Monday, 22 September 2008

Genre and sub drama.

Dramas tend to be dived into different genres and sub dramas these include:

  • Teen dramas: Often in place for teenage enjoyment, in which teeneagers can empathise with the issues taking place on screen. Programmes such as skins fall into this category.
  • Soap operas: Your everday programmes in which arent set in a series, they are ongoing, such as eastenders
  • Costume dramas: Often linked to classic novels or plays
  • Docu dramas: Often document real events, they have a certain focus to them such as politically for example.
  • Medical dramas: Along the lines of casualty and holby city, usually set in a hospital with a soap opera feel, with different stories and traumas taking place.
  • Crime scene dramas: Along the lines of the bill, in which is set in a police station with different crim scenes, stories and traumas taking place, and we see how the charecters deal with it.

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