You will find that
TV dramas all have the following ingredients:
- Characters – even particular kinds of
characters: eg, at its most simple, ‘good’ and ‘bad’ characters.
- Stories – they all tell stories, whether
those stories involve adventure, crime or romance and they often, but not
always, end happily.
- The stories are told against familiar
backdrops: – eg, homes, police stations and offices (for crime dramas),
hospitals (for medical dramas) – most of which are created in studios.
However, most dramas also use outside locations to create particular effects.
- Camerawork – particular kinds of shots
are used: eg, sequences involving establishing shots followed by mid-shots
of characters, shot/reverse shots to show character interaction and, in
particular,close-ups to show the characters’ emotions.
- Stories use dialogue to tell the
stories. Occasionally, monologues are built in (as voice-overs, a character
telling a story).
- Music is used to punctuate the action,
create effects (suspense, tension) and underline emotional moments.
- Particular subgenres tend to have items
which make them immediately identifiable – police cars, blue lights,
operating theatres and scalpels, triage/reception areas in hospitals.
Icons of the genre, they symbolise the (sub)genre.
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