Television drama show analysis 2

Television show: Merlin

Scene changes;

• Cave

• Outside the castle, on the tower

• Castle hall

• Corridor

• Dungeons

• King's bedroom

• Arthur's bedroom

• Castle hall

• Corridor

• Gaius's room

Story Lines;

• Poisoning chalice

• Knights meeting

• Merlin/Gaius banter in corridor

• Girl putting the poisoned chalice in the hall

• Merlin/Arthur interacting

• Who poisoned Merlin and why

Character moving;

• Angrily

• Fighting

Delivered lines;

• Spell/enchantment

• Humor

• Authoritativeness

From watching the first ten minutes of this episode of Merlin i noted how many scene changes they were, how many story lines were shown, how the characters moved and how the characters delivered lines. The first thing i noticed was that the scene was changed very often, in fact there were ten changes in the time i watched it! They all were quite different places too, one took place in a cave and another in a castle dungeon. All of these different settings had a different story line, sometimes completely different ones too. This will keep the audience hooked as they will want to know how all of these things add up and what happens to all these different characters we are introduced too. As far as the character movement goes, there was lots of fighting and stunt work. When the characters delivered lines there was a lot of humor, making it a better program to watch.

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.