Documentary - Film and TV Example 6

13th

• A documentary by Ava DuVernay
• 2016
• Explores: "the intersection of race, justice, and mass incarceration in the United States"
• Title: 13th
• 13th amendment to the United States Constitution 
• Abolished Slavery
• Ended involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for conviction of a crime
• Nominated for Oscar
• Best Documentary Feature
• 89th Academy Award
• Film Features
• Audio Clips
• Archive Footage
• Interviews
• B-Roll
• A lot of it about minorities
• Graphic videos of fatal shootings by Police
• Bystanders videos
• Body Cam and Car Cam of Police
• Themes
• Political
• Race
• Slavery
• Crime

Studio - Film and TV Example 6

This example is linked to the Studio aspect of our Studio Piece - Mock the Week

• Celebrity
• Panel Show
• British
• Topical Satire
• Created by 
• Dan Patterson
• Mark Leveson
• Co-created Whose Line is it Anyway?
• Improvised
• Gameshow
• BBC 2
• 18 Series (so far)
• 201 episodes as of the end of 2019
• Presenter 
• Dara O Briain
• Opening theme 
• "News of the World" by The Jam
• 2005-Present
• Regular Rounds
• Wheel of News
• If this is the answer, what is the question?
• Scenes We'd like to see
• Picture of the week
• Occasional Rounds
• Between the lines
• Newsreel
• What on Earth
• Old Episodes on DAVE
• Production Locations
• BBC Television Centre
• The Location Studios
• 30 min episodes
• MULTI-CAM!

Other Films or TV Shows linked to the Studio aspect of our Studio Piece:

• Whose Line is it Anyway?
• Fast and Loose

Lecture/Workshop 19: 07/12/2018

Lecture/Workshop 18: 30/11/2018

Lecture/Workshop 17: 28/11/2018

Lecture/Workshop 16: 23/11/2018

Documentary - Film and TV Example 5

AMY

• 2015 documentary
• About
• Life and Death of Amy Winehouse
• Directed by Asif Kapadia
• Film Features
• Archive Footage
• Interviews
• Audio
• B-Roll
• Looks into
• Her struggle with substance abuse
• Which led to her death
• Amy was found dead in July 2011 from alcohol poisoning 
• Age 27
• In London
• Film starts in 1998 - Amy at 14
• Themes and About:
• Love
• Depression
• Family
• Music Career
• Drugs and Alcohol addiction
• Fame
• Relationships
• Mental health (Self-harm, Bulimia, etc)
• Controversial media attention
• Director and film
• Did more than 100 interviews
• With friends and family of Amy
• Music
• Amy Winehouse
• Some unseen footage
• Score
• Antonio Pinto
• Controversy
• Amy's father
• Criticised the documentary
• "misleading"
• "basic untruths"

Studio - Film and TV Example 5

This example is linked to the type of drama of our Studio Piece - Medical Drama

ER

• 1994-2009
• 15 seasons
• 331 episodes
• Medical Drama
• Follows inner life of the Emergency Room (ER)
• Fictional Hospital in Chicago, Illinois
• Second longest-running primetime medical drama in American TV history behind Grey's Anatomy
• Won 23 primetime Emmy awards
• Created by Michael Crichton
• Who wrote Jurassic Park
• Great Ensemble, including
• George Clooney
• John Stamos
• Scott Grimes
• Angela Bassett
• Casualty - a similar concept to ER for a British A&E drama

Other Films or TV Shows linked to the type of drama of our Studio Piece:

• Grey's Anatomy
• New Amsterdam
• The Good Doctor
• Doctors
• Holby City
• Casualty 

Lecture/Workshop 15: 21/11/2018

Lecture/Workshop 14: 19/11/2018

Lecture/Workshop 13: 16/11/2018

Documentary - Film and TV Example 4

Louis Theroux in general.



Case Study: Dark States Series - concentrating on Murder in Milwaukee

- contents -
Extreme Gun violence
Gangs
Racial divides
Economic divides
Police and Citizen trouble

Mature Rating 15

Guerilla style
Presenter

Studio - Film and TV Example 4

This example is linked to the Genre of our Studio Piece - Science Fiction


Firefly

• WildWest meets Space
• 1 Series... unfortunately
• then film, Serenity (named after the spaceship)
• Good v Bad
• The Alliance
• The Resistance ("Browncoats")
• Reavers - Cannibalistic group of nomadic humans
• Smugglers 
• Space opera genre
• Western genre
• Multisocial future
• Fusion 
• Western
• East Asian
• Common Second Language: Mandarin
• Made up Slang
• Great Ensemble
• Nathan Fillion - Malcolm "Mal" Reynolds
• Gina Torres - Zoe Alleyne Washburne
• Alan Tudyk - Hoban "Wash" Washburne
• Morena Baccarin - Inara Serra
• Adam Baldwin - Jayne Cobb
• Jewel Staite - Kaywinnet Lee "Kaylee" Frye
• Sean Maher - Simon Tam
• Summer Glau - River Tam
• Ron Glass - Derrial Book
• 14 episodes - 1 season
• Cult Status
• Best canceled series ever

Other Films or TV Shows linked to the Genre of our Studio Piece:

• Star Wars
• Star Trek
• Killjoys
• Battlestar Galactica
• Altered Carbon
• The Orville

Lecture/Workshop 12: 14/11/2018

Lecture/Workshop 11: 02/11/2018

Lecture/Workshop 10: 31/10/2018