TV DRAMA

 07 January 2025

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1. There are two media exams
2. Each exam is 1 hour 30 minutes
3. Genre is a type of a media form that involves a certain set of characteristics 
4. Target audience for the Archers is older middle class, white British women 
5. BBC remit is educate, inform, entertain

TV drama 
LO. explore the content and format of the unit 

Component 2: Understanding media forms and products
Section A: TV crime drama - 'Luther' and 'The Sweeney'  
Section B: Music videos 

Section A: 
Question 1: Media language OR Representation
Question 2: Media industries OR audiences OR media context 

Crime Drama
Genre: a type of a media form that involves a certain set of characteristics 
Sub genre: subdivision / more specific category within a genre
Hybrid Genre: shares the conventions of more than one genre 



The Responder
  • Narrative:   opening scene trying to stop a crime, intense situation
  • Setting:  office, city, home, urban areas
  • Characters: white male police officer, interviewer/ colleague?, wife and child
  • Mis en scene: police uniform, siren sounds, alarm clock, police car, lowkey lighting, ariel view shot types
Happy Valley
  • Narrative:  opening scene trying to stop a crime, intense situation
  • Setting: shop, public park, offices, urban areas
  • Characters: confident female police officer, drunk rowdy young men
  • Mis en scene: police car and uniform, lowkey lighting, ariel view shot types
Line Of Duty
  • Narrative: police tracking down a man but accidentally shoot the wrong person, opening scene trying to stop a crime, intense situation
  • Setting: run down apartment buildings, police offices, urban areas
  • Characters: male police officers, crying woman and baby
  • Mis en scene: police cars, siren lights and sounds, radios, guns, police protective gear (bulletproof vests), crying sounds, lowkey lighting, ariel view shot types
Similarities

Typical codes and conventions in TV crime drama: 
  • Narrative: opening scene usually an intense situation involving trying to stop a crime, usually with a victim. There are clues and red herrings that help or hinder the investigation. The story has a continuing narrative arc that unfolds over multiple episodes
  • Setting: Urban areas or cities
  • Characters: policeman and detectives as key characters, tent to be intelligent and determined to solve the crime, but they have a flaw. Antagonist is intelligent and crafty, always seems to be one step ahead of the protagonist. Usually handful of suspects with motives and a reasonable opportunity to have committed the crime. Typical character types such as villain, hero, helper, dispatcher
  • Mis en scene: Police cars and uniform, siren sounds, ariel views
  • Representation: the representation of characters and themes can challenge stereotypes and con-veined ideas
  • Media Language: low key lighting, gritty and realistic settings, handheld camerawork, fast paced editing, diegetic sound (as if you were there) 

Explain the impact of these conventions and how they can engage audiences in a programme.
These conventions are good for engaging audiences as they create tension through fast editing, and hand held camera work to make the viewer feel as if they are actually there. This creates a connection between the viewer and the show, additionally to the continuing narrative arc and gritty, realistic settings. This is interesting for the audience to see as they are often used to censored scenes, so this realistic perspective is intruiging  
















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