Lesson 1 genre 2
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The document discusses television drama as a genre of programming. It is broken into two sections for exam purposes: Section A focuses on textual analysis and representation in TV drama, while Section B focuses on institutions and audiences. Students will watch an unseen clip from a TV drama and answer an exam question based on it. The document provides information about different genres of TV drama such as crime, soap, costume, etc. and examples of programs that fall into each genre. It emphasizes that genre is important for how broadcasters develop programming and how audiences consume media.
Lesson 1 genre 2
- 1. Section A
- 2. Two Sections:  Section A – Textual Analysis and Representation in TV Drama (50 Marks)  Section B – Institutions and Audiences (50 Marks)
- 3.  You will view an unseen 4-5 minute extract from a TV Drama –You will spend 30 minutes of the exam watching and re-watching this clip and making notes.  You will then have 45 minutes to answer the question
- 5. ï‚¡ We have 5 months to prepare you for your exam. In this time you will be completing lots of tasks and making notes. ï‚¡ To ensure that you do not loose any of your work you will be making a new blogspot blog. ï‚¡ It MUST be a new one. You cannot use your coursework one. This must remain intact. ï‚¡ All teacher powerpoints and resources will be posted on the department VLE
- 6. Blog Post Title: Genre Tag: Section A, Genre
- 7.  TV drama is a broad category that has many different sub genres.  They can take many different forms – Single dramas, two- parters, mini-series, serials, series and continuing dramas.
- 8. ï‚¡ TV Dramas are an important part of broadcasters programming. Especially for BBC and ITV who advertise this as a key selling point of their channel. ï‚¡ TV Drama is a very popular genre of television programming. ï‚¡ Dramatic programming is television content that is scripted and (normally) fictional. This excludes, for example, sports, news, reality and game shows, stand-up comedy and variety shows. Also, by convention, the term is not generally usually used for situation comedy. Wikipedia
- 9. ï‚¡ You have two minutes to make a list of all of the different genres of television drama that you can think of. You can work in pairs ï‚¡ Here are two to get you started Crime, soap
- 10. ï‚¡ Share your lists of genres of TV dramas and add ones you have missed to your own list
- 11.  Crime  Soap  Costume  Hospital  Sci-fi  Historical  Children’s classic  Teen
- 12. ï‚¡ Now list as many examples of programmes for each of the sub genres you have listed. ï‚¡ Use the BBC website or TV guides to help you
- 13.  Definition: Kind or Type – It is a way of classifying media texts using their conventions.  TV Drama is a broad genre but it is important that we think about the role genre plays in broadcasters’ and television producers’ thinking as well as audiences’ viewing.
- 14. ï‚¡ What are some of your favorite TV programmes? ï‚¡ Why do you like them? ï‚¡ Are you aware that you are looking at a programme in a particular genre ? ï‚¡ Discuss this with the person next to you
- 15. Watch and listen to the following clip with 3 extracts from a television drama. ï‚¡ Can you identify the genre that you are watching/listening to? ï‚¡ What generic conventions did you identify from the genre? ï‚¡ List these on your blog. You can embed the clip from youtube to your own blog by stealing the embed code from the VLE.
- 16. ï‚¡ Define the television drama genre using the knowledge you have gained in this lesson ï‚¡ Add this to the end of your blog. ï‚¡ Share some of your definitions with the class