The Bridge industry Flashcards
(11 cards)
What is the bridge?
The bridge is a tv crime drama that is of Swedish/danish co production
The series opens in a brooding manner when a female body is found on a construction site in malmo sweden, posed in a table representing a traditional family
Saga is assigned to the case together with a Copenhagen police officer hanne thomsen, who is hostile towards saga due to her role in the incarceration of martin Rhode
Where is the bridge set?
The bride is set in both sweden and denmark
What type of production is the bridge and who produced it?
A Swedish/Danish co production written by hans rosenfeldt
Produced by
Overview of SVT?
SVT is the Swedish national public broadcaster
Funded like the BBC - television license fee payable by all owners of television sets set by the Riksdag
Who are a powerful Swedish organization who establish laws in the country
Sweden’s television is a quasi autonomous non government organization
Has regional offices and production facility used for the bridge and is perceived as left liberal
The season 3 of the bridge premiered in Sweden and Denmark on September 27th and in Sweden the episode attracted over 1.5 million views - 1 in 7 of the population
Overview of DR1?
Danmark’s radio - Denmark’s national public service broadcasting corporation
DR is funded by the levying of a license fee, payable in Denmark by all owners of radios, television sets and in recent years, computers and other devices capable of receiving its content
One article by Lauren colins in the new yorker even mentioned
-DR dominates danish cultural life to the extent that each week 97% of the population listen to or watch something from its website or one of its 10 radio stations and six tv channels
What factors heavily influenced the development and funding of the bridge?
Grant received from the Copenhagen Film Fund for the
third season of The Bridge
€1 million grant received from Creative Europe MEDIA for
Series 3 in terms of supporting and maintaining the
programme’s high production values
Some of the scenes set in Copenhagen were shot in Malmö
in order to minimise production costs
The settings, cast and crew reflect the economic context in which ‘The Bridge’ was produced,
e.g. the fact that the series was co-financed by Sveriges Television/Danmarks Radio results in the production values reflecting the public service background of the broadcasters – high quality.
Quality has enabled remake sales and global distribution
It’s a public service rather than commercial, allowing producers to challenge stereotypical representations within a character-driven narrative
What is BBC Four’s service budget?
BBC 4 had a service budget of £48.7 million in 2016/17
What is BBC Four’s primary role?
BBC 4’s primary role is to reflect a range of UK and international arts music and culture
What should BBC Four provide?
It should provide an ambitious range of innovative high quality programming
That is intellectually and culturally enriching
Taking an expert and in depth approach to a wide range of subjects
It should offer international and foreign language feature films and a range of foreign language dramas
To allow people to be heard in their own voices
Which international programmes have had a positive global reach/impact?
Other international programes have had a positive global reach/impact such as:
Money hiest
Squid game
Dark
Who were the co-producers for the bridge?
The Bridge was co-produced by Swedish independent
production company Filmlance International and Danish
company Nimbus Film.
The series also received financial support from several
European public service broadcasters,
including Sweden’s SVT, Denmark’s DR, Germany’s 2DF and Norway’s NRK.
