The opening times of children tv drama’s
Name of childrens Tv drama show Duration of time in sequance
By looking at these times for the results of these tv dramas the average of a opening sequence is 32.5. This is what I am hoping we can achieve to get our own prject to around this time because of the change between lego and real life filming we are going to try and half the amount of time making each amount of time 16 seconds long. However 16 seconds in lego is 15 frames a second, so ending up with 240 photos.
Monday, 28 September 2009
Sunday, 27 September 2009
Grange Hill opening.
The opening to Grange Hill has many different shots in it of a numerous children getting ready for school, this starts as soon as they get out of bed to the moment they get to the school bell. The editing of the programme is done very quickly with every clip only featuring a couple of second’s length. All the clips are cut together well. As soon as you watch the programme you can tell the programmes about school and how children behave in a school environment. The mise on scene is appotire because the use of school uniform and different forms of transport bikes and buses. The theme tune is the tune in which they start with in 1978. This is so as soon as it comes on children instantly releases what shoes on TV. The time limit of the show is 38 seconds long and has all the detail need to show what the shows about.
Grange hill is a very good opening to a TV drama but the idea of this doesn’t really go with what i intend to do with my Opening TV drama.
Grange hill is a very good opening to a TV drama but the idea of this doesn’t really go with what i intend to do with my Opening TV drama.
Ned's declassified opening
This programme is focused at children going into high school and in the opening of the sequence you can understand this through the voice over which gives a basic plot of the programme and it indicates the main character in the first opening seconds. The voice over has a non digetic music in the background which runs throughout the whole of the clip. The shots in the clip are taken from different clips through the series. This shows what the programme is like to the audience. The main characters are named. The clips of the shot don’t flow there isn’t extracts taken out to create an opening sequence. The programme has loads of different writing and captions in it are make the audience involved. It uses a bit of animation to show a text book opening and having different episodes in this. This is all related to high school with different topics e.g. fashion and friendship groups. The time frame of this opening is 40 seconds long. This is longer than i would hope mine would be because it means a lot more time in Lego animation. This also gives us the idea of using names in our work and titles of the programme.
Opening sequence for Tracy Beaker
The opening sequence focuses on using drawings to illustrate, which was taken from the cover of the books. The main character is both in person and in cartoon. The other characters are mostly in cartoon apart from a couple of seconds of footage where you see everyone other important character in the tug of war shot. By just looking at the opening sequence there is a equal amount of males and females which could show there is a shared gender audience.
He colours used are very uni sex with a blue to a pink with shows the programmes diversity of gender and children find brighter colours more entertaining. . This signifies she is the main character to the audience.
Because of the programme being a book by law they have the writer name and the illustrator but apart from that there no other information. There is non digetic music over the top which fits every movement with the rhythm and the beats.
The time frame of the opening is 20 seconds and it has enough time to understand the programme is jumpy and fun.
He colours used are very uni sex with a blue to a pink with shows the programmes diversity of gender and children find brighter colours more entertaining. . This signifies she is the main character to the audience.
Because of the programme being a book by law they have the writer name and the illustrator but apart from that there no other information. There is non digetic music over the top which fits every movement with the rhythm and the beats.
The time frame of the opening is 20 seconds and it has enough time to understand the programme is jumpy and fun.
Saturday, 26 September 2009
children Tv drama's.
This features a lot more shows on the sky Chanel nickelodeon. A lot of the programs have an American influence e.g. Zoey 101 had Britney Spears sister in. Show more British deal with really life situations for example teenage pregnancy or smoking. British TV dramas are more realistic. A program like Grange Hill was on BBC instead of sky for education reasons and a child's day to day life. The Amercian cast of a Tv show will be quite small not going larger then about 7 main chracters because they try make it like a Amercian soap. With the use of all the technology will include alot more cartoons such as spider-man (with the comic book craze this went into Lego as well) or sponge bob square pants. 
A british cast for exemple Grange Hill has main different chracters who drift in and out of the series. Children dramas are very good for taking young stars and turning them into future stars for exemple Ant and dec started on Byker grove.
list of TV dramas
there is a list of the top of my head of some recent TV children's dramas.
Genie in the lamp
My parents are aliens
Grange Hill
Zoey 101
Tracey Beaker
Dexter
Young Dracula
Ned's Declassified
Hollywood Hang
iCarly
Drake and Josh
H20
The Naked Brothers Band
Big Time Rush
True Jackson, VP
The Troop
Queens nose
Berands Watch
Genie in the lamp
My parents are aliens
Grange Hill
Zoey 101
Tracey Beaker
Dexter
Young Dracula
Ned's Declassified
Hollywood Hang
iCarly
Drake and Josh
H20
The Naked Brothers Band
Big Time Rush
True Jackson, VP
The Troop
Queens nose
Berands Watch
Media studies research
Children’s TV opening
The first thing I aim to do is set out to identify my target market, when I am giving the description of children it is aimed to a target range of still 0-18, this of course makes the market harder to target for example over the age of 16- a child is more likely to watch adult TV dramas as well.
