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Peaky Blinders



Peaky Blinders is a crime-drama TV program which is set in Birmingham 1919 and is aired on BBC Two. BBC Two focuses on programmes about arts. culture and drama. This is so that the BBC break out into a audience which is not covered by other BBC television channels.


A negotiated audience enjoy the text but feel it lacks something due to lack of budget that this show has. The reader partly shares the text's code and broadly accepts the preferred reading, but sometimes resists and modifies it in a way which reflects their own position, experiences and interests.


A oppositional response to the text was that it was all style no substance. Again some people blamed this on lack of budget. Also with Peaky Blinders only having 6 episodes a season people feel that character development was rushed and the plots are underdeveloped.
Direct oppositional relation to the dominant code, understands the preferred reading but does not share the text's code and rejects the reading.
A preferred reading on the show is that the people really enjoy the show and like the message that the director is trying to get across. They like the setting, cast and story and overall have no complaints about the show at all

Analysis of Charlie XCX's Song 'Break the Rules'

      

Charlie XCX - Break the Rules

The clothing the girls are wearing is quite revealing and is defiantly not standard school uniform, this to signify the differences between characters in the school (These are the fun kind of people). it is a modified uniform to make the girls look 'sexy' and rebellious. The dominant person is 'Charli XCX' as this is her song, the first scene being with a diegetic sound of the school bell (The school bell represents the end of the school day meaning the girls can now go and have fun) and then shows a crowd of people but within this crowd is Charli (She is being focused on) and we know its her as stands out from the rest of the crowd, this shot is in slow-motion, as she is strutting it expressise confidence  and the camera eventually zooms in on her the shots go from a long shot to a mid shot to a mid-close up this shot is done by using a handheld camera this is used to create the effect that you are actually in the corridor and obviously you are quite shocked by how they are acting so you are staring at them. She and her friends are last to walk out into the corridor showing they have most likely been kept behind from her last lesson for meaning naughty or for breaking the rules (title reference).

the setting is predominantly the school this creates both a sense of place and a mood and it may also reflect a character’s emotional state of mind.
There is a pan shot which goes from the front on her body round to the back so that her bum is revealed, this is to attract a wider audience of both males and females. Women are sexualized now more than ever. While sex appeal was once considered a bonus for a woman, it is now practically a requirement and this is shown in this music video. She is 'breaking the rules' as the song suggests.  The rest of the girls as less attractive as she is, this is to emphasise her, so she is the focus and so she seems more attractive then what she actually is.
The lighting is high key - meaning it features bright colours, for example on one of the scenes the floodlights are on even though it is the middle of the day. The producers want Charli to stand out... a lot.

ITS TIME TO FACE THE MUSIC (X-Factor Analysis)

                                               Scarlett Quinn sings Ain't No Other Man (The X Factor UK 2014)

This X-Factor contestant shows us how the show is constructed so that the show can be the most entertaining. The female shown is very young, beautiful and can actually sing unlike most the auditions that they show. This is shown so that the show has more of a audience for example this attractive girl would attract males to be more inclined to watch. Women are sexualized now more than ever. While sex appeal was once considered a bonus for a woman, it is now practically a requirement if they want to make anything of themselves. In the room auditions which we were shown she originally was part of a duet  with her husband which was quite strange as he was a older gentleman and she is a young attractive female. She is quite popular among viewers as men would watch the show to she her and girls want to be her to impress the boys.
She recently left X-Factor as she was fighting for a place in the judges house's, but unfortunately for her she forgot the words.  

John and Edward (Jedward) are also good examples of how the show is constructed to show the audience the people the are going to entertain. Jedward are two young boys aged 17 from Dublin. Straight away you can see they are very talkative and confident, they are essentially really good crowd pleasers. They engaged a lot with the live audience and they very not threatened by Simon and his comments. People like it when people act cocky and confident in front of Simon as most contestants are scared of Simon and really try hard to impress him. They are chosen not because of their singing talent but because they are a entertaining pair. The way they act is liked by some people, but Jedward also have their critics as some people found them annoying because of how out going they were. But overall these two boys were very entertaining and because of this they gained a fan base which help them get to the final stages of the show