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| Changes in style and cultural changes |
Changes in style:
Similarities and differences
- Formal
- More text
- Matching colour scheme
- Neat
- Price - clearer
- Logo - emblem
- Royal
- Class
- Culture
- International
- Time honoured
- Number of headline stories
Cultural changes:
Representation
Who is represented in each one?
Government
Who is not?
Communities
How are they represented?
From Britain's point of view.
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| Changes in style and cultural changes |
Changes in style:
Similarities and differences
- Factual
- Design
- No colour
- Free
- More pictures
- Small text
- Number of stories
- Mix of hard and soft news
Cultural changes:
Representation
Who is represented in each one?
Celebrities
Who is not?
Government
How are they represented?
Bad light
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| Changes in style and cultural changes |
Changes in style:
Similarities and differences
- Slang
- Informal
- Less text
- Gaps
- Unprofessional
- Simple colour scheme
- Messy
- Price - cheap
- 1 Story for the cover
- Convenience
- Headline fills up space
- Literacy levels
Cultural changes:
Representation
Who is represented in each one?
Army
Who is not?
People at home
How are they represented?
Heroes
Changes in content:
Similarities and differences
Has there been a change in the amount of Hard or soft news?
THE TIMES
Stayed hard news with occasional soft piece.
METRO
Bit of both mostly soft news
THE SUN
Basically all soft news occasionally hard.
How much do advertisements feature?
THE TIMES
Advertisement banner and a few within.
METRO
Adverts spread about, a lot to pay for the paper so it can be free.
THE SUN
Small one at the bottom on this article, but in general a few spread about.
Where are they placed?
THE TIMES
Cover and inside.
METRO
Everywhere.
THE SUN
Mostly inside.
Can you see evidence of competitions and what sort of prizes?
On these articles no, but in standard pieces there are things such as holidays and cars to be won.
What type of story is the headline?
THE TIMES
Government and politics
METRO
Celebrity
THE SUN
Army
What type of story is the second main headline?
THE TIMES
Death of a child from a flood
METRO
Woman having 12 children
THE SUN
There isn't one for once
Is the story written in an unbiased, fact-based way? Is the paper trying to make you think and feel a certain way about an issue?
THE TIMES
It tries to make Britain sound like a hero.
METRO
The image tries to make you see Madonna in a certain way. But the article is less specific.
THE SUN
Again tries to make Britain sound great.
How are pictures used?
THE TIMES
Picture of a child flood victim, big and colourful, to show innocence, and French PM small and shown with crossed arms to look important.
METRO
Big picture of Madonna and family to show expression, and small picture of an Olympian to change the theme.
THE SUN
Pictures of the boats the story is about.
Originally online
Independent - Always had advertising.
This is because advertising funds their costs to keep it running then when people buy it those costs are added too.
Telegraph - Subscription.
The Telegraph has subscription as it is a great way to rake in the cash at fixed bulk amounts. Bringing in cash in bigger amounts then small daily amounts.
Guardian - Started advert free now has adverts.
Originally the Guardian was funded by different businessmen so it did not need adverts for funding now over time it does have them for funding, as it does not have the businessmen any more.
Soaps: Changes in style, content and cultural changes
A video to show how over time Corrie intros have changed:
Here is the example episode for the writing below:
Lighting: Used much more dramatically now then it was back in the early eras of Corrie, now a scene can be based around positioning the right type of light. Back in the 60's this was not really experimented with, so it was still quite a hollow idea. Now it is used to create mood and time of day. For example in this episode it beings in a police interview room with very strong lighting coming through the window to show how dark the room is. This is use of dramatic lighting and it shows how everything is planned percisely by the director to show things in a certain way.
Colour: Like shown in the intros video colour has become a more dominant feature over time, as colour TV didn't even use to exist. It is used to show emotion, mood and how vibrante something is like flowers. It is also use to make things more important than others. Like if everything in a room was grey and then there was one red thing. It would stand out and you would pay attention to that. In terms of colour all the people in the room at the police station are wearing generally dark colours to show the mood of the scene.
Mise en scene: Costumes have changed as with life everything changes over time in terms of style and fashion. From patterned dresses and suits, to jeans, vest tops and sometimes revealing clothing such as low cut tops or baggy trousers. Acting has changed in terms of the language used and the age range. Soaps, especially Corrie now have much younger actors and actresses. It all mostly stays in the setting of the street, pub and houses. The actor's use of language changing is noticable in this clip like as both the perp and police officers have very strong accents, telling us where they are from. Their style of speak and also the tone tells us their class.
Setting: The set has stayed the same over the years over than the change in things like furniture and updating modern technology like adding mobile phones, computers and other technology to keep with the times. They also added shops and a bar, lingerie factory and betting shop. Setting changes a lot nowadays as changing place is quite simple. There are 7 different settings in this clip alone the police station interview room, shop, house, pub, bookies, cafe and the bar. There are all relevant to different parts of the story.
Content: A typical scandilous story in the 60's would be a man living with a woman unmarried or a woman having a child out of wedlock. Now stories are all about affairs, con artists or generally depressing things like murder. Rarely anything good actually happens which in that sense makes it quite unrealistic, as though bad stuff happens not in this quantity or depth. In this episode Peter turns himself into the police to protect Carla as it is thought she killed her ex-fiance, but it eventually turns out to be Frank's mother Anne in later episodes.This sort of storyline would not be about in the 60's as they would never let someone be murdered in a programme it would be seen as inappropriate. Below the stories in comparison are someone accusing someone of something in the 60's, and the newer about a tram crash that devastates the street. The two are completely different stories in content as they suggest different things and are designed to provoke different emotions.
Here are 2 examples to show the change in stories over 50 years:
Here are 2 examples to show the change in stories over 50 years:
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