Mise-en-scene

Mise-en-scene is everything in the shot and scene. It is used to create a feeling of "realism" about the plot to the audience, this therefore makes it believeable for the audience. It makes the characters seem real, helps the audience to understand who is who in the scene and it creates representations of different groups.

Mise-en-scene is made up of six different elements: CLAMPS

C - Costume
L - Lighting
A - Actors
M - Movement
P - Props
S - Setting

Mise-en-scene links to realism, there are several steps to what makes up realism, the first level of realism means selecting the right actors, props, objects, locations, voices of the actors and diagetic sounds (noises on set).

The second level of realism means how the drama is filmed. This will be done by the use of lighting, camera shots, non-diagetic sound and editing.

Finally, the third level of realism is the finished "product" on television this is when the actual TV Drama is viewed by the audience and then the opinions of the Drama, for example is believeable.

Denotation - The first and simple of an image.
Connotation - a meaning attributal to an image beyond the obvious denotational level.

Different genres of TV Dramas:

• Romance
• Soap Opera
• Murder Mystery
• Tragedy
• Science Fiction
• Action
• Comedy
• Period Drama

Media Representation

Media means being in the middle or beneath things people and places you see on television or in film are representations of a real person or event if it is a documentary or imagined in a particular way if it is fictional like a feature film or TV Drama.

Representation

• Age
• Disability
• Ethnicity
• Gender
• Regional Identity
• Sexuality
• Social Class