the recession which caused them to cut down the amount of actors acting in one episode and to also had to let such actors leave like Sid Owen, who plays Ricky Butcher, and Danniella Westbrook, better known as Sam Mitchell. They have saved from this, the savings, including a freeze on executive pay and reduced fees for the biggest stars, followed 7,200 job cuts over the previous four-and-a-half years. The annual budget for EastEnders remains a closely guarded secret.
Task 3
The BBC spent an amount of £102.5m last year on six TV soaps – including
EastEnders, Casualty, Holby City and Doctors which they then drop 20% of
overall in real terms in the past eight years.
Task 4
The show eastenders,
got £700,000 on their anniversary half-hour show that was live which happened last year. The corporation bosses have an extra million pound which was over and above costs which was needed to fund the 25th anniversary programme.
The figures reveal in a report by the National Audit Office (NAO) into the way the BBC manages the costs of a continuing drama, also this shows the Eastenders soap will spend around £7 million on cast this year. this information shows the amount spent on the soap is increasing.
The cost of six key dramas, like EastEnders and Casualty, has reduced by a fifth in real terms over the past eight years.
With the audience declining, the NAO study shows that the cost per viewers from the six programmes had actually risen by 9% in actual terms over the same time of periods.
Changes in content
PRINT
These are 2 pictures of the times from one being from around the 1960-70s and the other one to the right is from the noughts which shows the comparison between both of the newspapers. There are many differences between both papers which are for example the masthead in the older paper is more of a stylish and posh masthead while the newer paper has more of a independent and bold masthead because its more up-to-date and shows its more common. The caption is also different between the 2 because the older one is a picture of the Titanic which is in black and white while the newer one is in colour which shows the development of cameras. Then both of these papers have justified text for certain articles and this shows that both papers shows the same amount of information from around 30-40 years ago.
These are now 2 papers of The Sun from the noughts and around 1960-70s and in these 2 papers we can see differences such as the older one has no sort of advertising but in the newer one we can see advert which says to win a prize which is a maor difference to the newspapers. Also the headlines are much different because over the years the headline have changed from around the 1960s always talking and writing about the royal family to the noughts when they talk and write the celebrities which shows that the royal family aren't always talked about now that the celebrities have gained a lot of publicity.
SOAP
Older Episodes
The older episodes had more of white people than any other race because there wasn't as much races in the realistic than just mainly white people. In this era there was more of working class people because of the sort of money people were earning in that era wasn't good which caused people to be put in the group of working class people. The people were older such as middled aged people because in the episodes there wasn't very young people which cause the audience to be a older age group because there was only old people in the episodes. The woman weren't treated as well as they are now because it was shown in a man's point of view which was good but it would be seen as sexism now because everyone is equal. In this era the main situation which would cause conflict between people would be that a man and woman would live together but they wouldn't be married which would have caused conflict.
These are 2 pictures of the times from one being from around the 1960-70s and the other one to the right is from the noughts which shows the comparison between both of the newspapers. There are many differences between both papers which are for example the masthead in the older paper is more of a stylish and posh masthead while the newer paper has more of a independent and bold masthead because its more up-to-date and shows its more common. The caption is also different between the 2 because the older one is a picture of the Titanic which is in black and white while the newer one is in colour which shows the development of cameras. Then both of these papers have justified text for certain articles and this shows that both papers shows the same amount of information from around 30-40 years ago.
These are now 2 papers of The Sun from the noughts and around 1960-70s and in these 2 papers we can see differences such as the older one has no sort of advertising but in the newer one we can see advert which says to win a prize which is a maor difference to the newspapers. Also the headlines are much different because over the years the headline have changed from around the 1960s always talking and writing about the royal family to the noughts when they talk and write the celebrities which shows that the royal family aren't always talked about now that the celebrities have gained a lot of publicity.
SOAP
Older Episodes
The older episodes had more of white people than any other race because there wasn't as much races in the realistic than just mainly white people. In this era there was more of working class people because of the sort of money people were earning in that era wasn't good which caused people to be put in the group of working class people. The people were older such as middled aged people because in the episodes there wasn't very young people which cause the audience to be a older age group because there was only old people in the episodes. The woman weren't treated as well as they are now because it was shown in a man's point of view which was good but it would be seen as sexism now because everyone is equal. In this era the main situation which would cause conflict between people would be that a man and woman would live together but they wouldn't be married which would have caused conflict.
A episode that is a bit newer
The episodes that were newer were more questioning of the genders seeing who's position was more important and was more in charge or equal. In this era the men were more dominate in the society because the men were to be said as the more able and hard working gender because they said that the men were the workers while the women had to stay at home while they did all the cleaning and that.
Newer episodes
The episodes that were newer were more questioning of the genders seeing who's position was more important and was more in charge or equal. In this era the men were more dominate in the society because the men were to be said as the more able and hard working gender because they said that the men were the workers while the women had to stay at home while they did all the cleaning and that.
Newer episodes
The era of this was more accepting because they had people that for example came out from being gay and weren't scared of what people thought and that they could be equal to every because they were homosexual. The stereotypical view on homosexuals are that they want everything clean and are just like big children because they seem like they are just childish and always wanting to have fun which isn't correct because some homosexuals are the opposite. There was a lot of active and passive reception to people with coronation street because people either watched the programme or had it just playing in background.
Newest episode
In the newest episodes they have changed from scenes that have only had white people in them because of the era they were in a era where there was more white people in the community but it has has a change in ethnic diversity and is more of a multi-cultural society now because the show have changed it to be more realistic and because in England and the cities of England there are many different cultures, so because coronation street want more people to watch it then they have changed it to be more realistic so that it appeals to everyone. The era of the episodes also show that women are more dependent and can do what they want because in this era of the society men and women are equal unlike 50 years ago.
Newest episode
In the newest episodes they have changed from scenes that have only had white people in them because of the era they were in a era where there was more white people in the community but it has has a change in ethnic diversity and is more of a multi-cultural society now because the show have changed it to be more realistic and because in England and the cities of England there are many different cultures, so because coronation street want more people to watch it then they have changed it to be more realistic so that it appeals to everyone. The era of the episodes also show that women are more dependent and can do what they want because in this era of the society men and women are equal unlike 50 years ago.
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