Institution Research

E4 is a digital channel based in the UK originally launched as a pay-TV companion to Channel 4 on 18 January 2001 as a pay - TV channel. It provides many american sit-coms such as 'How I met your Mother','The Big Bang Theory' these are examples of big successful U.S TV shows that the british audience watch, they also show some british programmes like 'Misfits' and 'Phoneshop' which are also tv programmes of a comedic genre. These shows are aimed at people between the ages of 15-35 year old. Programmes provided by the channel aren't always a comedy, some of the shows like 'Made in Chelsea' this is a reality tv programmes. E4 became available on freeview after May 2005 and became free to air on BSkyB because of a long term contract on 6th May 2008 along with a sister channel 'More4'.

BBC three is a channel which is apart of the BBC, broadcasting via Digital cable,terrestrial,IPTV and satellite, similarly to E4 have a target age range of 16-35 year old therefore the channel only airs their programmes between timings of 19:00 PM - 05:00 AM this is so it can remain as a terrestrial channel. They aim to provide a purpose of innovative content to a young audience therefore they provide unique reality shows such as 'snow,sex and suspicious parents'. Other shows they provide to us unlike E4 is live/pre-recorded comedy shows like 'Russell Howard's Good news'.unlike E4 this channel provide chat shows for example 'Backchat with Jack Whitehall and His Dad'.

Youngers:

The opening scene is a extreme close up of of the mic being placed in to the mic stand and it can be fore told that the protagonist is about to rap or sing the next shot is of the track producer kissing his cross pendent implying to the audience that these artist are new to the music industry and are trying to make a break and further shows that the these are teens struggling to gain opportunities hence the use on diegetic Rap/Grime music as it relates to them and is a popular genre in lower and middle class areas such as South London. the extreme close ups of the head phone show the roles of the character - the head phone convey to the audience that he is the rapper and the male sitting down is the producer.lighting in the sequence show display a rough estimate of time (night) and is confirmed by the mother walking in and tell the producer to send his friend home. the use on a foreign mother emphasises on the struggle in a way as it is a common stereotype the black people are often grouped in lower or middle.

Some Girls:

the opening scene of this sequence the title of the programme introducing it. this then cuts to a group of girls being coached in football clearly at a educational environment considering the obvious age gap between the coach and the students the clothing that is worn in the sequence connotes the the group of girls are in a football team the massive height difference shows the teacher is a dominant character and is emphasised by the dialogue in the scene "C'mon ladies let's get warmed up", this a instructive line and is followed by the student as they run. the dialogue in the sequence instantly conveys that the genre of this sit-com is comedy as they talk about how the last football match was extremely gory and people were bleeding but the teacher denies that the match was that bad even though she admits to the blood and broken bones.

Exam Response

WWW: Good analysis of mise en scene using knowledge well.
EBI: Better, more detailed answer for the other questions .Timing!
LR: Rewrite question 2 & 4, including more examples.
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Learning Response:

Q2. the opening scene is the matches being lit and then shows the man as a medium close up showing him smoking this connotes to us that he is some sort of stress related situation and is emphasis due to aspects of make up. the situation and the smoke first connotes to us that he's the antagonist but subconsciously we doubt this as he isn't introduced as a domination character- the camera angle is straight on and doesn't imply in any way that he is violent and the shot clearly shows his facial expression displays resent and emphasises on the doubt the viewer has on his action and whether he is the villain. match on action shot leads our eyes to the second character in a silohuette