Monday 14th October 2013

In today's media studies lesson we were working on the different types of TV dramas. The class was split up into six groups and each group was given a different type of TV drama to research up on. My group was allocated 'teen TV drama' this meant that this is what we had to go and research. Our research had to be presented in PowerPoint or poster format.

There were many things that we had to consider when researching teen drama,these were:

-what is a teen drama

-the history of the TV drama

-storylines

-examples

-how often are they played

From doing this research, I learnt that a teen drama is a type of drama series with a major focus on teenage characters. The genre was relatively non-existent for the first 45 years of television. There would be a few main characters and there would then be a few one off characters depending on the storyline of tthe story. Most of the storylines would be based on teenage situations so that it appeals to the target audience and the audience will also be able to relate to the storyline, which gives them a better understanding of what is going on. Some examples of teen dramas are:

-Waterloo road

-Skins

-Eastenders

Once, we had finished researching and had completed our PowerPoint everyone had to present what they had just researched to the class. When others were presenting there research, it was important that I took notes on what they were saying so that I have some information about all of the other types of TV dramas and not just the one that I had to research.

Today's lesson was very effective because if we had to research every TV drama on our own we wouldn't have got as much detail as we needed, due to the fact that there wouldn't have been enough time. Therefore, doing it this way meant that we had researched all of the information that we needed for our notes.