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Key words

Mise-en-scene: 'Putting in the scene.' Basically everything you see in the frame.

Dialogue: Speaking (What the characters say).

Digetic Sound: Sound that's in the world of TV drama. (what they can hear).

Incidental music: Music that's added on.

Non-digetic sound: Could be sound effects, voice overs, theme tunes etc.

Narrative/structure: Story line

Theme: Ideals/morals explored

Cinematography: Camera work

dexter title sequence

Camera movements

Crab: The camera moves sideways, like a crab does.

Pan: The camera stays in the same spot but pivots left or right.

Tilt: The camera stays in the same spot but tilts up or down.

Dolly: Also known as tracking, the camera moves backwards or forwards.

Boom: The camera moves vertically.

Textual analysis

Textual analysis is the process of breaking down a text into its various elements and studying them to analyse how meaning is created. when analysing moving image media (such as film or television) er must examine the following areas:

• Camera work (shots, angles, movements)
• Editing (hows shots have been put together)
• Sound (both digetic and non-digetic)
• Special effects (if there are any)
• Mise-en-scene (costume, make-up, facial expression, props, setting, performance and lighting)

XLS: Extra long shot/wide shot/establishing shot

LS: Long shot

MLS: Medium long shot

MS: Mid shot

MCU: Medium close up

BCU: Big close up

ECU: Extreme close up

P.O.V. Shot: Camera shoots from a characters P.O.V.(Point of view)

Over-the-shoulder shot: Camerashoots over a character's shoulder.

Low: Camera looking up at subject, making it look bigger.

Eye-level: Camera is pointed directly at subject.

High: Camera is looking down on subject, making it look smaller.

Worm's eye: Extreme low angle, camera is very low, looking up.

Canted: Camera is tilted to make subject look slanted.

Bird's eye: Extreme high angle, looking straight down.

What is the purpose of a title sequence?

• to introduce the programme
• tells us the genre/sub-genre of the show
• tells us location/setting
• tells us information about the characters
• it's a warning that the shows about to start
• it gives the show a recognisable identity
• it can give the information about the tone/style/pace
• tells us the period of time the show is set in

Mise-en-scene

Costume:

• He's topless whilst getting ready (shaving, making coffee + breakfast, whilst flossing, whilst putting shoes on)


• Puts on shoes and ties them


• Puts on his top (looks like he's suffocating himself)


• At the end when he walks out of his house, he is dressed in white which makes him look innocent.

Setting:

• Wakes up in bedroom


• Shaves in bathroom


• Cooks in kitchen


• Flosses teeth in bathroom


• Walks outside

Lighting:

• Dark lighting in the kitchen


• Bright in the bathroom


• Daytime lighting at the beginning


• Dark in the room, although it's daytime


• Low lighting


• Dark inside, light outside

Props:

• Razor


• tissue


• meat


• eggs


• knife


• orange


• laces


• flossing string


• coffee maker


• frying pan


• scalpel

Performance:

• Shaves his neck like he's cutting someone's throat


• He ties his shoe laces as if he's strangling a person


• He cuts the orange like a murderer


• The first thing he does is kill a mosquito


• He cleans the blood from his neck with a tissue


• When he was putting on his shirt, he acts like he's suffocating himself


• He uses floss to clean his teeth

Facial expressions:

• Smiles: makes him look like he knows what he's doing


• His eyes are mysterious and eyebrows are bent


• His face is focused forward and it makes him look like a killer

Make Up:

• His eyebrows are thick, his face is fresh - different colour from his beard


• His face is greasy and his lips are shiny

Tv drama - Sub genres

This is the glogster which i made, but unfortunately Glogster failed to let me upload it to my blog, so I had to edit it in paint and upload it that way. Sorry in advance if it's slightly blurry but it couldnt be helped.

Glogster

Examples of Tv drama

Some examples:

• Eastenders
• Skins
• Waterloo Road
• The Bill
• One Tree Hill
• Gilmore Girls
• Hollyoaks
• Shameless
• Heroes
• Doctor Who
• CSI
• Primevil
• The Office
• Lost
• The Wire
• Smallville
• Heartbeat
• Holby City
• Sex in the city
• Casulty
• 90210
• 24
• Robin Hood

Media Brief

By the end of this project I must have:

• A thorough, detailed research and planning blog.
• A textual analysis essay, analysing an existing television drama programme.
• A storyboard for the title sequence for my own, original television drama programme.

I will also have:

• A filmed and edited DVD of my own original title sequence.