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PAPER 2 SECTION A TELEVISION EXAM QUESTION (TEXT) Apply Neale's genre theory to your chosen television texts: The Bridge s3 ep1. A nordic noir TV series crime drama 'The Bridge", takes place in a Scandinavian setting where it begins with a medium close up shot of the crime scene. Given that at the end of the episode we are left with unanswered questions, this makes it an open narrative with a linear narrative structure. A linear narrative structure means that the audience sees the events of the story unfolding in chronological order, starting at the beginning and ending with the conclusion of the story. However, since it is an open narrative, there has been no conclusion at the end of the episode. Throughout 'The Bridge' there have been many enigma codes: this can be seen as a 'puzzle' or 'mystery'; it is simply a theory (created by Barthes) to suggest how a text portrays a mystery to draw the audience, in which allows them to pose questions and as

HOW FAR MIGHT AUDIENCES RESPOND DIFFERENTLY TO REPRESENTATIONS IN THE SET EPISODE OF 'THE BRIDGE'? Refer to Stuart Hall's reception theory in your response. Stuart Hall developed the reception theory which asserts that media texts are encoded and decoded. As the producer encodes messages through their media work, the audience will decode it; however, due to the individual differences of the audience members, they will decode the media in different ways and possibly a different way in which the producer originally intended. With 'The Bridge' being a Scandinavian nordic noir TV series, they have audiences globally; global reach in media production is available to view in many countries which in this case is BBC. Stuart Hall stressed the importance of an active audience which  is when the audience does not receive the information passively but are consciously trying to make sense of the message being given to them. In The Bridge, the plot was the murder of Helen Anker;

NARRATIVE/GENRE OF THE BRIDGE A nordic noir TV series crime drama 'The Bridge", takes place in a Scandinavian setting where it begins with a medium close up shot of the crime scene. Given that at the end of the episode we are left with unanswered questions, this makes it an open narrative with a linear narrative structure. A linear narrative structure means that the audience sees the events of the story unfolding in chronological order, starting at the beginning and ending with the conclusion of the story. However, since it is an open narrative, there has been no conclusion at the end of the episode. Throughout 'The Bridge' there have been many enigma codes: this can be seen as a 'puzzle' or 'mystery'; it is simply a theory (created by Barthes) to suggest how a text portrays a mystery to draw the audience, in which allows them to pose questions and as much become intrigues in the series. The visual codes of film noir is the chiaroscuro lighting with the