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According to production technology
Film-
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Video
the tv show started in the late 90s so it was the quality that we have got in
todays tv but it was still filmed the best quality that they had then. They also
had many different sets when making the tv show. The sets that they use when
filming are all the same one of the sets is one of their flats/apartments. Most of
the filming is done in that apartment and another one is a coffee shop this is the
most popular of the sets because of how big it is. In addition, it is now an iconic
set and image.
Audio-
Most American sitcoms like this have a thing called a laughing track. Not a lot of
American sitcom are film in front of a live studio audience. The reason that they
know this is because; they want to let the audience know when to laugh. It can
also help the actors in the show as well it as sort of an indicator as to then carry
on talking they heir the noise and then they would stop talking wait for the
notice to stop and then carry on. In the sitcom friends, they have lots of different
like the noices of smashing glass or plates and music.
Print
What kind of merchandise exists? The tv show friends is very popular and they
have made many different thing to go with them some of the things they have
made are things t shirts the things that are going to be on the tv show are things
like quotes that they have said are picture of famous things. You might also see
these things on poster they have posters and on the posters are thing like
picture of things that are happing in the show so it might be of places that the
show is set or the shows logo
Digital-
Television the show is shown in a few different counters around the world the two
most popular are America and the UK one of the biggest reasons is that the show
has been filmed in both of these countries. Another reason is that they put it on a
channel that we can get over here in the uk so they put it on that. Another
reason is that we get there humour and that we understand what the jokes
mean. Another reason is that we speak the same langue as them in the us so it
works over here.
Distribution method
Cinema
Friends does not have their own film but if they did then they would make a lot
of money from it. The tv show friends is one of the most popular tv shows ever
made and most new American comedy sitcoms out there use friends as beach
mark they strive to be as good as friends and most tv show out there just arent.
Another reason that it would work so well as a film is that it has not been on the
tv for so long that it would be great to have a comeback and it would sell a lot
because

Radio N/A
Internet you are able to watch it on many different website out there. One of the
most popular is YouTube, because the tv show friends is so popular there would
be many different videos out there that you can watch about it. You might be
able to get all of the episodes that are made on YouTube because of how old it is
people have a lot of time with it to then put it onto YouTube. You might also be
able to get it on some other websites as well. One of the most come-on is when
people stream them on their own websites.
CD
With you have a great tv show like friends on cd it means that you have great
advantages. One of them being able to watch it at whatever time you want. In
addition, you are able to stop watching whenever and then just pick it up from
there. In addition, you are able to watch your favourite episode whenever you
want as well and as many times as well. You can also take it anywhere and then
watch it there so say you are going on holidays if you take a portable dvd player
you van then watch it on that. One of the down sides is that you would then have
to take a dvd player with you everywhere and not all dvds play on other players
around the world. Therefore, you would not be able to play it in other countries
but when you are home, you can watch it as much as you want.
IPod
Another dives you are able to watch it on is a iPod if you own and IPhone and
that is then contacted to your iPod the both of your devices will then have it on
their one of the big problems would then be you arent able to have all of the
episodes because they would then take up to much room and with the tv show
being friends it would mean that there is a lot of episodes so you would only be
able to fit in a few episodes you might be lucky to fit in a full season. Most iPods
do not have that much room so you would not be able to then fit on that much.
However, you are able to then watch it as much as you want long as you keep
taking one of after you have watched the last one. However, you can watch then
whenever you want most of the time you would not need an internet conation.
However, the screen that you are watching it on will be small but that does mean
you can carry it much easier.
Mobile Phone device
With a tv show like friends which is as popular as it is you would want to be able
to watch it anywhere. So being able to have it on your phone would a great
advantage because you can then watch it as much as you want. With it being on
your phone, you would need to be able to have an internet connotation you can
just watch it anywhere. So say you are on a flyet somewhere and you are bored
you could then just watch friends on your tv show. In addition, the best part
about it not needing and internet conations Is that not everywhere has
internernet so being able to just watch it without it is great. Another great thing
about watching on your phone is that you can watch it and pause it if you need
to and then start watching it again whenever you want which you can do when
on tv you can only do it for a brief amount of time.

Home computer
When you are at home you would have a computer and most computers are able
to play dvds on them so you would be able to watch friends on your computer
which would then be great if you have got a laptop because that would mean
you are able to watch it on the go as well so that might mean a plan or on a train
there are many different things you could then watch it on. Another thing that
you could do is that you could watch it on a website that tv show might have its
website that you can watch it all on so that would then mean you could watch
them at any time that you would want and you are able to then watch any of
your favratve episodes as well. Other things like YouTube might show you
episodes of it as well so you might be able to go onto YouTube and then watch a
few of the episodes. If you are not able to then watch it you might be able to
watch a few clips of the episode kind of like a best bits.
