CATEGORY	FAMILIARITIES: from your chosen CSP’s	DIFFERENCES: from your chosen CSP’s	THEORY
CHARACTERS	In the Missing & Witnesses the main detectives have a ‘natural’ instinct and ethics for law and order / good and bad	In the Missing & Witnesses the main detective is not the typical ‘male hero’ Missing French, old, retired, limping. In Witnesses young, bold, female, French, immigrant, single mother	PROPP, presents the idea of STOCK CHARACTERS, inc ‘hero’, ‘false hero’, ‘princess’ (Witnesses), ‘father figure’, ‘despatcher’ (Missing)
NARRATIVE	Kernels, There are detectives in both series and they both include crime. Satellites are things that can be left out and wouldn’t have a massive impact if they weren’t included for example the Witnesses was set in Normandy and The Missing was set in Germany.		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)
TECHNICAL CODES / LANGUAGE OF MOVING IMAGE (music, setting, props, lighting, use of camera, editing etc)

CATEGORY	FAMILIARITIES: from your chosen CSP’s	DIFFERENCES: from your chosen CSP’s	THEORY
CHARACTERS	Both the shows have character types the propp suggests	Deutschland has a main protagonist whereas capital has an ensemble of characters.	PROPP, presents the idea of STOCK CHARACTERS, inc ‘hero’, ‘false hero’, ‘princess’ (Witnesses), ‘father figure’, ‘despatcher’ (Missing)
NARRATIVE	Todorov- equilibrium happens in both programme. equilibrium is restored once they solve the postcards, or in Deutschland when martin returns to east Germany after completing his mission.		CHATMAN / FREYTAG /TODOROV
THEMES		Capitals ia more modern show whereas Deutschland is more historical.	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	Culture differences are represented in both capital & Deutschland (west vs east, Middle eastern vs white)	more than just white people represented in capital
TECHNICAL CODES / LANGUAGE OF MOVING IMAGE (music, setting, props, lighting, use of camera, editing etc)		Deutschland includes music and props of 80s culture.

category	famliaralties	differences	theory
CHARACTERS	In the Missing & Witnesses the main detectives have a ‘natural’ instinct and ethics for law and order / good and bad	In the Missing & Witnesses the main detective is not the typical ‘male hero’ Missing French, old, retired, limping. In Witnesses young, bold, female, French, immigrant, single mother	PROPP, presents the idea of STOCK CHARACTERS, inc ‘hero’, ‘false hero’, ‘princess’ (Witnesses), ‘father figure’, ‘despatcher’ (Missing)
NARRATIVE	both the missing and witnesses finish the episode with a cliffhanger, e.g in the missing Baptiste saying he doesn’t think the girl who returned home was Alice Webster and in witnesses it ends with a blurry figure who was shooting at Paul and you don’t know who it is	the missing contains flashback scenes the narrative does not follow a linear scale whereas witnesses is in chronological order	CHATMAN / FREYTAG /TODOROV
THEMES
REPRESENTATION

The different between consume based media regulation & citizen based media regulation:

consumer based – audiences can chose the content they want to watch & gives producers freedom that audiences chose to watch (giving people what they want)

citizen based – media shapes society which educates and inform & defines the type of content that the media broadcasts (thinking about what would be better for society & culture)

The impact of the 2003 communication act on media regulation:

it diluted the public service requirements of broadcasting

brought in Ofcom, companies made content which was more commercial & consumer based, this resulted in content that was lacking civic-minded production

Ofcom gave little accountability for citizens, livingston & lunt say this is negative

the drawback of a self regulated system:

self regulation – media producers are left independently to decide their content.

This is a drawback as regulation is too ‘light touch’, consumers are happy but citizens may not be.

There is also a need for advertisers as they need to put adverts on content that match

how you regulate media content & organisation on a global scale:

we need laws

CATEGORY	FAMILIARITIES: from your chosen CSP’s	DIFFERENCES: from your chosen CSP’s	THEORY
CHARACTERS			PROPP, presents the idea of STOCK CHARACTERS, inc ‘hero’, ‘false hero’, ‘princess’ (Witnesses), ‘father figure’, ‘despatcher’ (Missing)
NARRATIVE			CHATMAN / FREYTAG /TODOROV
THEMES	verisimilitude, repertoire of elements Both shows have themes of crime and drama, so the audience expects there to be a detective and high emotional states		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	The killing has a female detective protagonist challenging the ideologies gender stereotypes		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)
TECHNICAL CODES / LANGUAGE OF MOVING IMAGE (music, setting, props, lighting, use of camera, editing etc)

THE KILLING & NO OFFENCE

Similarities – both police dramas that follow theme of crime

Both include detective characters that are investigating murder, both have female protagonists

Differences – No Offence is a British program shown on Channel 4, The Killing is a Danish program shown on Netflix and DR (a Danish broadcasting corporation)

CATEGORY	FAMILIARITIES: from your chosen CSP’s	DIFFERENCES: from your chosen CSP’s	THEORY
CHARACTERS	In ‘The Killing’ and ‘No Offence’ the characters are similar because they are centered around police characters.	In ‘The Killing’ the characters are danish and in ‘No Offence’ they’re English	PROPP, presents the idea of STOCK CHARACTERS, inc ‘hero’, ‘false hero’, ‘princess’ (Killing), ‘father figure’, ‘despatcher’ (No Offence)
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)
TECHNICAL CODES / LANGUAGE OF MOVING IMAGE (music, setting, props, lighting, use of camera, editing etc)

CATEGORY	SIMILARITIES: from chosen CSP’s	DIFFERENCES: from chosen CSP’s	THEORY
CHARACTERS	-Both female detectives. -Both have a similar instinct for the case. -Both relatively young	-The Killing is a Danish lady. -No Offence is an English lady. -No Offence the detective is a single Mother	PROPP – both CSP’s present a stock character of a hero and a villian
NARRATIVE
THEMES
REPRESENTATION
TECHNICAL CODES

Category	Familiarities from the CSP’s	Differences from your chosen CSP’s	Theory
Characters
Narrative
Themes
Representation
Technical Codes

Whats the difference between a consumer based media regulation system and citizen based regulation system?

A consumer based media regulation system describes the people who consume the content giving off a reaction which can be broken down by reception theory and allow the production company to take that data and produce films that meet the expressed interest of the viewer, which is used for the producer to make the maximum profit.

A citizen based market allows the people to decide what they watch which would lead to specific topics/ sports/ tv shows being present with the availability for people like politicians to hide the truth and create a false reality. It would prevent important news from being broadcasted.

What impact did the 2003 Communications act have on media regulation?

It resulted in the reduction of the public service requirements needed for television broadcasting. The act was passed by the labour government and and created the regulator Ofcom. As a result, Independent television productions where free to produce content that was more commercially viable – however this seemed to have a negative impact as it regulations lost accountability.

Whats the draw back of a self regulated system?

In the production of programming that lacks the civic-minded republicanism that had been fostered within previous regulatory frameworks. Livingstone and Lunt argue that Ofcom ‘established institutional structures and roles relating to consumer policy. Strikingly, little equivalent activity or accountability was forthcoming regarding actions to further citizen interests’.

How do you regulate media content and organisations on a global scale?

Due to the absence of government guidance organisations are left to create their own moral and ethical codes. Some companies are stricter than others allowing some papers like the guardian to be more sexually explicit. Some reasons for this are the Code of conduct, audience-based factors, advertiser needs and institution-oriented factors.