HOMEWORK: 20.03.12

Levis-Strauss is a narritive theoriest that showed the uses of binary opposites, this is shown in this title sequence by showing miley as a normal school girl and hannah as a pop star. this is shown by miley wearing everyday clothing and attending school whereas hannah is shown to wear extravagent sparkly clothing and singing in concerts. These opposites as shown to work well together as miley has a double life as hannah and she gets to experience 'the best of both worlds'

5 narrative codes is the theory explained by Barthes, the narrative codes help decide the way we understand texts. 1) action, you can see that Miley and Lily are close friends as they always stand close to each other. Another relationship we can see is the one of her and her dad as they are shown hugging which shows the closeness of the relationship. we can tell miley is the main character as she is shown on the screen the most and also with every other character in the title sequence. 2) enigma, this is shown by showing mileys two characters so we can assume her double life gets her into trouble, the audience wonders how she can juggle school and the life of a popstar. 3)semic-code, this is shown through the props and costume of the character, you can see hannah is a popstar as she wears extravagent clothing & is seen with a microphone. lily is seen as a sporty due to wearing a sweatband on her wrist 4) the symbolics, this is the difference between the characters, Miley is seen as normal due to her being smiley, whereas hannah is seen as diva like, for example when she fans herself with a ticket. lily is seen as sporty but her double lola is seen as exentric due to her blue hair. 5) cultural, which is displayed through stereotypes, Rico is seen to be a lazy male as he kicks his shoes off and lays on the sofa. Robby is seen as a caring dad as he cuddles miley.

drafts of main task

this is the first draft of my children's tv drama sequence, i have yet to add music and some finishing touches

i used facebook at ask people for feedback as this was a quick way of asking my target audience, i got 3 'likes' on this post which would indicate that people liked it and thought it was a good first draft

this shows feedback I recieved from someone off youtube, they commented that they liked the character names & them all sitting on the sofa but should add a shot of the school and maybe a different font


http://www.jamendo.com/en/artist/Tymphony
this is the site where I got my copy right free music from.



this is the final draft of my children's tv drama sequence

HOMEWORK: 13.03.12

The sleepover club is a children's tv drama, aimed at girls between the ages of 6-14.
Dyer's theory of stereotypes can be used to analyse this sequence as it uses 5 girls, all of different sizes, race & hair colour, stereotypes used are blonde hair & a skirt for example to show that one of the girls could be a 'dumb blonde' type character. dyer argues that stereotypes are a way of reinforcing difference between people and representing these differences as natural, The sleepover club follows this theory as the different types of character helps project to the audience that being different from everyone else still makes you liked and still makes you accepted in society which is a good message to put accross to pre-teen & teen girls as they do worry about fitting into society.

Another theory that could be applied to the sleepover club title sequence is Morley's recpetion theory in a way that the gender of the characters makes you think that the programme as aimed at girls as it is an all female cast for the main characters, the age of the characters is meant to reflect the ages of the target audience which would make the programme relatable to them and the social class of the character is middle class which again is to reflect the target audience and this way the audience would feel that the characters are exactly like them.