Fiction Adaptation- Essay

While writing the essay I needed to look at different types of film theory and make sure that the book and television program were easily described.

Agatha Christies Poirot, The Mysterious Affair At Styles was adapted by Clive Exton. Although the book was written in 1920 it was adapted for television in 1990. Clive Exton adapted the first stories in the beginning of the series, he was brought back to direct this episode as it was in the third series but the novel was the first that Agatha Christie had written about Poirot.

To talk about the adaptation I will use the following books;

• Adaptation in Contemporary Culture 
• Media Audiences: Television, Meaning and Emotion 
• Adaptation Revisited: Television and the Classic Novel 
• Adapting Detective Fiction: Crime, Englishness and the TV Detectives 
• Principles of Adaptation for Film and Television 
• Textual Revisions: Reading Literature and Film 
• From Page to Screen: Adaptation of the Classic Novel 
• From Film Adaptation to Post-Celluloid Adaptation 
• Television and Cultural Crisis 
• Sherlock Holmes for the 21st Century 
• A Theory of Adaptation
• Audiences 
• The Television Genre Book 

Fiction Adaptation- Feedback

I came into the studios for some editing and while I was here I decided to show Simon my fine cut if my film. The feedback was mainly related to my sound design and how I could be a bit more creative with it. So this has lead me to do more with the sound such as adding the sound of the parade, I have not yet added the sound of the last post but that may also help.

Digital News- Case Study Research

For my case study I decided to do the differences between BBC and Channel 5 on the Thursday 6th November, BBC at 6pm and Channel 5 6:30 pm.

BBC- are more of a formal company, using graphics to illustrate the story and experts to back up the opinions used. During the program the stories were in order of importance decided by producers, their stories were;

1. Banks Under Investigation (Financial)
2.  Labour Leader (Politics)
3. Teenager school threat (Crime)
4. Jimmy Savile (Crime)
5. Belgium Riots (International)
6. Obituary of Guitarist (Human Interest)
7. Syria (International)
8. UK what next? (Political)
9. Murder charges (Law)
10. Bird of Prey (Human Interest)
11. Flanders Fields ( Human Interest) 
12. Rugby (Human Interest/Sport)

Channel 5- lots of graphics in terms of illustration, more inventive use of graphics. The stories in order were;

1. Petrol Prices (Money)
2. Labour Leader (Politics)
3. 7 year old injured (Law)
4. Bank Investigation (Financial) 
5. Uniform Issues (Education)
6. Gang Warning (Crime)
7. Remembrance (Human Interest)
8. Protests in Belgium (International)
9. Fall in Sales (Money)
10. House of Lords (Politics)
11. Pippa Middleton (Human Interest)

I have decided which compartment of the news the stories has come under buy Google-ing the stories and seeing what subsection they are under. 

BBC focus more on Hard news (crime and law) then on soft (human interest). Channel 5 focus on what  the producer will think their target audience want whereas BBC need to focus on more as they are reaching to a wider audience due to them being a public service broadcaster.

The books I have used to look into these broadcasters are; 

• The Television Genre Books 
• Broadcast Journalism

In these books I looked into;

• Organisations
• Audiences
• Ideologies
• Producing the news
• Hard and Soft news
• Competition between broadcasters 
• Ownership 
• Public Service Broadcasting 

While looking into the theories I decided that my order would be;

• Intro
• What is News?
• Ideologies and Experts 
• Audience 
• Running Order
• Organisations
• Style 

Fiction Adaptation- Workshop

During the workshop with Alex we did a short about loss/confusion, involving losing signal on the persons phone when they need to call someone. I worked in a group with Lex, Andy, Mark and Sophie.

Digital News- Social Media

With this project we decided to use social media to advertise our news channel, but to keep the social media unto date I have been finding news articles to be published/re-tweeted. I mainly looked at technology stories that our target audience would be interested in.
For Facebook I used;
I used BBC news;

ITV news; 

And the Telegraph; 

On Twitter I looked at many different stories and by different news publications/broadcasters. 

Using social media I am keeping our channel up to date with the current technology news. 

Fiction Adaptation- Feedback from Alex

Alex Boorman was running workshops with us for our fiction adaptation so I decided to show him a rough edit; in which he told me that it was good for a rough but I needed to have a look at the footage and edit it more correctly. I had a gap of 17 seconds at the end which is of silence in which I have a chance to do a small sound scape. Alex suggested using the last post.

Digital News- Further Research

While looking at trolling stories and how they were told I came across some interesting perspectives.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-23519337

This is BBC's news night debate about what should be done about internet abusers. July 31st 2013. 

The latest update from the BBC was in October in a form of an article. 

While looking at the trolling story I decided while finishing off the script to look into what is happening at the moment in the news;

I found there to be many current stories about people being trolled. 

While looking into these stories I believe I have come up with some images that can be used in our news production mainly with the idea of 'don't tell me, show me'.