TV - Tehran

Question 1

What kind of production is Tehran?

Answer 1

Tehran is a transnational co-production ( ajoint venture between 2 or more different production companies from diff countries) which aimed to emulate the success of previous israeli political thriller Fauda 2015.

Question 2

What is Tehran about and where is it streamed?

Answer 2

Tehran is an Israeli spy drama thriller series created for the Israeli public chanell Kan 11. Kan 11 is a state owned free to air TV chanell operated by isreali public broadcasting corporation. Cineflix distributed Tehran to apple TV+ (first non english series) who paid 1 million dollars per ep huge sum in the isreali tv world.

Question 3

Who made Tehran?

Answer 3

Created and written by Moshe Zonder who worked as a writer on Fauda which has similar themes.

Question 4

What production funded Tehran?

Answer 4

Paper plane productions, a company that “produced and financed original international drama, paper entertainment.

Question 5

Where did the production of Tehran take place?

Answer 5

In athens greece as they were unable to film in tehran. Athens due to the similarties in archetture didnt need to build sets or building facades.

Question 5

Describe how genre and marketing is shown in the Tehran print poster

Answer 5

Her holding a gun (repetition Neale) of spy thriller genre conventions and mise en scene of the dress codes (hijab and large sunglasses signifing disguise.
Can see explosion through sunglasses creates hermenuetic codes (barthes) and forshadows conflict
Azadi tower iconic symbol of history of iran freedom tower cultural codes (barthes)
writen codes “once your in, theres no way out” represnts the dangers of being in Iran and highlight that this is an isreali series.

Question 5

Describe how genre and marketing is shown in the Tehran print DVD sleeve

Answer 5

“A tension building heart stopping gender swapped bourne identity” A pull quote from a broasheet newspaper (the telegraph) acts as a trusted opinion leader for ABC1 audiences.
Written codes emphasise tehrans action and suspense while espionage undercover provide repetition (neale) of spy thriller conventions
Difference (neale) is established through gender swapped female protagonist. visual codes of tamars injured face and her holding a gun represent.

Question 6

Describe the official trailer AV

Answer 6

Tehran conforms to many of the typical codes and conventions of the genre in particular the narrative is set within a real life context of an isreal proxy conflict. Mark of quality, star power.