Annya's A-Level Media Blog // Mr Halsey

Reviews and features Guardian review by Sam Wollaston Telegraph review by Ben Lawrence London Evening Standard: five things you need to know about  Capital Behind the scenes filming  Capital  from the  Daily Telegraph 1) What positive points do the reviews pick out about  Capital ? It addresses a lot of aspects of real diverse London life, and the actors very well depict 'the loneliness of London life'. 2) What criticisms are made - either of the TV drama or the original novel? The characters were underdeveloped, with too much happening before we now the characters equlilibrium enough to empathise with them. 3) How does the TV drama change the time period and location for the story in comparison to the original novel? They move location to suit the written characters more because of the gentrification of the original location. Also, some characters were left out of the TV drama in order for the directros to be able to focus on the few storylines they did ke...

Use our Media Factsheet archive on the M: drive Media Shared (M:\Resources\A Level\Media Factsheets) to find Media Factsheet #164 on Television Serial Drama. Save it to USB or email it to yourself so you have access to the reading for homework. Read the whole of Factsheet and answer the following questions to show your comprehensive knowledge of the television drama genre: 1) What is serial television drama? Write your own definition. A drama that is shown consecutively on a channel, sometimes with more than one series. It can have a narrative arc or an episodic narrative depending on the nature of it's story line. 2) List five of the TV dramas discussed in the history of the genre on page 1 of the factsheet.  Starsky and Hutch (1975-1979)  The A-Team (1983-1987),  Pride and Prejudice (1996)  Fox’s 2016 adaption of Stephen King’s 11.22.63  EastEnders  Casualty 3) List the sub-genres of TV drama featured in the factsheet. Come up wi...