Info on tv drama

Definitions:
Groups - any number of entities (members) considered as a unit.
 example: the group of people in misfits.

Events - event - something that happens at a given place and time.
example: the event of tony being hit by the bus at the end of the first series of skins.

Places - place somebody in a particular situation or location.
example: the police station in life on mars.

Social Types - could be considered the different groups within sociarty.
example:  the lower class teenagers in misfits or the middle class teenagers in skins.

analysis of tv drama (misfits)

1)
Techniques used in misfits ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOCZl2ENf-w )

Use of sound:
the way in how the music suddenly changes to an errie threatening type of music before anything bad has happend makes the viewr interested and whants to know whats going on.

Use of camera angles:
The way how most of the shots were over the sholder shots this adds to the feeling that there being watched by someone and something is sneeking up/watching them.
The way how in the beginning everything was blurred out except one character makes the viewers focus on that specific character.

Eye line match:
all the charactes faces are centered in the middle of the screen with the characters eyes all located on the 1st 1/3 section of the shot to make the viewres notice been drawn to the characters eyes.



2)
What techniques enhance our viewing experiance and create realism?
Techniques used that create realism would be the way the lighting changes and dims so that it seems more realistic and is not so perfect making it seem more realistic.
another technique would be how the mise en scene makes everything look like its meant to be there and the little details can make the viewer relate the programe to there lives.
realism is good for tv dramas as they  allow the user to relate to the programe and with this it makes the user want to watch more as they can personally relate to it.

Techniques that enhance our viewing experiance would be :
editing techniques such as : match on action, transitions, time compression, removing/ adding images, still frame/ freeze and eye line matches.
These enhance our viewing experiance as it makes the viewer intreted in the programme as it adds effects that the viewer wouldnt see in every day life and this makes them interested as to what else they will see throughout the programme.

media character types and narrative structure.

In media today we were learning about two different things:
narrative structure and character types.
narrative structure:
there are two different views on narrivite types (Propps theory and Todorovs theory)
For props theory he belives it goes in the sequence (1) Perparation (2) complication (3) transference
(4) struggle (5) return and (6) Recognation.
For Todorov it goes in the sequence of (1) equilibrium, (2) disruption, (3) recognition of disruption
(4) attempt to repair disruption and (5) a return or restoration of new equilibirum

For propps character types he belives every film generally has a :
Hero
Villain
Prize
Mentor
Helper
Blocker
Dispatcher

This image shows enigma for the way that you can’t understand why or what the person is doing there.

The image raises many questions about the scene such as why is he there, what could be in the chests that he is opening, what purpose do they serve, what did he have to do to get there, why is he all alone, where exactly is he, how long he has been there and why dose he need to be there.

It raises the theory that there is something of great importance in the chests and he is opening them at night so as not to be seen by anyone, we could also guess that he is in a secluded area also so that no one else can spot him

This image shows enigma through the way that  it is unclear what is going on in the scene and it raises questions about it such as what is going on, why is she covered in dirt, why are there flowers inside the house, why dose she look so depressed and why is she sitting in the flowers.

It raises the theory that maybe someone had left her which is why she could be looking so sad and they may have had some connection to flowers which is why they are inside the house and why she is sitting in them.