Representation in T.V drama : British social history
1) This article explains and evaluates the affect that the T.V represents social stereotypes and other generalized groups in social life. It explores how the T.V Company’s mould their products around the audience they are intending to attract and what affect social stereotypes has on certain T.V shows.
2) In 1944 the education act was introduced which means that lower and middle class people, could attend grammar schools so that they can expand their playwriting skills, playwrights such as John Osborne and Arnold Wesker both flourished in this period and became extremely prolific writers.
3) Repositioning in terms of social class means that the social class shifted in a way that made going to school and being from a lower class background actually an advantage so that the playwright and TV drama writers could draw from their poorer background to create a better show.
4) The script for the 9th of December 1960 included colloquial expressions such as “chuck” “nowt”, and this introduced audiences to working class matriarchs like Elise Tanner and Ena Sharples.
5) Black Writers and Producers have struggled to get anywhere in the T.V industry during the 1900’s because the industry was dominated by white Germans/Americans so there was no need for black writers, but later on they made their mark.
6) I believe tat in British T.V dramas disability is portrayed as being an acceptable thing, but is somewhat preyed upon by some black comedy writers, although this black comedy is funny to most teens to early twenties, but to actually disabled people and over 25’s it is seen as a disgrace and prejudiced.
7) In the 1970’s women were portrayed as pretty much always being the exception fro the rule, mainly being all powerful and rulers. But after this they were some what shown as being a stereotype of just a maid which was hated by some viewers. And now the women in all shows are meant to be given an equal role to men.
8) Lincoln challenges the stereotype of men as being masculine and butch, by introducing an openly gay character portrayed in a very different light, and this produced magazine such as FHM and LOADED.
9) Masculine code is a code that all men go by, which suggests that all men are masculine and are the dominant gender.
10)“Talking Heads”, challenges the frail and innocent stereotype of old people, with a group of elderly people exchanging sexual favors for money, this is quite a controversial idea but it is what the T.V Company’s need nowadays to shock the public into watching.
11)Stephen Hill says that Skins is about under-age sex, drugs, homosexuality and alcoholism and that there are many unofficial “skins Parties”, which are advertised on Facebook and Bebo, this depiction he has of skins also does paint a bad image on teenage lifestyle. For example, if an elderly person read this then they would have an overall view of teens that this is all they do.
12)Monarch of the Glen, showed young people in a very bad light, it portrayed teens as being very naive and stupid. This show has a very stereotypical view on young people compared to older more mature and more hard-working people.
Analysing music in TV drama
1) Music is extremely important in TV drama it sets the mood, the period, and the situation, Music is specially composed to the certain drama to create an atmosphere and in some cases to rise and fall to represent the certain emotion of different characters and situations.
2) Synchronisation
3) Repeated association is a certain type of music representing a certain group or a certain section of society, for example the royle family on television is represented with a regal genre behind them.
4)If the director does not choose to represent emotion in the music then the acting is not supported and not backed up by anything, for example if there was a very sombre and sad moment without music tis storyline would be unelievable and wouldn't hit the viewer as much as if there was music.
5)Leitmotif is when a certain sound of jingle is always linked to a certain character or object. This type of music can help the viewer connect more with the person/object and also create a better drama allthogether.
6)Music is used to structure drama by 4 ways, 1- emotion, 2- time period, 3- Setting the atmosphere/scene and 4 - Bridge to link two scenes together.
7) Digetic music is music that the characters in the programme can actually hear and relate to.
8) He selects music for the show, from live gigs, up and coming new artists and in some cases mailed demo tapes.
In conclusion, this article explores and develops the way im which we view the T.V drama industry as a whole, this will help us decide and develop what we watch and how we are shown the industry. this article explains what the producers and makers of the dramas are aiming for and how they hit their targets and even further them.
Analysing music in TV drama
1) Music is extremely important in TV drama it sets the mood, the period, and the situation, Music is specially composed to the certain drama to create an atmosphere and in some cases to rise and fall to represent the certain emotion of different characters and situations.
2) Synchronisation
3) Repeated association is a certain type of music representing a certain group or a certain section of society, for example the royle family on television is represented with a regal genre behind them.
4)If the director does not choose to represent emotion in the music then the acting is not supported and not backed up by anything, for example if there was a very sombre and sad moment without music tis storyline would be unelievable and wouldn't hit the viewer as much as if there was music.
5)Leitmotif is when a certain sound of jingle is always linked to a certain character or object. This type of music can help the viewer connect more with the person/object and also create a better drama allthogether.
6)Music is used to structure drama by 4 ways, 1- emotion, 2- time period, 3- Setting the atmosphere/scene and 4 - Bridge to link two scenes together.
7) Digetic music is music that the characters in the programme can actually hear and relate to.
8) He selects music for the show, from live gigs, up and coming new artists and in some cases mailed demo tapes.
In conclusion, this article explores and develops the way im which we view the T.V drama industry as a whole, this will help us decide and develop what we watch and how we are shown the industry. this article explains what the producers and makers of the dramas are aiming for and how they hit their targets and even further them.
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