TV Drama - Summary

TV drama summary
Mise en scene- everything in the scene
• props
• lighting- back light
- key light
- fill light
• costume
• Character
• Body Language
• Setting
• Colour
• Denotation/ connotation
• Iconography
• Stereotypes – Tessa Perkins

Camera
• Angles
• Movement
• Framing –positioning
• Focus

Editing
• Transitions
• Effects
• Speed/pace
• Length of frames
• Continuity
• Shot reverse shot- showing exchange
• 180 degree rule
• Narrative- time
                 - theory
• Codes (enigma)

Narrative time
The main types used are
• Screen time- the length of time it takes on screen
• Subjective time- experience the same sort of time as the character
• Compressed time
• Long take- one shot that continues through
• Simultaneous time- 2 different scenes 2 different characters but at the same time
• Slow motion
• Freeze frame
• Flash forward
• Ambiguous time

Sound
• Diegetic – in the scene
• Non-diegetic sound- later added in (not natural)
• Contrapuntal – sound doesn’t fit/ match the scene
• Parallel- sound matches the action
• Bridges- links 2 scenes together.