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Technical Aspect
Age Gender Ethnicity Class and status
Physical ability/ disability
Regional identity
Camera
Editing
Sound
Mise-en-Scene
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To identify the generic conventions of TV Drama
To identify and explore conventions within different TV Drama sub-genres
To understand how TV Drama conventions are
used to engage a target audience
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Television drama is the most expensive form of television genre
A prime time American TV series such as House can cost up to $12 million per hour – that’s about £6 million.
The average cost for US drama is more like $2 – 5 million per hour.
British drama such as Dr Who (60 mins) costs about a £1 million per hour.
the Nadal/ Federer Wimbledon final 2008 attracted over 13 million viewers – but drama pulls them in regularly, and this is what channel bosses and advertisers like.
Bleak House averaged between 6- 7 million viewers which was the same as Life on Mars
This represents 25 – 30% of the audience share in an average week.
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Which of the following are TV Dramas? Why? Skins True Blood Glee Casualty The Simpsons Waterloo Road Eastenders Luther Jeremy Kyle Smallville The Apprentice Big Brother Downton Abbey TOWIE
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Single or one off drama A drama that begins and ends with one episode. Now seen as event TV. Examples: White Girl, Boy A, Ghosts
Two-Parter Extended drama which encourages the audience to watch across two episodes often by a narrative surprise or cliffhanger Examples: Britz, Trial and Retribution
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Serial A continuing narrative set over a number of episodes using featuring some sort of conclusion at the end of a serial run. Examples: Footballers Wives, This Life, Waterloo Road
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Series - linked programmes with the same lead characters
where each episode is a complete story. Examples: Spooks, Heartbeat, Casualty, Dr Who Soap Opera – an ongoing, multi-stranded television serial drama,
typically set in an enclosed location Examples: Eastenders, Coronation Street
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Using I- Player/ 4od/ ITV Player/ The Radio Times to find examples of each these
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Revision Cards – What, where, why,when and how????
Conventions of TV drama and sub genres
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Discuss the TV dramas you watch How did you know they were TVD’s? As a group brainstorm what
you think are the essential ingredients for any TV Drama…
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Characters – a crucial element, deeply embedded in narratives, consider the roles they play
Narrative – both its overall structure and how it is constructed
Sets and settings – locations against which the story unfolds and which frequently take on a symbolic significance
Camerawork – particular kinds of camerawork are often associated with particular sub-genres
Dialogue, sound and music – sound and music create effects and often underline emotional content
Iconic Signs – these tend to be associated with particular sub-genres
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Sub genre Generic Hybrid
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Particular sub-genres tend to have items which make them immediately identifiable. Icons that symbolise the sub-genre:
Police cars or ambulance Blue lights Operating theatres and scalpels,
triage/reception areas in hospitals.
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Look at you list of TV Dramas
Try to sort the programmes into different types of TV dramas
Each have the same codes (camera,sound etc) but different conventions within that
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Each of you will be given a different TV Drama sub-genre to plan independently
You will need to decide Title
Target Audience and appeal
Format
Potential Storyline
Themes
Characters
Mise-en-Scene
Iconography
Key Representational issue in your work
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Teen drama – depend on target audience empathising with characters, situations and themes
Skins, Hollyoaks, Grange Hill The costume drama - typically an adaptation of a classic text Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, or a Dickens' novel such as Bleak House. Crime Drama – same as medical but crime instead of health The Bill, Life on Mars , Ashes to Ashes Medical/ Hospital Drama – Interplay between trauma and suffering of patients and staff
narratives that use soap conventions ER, Casualty, Holby City
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Consider that this sub-genre concerns age specific situations and anxieties. Relies upon target audience empathising with a range of authentic characters e.g. Skins
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Consider that they are often intertextually linked to classic novels or plays and offer a set of pleasures different to own time and space can be one off or a series e.g. Bleak House
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Consider the similarities with soap-opera conventions, the interplay between victim and villain and the use of a set of staff (forensic scientists) for narratives e.g. CSI
Crime Drama Conventions
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Consider the similarities with soap-opera conventions, the sense of the patients and the doctors, the use of open and closed narratives e.g Holby City
Medical Drama Conventions