Drama Soap Analysis- Narrative

Narrative
Narrative is the story that we created. An open narrative is when the end of the scene isn't finished because the way it got ended by the acting. We used a open narrative because at the end of the scene Shaunice says "this meeting is over"which then followed by her slamming the door. This shows a open narrative because after what shaunice did it could follow to the next episode. It wouldn't be a closed narrative because a closed narrative is when at the end of the episode they end the actual scene so that it doesn't continue to the next episode. In our scene we have a multi-strand narrative because the scene is of the meeting between the parent and the teacher because of a situation between her daughter and another student which makes the scene a multi-strand narrative. A single-strand narrative would be when there is only one situation, so for example if there was just the meeting then it would make it a single-strand narrative because there is one strand them more than one. My scene is more of a serial because it would be the sort of scene you would get in a soap and soaps are serial because they basically go on and on, they are continuous. Series is where they will have a certain amount of episodes, so for example 50 episodes and that will be classed as a series. So my scene would relate to a serial drama soap. My scene would be linear because its always going forward and not going backwards for example flashbacks etc this is effective because it shows importance at the end of the scene than the beginning. Non-linear would be a scene that would involve flashbacks etc. Realist is when the scene would be realistic so for example things that happen daily for people in the real world and not fiction. Non-realistic would be fictional information, so for example a murder everyday in a week. These elements of narrative have helped my group create this drama soap scene.

Soap conventions and codes.

Soap conventions.
The conventions for a soap that will be expected to be in soap episodes, these are subjects that are seen on the soaps:

• Pub
• Murder
• Theme Tunes
• Cliff Hangers
• Village/Town
• Villain and Hero
• Affairs
• Dramatic Irony
• Violence

Soap Codes
There are codes that are in soaps to bring feeling to the audience which are in the categories Camera shots, Editing, Sound and Mise-en-Scene. The one i am going to be talking about which will bring tension to the soap is crosscutting which is under editing. This is when the editor will cut one scene and switch to the next scene to bring tension. So for example two people would be talk about how they are going to hide the dead body and before they say where they are going to put it, they then switch to another scene to make us want to know what they were going to say. So that brought tension because we want to know what they are going to do witht he body.

180 Degree Axis Shot Evaluation

The 180 degree shot is when the you put the camera in a certain place but has to be symmetrical to the other camera position that has been shot. In my piece of filming i feel that my group got the angles right and put the camera on a line of symmetry and didn't cross over the 180 degree axis.
The camera shots are done well which include Wide shot, Long shot and Medium close-up shot. The wide shot was a good shot because we involved the whole background and the people that were in that scene. Then we did the Long shot which only involved me and becky which had a shot of our whole bodies which we got a well and accurate finish on. Then we had the medium close-up shot which is a shot that is from the shoulders to just above the head around 1 inch. This was good with the shoulder height but the head space was too much around 4 inches which made the shot not the best.

I would give my peice of work around 70% out of 100% which is because of the 180 axis, wide shot and long shot. Then i feel that the medium close-up put the percentage down.

Differences of old and modern Radio Stations

Difference in Old and Modern radio stations.
There are many differences of a modern radio station to a modern one which is mainly about the sounds of station for example like the background music of the old one is old-fashioned and more of a jingle tune while the modern background tune is more techno and got a up to beat tune.
Another difference is usually the voice of the presenter which in case of the old station it would be more of a posh and has the correct grammar speaking skills while the modern radios would have a presenter that has more slang and more street talk.
The other difference is mainly the songs that are on the radio which will be quite simple; it would depend on what year the radio station is running during that year. So if it was running during the 1980s it would be such artists as Duran Duran, Spandeau Ballet and Adam Ant while in the modern time around 2011 it would be such artists as Rihanna, JLS and Akon. These are some differences of old and modern radio stations.

 

                                                   Old time radio broadcast from 1947

                                   JLS backstage interview at Capital FM's Summertime Ball 2011

We can tell from the new and old radio stations that they are very different because the way they are broad casted and sound different. I have two videos that show a old radio broadcast in 1947 and one that is in 2011. This then lets us hear and see the differences of the two radio broadcasts. In the old one the vocals of the man is really posh and has a rough sound to it while the new one is more 'shangy' and has a smooth recording to it while back ground music at some parts. While the newest one has more people featuring in it, the older one has only one person talking throughout the whole broadcast, we can see that they have interviews in the new broadcast while in the old ones they usually have only one person talking. At the beginning of the videos they both have a theme tune to introduce the radio station, in the new one its more up beat and got more technology music to it. Then with the old one its more of a slow tempo theme tunes with more traditional instruments because of the time it was broad casted, this shows over the years that they have adapted the editing side of the radio stations then mise en scene. So my conclusion of radio stations is that they have adapted by bringing in more technological things into it and the older ones are more traditional.

Media Work

Mass media is when media is shown in a big audience.
Mediated is when a show shows the best highlights for example big brother gets shown the best parts on the show by someone.

Convention is what you would expect to see in a certain genre. So for horror it would be such things as blood, guns, screaming, darkness, creepy sounds, bright and dark lights mixing together. They are some conventions of horror.

Code is when the you see something in a genre that represents something which communictaes and engages the audience which leads the audience to understamd the feelings of the story. So for example if there was a girl or boy upset the weather would start going dark and raining to show the persons emotion. That is was the code is in a emotional subject.

HORROR:

This genre is very good for picking coventions for exmaple these are some conventions. There are many conventions such as blood, screaming, tension, jumping, creepy houses these are some conventions that would be in a horror movie because these would be expected to be in this genre. That the code for this genre would be something to bring feeling to the audience. So for horror, editing would be a code because it bring tension by if they did lighting effects to show that the sky is haunted to show someone is going to get attacked or is evil.

WESTERN

In this genre there are many conventions that are common in a western film such as guns, tumble weed, saloon doors, cowboys, indians, bar fights and piano playing while in a bar or fight. The code of a western would be when there is conflict between two people, they use a close-up on the eyes of the two men in conflict to show that they have tension between them. Its a close-up camera shot which gives us the feeling that they don't like eachother and will fight because they don't like eachother.

ACTION ADVENTURE

This is a big genre because its a mixture of two genres adventure and action. The main conventions are villains and heros, theme music, chases, violence and damsel in distress. A code for this is that there would be a sound motif for a hero which would be cheerful and that which shows he's a hero saving the world.