http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/breakfast/8149699.stm
Freefall is a new BBC drama about a man prepared to lose everything for the prospect of a better life once owning his own home. However, little did he know that the discounted mortgage he had been offered by an old friend is void. I thought it would be a very good idea to research this drama because just like our soap, its narrative centres on the human side of the financial crises. In other words it can easily relate to audiences as it goes a lot further than a news report about the crises would; the drama focuses on events that cause so many lives to spiral into financial turmoil. In observing this drama i recorded the following.....
-The scheduling time or the drama is similar to the one we have chosen. This indicates that viewers interested in watching a programme focusing on the financial crises. However, if we were to actually produce and air our soap then Freefall would mean that we have competition.
-The drama is very realistic which again ensures that the viewers can relate to the characters. The realism is created through many different elements these include the use of real locations (as can be seen in the video). Not only this but the characters were not given scripts but instead had to improvise in order to increase realism. Camera work is also very basic. All in all the realism and the camera shots make the viewer eel as i they are part o the drama and not just someone simply watching. I think this idea of realism would be a very good one to use in our soap. The only difference is that our soap also shows higher class characters and so we will need to show locations other than a simple run down estate area, as is shown in Freefall.
-The symbolism, dress and body language are all very important in expressing not only the characters emotions to the viewer, but also his personality, as is explained in the interview. IN the interview the man talks about him deciding to keep the moustache as part of his character inorder to make him appear in order. I realised from watching this and other trailers that appearance is very important in conveying the character through their appearance. This is an idea i would like to carry further and use in my trailer. This is because a trailer is very short and so we need to give audiences an idea of the characters in a short period of time.
- Body language and tone of voice can convey a lot about the character, as is shown in the drama clip. The protagonist itching his head and looking down, whilst talking in a loud tone of voice highlights his desperation.
Although Freefall was initially our idea for the coursework, as we had initially thought that no drama about the financial crises existed, it does dier in many ways...
-Freefall focuses mainly on the working classs. This is evident through it's choice of location; estate flats.
-Our drama circulates around a business and whast goes on inside that business. So in other words rather than focusing on individual responses to the financial crises, we are are going to focus on a collective one.
-Unlike Freefall our soap goes against the conventional, stereothypical characters. Through the link, the extract we see shows the man in his working clothes and ther women carrying out the housework. However, our soap goes against conventional charcters by having a woman as the boss and the attractive emale as a lesbian.
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[article on Freefall]
ReplyDeleteIt turned out, too, that Dave had some serious competition in the greedy-villain stakes. In the City of London, banker Gus (Aidan Gillen) was so excited by closing another deal that he went to the toilets to masturbate. Over lunch with his teenage daughter, his utter obsession with money meant that he gave her (and us) a handy explanation of mortgage collateralised debt obligations.
In the meantime Dave was chasing his biggest-baddie crown even harder than before. His old school-friend Jim (Joseph Mawle) had already been established as the very definition of “poor but happy”, joshing away with his loving family in their rented council house. Even so, Dave persuaded him to take out a discounted mortgage, without explaining how much the repayments would increase in the second year.
It's shocking how much this drama resembles our initial ideas. The boss who's money greedy with a disturbing focus on success. Obviously we shalln't involve such crude and controversial story lines as it's too pessimistic and too forceful to appeal to a larger audience.
The character of our caretaker was to be defined as 'poor but happy' although, we weren't going to make him vulnerable to deception but more as a friendly companion to the workers within the organisation.
We should research deeper into some of their story lines to give us a good stimulus for ideas.
It seems the foundation of all our ideas have been broadcasted! This doesn't normally happen. Well we're not adopting such 'gritty' realism, we need to show more than just one angle of the recession and business adventures.
ABove posted by Zoe.
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