Documerical Techniques Used In William Brooker's Black Mirror

The description of Black Mirror episode 2: ‘Fifteen Million Merits’ is “In the near future, everyone is confined to a life of strange physical drudgery. The only way to escape is to enter the 'Hot Shot ' talent show and pray you can impress the judges.” Each member of this fictional world must earn points by watching forced programming such as the reality show ‘Hot Shot’, and riding a stationary bike that powers this technology based world. The points pay for food, personal hygiene products, and different applications and channels that they can play on the screens throughout the building and cells they are confined to. However, some of the programs force you to watch. One example is a pornographic program called “Wraith Babes” that will demerit points if you do not allow it to

Drawing on a rhetorical critical analysis to studying technology, this paper outlines a proposal to research how Orange Is The New Black (OITNB) is affecting the women of the multiple races portrayed in the show. I will also discuss if binge watching can institute cultivation and affect a viewer’s perceptions as a result of constant content exposure. Specifically, I will conduct a rhetorical analysis of symbolic artifacts including, language, images, and gestures displayed in OITNB. To supplement the rhetorical critical analysis, I will conduct in-depth interviews with female OITNB viewers, who are from each race depicted in the show, in which I will ask them questions to solicit their perspectives of the female racial representations presented in the show.

Brooklyn Nine-Nine is a successful comedy show with extremely high ratings in its genre winning numerous awards such as the Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series (Comedy) in 2014. Does the show live up to the hype that surrounds it? Are its ratings accurate? This essay will spotlight the show’s characters, discuss its negative aspects, and highlight the show’s drawing points to determine whether Brooklyn Nine-Nine is deserving of its praise and glory.

In Raymond Carver’s short story, “Popular Mechanics”, the choices he makes enhances the plot and further thickens the dark, melancholy setting, theme, and tone. The absence of quotation marks and other simple forms of punctuation throughout the text displays a sense of a frantic and rushed situation, while the sentence that appears in the short story too many times to count highlights the insignificance the couple’s baby truly holds in the dangerous debacle. Lastly, the importance of the title itself offers a gift of revelation to those who dig deeper into the story’s theme and can recognize the connection to the text. Together, these aspects of the story offer a very different point of view for the reader. Overall, these discrepancies create

Raymond Carver’s use of the characters’ actions and emotions engage the reader on a sentimental level. The lack of detail of his story forces the reader to imply and assume the effects of the characters’ feelings and actions. He leaves the story open to the reader’s imagination with his lack of detail throughout the story. Carver’s acknowledgement and representation of the characters’ anger towards each other creates tension and suspense. At the end of “Popular Mechanics,” the vagueness and abruptness of the characters’ actions leaves the reader with a cold, gruesome feeling. The author expects reader engagement to fully understand the story.

The television show stands to be viewed as if it was filmed on a handheld camera. The show has the tendency to be extremely awkward and people who do not take the time to watch a full episode will anticipate that the show may be identified as dull and a waste of time. One would feel that the show may be simple with no plot or meaning. However, after watching an entire episode, one will realize that a complex plot is not necessary to enjoy the show because of the awkward and entertaining relationships between the characters. Although, there are several plot twists that may catch the viewer’s

Johnson shows the reader another chart for “the most ambitious show on TV to date, The Sopranos,” which “routinely follows up to a dozen distinct threads over the course of an episode” (Johnson). By providing these charts, Johnson shows his readers a portrait of the Sleeper Curve over the past thirty years in popular television. Before Hill Street Blues, the golden rule among television executives was that audiences were not comfortable following more than three plots in each episode, but within just three decades shows like The Sopranos have become popular because of the multi-threaded plot lines. Johnson believes that because of this burst in narrative threads, the amount of “flashing arrows”, inserting something in the script that reduces the amount of analytic work on the viewer, have greatly decreased. He says

Whilst studying the extensive genre of flash fiction, one is compelled to search for the meaning of these abstract pieces, such as the infamous passage “Popular Mechanics” by Raymond Carver. It is a tale of a severed marriage that blossoms into a violent argument, their infant caught (quite literally) between the two. But was there really a marriage at all? Was there truly an infant? It is possible that “Popular Mechanics” is all just an allusion referencing author's own internal struggles.

It is apparent that the show’s creators and contributors were informed of the hard pressing issues that were afflicting the country. The parallels between the show and actual life were remarkable therefore making it appealing to the audience tuning in weekly. Breaking Bad set the standard for well thought out series and demonstrated that current events can have relevancy within the scripts of mainstream

It was obvious from this final screening session of another episode from Black Mirror that we all realised how dystopian the theme was. Everyone was freaked out by the fact that tiny bees could be used as killing weapons and could be controlled by a daily social networking tool which was Twitter. Moreover, I was grateful to know that someone did share the same opinion with me that bees and hashtags are just a metaphor for cyberbullying: “I mean it’s not nice for people to wish someone dies on the internet, but they know it wouldn’t actually happen, so how do they actually feel now that someone is making these hated pupils a target of society ?” – Angus’s tweet; “Losing control of the bees a metaphor about how we can never control the internet?”

Some people believe that the show, “The Bachelor” is all white and no diversity. This show has been on for about 20 season now and entertain millions of people every week. “The Bachelor” is about people trying to find love, many think that the show is all white, or light skin people. The author wants to expose this show and how it only focus on one race and one race only, white. With this article they are blunt, still carrying out the message crystal clear, which is they will not show any type of diversity. The article is telling how bad the show is and the tone is angry and displeased with how they portray the people that are not fully white and how they will keep on just showing more of the white contestants.

The authors define the color of television as a collage of images and words that give one or several stories in an arranged random sequence. However, it is enticing to see that you also discovered that the story did not have one story line. That is, the authors seem to divert from the initial explanation of their story, complicating the whole idea. For instance, bringing the story of “boing-boing that one’s experience will neither be free nor knowing contradicts on what it means, and whether it connects with the initial idea. Nevertheless, I can see you have involved your critical thinking to come up with some highlight on such a mixed and complex narrative such as, there is always a time in an individual’s life when they believe something to be true, but in long-run, turns to be

The Daily Show is based on recent news stories, politics, pop culture and so on. Actually, they try to describe news humorously. This episode named “End times’’ was broadcast on June 10, 2009. For me, this show was highly effective because of the theme selection. After watching this show, I realiazed even though we live in the age of technology where we can find everything on internet, some people still live in an old age. For example, people are still reading the newspaper in print, although now you can read it online. The newspaper is quite an obsolete thing and I wonder why people still pay for old mention of reading the news. For example, a correspondent of The Daily Show, Jason Jones, asked a trick questions to the editor asking him to

The show is a significant part of British popular culture, and elsewhere it has become a cult television favourite. The show has influenced generations of British television professionals, many of whom

I watched the first black mirror episode and then the episode 3 (episode 1 stood out the most). One of the first things that stood out to right from the beginning was how they tried to make it a really future type feel, these episodes were actually really hard for me to watch because of the fact that our world could turn out to be like the episodes where no one knows the world out side of their phone. In the first episode a few terms that stood out to me was commodity fetishism, Hyper real, and a major one was satire.