The Boat that Rocked
There are a range of characters throughout the script, QUENTIN, ANGUS, COUNT, TWATT, DORMANDY, SIMON, GAVIN, THICH KEVIN, DAVE, HAROLD, BOB, NEWS JOHN, FELICITY.
They all have different roles but the men are the dominant gender. Most of the male characters in the script are represented as a quite typical, aggressive and loud.
One of the male characters is shown as seeking sexual attention because the way they talk. And by showing much of his attention towards Felicity who is a lesbian.
Thursday, 27 January 2011
Tuesday, 25 January 2011
Analyses
Byker Grove
Is a 30 minutes episode and its Children's Drama. The episode opens with a narrative explaining what the episode is about and is linked from one scene to another introducing new charatcers. After tyhe scene the titles and the music comes on.
Mainly children are the characters and its set in day time which suggests its for children.
The title at the bottom of the page tells a bit of the story so the audience can understand it more clearly.
Through the first few minutes of the episode there is a chinese music which sets the atmosphere and linkes with the picture. The digetic sound is used to explain the scnene even more. The mise en scene shows that we notice straight away its for kids also the sounds are quite gentle and more of a children's type. At the beging of the episode a girl introduces her self stating her age and explains what her movie will be about wqhich doesnt nessesarly represent tyhe episode's narrative.
White girl
It a TV drama or a one of film shown on bbc 2. Opens up with a close up of a girl's bike she is riding it. Along with it there is a piano music played in the background. The film is set in England, cancil state and it represents working class people. The mise en scene represents the area as poor and its shown through the characters clothing. The characters swearing suggests they are low class some sort of chavs.
Visual lang shows the situation of the familly who are running away from tghe dad who is perhaps alcoholic or violent. They are scared of him.
Half way into the scene the music comes along with the picture which suggests freedom when the familly manages to run away and they drive off. The next scene shows the area the familly is moving into which also is poor because of the houses and the characters - tyhe way they were dressed. eg: small girl not wearing any trousers , rabish on the street. the music suggests its an area where muslim people are leaving. From the start the audience get a negative impression because of the setting.
The bill
Its also a TV Drama episode because of showing the audience what happend previously. Unlike other Dramas there is one story shown and how the characters are trying to deal with it. Verbal lang tells us what is going on exaclty. Written text is shown. Verbal lang and the visual lets the audience to understand the story in more details and more clearly.
Is a 30 minutes episode and its Children's Drama. The episode opens with a narrative explaining what the episode is about and is linked from one scene to another introducing new charatcers. After tyhe scene the titles and the music comes on.
Mainly children are the characters and its set in day time which suggests its for children.
The title at the bottom of the page tells a bit of the story so the audience can understand it more clearly.
Through the first few minutes of the episode there is a chinese music which sets the atmosphere and linkes with the picture. The digetic sound is used to explain the scnene even more. The mise en scene shows that we notice straight away its for kids also the sounds are quite gentle and more of a children's type. At the beging of the episode a girl introduces her self stating her age and explains what her movie will be about wqhich doesnt nessesarly represent tyhe episode's narrative.
White girl
It a TV drama or a one of film shown on bbc 2. Opens up with a close up of a girl's bike she is riding it. Along with it there is a piano music played in the background. The film is set in England, cancil state and it represents working class people. The mise en scene represents the area as poor and its shown through the characters clothing. The characters swearing suggests they are low class some sort of chavs.
Visual lang shows the situation of the familly who are running away from tghe dad who is perhaps alcoholic or violent. They are scared of him.
Half way into the scene the music comes along with the picture which suggests freedom when the familly manages to run away and they drive off. The next scene shows the area the familly is moving into which also is poor because of the houses and the characters - tyhe way they were dressed. eg: small girl not wearing any trousers , rabish on the street. the music suggests its an area where muslim people are leaving. From the start the audience get a negative impression because of the setting.
The bill
Its also a TV Drama episode because of showing the audience what happend previously. Unlike other Dramas there is one story shown and how the characters are trying to deal with it. Verbal lang tells us what is going on exaclty. Written text is shown. Verbal lang and the visual lets the audience to understand the story in more details and more clearly.
TV Drama analyses
We have covered TV Drama. TV Drama could be:
Form - shape or structure usually linked to narrative
Style - the distinctive look of the media text. A particular TV drama often displayes an individual style identified by specific choice in technical codes.
Genre - French word meaning 'sort' or 'kind' used in grouping programmes which may have similar form or structure for example police drama
Conventions - characteristic ingriedience of a specific genre and elements which make it recognisable. May be connected with form, lang, theme, or visual elements,all the soaps share multiple narratives eg: characters.
Semiotics - similar to connotation and denotation. Signs and symbols. Denotation- sygnifiers connotation- signified. Denotation is often literal and connotation is more varied.
Aural language - verbal lang of text but also various elements which go to make up the sound mix eg: incidental music, atmosphere tracks, foley, spot effects.
