2. What is a web based drama?
• Web television (abbreviated web TV) is original television content produced
for broadcast on the internet.
• Web television content includes web series, original miniseries, animated
shorts and exclusive video that supplements conventional television
broadcasts.
• Some major distributors of web television are YouTube, Myspace,
Newgrounds, Blip.tv, and Crackle.
• Some examples of web television production companies are: Next New
Networks, Vuguru and Take180.
• In 2008, the International Academy of Web Television headquartered in Los
Angeles formed with the mission to organize and support web television
authors, actors, producers, and executives.
• To add to this, a web based drama is a series of videos with a storyline and a
group of characters which someone or a group of people have come up with
for free.
3. Examples of web based drama’s
Doctor Who Dreamland – This is a web based drama, and is based on the hit bbc
show ‘Doctor Who’ its what you could call a spin off, as its not the real show
but it features the main character and envolves and adventure similar to that of
the original show.
I feel that this is classed as a web based drama
because they use the episodes that have
already been made, but add their own twists
and add to it.
4. The key conventions and characteristics
of web based dramas
The common conventions and characteristics of a web
based drama are the same sort of Conventions which
are used on normal TV dramas and films. For example;
Eastenders.
From watching ‘Becoming Human’, some of the conventions that are used were
music to set the mood and tension, it has a set storyline, you Can distinguish
from the characters what their role is in the story and they leave the episodes on
cliff hangers to grab the audience attention.
