Standards for quality programming

qualitative elements

• Believable acting
• Seamless editing
• quality camerawork/angles/shots
• good lighting and sound quality
• believable and relevant ‘mis-en-scene’ elements/setting/costume etc
• Followable storyline/plot and something that is also unpredictable
• professional marketing

Broadcasting– producers target a wider, mass audience

Narrowcasting– producers target a niche audience

THE BBC

• Founded in 1992
• Started with radio [tv came later]
• Lord Reith was the first director of the BBC
• His ethos [belief/mission statement] for the BBC had 3 main principles
  • Inform, educate and entertain
• To oversee due diligence and regulation, the UK government reviews a charter: to ensure the BBC stay inline

• The BBC took up the Paternalistic approach, rather than the Populism approach, meaning that they gave the audience what’s best for them, not just what the audience wanted.

• Grace Wyndham Goldie noting the most significant thing about broadcasting: that it changing time and space.
• New media communication technologies allows you to change time and space
• Fear other people have of new technologies, they think it will ruin everything or they think there is no use for it
• The BBC became social cement, British culture was centred around the BBC

1. well acted
2. well written
3. appealing scenery
4. good lead to climax
5. strong actor chemistry
6. interesting plot
7. more than 1 genre eg comedy, drama
8. showcases social and cultural contexts within newspaper companies

Broadcasting -communicating with loads of people

Narrowcasting – communicating with a niche audiences

populism – based off what majority want – giving people what they want

paternalism- people with authority restrict freedom on others with rules, regulations and set plans.

There’s on going disputes within the BBC about populism and paternalism due to which would be more beneficial for the BBC as a whole.

ethos- the characteristic spirit of a culture, era, or community as manifested in its attitudes and aspirations

Ethos of BBC- to inform, entertain and educate

BBC charter has a royal charter which sets out the arrangements for governance of the British broadcast corporation.

The start of television- Grace Wyndham Goldie said how it transforms time and space, for example your at home they’re in a studio when they did shooting a week ago and you can watch it there. Not live.

transforms the public sphere – habermas

Lord Reith came up with the BBCs Ethos of to inform educate and entertain.

Fear of new technology and people were unaware and scared of what this technology could bring.

BBC acted like a social cement, it was so important everyone connected and communicated because and about it.

Habermas

treating the digital public sphere the same way we treat radio and TV seems wrong. Unlike radio and TV, which are broadcast on a limited resource – called “spectrum” – the internet is unbounded, limitless

The BBC’s online endeavours have always been contentious: at the beginning because they only benefitted the small percentage of licence fee payers who had got themselves online; later because they were accused of taking business away from commercial online content providers.

sense of time, BBC made everyone aware it was 1pm for example so people would change clocks

created communication between social classes.

jean seaton

what is broadcasting – “the concept of broadcasting has always been of a comprehensive service of characters, with the duty of public cooperation of to bringing public awareness to a whole range of activity and expression developed in society.”

the state and broadcasting

noted that the government were under constant suspicion of using an opportunity to its own advantage within the broadcasting world

accountability within broadcasting

the public had a problem with the chairman of the BBC not because he was the chair man of the institution but because he had government power.

independant professionals

the public couldn’t rely on the quality of the broadcasting as to-do so one must ignore the pressures which determine the broadcasting choices.

independant broadcasters

arguements that is is functional anf fully in control

other side of argument is same independences poses a serious threat to political institutions.

choice vs public service

commercial broadcasting isn’t based on programs to audience but audience to advertisers.

Curran and Seaton

Curran and Seaton suggest that profit driven motives take precedence over creativity in the world of commercial media.

Broadcasting is to a mass audience

Narrowcasting is to a niche audience

10 things for quality broadcasting

Professional:

Sound Design,

mise-en-scene,

cinematography

editing

A decent budget in order to use quality equipment

Character development and depth

A well-rounded narrative which will captivate viewers

Professional writing, unpredictable

Frankfurt school – we must use our free time to help develop ourselves and not do what we want to as it is manipulating our minds and hiding the truths of the world

The Royal Charter

The Royal Charter is the constitutional basis for the BBC. It sets out the BBC’s Object, Mission and Public Purposes. The Charter also outlines the Corporation’s governance and regulatory arrangements, including the role and composition of the BBC Board.

The current Charter began on 1 January 2017 and ends on 31 December 2027.

The Government will carry out a mid-term review of the Charter, focussing on governance and regulatory arrangements. This review is not a full Charter Review and so will not look at the BBC’s mission, purpose or the method by which it is funded.

The Agreement

The Agreement between the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport and the BBC sits alongside the Charter. It provides further detail on many of the topics outlined in the Charter including the BBC’s funding and its regulatory duties.

The Agreement runs coterminous to the Charter but can be amended during the Charter period subject to the agreement of the Secretary of State and the BBC.

Ethos

The public service ethos of the BBC is to inform, entertain and educate

Populism is a political approach that strives to appeal to ordinary people who feel that their concerns are disregarded by established elite groups.

Paternalism is the policy or practice on the part of people in authority of restricting the freedom and responsibilities of those subordinate to or otherwise dependent on them in their supposed interest.

James curran theory – this theory argues that patterns of ownership and control are the most significant factors in how the media operate which storngly relates to how the bbc is run and operated

lunt and livingstone think the needs of a citizen are in conflict with the needs of the consumer, because protection can limit freedom which could relate to the bbc ethos as they control what what the viewr watches

lord reith’s founding principles of the bbc (the ethos) are still used today

Lord Reith and early days of BBC 10:41 – 13:05

lord reith’s founding principles of the bbc (the ethos) are still used today

The start of BBC Television 14:00 – 16:00 Grace Wyndham-Goldie changing nature of modern communication, essentially by transforming time and space. through television being able to see soemthing very far away just as it happens

1. The fear of new technology 16:00 – 16:30 what are the fears around new technologies?
2. The centre of everything 18:40 – 19:58 – is that still the case now?

the bbc is like social cement

How did the bbc transform the public sphere through changing peoples perceptions on what they could become when they heard people like the king on radio that they would of never heard before