How do the two texts use Narrative techniques to draw the attention of an audience ?
The Educating Yorkshire program and the popular
BBC show, Waterloo Road both use features and techniques to attract the
audience’s attention. In Educating Yorkshire, they use todorov ‘s equilibrium
theory to show the progress of the students, Mushy. At the beginning of the
clip, Mushy is having difficult of speaking and pronouncing words in front of
the class, then, high school teacher, Mr. Burton came up with an idea of
listening to music whilst presenting the speech in front of the year, to make
Mushy relax and feel comfortable. Finally, Mushy present his speech in front of
the year. This indicates the problem that Mr. Burton has at the start of the
clip and how is he going to solve it, as the audience wants Mushy to succeed and
present well toward the year. So, the audience has to wait to see if mushy did
well, as they are interested and engage with the program. The show is a
documentary genre, as the narrative of the show want to the audience to be engaging
as they use cutaways of the reaction of the students, as they are sentimental,
emotional and upset.
In the BBC show, Waterloo Road, they use Barthes
theory of action and enigma codes to keep the audience interested. During the
clip, a car enters the school as every students and teacher watching it. The action
code used in the clip is the movement of the car, as the student and the
teacher create a feeling for the audience of who is this person in the car. Straight
after, the camera enters the inside of the car, creating an enigma code for the audience of a shot of the mirror, only showing the character’s month. This
allows the audience to be engaged and interest, as they want to know who this
character is in the clip.as this make the audience want to watch the show more
and see what happen during the rest of the clip.
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Educating Yorkshire is represented very positive
in the school life, as the clip show how helpful the teachers are toward their
students. As Mr. Burton is helping Mushy after school on his speech show how
dedicated he is to help his students. I feel that the show, Educating Yorkshire
subvert the mainstream representation of school life in the modern day. As
teachers are normally only caring about the grades they get at the end of the
year, only caring about the end of the day and only teaching students during
office hour. But in the show, they subvert this idea by showing a teacher who wants
to help the students in any sort of way. In some cases the show is very
inspirational as Mr. Burton helps Mushy in a way which is very different and unique,
as Mushy can’t pronounce words as he stammers, seeing him preform his speech in
front of the year is very inspirational as the audience want him to do well.
Waterloo Road is represented
and portrayed in a way very negatively for the audience, as this show can
suggest the normality and realism in the modern day. Now a days, students and teachers normally
make comment and gestures about and toward the others students and teachers,
and portray this very well during the clip and the students and teachers are
saying comment about s about the car arriving in to the school. This is present
very well for the audience, as they clearly see how the teachers and students act.
In the clips the characters, are present are very different, as class of the
characters are very different. During the
clip, the character of the dad and the car is very expensive and wealth, as the
costume of the dad is very smart and formal as he is wearing a suit. Compared
to the students and the teachers the character is portraying very wealth and
upper class by the uses of his costumes, making the characters falling into the
A/B class. This falls into the Perkins theories of stereotypes, as the
characters are presented in way which the audience can clear identify and they
are reinforcing the theory.
Example of this is the BBC television
show ‘Some Girls’ they are shown very negatively in the show with positive elements
toward the end of each show. .....
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The way how the social media
has changed the way the audience watch television now is that they have social
networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, where the audience can write and
say things on these sites, as these sites are available at any. As people can
now write and say things during the show on these sites as they are happening.
As these sites generate and attract a lot of people on these sites, the minute
they write something about the show then people will see this and then comment
and post something about they show as well. This would lead to thousands of
people commenting and writing things about the show as well. As this create a lot of spoilers and news for
those who haven’t watched the yet. The fans will find the information about the
show whilst the show is happening. Comparing to the old traditional methods of
waiting for the news and information to break on the other platform the next
day, on newspapers a, radio’s shows and other programme.
In the modern day the
audience are watching less television programmes, the reason why is due to the
technology we use now a days, as the audience can watch certain show on
demands, meaning that they can chose to watch a show at any time that suit them,
as the uses on sites like IPlayers and media streaming sites like Netflix and
love film allowing the audience to time shift the time they decide to watch
television. As this allow the audience to socialize and communicate with other
while the show is happen at the same time.
