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1. Television doesn't make
programmes, it creates
audiences
(Jean-Luc Goddard)
INTRODUCTION TO TV DRAMA

2. Starter
 On your own write down key words you remember from Friday

3. Session Aim
 To introduce TV Drama

4. Key Questions
 When is the exam - EAA1 form
 What is the exam about
 What do I need to know about TV Drama to achieve a high grade

5. English and Maths
 Communication, reading, writing and listening
 Viewing figures, time slots and days

6. Today's menu
 Starter - You Say We Pay
 Overview of exam
 TV Drama's
 What's happening
 Post it note

7. Key words
 Denotative: The surface meaning
 Connotative: The deeper or hidden meanings and associations
 Semiotics & Symbols
 Signifier + Signified = Sign
 THE SIGNIFIER – could be a word, colour, image, sound (i.e. the colour BLUE)
 THE SIGNIFIED – The associations that the sign refers to (i.e. BLUE is often
associated with sadness or the sea etc.)

8.  Signify/Signified/signifies
 Portray
 Indicates
 Represents
 Reveals
 Depict
 Implies
 Suggests

12. Exam - G322 Key Concepts in Media
 Your exam will be in two sections
 Section A - Textual Analysis 50 marks
 Section B - Institution and Audiences 50 marks
 The exam will be 2 hours long with 30 minutes for viewing and taking notes.
 The clip you view will be unseen

13. Section A
 You will complete a textual analysis of a TV Drama clip
 Exploring a variety of technical aspects of the language and conventions
of the moving image.
 This will be linked to a discussion of representation within the sequence:
 Camera angle,Shot, Movement and Composition
 Mise-en-scene
 Editing
 Sound

14. Section B
 One compulsory question based on a case study of a specific media
industry
 You will need to know contemporary institutional processes of production,
distribution, marketing and exchange/exhibition at a local, national or
international level as well as British audiences' reception and consumption.
 There will be some emphasis on your own experience of being an
audience member.

15. TV Drama Schedule
Create a TV schedule for just for:
 Teenagers
 Men 25-40
 Women 25-40
 Pensioners
 Your schedule can be any day and should last a whole day when possible.

17. TV Drama Sub Genre
Teen Dramas: These depend entirely on the target audience empathising with a
range of authentic characters and age-specific situations and anxieties, e.g. Skins.
Soap Operas: These never end, convey a sense of real time and depend entirely
on audiences accepting them as ’socially realist’, e.g. Coronation Street.
Costume Dramas: these are often intertexually linked to ‘classic’ novels or plays
and offer a set of pleasers that are very different to dramas set in our own world
contexts and times, e.g. Sharpe.
Medical/Hospital Dramas: These interplay our vicarious pleasure at witnessing
trauma and suffering on the part of patients and relatives with a set of staff
narratives that deploy sop opera conventions, e.g. Holby City.
Police/Crime Dramas: These work in the same way as medical/hospital dramas
but we can substitute the health context for representation of criminals and victims,
e.g. The Bill.
Docu-dramas: these are set apart from the other by their attempts to dramatise significant real events, which
usually have human interest, celebrity focus or political significance, e.g. Hamburg Cell.

18. Representation
 Identify groups that are represented

19. EEE! What's happening?

26. Homework
 Watch any TV Drama
 Make notes on 3 minutes of it
 What is the genre of your chosen drama and how does the:
 mise-en-scene
 location/setting
 camera angles, shot, movement
 sound
 editing
 tell you this, we should be able to even guess what the TV Drama is.
 You will tell another student this information and they will share with the class. This is saving
you from doing a 500 word essay!!

27. Plenary
 Post it note - what concerns do you have about the exam
 What are you favourite TV Drama's