2. Language
New Girl 8.30pm, Channel 4
If Zooey Deschanel's "I'm so - Thisdescription is light-
beautiful, but it's OK to like me heartedly scathing about the
because I'm clumsy" act is programme: New Girl.
wearing thin, you can breathe
a sigh of relief this week, as it's - It describes the programme
the flatmates' turn to be but does not persuade the
neurotic. Nick persuades Jess to reader either way, whether to
pose as his girlfriend to make his watch it or not.
ex jealous and Schmidt has an
interesting encounter with his - It uses quite sophisticated
sex-nemesis, Gretchen. Oh yes, language, suggesting that the
she's wearing stretch pants and audience are well educated.
she won't take no for an
answer.
3. There's a scene in Gypsy Blood – True Stories (Channel 4) that is at first confusing. The - The writer comments on
camera is jumping around all over the place and it's all very close range. There's
some brown fur in there somewhere, plus heavy breathing and a pathetic use of camera, and the
whimpering noise. effect that it has.
Slowly it becomes clear what's going on. The scene is actually being filmed by a
dog, which must be wearing the camera around its neck. So we're looking out along
the underside of the dog's snout. In the dog's mouth is a deer; I know it sounds
implausible but the dog is a very large one (it looks like a greyhound but it may be
some kind of lurcher) and the deer is very small (a Chinese water deer, as it - Technical language is
happens). The dog is shaking the deer from side to side. This is killing, up close and used, relating to
personal. The viewer almost feels as if they're being shaken to death by a dog.
documentaries. The
The scene is characteristic of Leo Maguire's powerful observational
documentary is
documentary, both in the artful way it is filmed (maybe a teeny bit too artful, I identified as
thought, at times: I could have done with less lingering on poppy fields etc and the
whole thing fitting into an hour) and the cruelty and violence of the subject matter.
‘observational.’
There are other violent scenes involving animals. Like hare coursing, and a horrible
cockfight in which one bird is on the point of collapse as the other pecks away at its
head and one of the men watching shouts: "Kill him then, you fucking useless cunt. - Some slang is used
Oh, he's gone, finish him son, finish him." (No cameras around the cocks'
necks, thankfully.) But most of the violence is between men. And between boys. in the article, mixed
in with sophisticated
"Box, box," says Hughie Doherty to his son, who's pounding the pads his father is language.
holding up. "See, he won't give, go on, Charlie, upper cut, Charlie, uppercut, do an
upper cut, Charlie, up the way, quick, over the top, hook, bish bash, bing bang ..."
- There are a lot of
Charlie is 18. Months. Charlie's older brother Francie, seven, is already an established
fighter. "When I'm in a fight, I have to remember it's not just for me, it's for my family quotes from the
and my name," he says. If dad Hughie ever saw Francie not standing up for programme used
himself, running away, or crying, then he'd give him – his own son – a good
slapping, for letting the name down. Names mean a lot around here, especially if it's
throughout the
Doherty. article.
4. Layout
A ‘promo’ picture from the
The newspaper programme is shown in the
gives television middle of the page and is
programmes a The date and time
that the surrounded by text.
star rating out of
five. programme will be
or was shown is at
The Titles are bold, slightly larger the start of the
than the rest of the text on the page article and is
and are sometimes brightly coloured. shown in bold.
5. Audience
• High level of education (at least a degree.)
• High income.
• Travel frequently.
• Financially aware.
• Interest in global warming and the environment.
