Lockdown Content

 Lockdown Content A) How are the main characters introduced? What character types are they supposed to represent? What are their individual personality traits and family and social backgrounds and how are these depicted?  In this short we are introduced to the main character from the perspective we are watching her video journal in lockdown. We find out her name as we hear her talking to herself in day one of her video journal. As we go on, we meet the rest of the characters via an online video call. Over the course of the episode you begin to find out the different personality traits of each character.  For the main character Nira, it is clear right from the outset of the video that she is living in a nice house with a family that are doing well for money. This is seen by seeing shots of her house, like the one in the screenshot below: There are two other female characters we get introduced to. They are called Sam and Emi. It is clear, throughout the video that the ...

 Lockdown Stories - ITV Lockdown stories was a series of shorts created by ITV during the first of the national lockdowns in the united kingdom. The screenshot above was from episode three - a drama about a hypochondriac talking to a therapist. Straight away, you notice the differences in this series to one that was filmed and created not in a national lockdown. The most noticeable thing is that the whole short is set over a zoom call. There are only two actors and they both communicate via this zoom call. This is fitting with the times as the narrative of the story is set in the current day (corona). This allows it to fit with social distancing.  The whole show seems to have been filmed on webcams which is a complete contrast to a normal tv drama which would be filmed on massive high definition cameras. Article 1. What were the creative limitations faced by ITV by the imposition of Lockdown rules? ITV took on something they knew would be challenging by creating a drama i...