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Capital:Case Study

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Capital : Case study blog tasks Work through the following tasks to build a detailed case study for  Capital . This will give you plenty of background information to use in an exam question. Remember, for this CSP the question could be on any of the key concepts: language, industries, audiences or representations. Reviews and Features Read the following review and feature on Capital: Guardian review by Sam Wollaston London Evening Standard: five things you need to know about Capital Reviews and features Read the following review and feature on  Capital : Guardian review by Sam Wollaston London Evening Standard: five things you need to know about  Capital 1) What positive points does the review pick out about  Capital ?  What criticisms are made - either of the TV drama or the original novel? "They have managed to squeeze an incredible amount into one street, one book, and then further squeeze into three hours of television. A lot of the important stuff, as well as what is most won

Introduction TV Drama

  Introduction to TV Drama: Blog tasks Use our Media Factsheet archive on the M: drive Media Shared (M:\Resources\A Level\Media Factsheets) or  on Google Drive here  (you'll need your Greenford Google login) to find Media Factsheet  #164  on  Television Serial Drama .  Read the whole of Factsheet and answer the following questions to show your comprehensive knowledge of the television drama genre: 1) What is serial television drama? Write your own definition. A TV  split into a series of episodes  where the plot unfolds after each episode as opposed to one-off dramas, this plot will be finished by the end of the series. 2) List five of the TV dramas discussed in the history of the genre on page 1 of the factsheet. How has the genre evolved over time? -The Avengers -Danger Man -The Sweeney -Starsky and Hutch -Minder Until the early 1980's, most US television drama series followed a set narrative structure, comprising of a story of the week delivering narrative resolution at the