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EastEnders
Doctor Who
Casualty
Holby City
Holby Blue

How To Analyse An Audio-Visual Text

Editing and Camera:

- Camera Angles (High, low, canted)
- Camera Shots (Establishing, master, close-up, mid-shot, long-shot, wide-shot, point of view shot)
- Camera Movements (Pans, tilt, track, dolly, crane, handheld, zoom/reverse zoom)
- Camera Composition (Framing, rule of thirds, deep and shallow focus, focus pulls)
- Continuity

Sound:

- Dialogue
- Music
- Soundtrack
- Sound FX
- Asynchronous sound editing

Mise-en-scene:

- Setting (Location)
- Proxemics - Composition (2-shot, close up)
- Make-up
- Costumes
- Lighting

What is TV Drama

Dialogue - Supported by the use of actors and narrative, and also by dominance the uses of particular camera techiniques

Length - Can vary from around 30 mins to 120 mins. (1/2 hr - 2 hrs)

Location/setting - Framed within a key place which can be linked to a historic periord or contemporary setting.

Genres - Can be placed in different categories. E.g. crime, hospital, soap and period dramas.

Story-lines - They are fictional and have a vast range of themes/motifs (from crime to soap opera). It has specific technical techniques that are used in story telling. Episodes maybe self contained or story-lines maybe continued after several episodes.

Conventions of Tv Drama

- Dialogue
- Characters
- Storyline
- Mini-series
Series
Serials
One-off Drama
- Cliffhanger endings