Of course what is a child?
A child (plural: children) is a human being between the stages of birth and puberty. The legal definition of "child" generally refers to a minor, otherwise known as a person younger than the age of majority. "Child" may also describe a relationship with a parent or authority figure, or signify group membership in a clan, tribe, or religion; it can also signify being strongly affected by a specific time, place, or circumstance, as in "a child of nature" or "a child of the Sixties."[1]
By looking at these different types of opening it is quite clear to see how different tv drams get into top, for a younger audience it is pretty young this point is proven with the use off Children’s TV programmers being more cartoon based with non-human characters.
The first thing I aim to do is set out to identify my target market, when I am giving the description of children it is aimed to a target range of still 0-18, this of course makes the market harder to target for example over the age of 16- a child is more likely to watch adult TV dramas as well.
Of course what is a child?
A child (plural: children) is a human being between the stages of birth and puberty. The legal definition of "child" generally refers to a minor, otherwise known as a person younger than the age of majority. "Child" may also describe a relationship with a parent or authority figure, or signify group membership in a clan, tribe, or religion; it can also signify being strongly affected by a specific time, place, or circumstance, as in "a child of nature" or "a child of the Sixties."[1]
What is a Child's TV drama?
Here is a list of the top 100 TV shows. The Simpsons and Doctor who are in this however the creators of this programmes don’t count these as real.because of this the top order was redone by E4 in 2005.Addition changes were made to suit these changes however this does concept the changes of the new shows by increasing the top order of more children’s TV dramas e.g. mi high and Tracey beaker. Grange Hill got into the top 5 which is the highest children's TV drama. The fast that the simpons and Doctor who where classed in these show the creators got the wrong Target market or creates a range of children who watch older programmers.
Here is a list of the top 100 TV shows. The Simpsons and Doctor who are in this however the creators of this programmes don’t count these as real.because of this the top order was redone by E4 in 2005.Addition changes were made to suit these changes however this does concept the changes of the new shows by increasing the top order of more children’s TV dramas e.g. mi high and Tracey beaker. Grange Hill got into the top 5 which is the highest children's TV drama. The fast that the simpons and Doctor who where classed in these show the creators got the wrong Target market or creates a range of children who watch older programmers.
By looking at these different types of opening it is quite clear to see how different tv drams get into top, for a younger audience it is pretty young this point is proven with the use off Children’s TV programmers being more cartoon based with non-human characters.
Tuesday, 22 September 2009
Lessons I first learnt by using the green screen.
Lessons I first learnt by using the green screen.
• It is very important to use correct lighting to remove the shadow from the selected screen.
• As well the selected colour used for the screen has to be not used in the model.
• The movement of each character has to be moved a slight amount every time, this therefore does contract the problem of a jump shot.
• It is very important to use correct lighting to remove the shadow from the selected screen.
• As well the selected colour used for the screen has to be not used in the model.
• The movement of each character has to be moved a slight amount every time, this therefore does contract the problem of a jump shot.
Monday, 21 September 2009
practic one
We used the green screen to contrast the green screen to contrast the TV emote moving across the screen. This is done by using the SLR camera to take a picture of the image and replace the image in its new direction. We started off quite easy just by using basic lighting (cold lights).This decreased the shadow of what the TV metor had created. We slowly moved the image across the screen taking around about 100 photos. Took this simply and didn’t try attempt to much with this apart from turn it a slight degree. This worked fine.Know when you are making a stop frame movie you have to follow simple steps of constructing it together.On the camera you go on to menuThan you go town to construction settingAfter you clicked on this you move down the cursor to you reach the bottom of the page.Than click on motion movieThis than brings you to a menu constructing the size of the motion movie and then start menu comes up after you have successfully done this.It selects the start and the end of the selected film.You have successfully created a motion movie.
When this has been finished you take the memory card out of the camera and insert it into the memory slot (D). This than opens up premier pro. The concept than comes up with the idea of using chrome key to but the background to the same as the figure of animation. This than makes the background the same colour of the moving shade.
When this has been finished you take the memory card out of the camera and insert it into the memory slot (D). This than opens up premier pro. The concept than comes up with the idea of using chrome key to but the background to the same as the figure of animation. This than makes the background the same colour of the moving shade.
Sunday, 20 September 2009
Brief history of TV drama
The history of children’s TV dramas started with the BBC in the 1950s. These dramas were for large based audiences not just the target market. The first children’s TV dramas where front loaded by books, Most of these early productions were adaptations of turn of the century literary standards such as Little Women (BBC, 1950) and The Railway Children (BBC, 1951, 1957, 1968), there therefore resulted in the children turning channel to ITV.ITV at this time was offering a more adventurous children’s TV drama the adventures of Robin Hood (1955-60).