Visual language - includes technical areas such as camera, lights, mise en scene- obvious overlap.
Media languages
Written language- applicable to print and web where 'copy' is a significant area, any media text in which the written word is features.
Verbal language- clearly high relevant to TV drama. The verbal lang is a significant part of the structure often the vehicle for carrying the narrative lang choice are vital in creating appropriate responses from the audience.
Non verbal language - that conveys through gesture , pose, stance. In addition the term 'blocking' which comes from the theathre is apllicable. 2 and 3 dimension (D) space is included which includes semiotics. The sound is classified as digetic and non digetic depending on if it could be heard by the participiants in the text.
Analyses of Five Days
We have watched the first few minutes of Five Days. It is a TV Programme/ Drama.
Sound Aural language Dramatic music along with the titles (piano).
Aeroplane sound and talking on the aeroplane suggests the plane is moving. The sound is digetic. Heave breathing , music in the background sets the atmosphere.
In the next scene the sound of the cars on the highway suggests the cars are moving fast. The music getts louder in the background. Dogs barking sets the atmosphere and tells the narrative where the characters are and helps the audience to understand a story a little bit more. There is a verbal connection between the scenes.
The scenes jump from one to another and every time the audience get introduced to new characters.
- comedy drama
- potitical drama
- dramatisation of real life
- ongoing / specific number
- series
- episodes
Form - shape or structure usually linked to narrative
Style - the distinctive look of the media text. A particular TV drama often displayes an individual style identified by specific choice in technical codes.
Genre - French word meaning 'sort' or 'kind' used in grouping programmes which may have similar form or structure for example police drama
Conventions - characteristic ingriedience of a specific genre and elements which make it recognisable. May be connected with form, lang, theme, or visual elements,all the soaps share multiple narratives eg: characters.
Semiotics - similar to connotation and denotation. Signs and symbols. Denotation- sygnifiers connotation- signified. Denotation is often literal and connotation is more varied.
Aural language - verbal lang of text but also various elements which go to make up the sound mix eg: incidental music, atmosphere tracks, foley, spot effects.
Visual language - includes technical areas such as camera, lights, mise en scene- obvious overlap.
Media languages
Written language- applicable to print and web where 'copy' is a significant area, any media text in which the written word is features.
Verbal language- clearly high relevant to TV drama. The verbal lang is a significant part of the structure often the vehicle for carrying the narrative lang choice are vital in creating appropriate responses from the audience.
Non verbal language - that conveys through gesture , pose, stance. In addition the term 'blocking' which comes from the theathre is apllicable. 2 and 3 dimension (D) space is included which includes semiotics. The sound is classified as digetic and non digetic depending on if it could be heard by the participiants in the text.
Analyses of Five Days
We have watched the first few minutes of Five Days. It is a TV Programme/ Drama.
Sound Aural language Dramatic music along with the titles (piano).
Aeroplane sound and talking on the aeroplane suggests the plane is moving. The sound is digetic. Heave breathing , music in the background sets the atmosphere.
In the next scene the sound of the cars on the highway suggests the cars are moving fast. The music getts louder in the background. Dogs barking sets the atmosphere and tells the narrative where the characters are and helps the audience to understand a story a little bit more. There is a verbal connection between the scenes.
The scenes jump from one to another and every time the audience get introduced to new characters.
Wednesday, 19 January 2011
Analyses Silent Witness
Silent Witness its a series which are shown on BBC. Each episode is 60 minutes long and each represents a story mainly its a crime story. This is mainly viewed by the age of 16 and above younger viewers might find it not suitable for them due to some scenes shown.
The opening of the episode that i have seen was tense and for someone who does not follow the story does not know what is going on in there. At the start of the episode there are no titles shown this probably means that the viewers are well introduced to them from watching them in the past. However the titles appear after few scenes right after 2 minutes of the episode being shown and the title at the bottom of the screen shows the title of the episode to give the audience an idea of what will happen perhaps. We get introduced to the character who is running but he does it with anger and during it we see some flashbacks of him in the army which makes him very angry. Straight away we can tell that this character is clearly upset, full of anger and he was the opening of the episode which the camera focused on for few good minutes so this suggests he will have something to do with the episode later on perhaps the camera might want us to remember his face as he might appear later on but in different light.
When looking at the language that is used in there its quite strong at the beginning because of the anger between the two characters which one of them is murdered just later in the episode along with some tense music to show the audience the emotions and to set some kind of atmosphere.
The scenes take place in 3 different locations where we meet different character so we get introduced to them by each scene as we find out something about them such as the way they dress and speak suggests they are middle class people.Mise en scene sets the atmosphere and really sinks the audience in because of the way its all played out and shown.
As said before there was a tense music used and digetic sound relevant with the scene like in the court when the two characters were arguing. This is done so we can see or hear that the scenes takes place in the court and feel the emotions.
The scenes are all set in the day time and the lighting used was very good to perhaps make the space brighter such as in the office where its a building we as an audience want to be able to see what is going on between the characters.
