Quick self assessment

1
Quick self assessment

• What do I feel I know/understand?
• What do I feel I need more help/more practice
  with?

2
TV Drama

• Look at the BARB ratings figures and
  underline/highlight the ones you think could be
  categorized as TV drama.

3
12 of the 30

• Eastenders - 9.31, 8.21, 8.08, 7.97,
• Doctor Who - 8.61
• Casualty - 6.98
• New Tricks - 5.39
• Holby City - 5.07
• True Dare Kiss - 4.67
• The Inspector Lynley Mysteries - 4.60
• Holby Blue - 4.36
• Jekyll - 3.78

4
Can we put these in to separate categories?

• Eastenders
• Doctor Who
• Casualty
• New Tricks
• Holby City
• True Dare Kiss
• The Inspector Lynley Mysteries
• Holby Blue
• Jekyll

5
Soap Operas
Continuous illusion of real time Continuity Cliff
hangers Action Enigma - info questions Two
shots and over shoulder shots dominate Frequent
establishing shots and tableaux (shots of groups
composed for dramatic effect) Cover current
social issues Meeting places - pub, café,
shop Narrative flow Interweaving storylines Music
used as motif (recurring sequence) Dominance of
diegetic sound - except Hollyoaks Costumes,
props, setting suggestive - works towards
representation Mise en scene reinforces domestic,
naturalistic and personal

• List as many as you can
• What do they all have in common?

6
Choose one of the following soap operas

• Eastenders
• Coronation Street
• Emmerdale
• Hollyoaks
• Research the soap on the internet
• Find the soaps official website
• Look at the character list and look at how many
  are representative of ethnic minorities
• Research the official figures for the percentage
  of ethnic minorities in the area
• How far does the soap reflect an accurate
  representation?

7

• Hospital Drama
• Crime Drama

8
Costume/Period Drama
9
Docu - Drama

• The Family

10
Teen Drama

• Skins
• Grange Hill