Media Studies, GCSE, GCSE Media Studies, TV Drama, Media Language

1. TV DRAMA
ANALYSING MOVING IMAGE

2. SO WHAT IS IT?
• TV Dramas - are situations that occur in the characters’
lives which the audience can relate too. The story
would follow one or more main character and follow
other characters in which they meet in the series.

3. TV DRAMA GENRES

4. Crime
IS WHEN VIOLENCE, DRUGS AND ABUSE OCCUR IN THIS
DRAMA. IT IS OFTEN PERUSED BY A POLICE OFFICER OR
INSPECTOR

5. Soap
IS WHEN DRAMATIC SCENES HAPPENS TO MOST
CHARACTERS AND THEIR TRYING TO SOLVE THEIR OWN
PROBLEMS

6. Comedy
IS WHEN HUMOUR AND JOKES OCCUR
IN THIS DRAMA

7. Thriller/Horr
or/ Fantasy
IS WHEN SCENES OF HORRIFIC EVENTS OR
SUPERNATURAL EVENTS OCCUR IN THIS DRAMA

8. Sci-Fi
IS WHEN UNLIKELY EVENTS OCCUR WHICH CAN BE
SCIENTIFIC, SUPER POWERED OR OUT OF THIS WORLD
EVENTS HAPPEN TO CERTAIN CHARACTERS IN SPACE
OR ON ANOTHER PLANET

9. Medical
IS WHEN THE CHARACTERS WORK IN A HOSPITAL OR SOME
TYPE OF MEDIA SECTOR. CHARACTERS ARE MAINLY
DOCTORS AND NURSES

10. Period Drama
IS A DRAMA WHICH IS SET IN THE PAST RATHER THEN THE PRESENT
AND SHOWS CHARACTERS OF DIFFERENT BACKGROUNDS AND
INTERESTING EVENTS ON WHICH HAPPENED BEFORE

11. School
IS WHEN SCENES ARE MAINLY SITUATED WITHIN A
SCHOOL. IT WOULD USUALLY CONSIST OF
ARGUMENTS, FIGHTS.

12. Action

13. VISUAL CODES
• Clothing and physical appearance
• Gesture and body language
• Facial expressions
• Settings
• Use of colour
• Use of graphics
• Denotation/Connotation
• Intertextuality

14. TECHNICAL CODES
• Shots - range of shots and why they’re used - wide
shots? Close ups? High/low angle shots?
• Any camera movement
• Editing - the way scenes change from one to the next
• Lighting
• Mise en Scene - what’s in the shot

15. SOUND
• Sound - diegetic and non diegetic
• Any ambient noise
• Voice-over
• Music

16. Mise-en-scene

17. What different elements of mise en scene are
present?

19. props/objects
decor
lighting
setting/location
mise-en-scene
colours
hairstyle
costume make-up
posture/g
esture
performance
choice of actor
placement in the frame

20. denotation/connotation
signifier/signified

21. camerawork

22. tilt
low
focus
angle
high
track
movement
Camera
framing
inside
pan
outside
shot distance
ECU
CU
MS
LS

23. Continuity editing
• master shot/establishing shot

25. Continuity editing
• master shot/establishing shot
• 180 degree rule

27. Continuity editing
• master shot/establishing shot
• 180 degree rule
• shot/reverse shot

29. Continuity editing
• master shot/establishing shot
• 180 degree rule
• shot/reverse shot
• eyeline match

31. Continuity editing
• master shot/establishing shot
• 180 degree rule
• shot/reverse shot
• eyeline match
• match on action

33. Continuity editing
• master shot/establishing shot
• 180 degree rule
• shot/reverse shot
• eyeline match
• match on action
• insert shot

35. other features of editing
• cross-cutting
• graphic match
• ellipsis
• montage
• types of transition

36. Sound
• music
• dialogue
• ‘atmospheric’
• diegetic and non-diegetic
• ‘sound bridge’

37. Once Upon a Time