CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES; WORK

How can you incorporate the impact and implications of media freedom or censorship into your own work?
We can look at how an adaption has changed, for example within a book it is only the written word, therefore they have more 'media freedom' within a book, they can be a lot more explicit because there is less restrictions on what can be written and published, rather than filmed and shown. For example with the Fifty Shade of Grey films, there was a lot of critical response that said a lot of film didn't reflect the true nature of the books

What censorship laws/organisations can you explore with reference to your own research/essay?
Within my own essay I'm not 100% sure on what texts i am going to be looking at for my essay, but at the moment i am doing some research into 13 Reasons Why. With this i could look at some suicide charities and organisations, because within the Netflix programme the main character kills herself, she slits her wrists and the way in which is was filmed including the sounds made, is extremely graphic. From this the critical response that was made was that it was far too graphic for the audience and there were many complaints that it 'glorified' suicide.

What are often the hidden cultural contexts which might impact upon what is possible in terms of both drama and news journalism?
Within 13 Reasons Why, it is set within the 21st century where this is such access to immense technology and social medias, therefore the bullying that takes place within the programme is a lot more intense. Within that, the reason she kills herself is because she believes she has no friends, it could be looked at that without all of the bullying that takes place she may not have thought that and ultimately not killed herself.

What themes can you explore? differences in the written word and moving image?
Within 13 Reasons, i think the main theme to consider will be death; something i think that will be really interesting to look at is how the TV production team managed to translate the death of Hannah, from the written word to the TV screen.

Find sources to utilise and add to your reference list
https://contexts.org/blog/13-reasons-why/
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2017/apr/26/netflix-13-reasons-why-suicide