Television doesn't make programmes, it creates audiences (Jean-Luc Goddard)INTRODUCTION TO TV DRAMA

Session Aim

To introduce TV Drama

Key Questions

When is the exam - EAA1 form What is the exam about What do I need to know about TV Drama to achieve a high grade

English and Maths

Communication, reading, writing and listening Viewing figures, time slots and days

Today's menu

Starter - You Say We Pay Overview of exam TV Drama's What's happening Post it note

Key words

Denotative: The surface meaning

Connotative: The deeper or hidden meanings and associations

Semiotics & Symbols Signifier + Signified = Sign THE SIGNIFIER – could be a word, colour, image, sound (i.e. the colour BLUE)

THE SIGNIFIED – The associations that the sign refers to (i.e. BLUE is often associated with sadness or the sea etc.)

Signify/Signified/signifies Portray Indicates Represents Reveals Depict Implies Suggests

Exam - G322 Key Concepts in Media

Your exam will be in two sections Section A - Textual Analysis 50 marks Section B - Institution and Audiences 50 marks

The exam will be 2 hours long with 30 minutes for viewing and taking notes.

The clip you view will be unseen

Section A

You will complete a textual analysis of a TV Drama clip Exploring a variety of technical aspects of the language and

conventions of the moving image. This will be linked to a discussion of representation within the

sequence: Camera angle,Shot, Movement and Composition Mise-en-scene Editing Sound

Section B

One compulsory question based on a case study of a specific media industry

You will need to know contemporary institutional processes of production, distribution, marketing and exchange/exhibition at a local, national or international level as well as British audiences' reception and consumption.

There will be some emphasis on your own experience of being an audience member.

TV Drama Schedule 

Create a TV schedule for just for: Teenagers Men 25-40 Women 25-40 Pensioners Your schedule can be any day and should last a whole day when

possible.

TV Drama Sub Genre

Teen Dramas: These depend entirely on the target audience empathising with a range of authentic characters and age-specific situations and anxieties, e.g. Skins.Soap Operas: These never end, convey a sense of real time and depend entirely on audiences accepting them as ’socially realist’, e.g. Coronation Street.Costume Dramas: these are often intertexually linked to ‘classic’ novels or plays and offer a set of pleasers that are very different to dramas set in our own world contexts and times, e.g. Sharpe.Medical/Hospital Dramas: These interplay our vicarious pleasure at witnessing trauma and suffering on the part of patients and relatives with a set of staff narratives that deploy sop opera conventions, e.g. Holby City.Police/Crime Dramas: These work in the same way as medical/hospital dramas but we can substitute the health context for representation of criminals and victims, e.g. The Bill.Docu-dramas: these are set apart from the other by their attempts to dramatise significant real events, which usually have human interest, celebrity focus or political significance, e.g. Hamburg Cell.

Representation

Identify groups that are represented 

EEE! What's happening?

Homework

Watch any TV Drama Make notes on 3 minutes of it What is the genre of your chosen drama and how does the: mise-en-scene location/setting camera angles, shot, movement sound editing  tell you this, we should be able to even guess what the TV Drama is.

You will tell another student this information and they will share with the class.  This is saving you from doing a 500 word essay!!

Plenary

Post it note - what concerns do you have about the exam What are you favourite TV Drama's