Witnesses – French tv program. BBC program. Dead bodies appear in houses that are for sale

The missing – a woman reappears after being missing. BBC program

Potentially a question about audience? Or representation.

Witnesses is aimed at a young adult audience with mature themes within the program itself

The missing is also aimed at a young adult audience with mature themes and scenes within the program.

Language Of both tv programs

Genre – Crime, Drama

Narrative of moving image – propp – character development through out the story/moving the story along and steve neale -genre theory

Witnesses – propp – lead detective develops through out the progrsam as he is under attack for a start and as he uncovers more he discovers more about himself and the place he is in.

The missing – propp- the girl who was missing readjusts to the normal life moving the story along and developing her characteristics into normal life.

TELEVISION LANGUAGE –

Character types

Todorov

Propp

Steave Neale

Genres of order

Representation (very unlikely to get in tv question) –

Syntagym

Hall

INDUSTRY –

psb – public service broadcasting

BBC

conglomerate – surviving as a multinational conglomerate (tv)

transformation of the public sphere

the public sphere

James Curran

AUDIENCE

Stuart hall

Encoding/decoding

Hyperreality (if applied correctly)

social needs

uses and gratifications

McQuail, Blumer & Brown

KEY FACTS

The missing

season 2 had 8.06 million viewers whereas season 1 only had 7.37 million – social needs,

an average rating of 8.4/10 out of 28 reviews. – psb

The daily telegraph described it as “supremely compelling” – transformation of the public sphere , psb

 second series has earned a “Certified Fresh” score of 100%, with an average rating of 8.55/10 out of 15 reviews. – psb, social needs , public sphere

production – new pictures

Witnesses

production company – cineteve

Not popular – public sphere

around 1 million people watched season 1 and season 1 – social needs, public sphere

its difficult to find things about it online suggesting its not known – psb