Hand held consoles
One of the most popular of the hand held consoles is an iPad and an IPad is a
bigger iPod so they have most of the same prorates of each other. Some but with
an IPad you have more memory so you would then be able to watch a lot more
episodes and on a much bigger screen. So watching on iPad would be a much
better idea then on iPod. The only problem with it is that you would need to be
able to take it around with, which would not be that bad if you had a big but if
you do not it might be a lot harder. Because with an iPod you can just have it in
your pocket.
Generic codes and conventions
Content
The content that is in the tv show friends is comedy. Friends is meant to be a
comedy about 6 friends that live in new York and what they get up to in there
day to day life. The humour that is in the game is for people around the age of
15+ they do not use that much bad langh if any and they dont really talk about
anything rude and if they do they will do it in a little hint like they do in the
episode that I have been watching where one of the character whispers into the
other ones ear. In addition, he does it in a way that we know what he means but
he does not really say it. It was filmed in the late 90 to the early 2000s so it was
a rather old tv show so it wasnt film in the highest quality but it was filmed in
better quality by the end of the show
Style
The tv show friends is filmed in a classic American sitcom fashion with a laughing
track and a hangout for the show to be set at. The show was set in the late 90s
to the early 2000 so it has that kind of a style going on with it. The cloths that
they used to have on where very remanisont to that the time that the show was
being filmed. They also made the style very American with what they did. They
did all the things a normal American would do throughout the year. One of the
episodes is based around thanksgiving, which is an American holiday. However,
in another episode, they go to uk but they keep with their American tortes style
taking pictures of everything and acting like an American.

Symbolic
In the show, the characters have very different personalities. One of the
characters is seen as a rather unhappy person that uses humour to mask when
he is unhappy and nerves and he will always tell jokes in every episode or make
fun of someone. Then there is another character in the show who can be seen as
not very clever but is the attractive one of the group that is always with another
girl every episode hes also rather strong and sporty. Therefore, he is also the
muss of the group. In addition, another character is the brainy one of the group
he can be seen as not very athletic but. He is very clever and always comes out
with smart jokes. In addition, he can always be seen as not very cool and dose
thing that other people can see as rather nerdy
Cultural
A few cultures are shown in friends it can be seen as having a very basic cast but
they show a few different cutlers in the show. One of the main ones that is shown
is some of the characters are Jewish. With them being Jewish and then some of
the other characters are not Jewish around the time when they would do a
Christmas episodes what they would do is they would make it a Jewish Christmas
episode. However, they would also do it as a normal Christmas episode as well.
Another bit of cutler that is shown is with one of the characters has an Italian
background and that will sometimes be shown. They show it a lot with his name
and how he would then talk to people. One of the other cutlers that is shown is
American cutler. Because the show is made there and all of the characters that
are in the show are American. It would show of American cutler
Technical
In the tv show friends they would have to think of a few different technical
things. One of the biggest reasons for this is because of where the show is set.
The show is set in New York so you are going to have many shots on the streets
of new your which would mean there is going to be cars and with the cars, there
are going to be windows. This could be a problem when filming because of how
the reflection of cameras in the windows of the cars when someone walks past a
car you do not want to see the camera in it. This could be fixed by editing it out
of the shoot after words or you could have all of the windows down. When
walking past but this could then look unusual when watching so you would have
to think about that as well. The sets could also be technical as well because of
the two apartments that they are using for most of the shots. They would have to
make sure that they look the same as the last time they were in it.
Changes over time
In audience
When the show started, the audience was rather young they would have been
around the age of maybe 15 to 18 maybe and now they are both going to be
around the age of mide 20s so they might have been a lot older now and they
would still go back and watch the show. Evan know the show ended a while back
it is still watch a lot by fans in todays tv a lot of the shows are shown In HD
which this show wasnt when it was made but they can make the show look
better when its televised today. With some comedys that are made the jokes can
get rather old and not funny anymore but with friends the jokes have stayed and
they are still good and they are still funny.

Ideological shifts
The tv show friends was on for a long amount of time and as the show grew old
the characters in the show also grow old so the topics began to change in the
show. In the first few episodes they would be based around how they meet each
other or how they know one another after that they would then talk about trying
to get jobs and how they would all go around trying to get a job and then after
that, they would do episodes of them trying to get into relationships and how
they do that or how they meet them people and then they might talk about them
going up in their jobs or maybe losing their jobs. In addition, at this point we
would be half way through the all of the series. Then after that, the show would
focus on the people who are trying to find new jobs. The characters at this stage
are a lot older than when they started. Then some of them are going to be
looking at marriage and then some of them are going to be moving homes. Then
near the end of the show, they would be looking at having families.
