Task 3

 Task 3- Genre

Period / fantasy drama: Merlin, series 5 is aired on the BBC.

Merlin is a British fantasy-adventure television programme by Julian Jones, Jake Michie, Julian Murphy and Johnny Capps. It began broadcasting on BBC One on 20 September 2008. The show is loosely based on the Arthurian legends of the young wizard Merlin and his relationship with Prince Arthur but differs from traditional versions in many ways. The show is influenced by the U.S. drama series Smallville, about the early years of Superman.

Merlin is a young wizard who arrives in the kingdom of Camelot after his mother arranges for him to stay with the court physician, Gaius. He discovers that the king, Uther Pendragon, has outlawed magic and imprisoned the last Great Dragon deep under the kingdom. The Dragon tells Merlin that he plays an important role: to protect Uther's son, Arthur, who will bring forth a great kingdom. When Merlin meets Arthur, he believes that he is an arrogant bully and Arthur, likewise, has a less than stellar opinion of Merlin. But when Uther's actions cause his ward Morgana to turn against Camelot, Merlin must ally himself with the Once and Future King to save the kingdom.

Drama: Eastenders

Eastenders is a realist TV soap that is based on realist situations in east end of London. The locations used for the showing are a market, a grand pub, boxing club, club, garage, Indian takeaway, cafe and character house and also a local square. These location props make the TV soap much more realistic and relatable as they occur in most areas within London which goes with a normal day to day life of real people. The characters have each got different identities and fictional life’s and families, each characters have human emotions such as happiness, sadness, hatred, love, stress, aggression, joy, betrayal, abuse and complex relationships. Which are relatable to the viewers.It is always continuous. Within the programme there will is more than one narrative, there were 4 narrative 2 main stories and 2 sub stories to go in-between the main stories so that there is always something new to watch.  

Period Drama: Downtown Abbey

Downton Abbey is a British-American period drama television series created by Julian Fellows.

The series, set in the fictional Yorkshire country estate of Downton Abbey, depicts the lives of the aristocratic Crawley family and their servants in the post-Edwardian era — with the great events in history having an effect on their lives and on the British social hierarchy. Such events depicted throughout the series include news of the sinking of the RMS Titanic in the first series; the outbreak of World War I, and the Marconi scandal in the second series; and the Interwar period and the formation of the Irish Free State in the third series.This period drama is set in the past, so that the intended audience can relate to it and find it entertaining to watch, in this time and ear, people where judged by their appearances.

Crime:

My murder report:

During the single camera production of my murder I found out that the director had used a lot of different techniques to grab the audience, so that they would carry on watching the film. For example at the begging of the film the screen is panning across the characters face to create effect and to make the viewers at home get to know the character in order to find out their background. Also during my murder the director shoots the scenes in a realistic way, for example the scene where the main character, shak is meeting his friend, the camera is moving around to create realism and to show the emotion behind their encounter. There is also a wide range of camera shots used during this production, for example the mid-close up’s where not to close to the face but to the point where the audience felt comfortable watching him. The director also used a lot of wide shots showing the surroundings and the sub-urban environment the characters where living in, the director did this to help set a scene to the story and to show the viewers the kind of situation and area the characters where living in. The director also used a lot of small screen titles to show the viewers what the characters where sending each other, this director used this technique because he wants to show the viewers what is being said though text and to show one relationship between characters and another and to show how much they differ from scene to scene.