History of Drama in the Media Industry

Unit 5 Exploring audio production and technology

Unit 4 Contextual research

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Why is media history important?

The study of media history is vital in the understanding of, people and there societies. Through the study of the past we gain an understanding of what and why things happened. History gives you back your past. In the same way as individual people need memory to shape identity and plan for the future, communities need history to give dimension and meaning to the present. Without an understanding of the past, the present doesn't make much sense.

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Why is media history important?

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The media plays an integral part to people’s lives. From the moment we wake up we are engulfed in a media-centric world. The study of media history is important because it helps us understand the past, present and future. Through an understanding of where the media came from, we can predict things by seeing how they happened before. The study of media history also gives us an identity. The media presents us with images of the world all the time. We understand cultures and ideologies through the media. The media shapes are beliefs, hence by looking at the history of media we understand culture in a way that know other source of material can.

Why is media history important?

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The media communicates ideas and brings society together. Through newspapers, and television ideas and beliefs are exchanged and absorbed into people, creating a society that has the same ideologies .By studying the history of media, we learn about our identity. We learn about the mass society and so learn about our own identity, where were from, what we believe and why we believe it.

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History of DRAMA

The term Drama comes from the Greek word meaning “action”

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The two famous masks of drama represents the division between comedy and tragedy

Greek drama• Western drama originates in classical Greece• The origins of drama go back to competitions held as part of festives

celebrating the god DionysusRoman drama• Following the expansion of the Roman Republic (509-27 BCE, Rome

encountered Greek drama.• They divided the role of the chorus into episodes and introduced musical

accompaniment to its dialogue.Medieval Drama• The original tragedies and comedies was a new creation, the drama of earlier

times having had almost no influence on it.Middle Ages• Is a period of the European history that lasted from the 5th until the 15th

centuriesMedieval Drama• Christian church had traditionally opposed any from of theater. But later

adding Christmas Service, acted out scenes of stories.Renaissance (Elizabethan) Drama• Art had huge influence in The Renaissance• William Shakespeare (modern drama)

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History of DRAMA

The term Drama comes from the Greek word meaning “action”

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The two famous masks of drama represents the division between comedy and tragedy

The 18th Century Drama• More plays about middle class were being written

19th century Drama and Romanticism• Romanticism focused on emotion rather than intellect• Subject matter was drawn from nature

Modern Drama• Involved much experimentation with new forms and ideas. In the early

part of the 20th century, musical drama came to dominate stages in New York and England, although each theater season saw the release of straight dramatic plays as well.

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History of DRAMAThe term Drama comes from the Greek word meaning “action”

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Types of drama in film and televisionCrime drama, Police procedural, and legal drama character development based on themes involving criminals, law enforcement and the legal system. Historical drama films that focus on dramatic events in history. Horror drama film that focuses on imperiled characters dealing with realistic emotional struggles, often involving dysfunctional family relations, in a horror setting. The film's horror elements often serve as a backdrop to an unraveling dramatic plot.The difference between a docudrama and a documentary is that in a documentary it uses real people to describe history or current events; in a docudrama it uses professionally trained actors to play the roles in the current event, that is "dramatized" a bit. Not to be confused with documentary fiction. Comedy-drama film in which there is an equal, or nearly equal, balance of humor and serious content. Melodrama sub-type of drama films that uses plots that appeal to the heightened emotions of the audience. Melodramatic plots often deal with "crises of human emotion, failed romance or friendship, strained familial situations, tragedy, illness, neuroses, or emotional and physical hardship". Film critics sometimes use the term "pejoratively to connote an unrealistic, pathos-filled, camp tale of romance or domestic situations with stereotypical characters (often including a central female character) that would directly appeal to feminine audiencesMilitary drama focuses on the interpersonal and situational crises of characters in the military Romantic drama sub-type of dramatic film which dwells on the elements of romantic love.Teen drama focuses on teenage characters, especially where a secondary school setting plays a role

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Timeline of history of drama in the Media Industry