Aurelija's TV production blog

Black Mirror [1] is set in near future where technology is even more advanced than today. Every episode shows a new completely different story line where the only thing uniting them is the dark twist at the second part of the episode. Almost every episode starts with introducing a viewer to some kind of new invention and/or the protagonist of the episode. In most cases the viewer starts thinking that it would be great to have that invention, for example, photographic memory [2] that enables you to rewatch your memories whenever you want to, or maybe block someone from your life entirely [3] . However, by the end of an episode, after seeing the dark twist, the viewer is kind of glad that none of that exists at the moment. The other dark side of the show is that it makes its viewers paranoid about the technology today. After watching few episodes the viewer starts wondering “what if this is being developed today? What if somebody is watching me right now through the camera in ...

                             Because I've only put some bullet points in my slides I'll attach what I've written down for the presentation: "I chose this show because it's the only 'historical' British TV show that I have seen before coming here to UK.  For those who might not know - Mr. Bean is a sitcom that ran from 1990 to 1995. It's created by Rowan Atkinson and Richard Curtis. 'Mr. Bean' is a little bit different from most other sitcoms and overall TV programmes because of the fact that it heavily relays on physical comedy and there's not a lot of dialoge in it. It's not a show that you can watch while cleaning or cooking because yoy simply won't understand what's going on. Although, that's probably why the show has been broadcasted in around 200 countries around the world. Due to the comedy being physical and not narrative nothing has been lost in translation. Despite this cinema trai...