Television drama show analysis 1

Television show: Waterloo Road

Scene changes;

• A boys bedroom
• His kitchen
• In a big house
• In the school yard
• Inside the school
• Corridor
• Staff room
• Stairway
• Back to the staff room
• Headteachers office

Story lines;

• The boy in his bedroom
• Him and his mum talking
• The girls arguing in the house
• Circle of students
• Teacher drama

Character moving;

• They hold various props
• Write on pieces of paper and hand them out

Delivered lines;

• At the start we saw flashbacks in his head.

From watching the first ten minutes of this episode of Waterloo Road i noted how many scene changes they were, how many story lines were shown, how the characters moved and how the characters delivered lines. I saw first that the setting for the scenes changed quite frequently and rapidly, it went from a boys kitchen to a school in under a minute. Because of the quick changes we can see that this was done to make the first crucial few minutes quick and interesting and to make the target audience for the show want to watch it for longer. There was also a lot of story lines presented, from a boy and his mum having an argument  to the teacher drama in the staff room. The aim of this is to keep it engaging and to keep you watching to find out what is going to happen to the people who all of these colorful problems are happening too. The amount of character movement was fairly small, they had students walking around the school with various props and a few people were handing out pieces of paper but that was mostly it. That was to yet again keep the interest in the plot.