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In "The Crown 3 trailer: Olivia Colman's Queen faces a crisis of confidence," we are told about season 3 of The Crown, NetFlix’s series that tells the story of England's Queen Elizabeth II from her life before she became queen in 1952. According to the article, which is based on the trailer just released by NetFlix, the new season begins with new actors playing the royals in 1977, which is a much more stressful time for Britain, with a bad economy, labour strikes, and a socialist prime minister coming to power. The tense and unhappy personal lives of the royal family are also shown, for example, Elizabeth's son, Charles, her husband, Phillip, and her sister, Princess Margaret.
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Response: What is your opinion?
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Also interesting for me, the article makes some interesting comments about a detail in the film. There is a mistake because it says that Queen Elizabeth's Jubilee, in 1977, was 25 years after her coronation as queen in 1953. But if you do the simple arithmetic, 1953 to 1977 is only 24 years, not 25. According to the article, NetFlix decided to keep this mistake because it repeats the mistake made on record in the news broadcasts at the time. Of course, the private scenes between the royal family members, although perhaps based on evidence from the time, are all made up. No one really knows what the princes, princesses, and queen really said when they were shouting at each other in their fights, but to tell a story that honestly portrays them as people, the script writers have to use some imagination, and historians have done that for at least the last 2,500 years, since the time when Thucydides wrote his histories of the wars of Classical Greece in the 5th century BC.
I'm looking forward to watching this new season on November 17. Maybe I should first watch the first two seasons again.
I hope you enjoy this official trailer from YouTube.
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Compared to my last blog post, the one about rats driving cute cars in search of food, this article, which is about the same length or a bit shorter, was much more difficult to summarize. I think it took me about 15 minutes to read the rat article and summarize safely under the maximum word limit. In contrast, it took me twice as long, about 30 minutes to write the above summary of my chosen article from the Entertainment & Arts section of the BBC News website. After reading it three times, I wrote my first summary, which was OK, except that it was 139 words, which was too many. I revised for another four minutes, to get version 2 down to 129 words — still too many. A few minutes later, version 3 was 121 words, which was much better, but still too long. Finally, 27 minutes after I started, version 4, the one above, was 119 words, which is just under the maximum word limit. As I said, it can be very challenging to summarize a piece of work when there there is a maximum word limit.
ReplyDeleteAnd then I just went back and revised again. The current version, number 5, has taken me a total of 39 minutes to write. But I'm happy with it now.
These details about my summarizing process are not very exciting, but I thought it might be useful to record and tell you exactly how much time and effort I needed to write a good summary.
Summary v1 = 139 words
DeleteIn "The Crown 3 trailer: Olivia Colman's Queen faces a crisis of confidence," we are told about what is coming in season 3 of The Crown, the NetFlix series that tells the story of England's Queen Elizabeth II from her early life before she became queen on her father's death in 1952. According to the BBC News article, which is based on the information in the trailer that NetFlix has just released, the new season, available from November 17, begins in 1977, which is a much more stressful time for British society, with a bad economy, labour strikes, and a socialist prime minister coming to power. In the trailer for the new season, the tense and unhappy personal lives of the royal family are also shown, for example Elizabeth's son, Charles, her husband, Phillip, and her sister, Princess Margaret.
Summary v2 = 129 words
DeleteIn "The Crown 3 trailer: Olivia Colman's Queen faces a crisis of confidence," we are told about what is coming in season 3 of The Crown, the NetFlix series that tells the story of England's Queen Elizabeth II from her early life before she became queen on her father's death in 1952. According to the article, which is based on the trailer just released by NetFlix, the new season, online from November 17, begins in 197, which is a much more stressful time for British society, with a bad economy, labour strikes, and a socialist prime minister coming to power. In the trailer, the tense and unhappy personal lives of the royal family are also shown, for example Elizabeth's son, Charles, her husband, Phillip, and her sister, Princess Margaret.
Summary v3 = 121 words
DeleteIn "The Crown 3 trailer: Olivia Colman's Queen faces a crisis of confidence," we are told about season 3 of The Crown, the NetFlix series that tells the story of England's Queen Elizabeth II from her early life before she became queen on her father's death in 1952. According to the article, which is based on the trailer just released by NetFlix, the new season, online from November 17, begins in 1977, which is a much more stressful time for Britain, with a bad economy, labour strikes, and a socialist prime minister coming to power. The tense and unhappy personal lives of the royal family are also shown, for example, Elizabeth's son, Charles, her husband, Phillip, and her sister, Princess Margaret.
Summary v4 = 119 words
DeleteIn "The Crown 3 trailer: Olivia Colman's Queen faces a crisis of confidence," we are told about season 3 of The Crown, NetFlix’s series that tells the story of England's Queen Elizabeth II from her life before she became queen on her father's death in 1952. According to the article, which is based on the trailer just released by NetFlix, the new season, online from November 17, begins in 1977, which is a much more stressful time for Britain, with a bad economy, labour strikes, and a socialist prime minister coming to power. The tense and unhappy personal lives of the royal family are also shown, for example, Elizabeth's son, Charles, her husband, Phillip, and her sister, Princess Margaret.
And finally v5 - 117 words is the one published in the blog post.
DeleteIn "The Crown 3 trailer: Olivia Colman's Queen faces a crisis of confidence," we are told about season 3 of The Crown, NetFlix’s series that tells the story of England's Queen Elizabeth II from her life before she became queen in 1952. According to the article, which is based on the trailer just released by NetFlix, the new season begins with new actors playing the royals in 1977, which is a much more stressful time for Britain, with a bad economy, labour strikes, and a socialist prime minister coming to power. The tense and unhappy personal lives of the royal family are also shown, for example, Elizabeth's son, Charles, her husband, Phillip, and her sister, Princess Margaret.
And my responses in two paragraphs is a very safe 357 words, which is well over the 200 word minumum. This was also much easier for me to write than the much shorter summary.
ReplyDeleteAlthogther, this took me about 80 minutes, which I think is reasonable. And if it takes me over an hour to do this, you should reasonably expect to take about two hours, but you don't have to do it all in one go, although that is what I've just done before I go to relax with an episode or two of The Big Bang Theory before I sleep. (The time stamps tell you when I published the blog post and each of the comments.)