Saturday, 27 September 2014

Case Study: Byker Grove

Referenced from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byker_Grove

Byker Grove is a British television series which was broadcasted between the years of 1989 and 2006. It was broadcasted at 5:10pm but later moved to the time of 5pm on CBBC and BBC One and had a running time of 25 minutes. The dramas target audience was older teenagers/ young adults due to the serious and controversial storylines.

The main setting was a youth club, and it was rare that that the children were shown in school, in Byker district of Newcastle upon Tyne. The programme was the original idea of the TV executive Andrea Wonfor. In 1987, she approached the soap writer Adele Rose and by working in partnership they created a single pilot episode featuring children aged between 8 and 11 at an out of school club. From their hard work they gained the approval of the Head of the Children’s Department at BBC Television, Anna Home. Again, like Grange Hill, she decided to give Byker Grove a trail run of six 25 minute episodes which was broadcasted by the BBC. After support from the first producer-director, Matthew Robinson, the age of the main character was increased from 12 to 16 therefor the programme targeted at young teenagers crossing the bridge from childhood to adulthood.  

Anthony McPartlin (“P.J”), now commonly known as Ant, and Declan Donnelly (“Duncan”), now commonly known as Dec, found there fame and career from being popular characters in Byker Grove. It also featured actors like Jill Halfpenny, Donna Air, Andrew Hayden-Smith and Emmerdale stars such as Dale Meeks, Charlie Hardwick, Chelsea Halfpenny, Laura Norton and finally Victoria Hawkins.

The first writer was Adele Rose – in series 1 she wrote episodes 1, 2, 3, 4 and 6 with her daughter Carrie Rose writing episode 5. The most prolific writer was Brian B.Thompson who wrote 50 episodes over 12 series. Furthermore, Tom Hooper directed four episodes of the show in 1997 and Charlie Hunman now stars in American TV series Sons of Anarchy.

The actual youth club where filming took place was in Benwell, this was known as The Mitre which used to be a nightclub and a pub before it was bought by Zenith Television, who film the drama. In the build up to the final episode of Byker Grove, on 7th October 2006, Richard Deverell (hea dof CBBC) was interviewed on Newsround about the decisions to axe the series. Tim Holloway produced the eughteenth and last series of Byker Grove and he then went onto produce Casualty until 2002. In 2008 it was rumoured Gallowgate Productions,  a production company owned by Any McPartlin and Dec Donnelly, purchased the rights to Byker Grove after the prouction company made it into liquidation in 2007. This has never be confirmed nor denied by the duo.   

Throughout the series Byker Grove tackled some controversial issues such as:
  • Drug addiction
  • Child abuse
  • Homelessness
  • Teen pregancy
  • Abortion

In fact, Byker Grove was the first Britith drama to attempt to tackle the subject of homosexulaity when Noddy Fishwick kissed his close friend Gary Hendrix. This scene caused major outrage, for example the Sun Newspaper editior called for the producer to be sacked. However, the drama stuck with the storyline and ended up getting countrywide suuport for all homosexual people and their parents. Another storyline tacjling homosexuality is that when Bradley agonised over his sexuality and eventually coming out as being gay to his girlfriend, Sadie. Furthermore the series frequently ruined the lives of many chararcters by the bad things happening to the good people, such as Flora dying from an unfortunate brain tumour, Greg falling from the roof of the Grove leaving him paralysed from the waist down and the youth leader’s death in an accidental gas explosion. 

Friday, 26 September 2014

Case Study: Grange Hill

Referenced from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grange_Hill

The British television drama series, Grange Hill, was originally produced by the successful BBC. The show began being premiered in 1978 on BBC1 and was announced one of the longest running programmes on British television when it finally ended in 2008. It was created by Phil Redmond, who is actually responsible for Channel 4 dramas Brookside and Hollyoaks, and he worked alongside other notable production team members throughout the years. Including produced Colin Cant and script editor Anthony Minghella. After a long 30 years the show was finally cancelled and the last episode was aired on 15th September 2008.

The series was centred on the fictional school which included and dealt with secondary education with children of all abilities from a particular area. When the drama was being filed it moved to Liverpool from North London in 2003 and ceased to have any specific location after that. Initially, the series was called “Grange Park” which would go on to be used as the name of the school in another Redmond creation, the Channel 4 soap opera Brookside (1982-2003).

