Tuesday, 13 October 2009
Friday, 25 September 2009
Thursday, 2 July 2009
My analysation of the TV Drama - 'The Tudors'
My analysation of the TV Drama - 'The Tudors'
In the essay I am going to use my skills of denotation and connotation to textually analyze the opening title sequence of the TV Drama ‘The Tudors’. I am going to say how they created a sense of drama and how they draw the audience in.
At the beginning of the title sequence there are many quick and sharp camera changes showing the title sequence of the TV Drama and a mans face. This allows us as the audience to gain a lot of information in a small amount of time. It also allows us to concentrate on one certain character as the last camera shot is of a man which lets us see all of his emotions. This also suggests to the audience that he is the main character as we are made to concentrate on him.
Another way the audience is drawn into watching the TV Drama is the voice over at the beginning of the sequence. This creates the mood and it could also suggest to us the genre of the TV Drama. The person speaking the voice over is well spoken which connotes to us they come from a high class family. This could also suggest that the person speaking on the voice over is the man we see at the beginning as the voice over is happening.
As the girls corset is being drawn in this draws the audience in as the string is being done up. This connotes to us that she feels trapped, being someone she isn’t, doing things that she doesn’t want to do because people want her to. This draws the audience in as we want to find out the real her and we also want to find out why she feels trapped.
We get to witness the knife being taken out of its case which creates tension as it is a close-up shot of the knife. This signifies that men have more power then women as it is a man who is pulling the knife out. There is also non-digetic sound at this point as we hear the sharpness of the knife as it is revealed from the case.
As the audience we are constantly being drawn in as the title sequence is showing many secrets that are untold. As we see two teenagers running after each other, this suggests to us that they are made to act differently then who they actually are. It creates the image to us that when they are together they can be who they really are allowing then to be free and act their age, not to act older.
In the title sequence of the TV Drama ‘The Tudors’ there are many ways in which the producers draw in the audience from the camera angle to sound. They are all used to help, the audience get to know the genre of the TV Drama.
At the beginning of the title sequence there are many quick and sharp camera changes showing the title sequence of the TV Drama and a mans face. This allows us as the audience to gain a lot of information in a small amount of time. It also allows us to concentrate on one certain character as the last camera shot is of a man which lets us see all of his emotions. This also suggests to the audience that he is the main character as we are made to concentrate on him.
Another way the audience is drawn into watching the TV Drama is the voice over at the beginning of the sequence. This creates the mood and it could also suggest to us the genre of the TV Drama. The person speaking the voice over is well spoken which connotes to us they come from a high class family. This could also suggest that the person speaking on the voice over is the man we see at the beginning as the voice over is happening.
As the girls corset is being drawn in this draws the audience in as the string is being done up. This connotes to us that she feels trapped, being someone she isn’t, doing things that she doesn’t want to do because people want her to. This draws the audience in as we want to find out the real her and we also want to find out why she feels trapped.
We get to witness the knife being taken out of its case which creates tension as it is a close-up shot of the knife. This signifies that men have more power then women as it is a man who is pulling the knife out. There is also non-digetic sound at this point as we hear the sharpness of the knife as it is revealed from the case.
As the audience we are constantly being drawn in as the title sequence is showing many secrets that are untold. As we see two teenagers running after each other, this suggests to us that they are made to act differently then who they actually are. It creates the image to us that when they are together they can be who they really are allowing then to be free and act their age, not to act older.
In the title sequence of the TV Drama ‘The Tudors’ there are many ways in which the producers draw in the audience from the camera angle to sound. They are all used to help, the audience get to know the genre of the TV Drama.
Thursday, 11 June 2009
Pitch of our TV Drama
Name of show: Miss Martinez
Style: Fashionable
Workaholic side
Chile orientated
Fast-paced
Settings: Uptown apartment or house,
Vogue building,
Car
Key character: Elizabeth Martinez
Female, 28
Editor-in-chief of vogue
Rude, Stuck-up, Loss of child, Snobby, Rich, Bossy, High-status and engaged.
