Welcome!

Welcome, everyone, I am The Black Watcher. That does not refer to my skin colour, as I am in fact a white male from Scotland, but it does bare reference to my family army regiment 'The Black Watch'. As the word 'watcher' suggests, I am a fan of film and television...and video games e.t.c. This will be the foundation upon which my humble blog will be built, and that is reviews. I won't set any strict date for new reviews as the unpredictability of secondary education has somewhat crippled my ability of foresight beyond what I can currently repair, and as a result of this I can't really stick to any deadlines. Now, there are many things I cannot guarantee but here are some things that I can. I will not be biased (a media text is a media text, regardless of who made it) and I will not water down my opinions. For example, if I believe one film to be the complete embodiment of cinematic perfection, I'll tell you, and if I believe a film to be the epitome of my dread and sufffering in a motion picture format, I will also tell you. One other thing is that I will, as much as it pains me to say, watch films and play games that I would normally not even allow into my home for the benefit of my currently non existent fanbase. So whether you're just an innocent, internet dwelling member of the general public looking for something to read, or just a fan of media who is looking for a critic who may appeal to them, I will try my best to please you all.

Do svidanya
-Jamie

If you have any queries/opportunities, please contact me at www.facebook.com/blackwatcherreviews.

Friday, 9 May 2014

TV Reviews! Format and first review announcement

This is my first step into yet another unknown territory, like a colonial period American with an interest in the world’s media. TV is one of those things that I have never fully explored up till this point as I felt that reviewing TV would be simply too difficult to do. Whatever the case, however, I’ve decided that it’s worth a try, so now I need to define a format, and here it is:

TV- Story, Acting Quality + Presentation, Watchability, Verdict, Score

This is fairly similar to my Film format, without music being judged, as I feel that TV’s use of music is too minor to hold its own section, so I have mixed it in with visuals to bring presentation as an alternative. Now that the technicality is out of the way, it’s time to move on to the fun stuff, i.e the review itself. It will be separate to this piece, just for the sake of it not looking daft in the title, but I can tell you that the first ever BWR Television review is of  ‘Hannibal’ season 2 episode 1!

As usual, feel free to rate it or slate it, and any feedback/suggestions would be appreciated!


 Do svidanya, folks.

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