1. TV Drama

2. A Definition:
 A story that is presented in a dramatic way
and explores a range of genres, from soap
opera to science-fiction to costume drama.
 A piece of film that engages with the
issues of the day in an accessible fashion,
i.e. through believable characters, through
fantastic locations or plots.

3. Why do we watch Television
Drama?
 In pairs, discuss the above question and come
up with two possible reasons.
Think about your own response to the drama you watch.
Cranford, BBC1
Dr Who, BBC1

4. Why do we study Television
Drama?

5. Construction
and
Representation

6. Sexuality
Skins, C4

7. Gender
The Bill, ITV1

8. Ethnicity
The Bill, ITV1

9. Shameless C4
Social Class

10. Representation
Representation – How groups, individuals, institutions,
places or social changes are portrayed in the media;
how they are re - presented.
The way someone or something is represented is not
reality.
It is a version of reality.
Representations are subjective rather than objective
and are constructed.

11. Representation
Reality Mediation Representation
The real world The process of The text itself.
producing a A ‘representation’
media text. of the real world.

12.  If you could create your ideal man/woman,
what would he she be like?
 Discuss this with the people sitting next to
you.

13. Not all men/women look or present
themselves like this. The producers
believed these would be popular/sellable
images of men/women so chose these
representations over other possible ones.

15. Representation
Key points to consider in terms of representation
 What is being represented?
 How is it being represented?
 Who is responsible for the representation?
 How can the representation be interpreted?

16. A Reflection of Reality?
Remember:
 always from a particular point
of view
 with a particular motivation
behind it.

17. A Marketable Product

18. Influence on Society?
 Skins, C4
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uk/femail/article-
449819/What-REALLY-
happened-Myspace-
party-hell.html

19. Analysis
 Mise-en-scene
 Camerawork
 Editing
 Sound

20. Key Skill Requirement
 Become an expert on how short drama
sequences employ a variety of technical and
symbolic elements at a micro level to create
representations at the macro level
 Characters
 Narrative
 Genre