After this failure of the BBC children’s drams they gave up on this department and its funding was given to adult TV dramas. As for the time since the BBC were not funding children TV dramas, ITV were still leading the way with Enid Blyton's Famous Five and Secret Seven. These were books which were a series of 21 individual books. BBC had come back with a small budget series called Carrie's War in 1974 however this was still a front loaded series based on the origins of an authors work. This was one of the series which made children’s TV drama a more emountial piece rather than just a happy programme where nothing went wrong ,this triggered the change in the way how Children’s TV drams where shown.
In the mid 70s the change for children’s TV dramas changed when they became more chractisics of the children who watch the programmes, so as a result the resilim was more working class characters. The late 70s had some of the huge successes such as Golden hill (ITV, 1975) which featured a local gang and its council and ‘while A Bunch of Fives’ (ITV, 1977-78). At this time the BBC launched one of the most famous and long running children TV dramas Grange Hill (BBC, 1978-present), which dealed with real issues they faced such as bulling, drugs and under age pregnancy.
The golden age for the children’s dramas has at its peck with both ITV and BBC coming out with some more unusual programmes including fantasy and sci-fi children TV drama. ITV was doing a special dramarama which was just aimed for a children’s market.
In the mid 80s the BBC was at a peak turning out series after series of British TV drama, they and a series called a box of delight (BBC 1984) which was a spin off series of the chronicles of Narnia. These were supported by the help of America funding. The BBC had following successful series which had hits in America such as Tom’s Midnight Garden (BBC, 1989), The Borrowers (BBC, 1992-3) and The Phoenix and the Carpet (BBC, 1997).
In 1989 BBC put on air Byker Grove, which was about a youth club. This therefore was queried if it was more like a soap opera rather than a children’s TV drama. The BBC was turning out 20 episodes a year which was dominating the market with spin off series of selected characters of play in real life. The change the BBC had made they were making programmes the Children could relate to.
In the present day there of course is a huge more amount of channels including sky and free view. This creates a lot more opportunities for new programmes for children TV dramas. There is a lot more American children TV programmes such as Zoey 101 or Genie in a lamp. These programme Americans the TV drama TV market. This is how the messages and views are Americans. By the use of technology they can use green screen and animation to create new programmes. Stars that start in children’s TV programmes end up in the end moving Into Hollywood productions or adult TV.
After this failure of the BBC children’s drams they gave up on this department and its funding was given to adult TV dramas. As for the time since the BBC were not funding children TV dramas, ITV were still leading the way with Enid Blyton's Famous Five and Secret Seven. These were books which were a series of 21 individual books. BBC had come back with a small budget series called Carrie's War in 1974 however this was still a front loaded series based on the origins of an authors work. This was one of the series which made children’s TV drama a more emountial piece rather than just a happy programme where nothing went wrong ,this triggered the change in the way how Children’s TV drams where shown.
In the mid 70s the change for children’s TV dramas changed when they became more chractisics of the children who watch the programmes, so as a result the resilim was more working class characters. The late 70s had some of the huge successes such as Golden hill (ITV, 1975) which featured a local gang and its council and ‘while A Bunch of Fives’ (ITV, 1977-78). At this time the BBC launched one of the most famous and long running children TV dramas Grange Hill (BBC, 1978-present), which dealed with real issues they faced such as bulling, drugs and under age pregnancy.
The golden age for the children’s dramas has at its peck with both ITV and BBC coming out with some more unusual programmes including fantasy and sci-fi children TV drama. ITV was doing a special dramarama which was just aimed for a children’s market.
In the mid 80s the BBC was at a peak turning out series after series of British TV drama, they and a series called a box of delight (BBC 1984) which was a spin off series of the chronicles of Narnia. These were supported by the help of America funding. The BBC had following successful series which had hits in America such as Tom’s Midnight Garden (BBC, 1989), The Borrowers (BBC, 1992-3) and The Phoenix and the Carpet (BBC, 1997).
In 1989 BBC put on air Byker Grove, which was about a youth club. This therefore was queried if it was more like a soap opera rather than a children’s TV drama. The BBC was turning out 20 episodes a year which was dominating the market with spin off series of selected characters of play in real life. The change the BBC had made they were making programmes the Children could relate to.
In the present day there of course is a huge more amount of channels including sky and free view. This creates a lot more opportunities for new programmes for children TV dramas. There is a lot more American children TV programmes such as Zoey 101 or Genie in a lamp. These programme Americans the TV drama TV market. This is how the messages and views are Americans. By the use of technology they can use green screen and animation to create new programmes. Stars that start in children’s TV programmes end up in the end moving Into Hollywood productions or adult TV.
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