G322 TV DRAMA

Welcome back. In today's email, you will find exemplar answers for G322 (former Claremont student scripts). More are on the way. Please create a folder on your laptop labelled G322 for them. We read through one example and practise exam techniques (terminology, examples, explanation / analysis / argument).

We then watch the BBC TV drama Murdered By My Father and analyse the representation of ethnicity. Description from website:
Every parent wants the best for their kids, and Shahzad is no exception. Ever since his wife died he’s been trying to keep his two kids Salma and Hassan on track. Salma is growing up quickly, and Shahzad wants to make sure she’s set up with the right guy to settle down with. It’s a promise he made his wife, and part of what he considers his duty as a dad. But what does Salma want? Unbeknown to Shahzad, she’s caught up in a whirlwind romance with charismatic charmer Imi. Salma knows Imi is not what her dad is expecting, but can she find a way to make everyone happy? A hard-hitting drama with a devastating finale, Murdered by My Father is a story about the power and the limits of love in communities where ‘honour’ means everything.
Review by Ceri Radford in The Telegraph:
"The father in question, Shahzad (Adeel Akhtar), did not start out as a monster. A widower, working hard in the building trade and raising two children alone, he had a touching bond with his teenage daughter Salma (Kiran Sonia Sawar). She teased him, he slid a gift of hair grips onto her bedside table as she slept. But he had expectations that she would honour the marriage he had planned with her late mother, linking their family to his business allies by settling down with the gormless Haroon (Salman Akhtar). Meanwhile, Salma had fallen in love with someone else: the charismatic charmer Imi (Mawaan Rizwan), who was very far from Haroon, and very far from the match her father felt he needed to be able to hold his head up in his community....Murdered by My Father, which followed in the same vein as 2014’s Bafta-winning Murdered by My Boyfriend – a drama based on a real case - could easily have strayed into stereotypes. But in the hands of the young screenwriter Vinay Patel, the story felt both nuanced and unbearably heart-breaking. His script drew on testimonies from those involved as well as input from charities expert in this area to paint a portrait of a tragic clash between tradition and individual freedom." 

Kasia Delgado writes in The Radio Times: "Written by young screenwriter Vinay Patel, the drama is based on the 12,000 cases of so-called "honour-based" violence reported in the UK since 2010. These include abductions, beatings and an estimated 60 murders, with around 9,000 calls made to helplines. If you've always taken for granted that you could love whoever you want, it's hard to get your head around the idea that young women are killed for defying their family's wishes – but this drama goes a long way to explaining the psychology behind these murders, without in anyway justifying them. "

By next Tuesday, please watch the 2013 exam extract Fingersmith (please collect your disc on Wednesday). You must be ready to offer oral textual analysis using exam techniques (terminology, examples, explanation / analysis / argument).


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