TV Drama Evaluation
The purpose of a TV
Drama is to entertain the public through story lines made for a certain genre
such as American Horror Story for horror, Sex and the City for more of a female
audience and Luthor for a male audience. However most dramas tend to focus on
what we think are lives are like however more dramatic like
Eastenders, Hollyoaks and Coronation Street where the characters are supposed
to represent society in single characters in society such as homosexuals,
single parents and teenagers as stereotypes which apparently reflects their own
lives.
Our original idea was to
have a young teenage zombie search for her younger sibling after her family are
murdered by regular humans and teams up with another young zombie and a human
outcast all search for the little zombie. Unfortunately we could not film this
idea due to all the actors we had chosen not being available to film at the
times we needed them as well as the crew not having the time to film at certain
locations, we overcame this by creating a new idea but with some of the old
elements in it so not to make all the pre-production work seem pointless. Our
new idea was a mix of zombies like from the drama In the Flesh and teen drama
like My Mad Fat Diary and combining them to make Fear the Cure, a teen drama
with horror elements in to mix it up.
We each received about
two tasks each, I was in charge of doing the mind map and the storyboard and we
all took turns and filming and editing the TV Drama, some set backs were the
fact that we had to redo our idea which meant finding new actors and
planning to film at different locations which meant we were set back due
to that. Beth did the script and equipment list, Sarah Beth did the
production schedule, roles and responsibilities and Dan did the talent
report and risk assessment, we all worked competently as a team
occasionally disagreeing over trivial things but thats expected because we were
working with Dan.
Our strengths were
probably the ability to go ahead with ideas even though some of us didn't agree
with them showing some integrity however we would often be divided by our ideas
as to what the plot was to be about and who was going to be cast in our TV
Drama. If we could improve anything it would probably to work better as a group
in the future if we ever have to work together again and make sure that we are
better prepared for filming when it comes to props and actors.