Re-definition
As the show goes on the stories in the show can change and the main plot of the
show will change as well. When the show started it, was about six friends just
trying to get jobs and live in New York? Then at the end of the show, it changed
to six friends starting their families and then moving on in life. So the show
different re defined its self by the end of it. The reason that it did this was
because when the show started the audience was rather young and then as the
show went on the audience grown older so they needed to change what the
show was about to make it fit in a lot better with the audience and also so the
audience didnt get bored when watching it.
Obsolescence
When the show was being made, there were not that many sitcoms out there, so
it was like something new for them to watch so they did not need to worry about
the show being cancelled that much but as the show went on there was a lot
more American sitcoms coming out. Therefore, the show would have been
started to get old. Therefore, what they would have had to do was make it
different in some way. they would have had to revamp the show and make it
something different so that the audience think that they are going to be
watching a new show. They had to make it different In some way which they did
by giving some of the characters in the show baby so that the show could stay
new and fresh.
Spoof
The show friends in its self I a spoof of the life of people who are living in new
York it started with us watching the lifes of people who are in there late 20s and
seeing how they get on in there day to day life. In addition, that is pretty much
how the show went. You looked at the lifes of these people and how the get from
day to day. The show was a comedy and used a lot of light-hearted humour with
very little bad langue. In the show, we also get to see bits of how they got to
where they are
Pastiche
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Parody
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Narrative structures
Narrative single strand
Signal strand
In the tv show friends it is very common that the norm will get disrupted and
something will happen which will change plans that someone has had. In
addition, this thing will normal take up the whole episode maybe even take up
more than one episode. In one of the cases, one of the female cheaters is
pregnant and she has just gone into liber. Therefore, all of the other characters in
the show have gone to the hospital with that character and this will take up the
whole episode and involve all of the characters as well. This is a great way that
all of the characters are in the same story here and all doing the same thing this
kind of thing would normal take up more than one episode it would be the hole
the hole of one and then might even take up the next episode as well
Multi strand
In the tv show friends there is never just one story going on at one time there is
always two or three going on the reason for this is because they have got so
many different characters in the show they cant all be doing the same thing.
Like in one of the episodes that I have been watching five of the characters are
doing on thing (in the episode I have been watching they have been playing a
quiz) and another one of the characters his doing something else (talking to their
brother) so that is two different storys happing at once. In the event that there is
not two different story is happening then that one topic is either import to all of
the characters or it involves them all.
Closed
A closed narrative is an underling story in the whole thing so from the begging to
the end. So In the case of the tv show friends there isnt really ever just one big
story going on in the whole thing there are just many different little ones. Each
season might have a story going on throughout it but though the whole thing
there is not really anything. The closet thing that they might have is there are
two characters in the show friends that have got an on again off again
relationship that had been going on throughout the hole tv show. So that might
been a story that is going through the whole thing.
Open
In a tv show like friends they dont really have different storyline each episode
would just follow on from the next unless its the start of a new sires then they
would have a start something new for the next episode to follow on from. Like in
the case of when one of the characters find out that, they are pregnant. The sires
starts of from that and then each episode leads on from the next until final shes
giving birth and then the next sireas will start and that will then be one episode
after another
Linear
In the tv show friends the whole thing can be seen as very linear every episode
will start off at the beginning and then we would get to the middle and then we
are at the end. The reason that they do this is for the most part its to make it
simple to follow so the audience do not get confused when watching the show if
the show starts of at the middle of an episode then the audience can think that
they have missed something and will go back want to find out what they have
missed where as if you start of at the beginning, then it can be seen as a lot
easier to watch.

Non-linear
It is very rea that the tv show friends will turn into a non-linear show. The only
time this has happened is when they would make a show with flash backs in
them or they make a whole episode about them. The only problem with that is
most people who watch theses show do not really like it when they do these
kinds of episode because they are seen as rather boring to watch because
people see it as just going beck and watching the same thing
Alternative
There are two different tepys of narrative forms Realistic Narrative and Formalist
Narratives they are two deferent kinds of narrative form. The first one is the form
of when you are watching a story go from one episode to the next in like a story
fashion. However you do not get to see the whole thing you just see little bits of
their lifes but they make it clear what they have been doing. Then this one can
be seen in another way they still show you the same thing one episode to the
next in a story fashion but in this one, they show you the whole thing. Whereas
the first one is normal seen in moves the second one is shown in tv shows.
