In this blog i am going to research into the media language and representation used within radio and online media. I am going to focus on the language within dialog and text to understand its use and purpose.
After the introduction of the show 0:40 a loud instrumental is played, the music is dramatic and tense they created a direction of serious dialog for the audience, but instead provided a comedic parody of events that have taken place. This would be successful in making the programme more humorous as it is a complete contrast to what the audience was expecting to hear. Not only that but it would create an internal sense of relief for the audience as the tension is no longer serious.
Many storylines are featured within the programme,each usually containing well known people. The hosts who are voicing each segment adapt there voice in order to increase the ability for the audience to imagine the situation. As radio shows have no ability to feature physical characters who can be identified as a specific person, the use of voice has to be accurate in order for the audience to recognise each individual. The fact they use this technique, and in a successful way has a great impact on the comedic point of view in allowing the audience to focus on the dialog rather then trying to figure out who the individual is trying to imitate.
1:30 they create a parody of Brexit through a DFS sale announcement. They make it evident that the dates are constantly changing, this was done to re create the situation of uncertainly within the dates of brexit. They make it clear that they are referring to brexit, even though the audience would most likely understand the reference, making it clearer makes it easier to focus on the comedy within the parody,making it more amusing.
Within this episode they use the audiences knowledge of TV shows, by combining two well known theme tunes, downtown abby and doctor who, to emphasise the time jump of the programme. they make the story clear to anyone who is not a audience of either of the programme, however, the use of the sound effect at the start gives viewers of both the show a relative idea of what the next segment is going to be about. BBC 4 appropriately use these type of effects for well known shows and series in order to entertain the audience by giving them an insight for whats to come.
In this blog, i am going to research into my focused media products in order to highlight any uses of intertextuality and how they used it to fit in with comedy. By doing this i can then understand how to use intertextuality references in my broadcast to successfully appeal to the audience and satisfy the genre.
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In this source there were many intertextuality references such as 6:03 where they made a parody of Donald Trumps well known, "we will build a wall" This was amusing as this instance was already mocked, to then change it to a situation between Scotland and England to a British audience, put it into our perspective of how ridiculous his ideas were.
18:55 Another reference was to Downtown Abby. This was again a parody, they edited the theme tune to create a si-fi like sound, them continued to verbally role play a modern version of the show and mock some of the characters personalities. This will appeal to the older audience as its more likely that they are interested in this TV series. As the BBC Radio 4 target audience is around 25-40 they would most likely understand all of these references.
21:27 The Big brother, a well known global TV show was featured, They imitated the host of the show by telling contestants to display there boobs in a hot tub (relating to male gaze) and to also cause arguments with one another. This was added to create comedy by suggesting that the show is staged which many people believe to be true. Expressing the same opinion as a large quantity of the audience will greatly appeal to listeners as they can relate to the hosts and ideas.
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1:30 they create a parody of Brexit through a DFS sale announcement. They make it evident that the dates are constantly changing, this was done to re create the situation of uncertainly within the dates of brexit. They make it clear that they are referring to brexit, even though the audience would most likely understand the reference, making it clearer makes it easier to focus on the comedy within the parody,making it more amusing.
After the introduction of the show 0:40 a loud instrumental is played, the music is dramatic and tense they created a direction of serious dialog for the audience, but instead provided a comedic parody of events that have taken place. This would be successful in making the programme more humorous as it is a complete contrast to what the audience was expecting to hear. Not only that but it would create an internal sense of relief for the audience as the tension is no longer serious.
