Entrepreneurship and Professional Practice (Nathan Barley)

This is a Channel 4 comedy series. Why we were watching this as part of our “Entrepreneurship and Professional Practice” module seemed odd to everyone. Nathan Barley is what he describes as a “Self facilitating media node”. This means he shamelessly advertises to everyone and anyone his website “trashbat.co.ck”, run from a warehouse style media office. I’ve always wanted one of those!

Pingu, a frail programmer who slaves away bringing Nathan’s ideas to life. Picked on by Nathan.

Nathan idolises a man called Dan Ashcroft, a journalist who works for the magazine 'Sugerape'. This magazine is Nathans bible for anything cool. Dan despises Nathan, as he does the magazine he works for. To this genre of people, Nathan and others like him are considered “idiots” and nothing more.

Claire, Dan’s sister, dislikes Nathan too but takes advantage of him and his facilities to pursue her independent filmmaking career.

A part of this class we were asked to make a list of observations with reagards to motivations, scales and roles of the characters:

Motivations
Notoriety and love of the job (nathan),
Notoriety and financial success (dan),
Building a successful Filmmaker (claire)

Scales& Organisation
Claire - Starting out in the world with her new career
trashbat.co.ck - small Business. 2 people. Designer /Technician relationship
sugaRAPE - medium sized business. Diversity of shared roles
Sunday Telegraph - large organisation with people assigned very specific roles.

Roles
Creative Designer and Promoter - Nathan
Technician - Pingu
Journalist - Dan
Filmmaker - Claire