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.
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