TV Drama

TV Drama Categories
-Crime
-Period
-Comedy
-Medical
-Sci-Fi
-Soap

Comparison
Eastenders is a Soap TV Drama. From this programme, we would expect a modern verbal code. The characters would be speaking as normal with everyday accents using shortened english. Everybody is treated as equals in this programme.
The convetions of Eastenders would be similar to our every day lives, but exaggerated. There would be Relationships, Drama, Affairs, Medical issues and many more topical issues happening around the lives of the characters in this Soap.
Their clothing would be dependant on the event happening in the Soap, like how we dress differently for particular occasions. For example: if a funeral was taking place, the characters would be dressed smartly and respectfully.
The areas that the characters are living in is the same every where they go, it's a common, everyday street with shops and homes. Most of these aspects of Eastenders are different for Poldark.

Poldark is based in Cornwall, we know this from the tin mines in the video clip and also the coast within images. The verbal code of Poldark is full english. Many of the characters speak in a stereotypical posh, royal way. However, the working class have a different verbal code the the upper.
The conventions of a Period Drama would include many of the same conventions as the Soap, however they would be fit to suit the era. However, these conventions would be over-exagerated.
The speak with more of a rough accent and do not use full english.
The clothing is very different to Eastenders clothing. Depending on the class, the characters have different clothing. The more royal side of the characters have fully completed, well sown medieval-esque clothing. The working class would have torn, unfinished clothing to represent their class.
Again, like the clothing, the living areas depend on the class. The upper class would live in big, royal houses where as the working class would live in a housing estate of those times.

Textual Analysis - Establishing a methodology for analysing a media text.

We can analyse "deconstruct" the media using the following categories: Text, Audience and Production.

A media text is analyzed through researching the media:

• categories
• language
• narrative
• representation
• audience
• institution
• technology

Categories

•MEDIUM (eg print, television, radio, film, internet)

•PURPOSE (eg to inform, to entertain, to persuade, to educate, to gain profit)

•FORM (eg drama, light entertainment, above or below the line advertising, newspaper)

•GENRE (eg science fiction, soap opera, documentary, game show, broadsheet)

•TONE (eg serious, comic, ironic, formal, informal, objective, personal, scientific)

•STYLE (eg realist, expressionist, conventional, unconventional, traditional, modern)

•OTHER CATEGORIES (eg nationality, target audience, director, star, public sector)

Establishing a methodology for analysing a media text:
Language

•Verbal

•Non Verbal (body language)

•Visual – what we see within the frame (mis-en-scene)

•Aural (as we hear it including accents)