Wednesday 3 March 2010

Conventions Within TV Dramas

Teen Drama:
Specific target audience social issues relevant to target audience- pregnancy, date rape, alcohol & drug addiction/abuse, sexuality, youth crime, relationships, anorexia, attractive characters, representational range of recognisable character types, authenticity.

Soap Operas:
Representation of crime, socially 'real' issues, narrative formula, never ends, dramatises significant/ real events, crime, death, alcohol/ drug abuse, social/ media events apparent.

Costume Dramas:
Links to classic novels/ plays, life very different to our own, significant/ real events.

Medical/ Hospital Dramas:
Sense of real time, based on true life, representation of crime, representation of health, narrative formula, socially 'real' issues.

Police/ crime Dramas:
Representation of crime, socially 'real' issues, narrative formula, sense of real time.

Docu-Drama:
Celebrity focus or political, dramatise significant or real events.

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