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ANALYSING MOVING IMAGETV DRAMA
SO WHAT IS IT?
• TV Dramas - are situations that occur in the characters’ lives which the audience can relate too. The story would follow one or more main character and follow other characters in which they meet in the series.
TV DRAMA GENRES
Crime
IS WHEN VIOLENCE, DRUGS AND ABUSE OCCUR IN THIS DRAMA. IT IS OFTEN PERUSED BY A POLICE OFFICER OR INSPECTOR
Soap
IS WHEN DRAMATIC SCENES HAPPENS TO MOST CHARACTERS AND THEIR TRYING TO SOLVE THEIR OWN PROBLEMS
Comedy
IS WHEN HUMOUR AND JOKES OCCUR IN THIS DRAMA
Thriller/Horror/ FantasyIS WHEN SCENES OF HORRIFIC EVENTS OR SUPERNATURAL EVENTS OCCUR IN THIS DRAMA
Sci-FiIS WHEN UNLIKELY EVENTS OCCUR WHICH CAN BE SCIENTIFIC, SUPER POWERED OR OUT OF THIS WORLD EVENTS HAPPEN TO CERTAIN CHARACTERS IN SPACE OR ON ANOTHER PLANET
Medical
IS WHEN THE CHARACTERS WORK IN A HOSPITAL OR SOME TYPE OF MEDIA SECTOR. CHARACTERS ARE MAINLY DOCTORS AND NURSES
Period Drama
IS A DRAMA WHICH IS SET IN THE PAST RATHER THEN THE PRESENT AND SHOWS CHARACTERS OF DIFFERENT BACKGROUNDS AND INTERESTING EVENTS ON WHICH HAPPENED BEFORE
School
IS WHEN SCENES ARE MAINLY SITUATED WITHIN A SCHOOL. IT WOULD USUALLY CONSIST OF ARGUMENTS, FIGHTS.
Action
VISUAL CODES
• Clothing and physical appearance
• Gesture and body language
• Facial expressions
• Settings
• Use of colour
• Use of graphics
• Denotation/Connotation
• Intertextuality
TECHNICAL CODES
• Shots - range of shots and why they’re used - wide shots? Close ups? High/low angle shots?
• Any camera movement
• Editing - the way scenes change from one to the next
• Lighting
• Mise en Scene - what’s in the shot
SOUND
• Sound - diegetic and non diegetic
• Any ambient noise
• Voice-over
• Music
Mise-en-scene
What different elements of mise en scene are present?
mise-en-scene
setting/location
props/objects
colours
costume
performancechoice of
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up
posture/
gesture
placement in the frame
decor
lighting
denotation/connotationsignifier/signified
camerawork
Camera
angle
movement
framing
shot distance
panlo
w
high
tilt
track
ECU CUMS
LS
inside
outside
focus
Continuity editing
•master shot/establishing shot
Continuity editing
•master shot/establishing shot
•180 degree rule
Continuity editing
•master shot/establishing shot
•180 degree rule
•shot/reverse shot
Continuity editing
•master shot/establishing shot
•180 degree rule
•shot/reverse shot
•eyeline match
Continuity editing
•master shot/establishing shot
•180 degree rule
•shot/reverse shot
•eyeline match
•match on action
Continuity editing
•master shot/establishing shot
•180 degree rule
•shot/reverse shot
•eyeline match
•match on action
•insert shot
other features of editing
•cross-cutting
•graphic match
•ellipsis
•montage
•types of transition
Sound
•music
•dialogue
•‘atmospheric’
•diegetic and non-diegetic
•‘sound bridge’
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