Television Drama

Mike's Lesson...


Television Drama Ingredients

• Action, mystery, strong emotion (love, hate, envy), simple characters.
• Identifiable setting and time
• Strong but complex narrative threads
• Audience appeal

Television Drama - Sub Genres

• Drama documentaries
• Crime
• Sci Fi
• Costume Drama
• War
• Spies
• Teenage
• Medical
• Love/Romance
• Adventure
• Western
• Culture/Single Play/Mini Seriex
• Police
• Post-modern
• Cross over drama eg. The X Files

COSTUME DRAMA has to have...

• Costume
• Time
• Location
• Historical connections
• and it has to be personalised in some way

DOWNTON ABBEY

• Language has been modified for our understanding (Modern)
• Props have to be accurate eg. cars etc
• Complex action but not complex in the philosophy
• Simple ideology