‘Haus of Pain’ is a 2017 documentary produced by Rooster Teeth Productions for its First subscription service. It follows the exploits of two online personalities, James Willems and Lawrence Sonntag, as they train to become professional wrestlers within one week. The show focuses upon Willems’ boyhood dreams of making it in the sport whilst Sonntag…
Week 3: Line of Duty (BBC Two)
This week, I am discussing Line of Duty (BBC) and how the program uses research to create realism. The show is drama series based upon “AC-12, a controversial police anti-corruption unit” (BBC, 2017). Due to police drama being a “crowded genre”, creator Jed Mercurio wanted to create something about “the dark underbelly of policing” as…
Researching for a Brief
This week, we have been asked to discuss the research process, specifically our research for the upcoming project. Out of the eight briefs given to us, I have chosen to produce “a strategically planned, produced social media campaign” to support ‘30 Days to Get Instafamous’. The show focused on “Radio 1’s Dev [meeting] some of…
Week 6: Quake (BBC Radio 4)
‘Quake’ is a audio drama podcast broadcast on through BBC Radio 4 and BBC iPlayer. “Quake is…. inspired by the digital revolution in humanitarian response”, following interweaving stories centered around an earthquake (BDH, 2017). As well as being an audio-based series, there are visual elements, such as a virtual reality version of the first episode….
Week 6: Taboo (BBC/FX)
‘Taboo’ is a British drama produced for both the BBC and American Network FX. The show is produced by Ridley Scott’s production company Scott Free London and Hardy Son & Baker, which belongs to Tom Hardy. Hardy also stars and writes alongside Peaky Blinders writer Steven Knight. The eight-parter set in 1814 tells the story…
Week 5: S-Town (Serial Productions)
‘S-Town’ is a seven-part factual podcast series, created by Brian Reed, a “senior producer of the public radio show and podcast ‘This American Life’” (stownpodcast.org, 2017). Episode one of ‘S-Town’ focuses on Reed and his relationship with John B McLemore, “a dizzyingly eccentric” resident of Woodstock, Alabama; McLemore often refers to his hometown as “Shit-town”,…
Week 5: My Week As A Muslim (Channel 4)
‘My Week As A Muslim’ is a one-off documentary in which “Saima, a Pakistani Muslim woman, invite Katie, who is from a mainly white town and has professed anti-Muslim views, to spend a week living with her and her family in the centre of Manchester’s Muslim community. Make-up and prosthetics are used to give Katie…
Week 4: 99% Invisible (PRX)
99% Invisible is an ongoing radio and podcast series about “design, architecture and all the thought that goes into the things most people don’t even think about” (Kickstarter, 2012). Created by Roman Mars, the show’s third season raised over $170,000, with an original goal of $42,000. I listened to episode 279 ‘The Containment Plan’, which…
Week 4: Video Game High School (Youtube/RocketJump)
Video Game High School was a “action/comedy series”(Kickstarter, 2011) produced by RocketJump Studios and broadcast online for three seasons from 2012-2014. The show’s first series was crowdfunded on Kickstarter to the amount of $273,000 (however the original goal was set at $75,000), along with outside funding from Collective Digital Studio and brands like Monster energy…
Week 3: Heavy Toll (Student Radio/BBC Radio 4 Extra)
Heavy Toll is a short speech-based documentary by student Tabitha Constantine, focusing upon the aftermath of suicides that occur on railway lines. She explores what happens from the viewpoints of those who work on Britain’s rails. This documentary won the 2017 Charles Parker Prize for Best Student Radio Feature and, as a part of this,…
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