Ingredients of a TV Drama

Characters.
Characters are usually easily identifiable and often represent the stereotypical characteristics in which are presented through media language.

Story lines.
All TV Dramas that we watch are told through a story line. The story line usually relate to the audience by using everyday problems and dramas that fill the public's lives. The story's usually escalate from equilibrium to dis equilibrium and sometimes back to equilibrium again leaving the viewers with a happy ending.

Sound and Music.
Music is used a lot in TV Dramas to reflect a particular mood that a character may be feeling. It can be used to create a bad atmosphere in a certain situation to build suspense. It can also be used to create a good atmosphere in which would build characters up to a high point. Ambient sounds are used to emphasise certain plots and events that are present the drama.

Deconstruction of Eastenders.

The camera shots that were used were mainly medium shots, occasional close ups and over the shoulder shots in which were relatively slow to create realism. Panning shots and tracking shots were used to emphasize certain objects and characters that were of an importance in the scene. I found that there were no effects and there was a medium pace through this scene. There was back ground sound to create verisimilitude and music to create emotions of anger and sadness when characters would have an argument. There was no props used in the scene and there was no particular costumes used. Very low lighting was used to symbolize that it was night and to create a tense atmosphere when the characters were in an argument the low lighting signifies secrecy and privacy.

Skins trailer

Media concepts

Media Language.

• Code and conventions
  
• Lighting, framing, props, background, angles and editing (mise-en-scene)
• Sound and music
• How to read media language

From and style

• Structure
• Up to date music

Convention

• Instructions to form this structure
  
• Creating one type of film to the other

Signification

• Series of signs
  
• Everything carries a meaning
• Assume all signs are agreed upon
• Open to interpretation
• Support and justify the reasons

Representation

• People, background and themes
• How to represent something
• Reality and creative reality

Audiences

• Nice audience
  
• What comes first the audience or the product
  

Creativity

• Own experiences into a structure for a targeted audiences

Convention
Ingredients and how the effects create the genre.

Signification
Everything has a meaning, all signs are interpreted in some way.

Representation.
How things are set out to be seen by the audience.

Audience.
The media creates the audience or the audience creates the media.

Introduction

This blog will focus on Tv drama. I will be looking at camera work, editing, sound, music and mise en scene.