Blog task: Deutschland 83 Close-textual analysis

Scene 1: Garden/BBQ scenes (East & West Germany)
4.58 – 8.20 and 34.00 – 37.20

Make notes under the following headings:

Technical codes – particularly mise-en-scene
Music: 80's, nostalgic, audience has personal relationships with the songs, upbeat
Music: changes, very intense- audio codes correlating with the surrounding
Mise-en-scene is very similar, capitalists are less modest, less fun

Representation of East & West Germany / Family / Gender
soldier is widely respected
family life is stressful, fake happy
Less female tension
More male tension

Scene 2: Martin/Moritz first sees the West German supermarket 
14.30 – 20.25

Make notes under the following headings:

Technical codes – particularly mise-en-scene
Lighting is low, dark imagery
Wide shots in each setting he enters
Culture shock
Branded clothes

Audio codes – particularly music
Ominous music in the bedroom/opening scene
Creates curiosity
80's pop music creates nostalgia, normality, realism

Representation of East & West Germany / Communism & Capitalism
West sees more lonely
Communists have to think about others more

Audience pleasures
Wide shots allow sight of nostalgic/familiar setting
Music
Surveillance
'we're this close to ww3'

Scene 3: Training montage scene when Martin/Moritz learns how to be a spy
20.40 – 22.40

Make notes under the following headings:

Technical codes – particularly camerawork and editing
Jump cuts show time passing 
Text on screen/ voiceover
80's technology
split screen

Audio codes
Upbeat music, climax of the show, turning point
pace of music/editing

Audience pleasures
audience enjoys the nostalgia, cultural similarities/differences
editing shows the process of his learning

Intertextuality
cereal brands
80's culture

Scene 4: Briefcase scene when Martin/Moritz is stealing the NATO nuclear plans
31.13 – 33.30

Make notes under the following headings:

Technical codes – particularly camerawork and editing
Shots through the window show how they are always being watched
Music=tension
Music stops when others enter the room, shows an anticlimax, constant risks

Audience pleasures

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