{TV Drama

By Emma, Josh and Genite

Genre

A category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject matter.

Sub genre

A subcategory within a particular genre

Narrative Theory

Russian theorist, Tzvetan Todorov, suggests that all narratives follow a three part structure. They begin with equilibrium, where everything is balanced, progress as something comes along to disrupt that equilibrium, and finally reach a resolution, when equilibrium is restored.Proop theory suggest that there are set characters in every TV Drama. For Example: the hero, the villain, the helper and a mentor.

Crime

The main conventions of a crime drama:• The main characteristics of a crime drama are

officers of the law, victims, suspects and criminals.• Most crime drama’s deal with one or two main

crimes per episode, sometimes more. New victims are created every time, whilst the cops remain the same.

• Crime dramas are usually set in rooms, such as the interview room, or the court room, the autopsy room or the squad room at the police station and mainly set in the city.

Medical

The main conventions of a medical drama:• A medical drama is a television program, in

which events center upon a hospital, an ambulance staff, or any medical environment.

• Most medical drama’s deal with one or two main accidence per episode, sometimes more. New victims are created every time, whilst the medical staff remain the same.

Soap opera

The main conventions of a soap opera:• A television or radio drama series dealing typically with

daily events in the lives of the same group of characters.

• Most parts of the drama include relationships within different family's within the area. There are usually several different story's going on at the same time.

Costume Drama

The main conventions of a Costume drama: • A television or cinema production set in a particular

historical period, in which the actors wear costumes typical of that period.