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16 Cards in this Set
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Genre
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IMDB describes How To Get Away WithMurder as – Crime/ Drama/ Mystery. Itcould be seen to borrow from horror as there is a lot of suspense and there are a lot of scenes that are worried about being caught. Further in the seasonthere is small amounts of gore. •Collegelife •Morallyambiguous because they’re working on the ‘bad side’ defending the criminals –in the name of the programme – so it subverts the crime genre. |
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First season Ideas of blood and violence through the red. The slashing blackstrip behind the main character could suggest the way blood sprays etc. andwith the colour being black it could link to ink which allows use to understandthe legal side of the programme. The man characters stance is professionaland powerful, she is making direct eye-contact with the audience of the postergiving her an intimidating look. |
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Labels are shown as a crime and legal drama. The way that murder is written in a handwrittensuggest it is important, and it being larger makes it significantly morenoticeable. The iconic image on this picture isknown for being about justice. Having ‘How To Get Away With Murder’ higher is abinary opposite In the trailer all of the letters M whereshown in red portraying; sex, passion, violence, danger. And black being theother major colour connoting death. |
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Postmodernism
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Conventionaltextswill follow genre conventions in a straight forward way – conforming to theaudience expectations Postmoderntexts are more likely to play with these conventions. Use of hybrids/ referencing theconventions/ acknowledging that they are part of a specific genre/ referencingother texts of the same genre/ challenging audience expectations . Examples: Scream , Scrubs, Dexter, New Nightmare,Cabin in the Woods |
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Audience Appeal
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The use of hybrid has allowed a wideraudience, with a complex flexi-narrative. •Attractsfans of the genres •Naturallycreates enigma due to the nature of the show •Challengingthe expected (postmodern text) - you expect a legal drama to have a moralmessage (HTGAWM – morally ambiguous) |
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Audience Appeal
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•Needs an active audience to keep up with the fast paced, complex, multi-stranded storylines that doesn’t always meet expectations (Narrative) •Provides pure escapism (Uses and Gratification theory) •Provides excitement / alternative lifestyles (Dyer’s Utopian Solutions) •Some storylines and characters - may be able to personal identify with situations and experiences |
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Representation
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Key words: •Mediation-the processthe text goes through before it gets to an audience •Encoding– the messages and ideas that are put into a text by it’s producers. •Decoding– the way the audience reads meaning into the text (based on a range of factors) |
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Episode1 Representation
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Sexuality There is a wide range of sexual orientations in the programme, the character of Connor is openly gay and this is shown through out the programme. Michaela’sfiancé is exposed to be gay also. Frank and Loral become intimate along theepisodes, also Asher and Bonnie. All the ‘love scenes’ are for different sexualorientations. |
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Episode1 Representation
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Woman Annalise, is shown to in control and powerful. She is shown to vulnerable atcertain aspects by taking off her make-up and wig creating a simplisticsituation exposing her emotions to the audience. |
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Episode1 Representation
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Race Annalise taking he wig off shows a true representation of what it is like to bean African-Americanwoman. A mixture of ethnicities shown, it is no just token (1 of each ethnicityjust to have 1). Showing a multi-cultural society. |
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Episode1 Representation
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Men Connorcould be shown to a typical man as he is very sexualised and interested in sex,then subverts stereotypes by being gay. Asher is shown to be a typical want tobe jock, but further through the series he is exposed to be nicer and morevulnerable than originally thought. Wes is seen to be very vulnerable andinnocent showing his emotions. Nate is shown to be powerful, he is a policeofficer so has power and authority and can ‘protect’ the others. |
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Different Representations
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Emmy Speech: Viola Davis (Annalise), firstBlack African American to win the best actress in a leading role. HTGAWM is a pioneer for future shows. HIV scare at the end of season 1 andbeginning of season 2, shows the real life problems of a couple it is verycontroversial for a primetime programme. Trying to shown a representation of theworld we live in now, the taboo topics on prime time. That would usually behidden but they are facing them. Positive and negative aspects of eachcharacters, shown as flawed. |
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Narrative Word bank
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•Todorov’snarrative theory: Equilibrium, Disruption, Recognition, Attempt to repair, NewEquilibrium. •Propp'scharacter types: villain, princess, side-kick, hero, false hero, dispatcher,donor, helper, father of the princess. •Levi-Strausbinary opposites: good/bad, poor/rich, young/old, right/wrong, guilty/innocent. •Bathescodes: Enigma codes, Actioncodes. |
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Narrative Word bank
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Dream sequences.
•Different characters' POV: positioning the audience: Privileged spectator position •Manipulation of time and space: Flashbacks, Flash forwards, Repetition . •Pre-figuring of events that have not yet taken place. •Multi-strand narrative: more than one story line going on. •Episodic narrative: it concluded in one episode, E.g. Friends. |
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Narrative Word bank
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•Mixed narrative: episodic and over-arching put together. •Flexi-narrative: a lot of things going on – following a lot of characters stories being followed. •Over arching narrative: story line doesn’t get concluded in 1 episode they carry on. •Climax: the end, before the solution. •Foreshadowing: showing something that will be important later on. |
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Narrative Word bank
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•Linear, Non-Linear, Circular. •Plot, back story. •Flexi-narrative, Formulaic narrative. •Suspension of disbelief. •Narrative arc: Exposition, Complication, Climax, Resolution. |