Narrative
The narrative for the tv show friends can change in each episode. They do not
always keep to the same thing when making the show most of the time the story
lines are something fun and does not matte that much. However, in some cases
the show can seem like what is going on does not really matter but by the kind
what started out as a joke can get rather sirues like in the episode I have been
watching. It started out as they were playing a fun quiz about one another for a
little bit of money but by the end of the show they started playing for each
others apartment. Which in friends can be rather sirues because that is where
most of the show if filmed and many of the fans like that set.
Enigma
Friends as a tv show is rather easier to follow and there isnt really anything hard
to understand. They keep that show rather simple to follow without a questions
being raised about it. The reason that they do this is because they want to make
something funny and something they do not really need to think about because
that can get rather boring after a while. Therefore, they keep it as simple as they
do rather than making the audience confused. The only time they ever dose
something like it is when they are talking about one of the characters jobs and
the fact that they do not know what he does for a job and you never really find
out what it is that he does.
Climax
At the end of each sireuse there is always something existing happing or intents
that you want find out about and they will tell you at the end. One of the biggest
reason that they do this is so that people will keep watching the tv show to find
out what has happened and that is normal at the climatic end of it. This is no
more seen then on the final episode of friends there are two characters, one of
them is getting on a plan to move to another country, and the other one does
not want that one to go so right at the end he tries to get her to stop and get of
the plan and then right at the end of the episode you find out that she got of the
plan right and the end at the climax.
Equilibrium
In the tv show friends like all tv shows they will need a sense of balance so while
you see them all having lots of fun they also have got jobs that they are going to
need to do to be able to pay for it all. Therefore, what that says is they are going
to be having lots of fun doing funny things but they also have to have a series
side as well having. So it is just seen as them messing around having fun the
whole time. Because that can get rather boring to watch the every time in every
episode. They also have to be able to show how they did something or how they
got to places having fun there
Representation
Negative
Most of the characters in the tv show friends can be seen as rather fun and none
of them really have that many negative conations to them one of the characters
that might is someone who isnt one of the main characters but is someone that
is a rescoring member of the cast hes a guy that works in a coffee shop and
thats never really happy because he doesnt like working there. And is normal
unhappy the hole time. In addition, he can sometime be a bit of some of the
jokes that are used when making the show because the show goes there a lot
you would see him regularly. The reason none of the main characters are like this
is because that would make it a bit more depressing of a show and then not a lot
of people would want to watch it. That is why they have given to someone who
isnt part of the main cast but is still in the show arahter lot.
Positive
Most of the mine cast is seen as rather positive because most of the time they
are just hanging out with their friends and just having fun. However, one of the
characters is happier than the others she is one of the main cast member and
she is a little ode. She is seen as a loving life hippy that is a lover of people and
animals. She is not one of the briniest members of the mine cast but she is still
rather happy most of the time. This is good thing because people want to see
happy people when watching the show so to see this would be good for them.
Therefore, more people would want to watch the show.
Of social groups
There is only really one social group when watching the tv show friends and that
is between the six friends. They are the only social group in the whole thing
apart from when some of the characters are at work when they are at work they
are in a social group with their friends from work. One of the characters is chef so
you would see her in a social group with friends from work. Another social group
is people who are there familys you would see them a lot when watching this tv
sireus so each member of the group will have their own familys and that can be
seen as another social groups.
Of social issues
The tv show friends deals with social issues rather well they cover a lot of
different issues. One of the issues is what happens when to people you are
friends with in a relationship brake up what happens then that is one of the isuas
that they talk about in the show that one of the things that they talk about
another thing that they talk about in the show is what happens when someone
you are friends with starts to date someone that the rest of the group do not like.
They also do stuff about that in friends. But with all of this what they try and do
is they try and keep It funny to watch they try and make it something that people
will be entertained by to watch.

Stereotyping
In most tv shows they try and avoid Stereotyping because it can be seen as a
bad thing to do in today television but it wasnt always seen as that. Back when
this show was, being made you where aloud to say a few things about it. One of
the main things is with some of the characters being blond they arent very
clever and they say a few silly things as well and that can be seen as a bit of
stereotyping the only other one is with the fact that one of the characters is seen
as rather strong however with him being like that hes also not very clever ether.
That can also be seen as stereotyping.
Presence and absence
Friends is a tv show set Around six friends. Every episode of friends all six-mine
cast member appear in. however there are some other cast members as well
someone who in almost all of the episodes a is someone who works as the coffee
shop that they all go to hes in almost all of the episodes but there are also some
other episodes that he isnt in. another two cast members. Is two of the mine
casts parents they are seen in a large amount of episodes as well they can be
seen at all of the big events that the group get up to so weddings and the when
they go to the hoplite for something.