STATEMENT OF INTENT

 

How do you intend to use the four areas of the media theoretical framework to communicate meaning and meet the requirements of your chosen brief?

 

In my TV show, I want to present a realistic, yet dramatized perception of the previous year at school for sixth former's who missed their GCSE’s due to the Covid lockdown and them adapting to Sixth Form life. The opening sequence will be to a ‘Educating Yorkshire’ style show, which was also shown on E4, which is the channel my product is for but this sequence has a sitcom-mockumentary feel to it, with a cold-open interview and a montage of dramatized situations, it is a montage of the best bits from the episode/series much like many modern popular reality shows such as Love Island. It would be successful, financially and critically, due to the lack of mockumentary-style reality shows on TV at the moment and the success of ‘Educating (Yorkshire)’, from which it is heavily inspired. I want to portray realistic and varied representations of teenagers, as they are the target audience, and will want to be able to relate to the characters and recognise values in themselves and their peers in the characters. The characters will be from a range of social groups as made clear in the title sequence of the first episode, although the first episode focuses on one character mainly the title introduces a wide range of characters you'll meet throughout the series and due to the preferred pluralistic view I want the audience to have, their will be a range of stereotypes and countertypes in my characters, as the audience will be aware of the variety of characters and personalities in a school. Because of the 16-25 year old target audience, making the characters stereotypical would be a mistake as they have witnessed the school environment first-hand recently and will not be convinced by weak, stereotypical perceptions of teenagers.

My website is simpler than my TV show production due to the show being restricted to a specific channel, E4. My website will be heavily inspired by the E4 website and will advertise their other shows and stars. Their will be an overview of the show and an idea of the making of the show at the start of the website, partnered with the opening sequence of the show as a Vimeo clip to grab the audience and see if the show is for them. The website will have a button that will lead them to a ‘Meet the Cast’ page with exclusive interviews with the director of the show. It will also have links to the stars social media, because we want the target audience to be emotionally invested in these star’s lives and social media is a way of reaching out to the 16-25 year old demographic. Also, as I'm taking heavy inspiration from the Channel 4 website, I advertise other E4 TV shows similar to 'Class of Covid' much like they do on the actual website.

How do you intend to link your media products to demonstrate your knowledge and understanding of the digitally convergent nature of your media production?

Because my main product is the opening sequence to the pilot of a longer TV series, it will be available to view on the website itself, as it encapsulates the whole nature of the series and will give the audience an idea of the cinematic style of the series and a rough idea of the characters they will be following over the episodes as much like many popular reality shows- the series starts with a preview of the series as a whole. The clip will be a Vimeo clip , therefore leading the audience to the TV Show’s channel, with sneak-peek’s, interviews and behind the scenes footage, which is the key to the wide-spread popularity of a TV show, aiming for the 16-25 year old demographic.