Doctor who

Doctor Who is aimed at a family audience. It has humour and story lines that will grab the interest of both adults and children. Although most of the story lines don’t represent the ‘real’ world (aliens/monsters) it does have relations with everyday life, the doctor and companions interact with the real world through normal/average activates; like getting a coffee, hanging with friends and family. In the current series of doctor who the companion works in a school as a teacher, interacting with the students in a normal manner, it is only with the doctor when her life gets flipped upside down. Doctor who is a thriller, sci-fi drama. It often touches on the reality of the ‘real’ world.

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TV Drama Notes

TV Drama

 

G322 Exam is two hours. Including 30 minutes for a viewing clip. Two questions. Each question is marked out of 50. 45 minutes on each.

 

Section A: Textual Analysis and Representation.

-Unseen TV extract of a TV drama

 -Camera angles

-Mise en Scene

-Editing -Sound

 

Section B: Institutions and Audiences.

-On films

-Contemporary institutional process of production, distribution, marketing and exchange/exhibition at a local, national or international level as well as British audiences’ reception and consumption. Research examples: Research British films and a mainstream Hollywood film. TV Drama: A story presented in a dramatic way and explores a series of genres and normally fiction Sub-Genres: a “sub-genre” is where genres are subdivided into more specific categories.

 

Teen Drama – These depend entirely on the target audience empathising with a range of authentic characters, age-specific situations and anxieties.

 

Period/Costume Drama – These are often linked to ‘classic’ novels or plays and offer a set of pleasers that are very different to dramas set in our times.

 

Medical/Hospital – We witness trauma and suffering on the part of patients and relatives with a set of staff narratives that deploy soap opera conventions.

 

Police/Crime – These work in the same way as medical/hospital dramas but we can substitute the health context for representation of criminal and victims.

Representation

Representation:
The process by which the media present to us the ‘real’ world. Factors that affect audience representation:
-Audience positioning: Consider how different categories of audiences will react to you -Interaction between other groups (Important when looking at characterisation within TV Drama)
-Cultural ideology: We all have expectations about how certain characters and groups should react, behave and operate within society.
-Exam spec has changed: No longer is the extract exclusive to the UK but can be an imported TV drama shown in the UK. How does the above affect this?

Key Points:

The media is the key source of our understanding of the world. For example, you probably won’t know what it’s like to live in Australia unless you have been there. Many people believe that the media is a powerful thing as it shapes our attitude and beliefs. 7 Groups of

Representation:

-Class
-Sexuality
-Disability
-Regional Identity
-Age
-Ethnicity
-Gender