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Different Places, Different Stories?: The Importance of Place in Regional Film and Television Production

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Chapter 5: Different places, different
stories? The importance of place in
regional film and television production
Stine Sand
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Method
'@$$#1#=
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How the companies relate to place
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#!'#
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%#=!
Conclusion
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#1$
#!
Interviews
Date of interview Posion Name
>'D"B'(
)-D 2 !4!A
ED N !4!A
-) QK$ !4!A
(7 2 6!8!A
>D'""Q>'D"
LU 2 4!8!A
)DI P 4!8!A
Q)U N 4!8!A
DDI 2 !8!A
"Q>'D"
"Q 2 A!8!A
(" 2 A!8!A
_# D#" A!8!A
>
7N: E#1 A!8!A
='P'(-D>'D"
"7% 2 9!4!A
Q<7 PK 9!4!A
References
-$L-!A 1176#"
B5!
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,!*5KK$$$!!KKa@@@@@@@@
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-"; 8##9D57!
-"333 b( #5
#b)3#A5!93@3;!
-) bF-!572-'bQ!
=!"!LO #7#"!
75<!;;9@;68!
B\33 b7b#/A5A!496@
9!N='5!KC!A49@36Ac!33!A9!&
NP; b+),52EE
'b6 ;A5A!6@6A!!K!4K74@986; 3@!
QQ=334 b(@(K(($
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&7$ !B5
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P@PL!<! bbB!5Q
#b-!"!:!: 6#171#!"5
B$!6@4!N='5!K398A999;A4!
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P:8 b"@!"G"?bL!=!
B^B!PU "25Q(Q
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4;@3!
DID6 +",K,",!
*5KK!K6K8K@@@K!-(4!
"2 bPS=#
bK,PS-#
,7!BCIU! <--7<--#-# #03
=;&272 !<5
I#!99@33!
"NA bP#b06#4-7(0
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"NB!6 !0D57!
("E >?-/-&>?!
*5KK$$$!C!KKK@CK3836K!-
(4!
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!#4 =5"#E!
("E6 7!!;A@6 ' 4 --&/4 ;
=5"#E!
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 #&,'#713/(#"$/!
:!=5)($"#E!
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@/ ##403;5!;9@A8!
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e5EF!
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%- ##% 4 3&,./#3
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... Each of the four companies see their location and access to nature as a competitive advantage and a way of standing out, and therefore express a clearly outspoken commitment to shoot regionally. An examination of their productions also shows that they are for the most part shot in the regions (Sand, 2016). The commitment to shoot regionally gives the companies the possibility to use local lm workers and therefore strengthen the local lm business. ...
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This article examines approaches to cultural diversity in a global- local axis. Can one talk about local cultural diversity in a film industry that is increasingly global? Cultural diversity is a goal in European film policy and an important rationale behind the support of European films. Geographical location is a key factor when discussing filmmaking because of the assumption that film and television production at different places represents diversity and therefore contributes to democracy and varied representations. Still, few studies examine whether filmmaking in the peripheries does, or can, contribute to diversity in film. Using Norway as a case, interviews with people in four companies located outside the capital were conducted to discuss diversity and the geographical dimension of filmmaking. The article argues that the companies contribute to diversity because of a commitment to shoot regionally, and because they use local film workers and talents. The companies act in a glocal context where they focus on the national and/or regional in order to get public funding, but projects that are too place- or cultural specific in content are usually not interesting to an international audience. They choose a hybridisation strategy, using local places to tell universal stories.
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This chapter argues for the significance of regional television drama production, offering a critical paradigm for understanding the intersection of the local and global in TV production. Television drama’s significance lies partly in how it locates itself in different cultural geographies, economic landscapes and sociolinguistic communities. For both broadcasters and audiences, drama’s cultural value is closely associated with its representational power to visualise distinct locales and the people and stories which make places meaningful and diverse. Focusing on UK public service broadcasting, this chapter demonstrates how the appearance of certain places on screen is not a matter of happenstance but is rather the product of myriad policy, commercial, regulatory and creative decisions. Place is examined in three contexts: firstly, as a feature of the regulatory and structural organisation of UK production; secondly, in relation to the specific public purposes of the BBC as the UK’s largest public service broadcaster and commissioner of television drama; and thirdly, as a quality marker of creative production, the effects of which are discernible visually and aurally on screen.
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