What is the media product? List director/artist/author.

The media product is a docudrama called The Blitz Spirit televised on BBC One. The director of the docudrama is Emma Frank. Emma has directed other documentaries such as “Churchill's Secret Agents”, “Gordon's Great Escape” and “Victorian Slum House”. The producer of the docudrama was Yasmine Permaul; she has produced programs like “Trump In Tweets”, “Suffragettes With Lucy Worsley” and Heston's “Marvelous Menu”. The Presenter for the docudrama is Lucy Worsely. Worsely is a famous historian who has presented other documentaries like “Royal History’s Biggest Fibs”, “A Merry Tudor Christmas'' and loads more to do with history. 

What is the media product? 

The media product is a docudrama, for example there are dramatised scenes in The Blitz Spirit such as Robert who volunteered to be a Fire watcher from the east end of London and Nina who monologues to the camera what she says in their diaries and mass observation reports.

Why have you chosen to analyse it? How can it inform your own ideas development?

I chose to analyse this because there was a key scene of the documentary of actors playing real life WW2 characters who were civilians telling the audience about what life was like during the blitz which contained upsetting scenes. My idea which I was thinking about was a British Soldier telling the audience what it was like on the bloody beaches of Dunkirk and how he felt.

What is interesting or ground-breaking about it?

The documentary is very fascinating because it was telling about how the British people never gave up fighting during The Blitz and how the German bombing affected everyone in London the whole time with the fires and the deaths of the civilians. The historian Lucy Worsley discovers eyewitness accounts of the blitz such as she finds that it was a  traumatic experience for the six people at the time. 

Who is it aimed at?

The Blitz Spirit is aimed at Older adults and people who are interested in the history of World War Two. This is because the docudrama contains upsetting scenes that young people may not want to see.

How does it target the audience?

The docudrama  targets the audience by powerful and upsetting scenes of Civilians in London at the time during the Blitz. The historian Lucy Horsley discovers eyewitness accounts of civilians witnessing the horrors of the Blitz.

How does it approach issues of representation (actor selection, class, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, regionality etc)?

The docudrama approaches the issues of representation by selecting different actors to play the part of the characters to make sure they look like the original characters. This includes a different class such as the working class and middle class there were some characters that had an east end accent and one character had a Nigerian accent. 

How has it been made?  

There were some scenes that were filmed inside a studio for an example when the fireman watched sparks of fire, slowly coming down in slow motion effects. Further on one of the characters goes fire watching and sees the German bombers heading to London. There was cgi involved in this scene 

How does it use platforms/social media/alternative methods to reach an audience?

The docudrama uses posters on Facebook and Twitter to advertise The Blitz Spirit this is because so that the audience will know who the characters are about and the presenter of the docudrama who is Lucy Worsley. Further on the BBC released a trailer for The Little Blitz on the social media platforms and on television.

What is its real-world context? (what does it refer to/reference in everyday life? This might be social or historical issues, (sexism, racism). 

The docudrama real world context is that it is set in The Second World War at the time of the Blitz which caused the deaths of millions of citizens in the city of London and haunting footage of buildings destroyed.

Does it use narrative? 

The Narrator determines the point of the view of the story of the docudrama by adding descriptions of the current background taking place in the historical year describing what the characters are currently doing. This gains the context such as where the characters are doing and what are their roles. However the Narrative is different accounts or another word is saying different stories of the same connected event but in a different place. This shows that Lucy Worsley fulfills being a narrator because Worsley addresses the issues of the accounts of the six characters for an example she mentions about Nina’s mass observation diary. Therefore she Worsley does sound like a narrator as she mentions the evidence as a historian by showing the audience the purpose of these haunting descriptions of The Blitz and the devastation.

How does it use aesthetic conventions, framing, symmetry? 

The docudrama have used aesthetic conventions such as framing to show that the scenes are focusing on the buildings burning and falling apart with the characters watching terrified. There can be framing shot

in the docudrama such as when the character Nina stepped outside into the chaos,

How does the media product use sound, interactivity, visual

 qualities?

The documentary uses archive sounds such as air raid sirens, Luftwaffe bomber sounds and explosions. There are visual qualities in the film such as fire and buildings crumple into pieces.