Media Language
The series is visually interesting, constructing a stylized representation of ‘real’ places which
transmit meanings about characters, places and issues. A detailed analysis of different aspects of
mise-en-scene will provide students with a strong foundation to build on in terms of analyzing
representations, ideological meanings and audience positioning. Analysis should include:
• Mise-en-scene (placing on stage) analysis
• Semiotics: how images signify cultural meanings
• Postmodernism: Use of pastiche and bricolage (construction or creation from a diverse range of available things.
Curran and seaton
- commercial media – an organisation that makes or distributes products for economic gain. commercial media usually makes products for entertainment purposes.
A total of 20 broadcasters and subscription VoD services have picked up German thriller series Deutschland 83 from FremantleMedia International (FMI).
2. Media industry is driven, Curran and Seaton tell us, by the twin forces of creativity and business
3. Media creatives are tasked to gives us exciting innovative and aesthetically pleasing products.
4. UK government policy is responsible in part for widespread domination of media landscape by huge conglomerates (deutschland 83 RTL group, free mantlemedia)
Horizontal integration – ownership of subsidiaries that produce similar types of products
fremantlemedia producers of Deutschland 83 have the subsidiaries fremantlemedia north america and wildside which both produce films.
media concentration/ convergence a term used to describe the reduction in the number of media organisations that produce products
capital is owned by kudos which an independently owned company which is owned by parent company Endemol
| Category | Familiarities | Differences | Theory |
| Charecters | PROPP, presents the idea of STOCK CHARACTERS, inc ‘hero’, ‘false hero’, ‘princess’ (Witnesses), ‘father figure’, ‘despatcher’ (Missing) | ||
| Narrative | CHATMAN / FREYTAG /TODOROV | ||
| Themes | LEVI-STRAUSS the use of key themes to structure stories and characters around familiar themes: family, community, law and order, justice. Often set up as binary oppostions: right/wrong urban/rural, young/old, good/bad | ||
| Representation | PIERCE / BARTHES / SAUSSURE: SEMIOTICS radical and reactionary representations of police, family, law and order, through a range of signs (visual, graphic, audio, narrative, thematic etc) |
In November 2016, Capital won the best TV movie/mini series award at the 44th International Emmy Awards.
Deutschland 83 has received a number of international and domestic awards including an International Emmy Award,[66] a Peabody Award,[67]Grimme Prize,[68] The Golden Nymph,[69] a Metropolis Award,[70] two C21 Drama Awards,[71] a Golden Camera,[72] the “Special Jury Award” of the Roma Fiction Fest,[73] and Series Mania 2015 for Best World Series.
In Germany, Deutschland 83 began to air after the U.S. run on RTL 26 November 2015.[77] There, the series lost viewers over the course of its run; the series finale had 1.72 million viewers, or approximately half of the series premiere’s viewers. As a result, German newspaper Bild called the show “the flop of the year”
Walter presents, Deutschland 83, The two-step flow of communication model says that most people form their opinions under the influence of opinion leaders, who in turn are influenced by the mass media.