C1 TV

Tuesday 7th January 2025

Do now

1. 2

2. 1 hour 30 mins

3. categories of media

4. middle class british women

5. Educate, entertain and inform.

TV Drama

Crime drama

genre is a term used to categorise different types of media texts, such as movies, music, TV shows, or games.

subgenre is a category that is a subdivision of a larger genre in media.

Hybrid drama is a media product that combines the conventions of more than one genre.

The responder

Narrative: the main character is trying to be a better police man

Setting: a city in Liverpool

Characters: The policeman, his daughter, his wife, his possible therapist

Mise-en scene: 

Happy valley

Narrative: Katherine is divorced who lives with her sister, she has two sons where one is deceased and the other doesn't talk to her

Setting: UK city

Characters: a man threatening to burn himself alive, katherine, her colleague

Mise-en scene: a park, officer, playgrounds 

Line of duty

Narrative:

Setting: officers are storming an apartment

Characters: officers

Mise-en scene: storming an apartment

Conventions:

Similarities

Low-key lighting

Serious nature

all based in uk

melodramatic

starts with crime that has been committed/ stopped

main character is intelligent and determined

handheld suspects

lots of clues and red herrings

narrative arc

Typical character types

representation

The impact of these conventions are to create a sense of tension and leaves the viewer at the edge of their seat and makes them want to engage with the series more.

Friday 10th January 2025

Do now

1. Hybrid drama is a media product that combines the conventions of more than one genre

2. Luther, The Sweeney

3. Low-key lighting

4. serious nature

5. Tension, leaving viewers on the edge of their seats.

Tv industry

Digital technology has changed how we produce and circulate tv programmes, as well as how we consume them.

The wide variety means audiences are spread more thinly than in the past.

Audience loyalty to a particular channel has decreased.

Watershed: the time when TV programmes which might be unsuitable for children can be broadcast.

Peak time: the time at which the highest numbers of viewers are watching

Prime time: the time period when the television or radio audience is the largest.

According to OFCOM, it is "High quality content, made for as wide a range of audiences as possible, and for public benefit rather than purely commercial ends."

BBC is a public service broadcaster founded in 1922 that is funded by a license fee, paid by all UK households with a TV. The BBC/ Gov earn £3.8bn from the license fee.

The BBC mission is to act in the public interest, serving all audiences by providing impartial, high quality programs which inform, educate and entertain.

BBC has nine service channels, regional TV programmes, an internet TV service - BBC three - 10 national radio stations, 40 local radio stations and an extensive website.