Narrative Structure: Ongoing story-lines
Storyline: A snobby woman living in London, working for a tom magazine Vogue. She comes across as a rude boss but has a heart when we find out that she has lost her daughter. Throughout the ongoing story-lines it is her trying to get back her daughter with her supportive fiance.
Style: Fashionable
Workaholic side
Chile orientated
Fast-paced
Settings: Uptown apartment or house,
Vogue building,
Car
Key character: Elizabeth Martinez
Female, 28
Editor-in-chief of vogue
Rude, Stuck-up, Loss of child, Snobby, Rich, Bossy, High-status and engaged.
Narrative Structure: Ongoing story-lines
Storyline: A snobby woman living in London, working for a tom magazine Vogue. She comes across as a rude boss but has a heart when we find out that she has lost her daughter. Throughout the ongoing story-lines it is her trying to get back her daughter with her supportive fiance.
Thursday, 14 May 2009
Youth Representation
Youths are represented in Moving Images by:Binge Drinking
Smoking
Drugs
Sexual Activity
Teenage Pregnancy
Gangs
Geeks
Indies
Emos
Bullying
Victims of child abuse
Slang words
Violence
Knife/Gun crime
Skins!
In the image above it shows a representation of Youths today. 'Skins' the programme contains many of the above. Sex, violence, sexual activity, smoking and binge drinking are all present in the Tv programme. The picture denotates youth of both genders looking rather rough. The connotes that they have been on a night out, maybe drinking, smoking and taking drugs. The background of the image looks as if they are out on the street maybe in an estate (somewhere they are not supposed to be)
Thursday, 7 May 2009
TV Vocabulary
TV Vocabulary
Mise-en-scene
'Realistic' technique whereby meaning is conveyed through the relationship of things visible within a single shot (rather than, as with montage, the relationship between shots). An attempt is preserve space and time as much as possible; editing or fragmenting of scenes is minimised. Composition is therefore extremely important. The way people stand and move in relation to each other is important. Long shots and long takes are characteristic.
Verisimilitude
Well strangely, it means what is sounds like it means that something is 'very similar', and relates to how similar this thing is to it. I first heard it used when described in relation to theatre setting and acting, where the goal of the performance or the set of the play was the appearance of realism, and this for me is a central meaning of the word.The dictionary calls it the appearance of truth or semblance of truth. Someone might criticise the actor's verisimilitude, their performance lacked truth, lacked the relationship to the truth of life, from the perspective of the audience.The word derives from the Latin word which means very similar to the truth. It can also mean the 'quality of seeming true' which is also a nice way of thinking about it.Acting is simply a process of bringing verisimilitude to the stage, using other people's words.
Social Realism
Social Realism, also known as Socio-Realism, is an artistic movement, expressed in the visual and other realist arts, which depicts social and racial injustice, economic hardship, through unvarnished pictures of life's struggles; often depicting working class activities as heroic. The movement is a style of painting in which the scenes depicted typically convey a message of social or political protest edged with satire. This is not to be confused with Socialist Realism, the official USSR art form that institutionalized Joseph Stalin in 1934 and later allied Communist parties worldwide.
Diegetic Sound
Non-Digetic Sound is the source that is neither visible or present in the shot. These sources include; a narrator's commentary, sound affects which has been added for dramatic affect and/or mood music where non-digetic sound if represented when coming from outside the shot.
Editing
Editing a TV drama is correcting, consending and organising the different shots so it runs smoothly. It also can include editing sound into the scene and putting it into its appropriate form.Final Cut Pro is a software used on an apple Mac to edit. Here is a picture to show the layout of editing shots.
Mise-en-scene
'Realistic' technique whereby meaning is conveyed through the relationship of things visible within a single shot (rather than, as with montage, the relationship between shots). An attempt is preserve space and time as much as possible; editing or fragmenting of scenes is minimised. Composition is therefore extremely important. The way people stand and move in relation to each other is important. Long shots and long takes are characteristic.
