Hollyoaks is a TV drama/ soap aimed at older teenagers and people in their twenties. It follows the lives of people in Hollyoaks showing certain families and the dramas in their lives. Most of the people in the soap are the same age as the target audience so people can relate to the characters and things that could be happening in the characters lives.
Hollyoaks uses alot of over the shoulder shots when two people are in conversation so that you can see each side of the conversation and the emotions on their faces. It also uses alot of close ups and medium shots to get a range of shots showing how the scene is developing. The transitions are usually cuts especially in a conversation but if there is a fight scene then the speed of the cuts increases to show the fast pace of the fight. The dialogue in the scenes are usually informal chat as the target audience would relate to this more. When in outside setting background noise is played to make it seem more realistic even when there is no one else in the shot. Point of view shots are also used in this extract and show the audience what is happening through the characters eyes. Like in this extract when the hands are taken away from the eyes to see the picnic, this put the audience in the position of the character. Also a high angle shot is used to look down on the characters showing where they are in the setting and it provides a range of camera angles.
Sunday, 21 September 2008
Media concepts
When deconstructing a TV drama there are certain things that you should look for.
Such as:
Media language- This includes the lighting, framing, editing, sound, music and mise en scene.
Form and style - all types of media have structure thought the form and style of the piece, this can be created by the editing of shots and the music used which can determine the mood of the scene.
Conventions - This is like the ingredients for the structure. For example the difference between a horror film and a chick flick. The horror film you would expect the jumpy moments and the screams where as a chick flick you would expect softer music and a romantic elemant to it.
Signifcation - This is the meaning behind what you are seeing in the mise en scene, such as the colour red could represent love, blood or danger. This means there can be many interpretations as the signs are not agreed.
Audience - The audience is needed for the media to work as everything in the media is aimed at a certain type of audience. Male or female, teenagers or adults.They target a certain type of audience to make sure that they're targeted audience watches it.
Such as:
Media language- This includes the lighting, framing, editing, sound, music and mise en scene.
Form and style - all types of media have structure thought the form and style of the piece, this can be created by the editing of shots and the music used which can determine the mood of the scene.
Conventions - This is like the ingredients for the structure. For example the difference between a horror film and a chick flick. The horror film you would expect the jumpy moments and the screams where as a chick flick you would expect softer music and a romantic elemant to it.
Signifcation - This is the meaning behind what you are seeing in the mise en scene, such as the colour red could represent love, blood or danger. This means there can be many interpretations as the signs are not agreed.
Audience - The audience is needed for the media to work as everything in the media is aimed at a certain type of audience. Male or female, teenagers or adults.They target a certain type of audience to make sure that they're targeted audience watches it.
What is a TV Drama ?
Television dramas can be defined as programmes which follows a certain style, such as following the same characters through out the show, so the audience can relate to them and feel they know them. They are usually in familiar backdrops such as hospitals and streets to make it seem realistic even thought it is usually filmed in sets, this is called versimilitude. The stories told in the programee are also very important as a storyline can run through a whole season of a programme or only for one episode. TV dramas can be put into different categories depending on the type of characteristics used on that programme.
Some of these catergories include:
- skins, shamless and inbetweeners.
As they all have a similar teenage audience, about young people in Britain.
-24, lost and heros
This has a different audience with a wider range of people, they are all also american dramas, shown like short movies, with losts of different stories in each edipode.
-Eastenders, Emmerdale and Hollyoaks.
These are all British soaps following the lives of people in different settings around Britain.
Some of these catergories include:
- skins, shamless and inbetweeners.
As they all have a similar teenage audience, about young people in Britain.
-24, lost and heros
This has a different audience with a wider range of people, they are all also american dramas, shown like short movies, with losts of different stories in each edipode.
-Eastenders, Emmerdale and Hollyoaks.
These are all British soaps following the lives of people in different settings around Britain.
Monday, 15 September 2008
introduction
This blog is about TV dramas and how the representations in these drama creates an image in the media, even if these ideas are not reality. We will be looking at TV dramas such as Hollyoaks, Eastenders, Emmerdale as well as other types of TV drama sush as Desperate Housewives and Ugly Betty. I will be studying the conventions of these dramas, the framing, lighting, editing as well as the sound, music and mise en scene to show how the representations are created.
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