2. Two Sections:
Section A – Textual Analysis and
Representation in TV Drama (50 Marks)
Section B – Institutions and Audiences (50
Marks)
3. You will view an unseen 4-5 minute extract
from a TV Drama –You will spend 30 minutes
of the exam watching and re-watching this
clip and making notes.
You will then have 45 minutes to answer the
question
4.
5. We have 5 months to prepare you for your exam.
In this time you will be completing lots of tasks
and making notes.
To ensure that you do not loose any of your work
you will be making a new blogspot blog.
It MUST be a new one. You cannot use your
coursework one. This must remain intact.
All teacher powerpoints and resources will be
posted on the department VLE
7. TV drama is a broad category that has many
different sub genres.
They can take many different forms – Single
dramas, two- parters, mini-series, serials, series
and continuing dramas.
8. TV Dramas are an important part of broadcasters
programming. Especially for BBC and ITV who advertise
this as a key selling point of their channel.
TV Drama is a very popular genre of television
programming.
Dramatic programming is television content that is
scripted and (normally) fictional. This excludes, for
example, sports, news, reality and game shows, stand-up
comedy and variety shows. Also, by convention, the term
is not generally usually used for situation comedy.
Wikipedia
9. You have two minutes to make a list of all of
the different genres of television drama that
you can think of. You can work in pairs
Here are two to get you started Crime, soap
10. Share your lists of genres of TV dramas and
add ones you have missed to your own list
12. Now list as many examples of programmes
for each of the sub genres you have listed.
Use the BBC website or TV guides to help you
13. Definition: Kind or Type – It is a way of
classifying media texts using their
conventions.
TV Drama is a broad genre but it is important
that we think about the role genre plays in
broadcasters’ and television producers’
thinking as well as audiences’ viewing.
14. What are some of your favorite TV
programmes?
Why do you like them?
Are you aware that you are looking at a
programme in a particular genre ?
Discuss this with the person next to you
15. Watch and listen to the following clip with 3
extracts from a television drama.
Can you identify the genre that you are
watching/listening to?
What generic conventions did you identify from
the genre?
List these on your blog. You can embed the clip
from youtube to your own blog by stealing the
embed code from the VLE.
16. Define the television drama genre using the
knowledge you have gained in this lesson
Add this to the end of your blog.
Share some of your definitions with the class