Verisimilitude
Well strangely, it means what is sounds like it means that something is 'very similar', and relates to how similar this thing is to it. I first heard it used when described in relation to theatre setting and acting, where the goal of the performance or the set of the play was the appearance of realism, and this for me is a central meaning of the word.The dictionary calls it the appearance of truth or semblance of truth. Someone might criticise the actor's verisimilitude, their performance lacked truth, lacked the relationship to the truth of life, from the perspective of the audience.The word derives from the Latin word which means very similar to the truth. It can also mean the 'quality of seeming true' which is also a nice way of thinking about it.Acting is simply a process of bringing verisimilitude to the stage, using other people's words.
Social Realism
Social Realism, also known as Socio-Realism, is an artistic movement, expressed in the visual and other realist arts, which depicts social and racial injustice, economic hardship, through unvarnished pictures of life's struggles; often depicting working class activities as heroic. The movement is a style of painting in which the scenes depicted typically convey a message of social or political protest edged with satire. This is not to be confused with Socialist Realism, the official USSR art form that institutionalized Joseph Stalin in 1934 and later allied Communist parties worldwide.
Diegetic Sound
Non-Digetic Sound is the source that is neither visible or present in the shot. These sources include; a narrator's commentary, sound affects which has been added for dramatic affect and/or mood music where non-digetic sound if represented when coming from outside the shot.
Editing
Editing a TV drama is correcting, consending and organising the different shots so it runs smoothly. It also can include editing sound into the scene and putting it into its appropriate form.Final Cut Pro is a software used on an apple Mac to edit. Here is a picture to show the layout of editing shots.
Thursday, 30 April 2009
Researching a TV Drama
Desperate HousewivesDesperate Housewives is an American television comedy-drama series, created by Marc Cherry, who also serves as show runner, and produced by ABC Studios and Cherry Productions. Executive producers, as of the fourth season, are Marc Cherry, Bob Daily, George W. Perkins, John Pardee and Joey Murphy, David Grossman, Larry Shaw and Sabrina Wind.
The setting of the show is the street of Wisteria Lane in the fictional American town of Fairview, Eagle State. It follows the lives of a group of women, seen through the eyes of their dead neighbor, as they work through domestic struggles and family life, while facing the secrets, crimes and mysteries hidden behind the doors of their—at the surface—beautiful and seemingly perfect suburban neighborhood.
The setting of the show is the street of Wisteria Lane in the fictional American town of Fairview, Eagle State. It follows the lives of a group of women, seen through the eyes of their dead neighbor, as they work through domestic struggles and family life, while facing the secrets, crimes and mysteries hidden behind the doors of their—at the surface—beautiful and seemingly perfect suburban neighborhood.
The show features an ensemble cast, headed by Teri Hatcher as Susan Mayer, Felicity Huffman as Lynette Scavo, Marcia Cross as Bree Van de Kamp and Eva Longoria Parker as Gabrielle Solis. Brenda Strong narrates the show as the deceased Mary Alice Young, appearing sporadically in flashbacks or dreams.
Since its premiere on ABC on October 3, 2004, the show has been well received by the critics as well as the audience. The show is a multiple Emmy, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild award winner, and in April 2007 it was reported to be the most popular show in its demographic worldwide, with an audience of approximately 115 to 119 million viewers.
Since its premiere on ABC on October 3, 2004, the show has been well received by the critics as well as the audience. The show is a multiple Emmy, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild award winner, and in April 2007 it was reported to be the most popular show in its demographic worldwide, with an audience of approximately 115 to 119 million viewers.
Here is a clip from the show - Desperate Housewives.
Reasons why I like the show:
I love Desperate Housewives. I think its really funny and I look forward to every Wednesday night when it comes on. I like the fact it is about 5 women who are all friends that are going through life happily - sometimes! They all have their own problems that they all help eachother to work through. I can imagine the show actually being real life as the problems the 5 friends go through are day to day things that most people go through.
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