Paul Bradshaw
1 min readOct 7, 2019

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Some really good identification of a range of techniques and you connect those with genre and where genre conventions are broken. Most importantly, you identify why that might be justified (and therefore why the audience might tolerate their expectations being undermined). Good to see you touch on concepts from the reading like temporality, and it’s especially good to see you suggesting alternative approaches.

You mention diegesis but need to explain how it uses that. Diegesis is ‘telling’ us rather than ‘showing’ — so do you mean that Eastenders uses a narrator or captions to tell us? That doesn’t seem to be what’s described so perhaps you mean a form of diegesis where we are ‘shown’ events from a protagonist’s perspective?

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Paul Bradshaw
Paul Bradshaw

Written by Paul Bradshaw

Data journalist and course leader of the MA in Data Journalism at Birmingham City University. Author of the Online Journalism Handbook.

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