Signs and symbols that you associate a certain genre with e.g. for horror, knife, mask, blood.
Conventions:
What you expect to happen within a certain genre.
All TV Dramas have the following ingredients:
- Characters - even particular kinds of characters e.g. at its most simple, good and bad characters.
- Stories - they all tell stories, whether those stories involve adventure, crime or romance and they often, but not always end happily.
- The stories are told against familiar backdrops e.g. homes, police stations and offices (for crime dramas) most of which are created in studios. However most dramas use outside locations to create particular events.
- Camerawork - particular kinds of shots are used e.g. sequenced involving establishing shots followed by mid shots of characters, shot/reverse shots to show character interaction and in particular, close up to show emotions
- stories use dialogue to tell the stories. Occasionally monologues are built in 9as voice overs, a character telling a story)
- music is used yo punctuate the action, create effects (suspense, tension) and underline emotional moments
- Particular sub genres tend to have items which make them immediately identifiable - police cars, blue lights, operation theatres and scaples, triage/reception areas in hospitals. Icons of the genre, they symbolise the (sub)genre
- All TV dramas have parallel narratives.
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