The opening of the episode that i have seen was tense and for someone who does not follow the story does not know what is going on in there. At the start of the episode there are no titles shown this probably means that the viewers are well introduced to them from watching them in the past. However the titles appear after few scenes right after 2 minutes of the episode being shown and the title at the bottom of the screen shows the title of the episode to give the audience an idea of what will happen perhaps. We get introduced to the character who is running but he does it with anger and during it we see some flashbacks of him in the army which makes him very angry. Straight away we can tell that this character is clearly upset, full of anger and he was the opening of the episode which the camera focused on for few good minutes so this suggests he will have something to do with the episode later on perhaps the camera might want us to remember his face as he might appear later on but in different light.
When looking at the language that is used in there its quite strong at the beginning because of the anger between the two characters which one of them is murdered just later in the episode along with some tense music to show the audience the emotions and to set some kind of atmosphere.
The scenes take place in 3 different locations where we meet different character so we get introduced to them by each scene as we find out something about them such as the way they dress and speak suggests they are middle class people.Mise en scene sets the atmosphere and really sinks the audience in because of the way its all played out and shown.
As said before there was a tense music used and digetic sound relevant with the scene like in the court when the two characters were arguing. This is done so we can see or hear that the scenes takes place in the court and feel the emotions.
The scenes are all set in the day time and the lighting used was very good to perhaps make the space brighter such as in the office where its a building we as an audience want to be able to see what is going on between the characters.
Monday, 10 January 2011
Analyses of the TV Drama
Eastenders
Eastenders is a very popular British TV Drama which have been shown for a long period of time on BBC 1 channel. The episode i have seen recently involves a female character called Ronnie who is terrified about a baby boy she has stolen of another character called Kat who is unaware of the situation due to be in a shock after her own child past away in a sleep. The whole idea of Eastenders is to keep delivering the drama to the audience who are fascinated by it and to picture how this TV Drama reflects on the viewer's everyday life and what similarities they face.
During the 30 minutes of the episode each time the audience learn and find out new thinks about the characters and their lives they live in.
There are few places such as pub, local houses, the main street used to create the whole atmosphere and to set the mood of each episode depending on the plot that is being followed.
In this episode the scene takes place in the house where Kat and her husband Alfie still upset after finding their baby boy dead upstairs in the bedroom are discussing of moving on and reopening the pub which they own so it can function properly and they will forget quicker about the tragedy that have touched them. During the conversation Kat is very upset and she decides to pack all Tommy's staff who died in the bin bag and brings it to Ronnie who is very uncomfortable about this but at the end accepts the gift.
Another scene takes place in the house which involves one of the characters called Phil Mitchel who is the father of Ben. The police knocks on his door asking for Ben who is suspected of pushing Glenda down the stairs and causing her a serious injury but he does not let them in and protects his son till the end.
Throw the whole episode there is no background music played just at the beginning with the subtitles and at the end of the episode followed by the titles as well. However there is a moment where for few second the radio music is played just outside the pub where Alfie and Kat's father are discussing her health and the state she is in.
There is a natural day light used outside the building but inside it there was some light used to show the characters faces and to make the scene look bright.
The whole episode contained 3 main story lines which are listed above.
Eastenders is a very popular British TV Drama which have been shown for a long period of time on BBC 1 channel. The episode i have seen recently involves a female character called Ronnie who is terrified about a baby boy she has stolen of another character called Kat who is unaware of the situation due to be in a shock after her own child past away in a sleep. The whole idea of Eastenders is to keep delivering the drama to the audience who are fascinated by it and to picture how this TV Drama reflects on the viewer's everyday life and what similarities they face.
During the 30 minutes of the episode each time the audience learn and find out new thinks about the characters and their lives they live in.
There are few places such as pub, local houses, the main street used to create the whole atmosphere and to set the mood of each episode depending on the plot that is being followed.
In this episode the scene takes place in the house where Kat and her husband Alfie still upset after finding their baby boy dead upstairs in the bedroom are discussing of moving on and reopening the pub which they own so it can function properly and they will forget quicker about the tragedy that have touched them. During the conversation Kat is very upset and she decides to pack all Tommy's staff who died in the bin bag and brings it to Ronnie who is very uncomfortable about this but at the end accepts the gift.
Another scene takes place in the house which involves one of the characters called Phil Mitchel who is the father of Ben. The police knocks on his door asking for Ben who is suspected of pushing Glenda down the stairs and causing her a serious injury but he does not let them in and protects his son till the end.
Throw the whole episode there is no background music played just at the beginning with the subtitles and at the end of the episode followed by the titles as well. However there is a moment where for few second the radio music is played just outside the pub where Alfie and Kat's father are discussing her health and the state she is in.
There is a natural day light used outside the building but inside it there was some light used to show the characters faces and to make the scene look bright.
The whole episode contained 3 main story lines which are listed above.
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