OCR GCSE Media Studies – Get Ahead INSET Friday 18th November 2011 Two Texts for 4a and 4b

Text number 1 Institution Scheduling Pleasures

Scrubs E4 Currently 1pm onwards. Originally Friday evening 10pm

Surrealism, slapstick, diversion, reoccurring characters and situations.

My Family BBC One Pre-watershed Mass appeal through simplistic generic conventions,

Friends Channel 4 (E4, T4) Friday night originally 9pm

Very scripted, offers escapism,

Text number 2 Institution Scheduling Pleasures

Mock the Week BBC Two 10pm post watershed

Surveillance, running gags, news-based infotainment.

Inbetweeners E4 11pm – post watershed

Visual gags, taboo subjects, risqué humour.

Outnumbered BBC One Pilot 10.35 BBC Two, then moved to prime-time BBC One

Ad-lib scripting

Four texts for 4a and 4b (a choice from the following)

Text Institution

The Simpsons Sky One

Flight of the Concords HBO

Curb your Enthusiasm More 4

Russell Howard’s Good News BBC Three

Text Pleasures

Little Britain Identifiable characters, ‘gross out’ humour

Miranda Narrative resolution, simple genre conventions.