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An introduction to TV drama

1) Series television drama is drama that is organised into a series of episodes. This can contain many episodes as a whole.

2)
  • Doctor Who
  • Hill street Blues
  • Starsky and Hutch 
  • The sweeney
  • The minder
3) The Sub genres featured in the fact sheet are

  • medical
  • family
  • teen
  • Science fiction
  • Perioud
4)The setting in television is important because it adds to the Mise en scene that is being created within the drama. This means that they add element to the drama of the story line and the characters also develop a personality through the locations.

5)The uses and gratifications theory can be linked to TV Drama because the characters help audiences build relations through them as it can allow everyone to escape from their daily reality and imagine themselves in the situations of the characters instead.

6) A multi stand narrative is examples of works that are made up of different strands which trigger audiences reaction as the strands are in some way related to each other. This is made up of non linear and linear which is a story made up of beginning middle and end and non linear is having a chronological order but not necessarily having a ending.

7)A cold opening introduces the main plots of the TV show which then add a teaser to it to engage the audience into watching the actual episode itself.

8)Todorov's Theory can be applied to TV drama serials because these serials always start with a equilibrium in the beginning which means at the beginning there will always be a happy start displayed. This then changes as the story line will feature a problem and something will then disrupt the happiness. Then it is further taken when everyone realises the problem and becomes chaos and after this order is restored and a new equilibrium is formed as normality can resume again.

9) For TV dramas to be distributed adequately they need operate in, tough commercial environment so that they can hook and maintain their audience for every episode. Also TV dramas tend to be a multi strand narrative and each episode is made a certain length within seasons depending on the distrubition company.

10) Tv Subscription channels have changed the form and content of TV dramas through challenging the content that is being displayed and commission shorter running times to be displayed.

11)Vampire Diaries:
Setting: The setting of this television Drama is typically in Mystic Falls in Virginia, and has also been filmed in Vancouver and British Colombia to demonstrated a typical lifestyle of a school girl and how it leads to these mythical rumours within the town which change her life as well as other characters.

Characters: This show displayed mythical characters like vampires as two boys who are actually vampires keep it secret and after they don't age people become suspicious until they move some where else.

Narrative: each episode focuses on a particular problem that goes in within the neighbourhood and each episode displays a problem.

forms:Distributor is Netflix and comes on for about 40-45 minutes.

12) TV drama genre may Evolve by the shows that are crime related will decrease because more shows to do with less crime is better for the audience. Also location changes as well as narrative changes will evolve so that audiences can receive a new form of pleasure.











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