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Question 3 planning revision

 Discuss the extent to which the long form tv dramas you have studied challenge the conventions of genre. key words genre extent challenge conventions Question focus is on media language Start by introducing the question LFTVD's often challenge genre conventions allowing them to target a large audience  P1: Industry - production and consumption contexts linked to the question focus P2: x2 - using CRAIL, apply both set texts to the question 4: Evaluation- bring both texts together using evaluative language (effective, less effective, more, less, successful, unsuccessful) and comparative  Paragraph one Hesmondhalgh cultural industries theory Netflix is a global conglomerate so wants to make content as accessible as possible to audiences so are more likely to use popular genres that may play into common stereotypes of places and people especially genres that are popular in western countries due to Netflix being from America Paragraph two Context/ Audience Social contexts in ...

Stranger things and Netflix industry

 21 laps 6 million July 15th 2016 8 episodes for season1/ 42 overall Duffer brothers Focuses on popular shows Stranger Things  One piece Wednesday Happy Gilmore Glass Onion Netflix focuses on established shows that hold star power and that are safe money makers If you subscribe to Netflix premium you get what they describe as the best video quality, resolution of 4k and ultra hd, spatial audio, available on all devices and can have your account on 4 devices and download content on 6. Production/ distribution Produced by 21 laps Original Netflix show so paid by and exclusively distributed by them ST ranked as most successful digital series in US  Netflix notoriously cagey about viewer figures Netflix has just over 300 million customers worldwide all paying a minimum of £5.99 CEO Ted Sarandos has championed  We don't know Netflix exact budgets but duffer brothers have said S1 had a low budget