Grange Hill was originally conceived by ATV comedy writer Phil Redmond, whose first approach was to try and sell the drama to various television companies but was unsuccessful on many occasions. Finally in 1976, he managed to sell the idea to the BBC and the children’s drama executive, Anna Home. She decided to give the series a trail run on nine episodes, the first being broadcasted on 8th February 1978.
Since the first episode of Grange Hill it has caused much controversy for its real life, gritty portrayal of school life which people believed differed from the idealised portrayals of earlier school dramas. This lead to Redmond not being able to push the boundaries until later on in the series.  However, he was later forced to tone things down by the BBC otherwise no more episodes would be aired.
Grange Hill’s highest profile period was during the mid-late 1980’s where one of the most famous and talked about storylines was that of Zammo McGuire and his heroin addiction. This storyline ran over 2 series (1986-87) and focused on Zammo’s descent into drugs and how this put a major strain of his relationship with fellow characters Jackie and also his friend Kevin. Throughout this storyline other favourite characters were shown. Later on, the script editor Anthony Minghella worked on a series for several years (during the 1980’s) which focused on Gonch and his attempt at money making schemes, which were very unsuccessful, this managed to show the drama having an element of comedy involved.

Throughout the 1990’s, Grange Hill unfortunately did not get as much media attention as it did just a few years back. The teachers were not equal in the narrative with their personal lives taking up almost as much time as those of the pupils. But in 1994, new disabled characters were introduced (Denny Roberts who suffered with dwarfism and Rachael Burns who suffered with cerebral palsy). Both of these were presented as being one of the gang and hated any special treatment they got due to their circumstances.
To celebrate the dramas 15th anniversary the first ever 15 episodes were repeated during CBBC’s Sunday and during later Saturday slots on BBC1 and BBC2, these repeats ended with series 16 in 1999.
By 2001, the series was mainly issue led and the decision to try and tackle the issue of rape upset a lot of their audience. When Redmond took over production in 2003 he hoped to get the show back on track therefore he toned down the issues and focused the episodes more at the younger generation. In 2006 it was announced that a film of Grange Hill was going to be produced and released in 2007 focusing on the lives of the former pupils of the fictional school. This has still not yet happened.

 “For the first 25 years Grange Hill was produced in-house by the BBC, then the show was made independently for the corporation by Mersey TV, the production house founded by Redmond (and later renamed as Lime Pictures), hence the production move.”

The issues covered:
Very controversial
  • Students throwing benches into the swimming pool this lead to letters of complaints from teachers and parents
  • Rape, heroin addiction, Asperger’s syndrome, knife crime and attempted suicide this lead to complaint and upset from a numerous amount of viewers
  • Introduced a gay teacher
  • Introduced a deaf character

In 2008, Grange Hill cut back on the hard-hitting issues and concentrated more on the early years of secondary school
  • The final series: lighter aspects but still dealt with some social issues such as a Year 6 pupil battling with dyslexia whilst it turned out the school bully, Chloe Moore, had to care for her disabled mother.

The original theme music used throughout the years of 1978 and 1989 returned for the final series in 2008, this track was named “Chicken Man” by Alan Hawkshaw. Grange Hill was the first programme to use it as their theme tune. Despite it already being played on Grange Hill, ‘Give Us A Clue’ decided to use the same track but a less dymanic arrangement and keeping it more with the style of the light entertainment programming.
From 1990 a new and more present sounding theme (written directly for the series by Peter Moss) was used. Prior to this he had already written a special track for a storyline in Series 11 for Grange Hill. His latest theme music lasted until 2007 even though it became unpopular, this may have been because the drama’s opening sequence was continuously getting shorter therefore less and less of the tune was heard. The final version was no longer than 12 seconds.  
The last four notes of the initial theme tune song were heard when Brookside, on of Redmond’s other TV series, aired its final episode in 2003.
















Questionnaire: Consulting my Target Audience

I have decided to consult my target audience through the use of a questionnaire based on two professional teenage title sequences. I will use pupils from years 7 to 11 form my High School (ages 12 to 16). I will collect 15 pupils from each year group.

Firstly I will show the group a PowerPoint consisting of two slides, these being a slide with the title on to make sure they know they are at the age that my target audience are on and the other containing two hyperlinks of Waterloo Road’s and Hollyoaks’ title sequence.

















The group will then be shown the two title sequences and then asked to complete the questionnaire I have provided them with.



























I believe this will help me to adapt my initial ideas of my title sequence to suit my target audience, for example what they enjoy and what they dislike about title sequences and teen dramas. This will make me ensure I do include certain aspects and do not include some.

Monday, 22 September 2014

Questionnaire: Stereotyping

When thinking about my characters I have decided that the best way to come to a final decision is to ask my target audience to stereotype certain teenagers. I will also be asking them to draw a sketch of what they think the typical teenage wears; this will be helpful when deciding the costumes of my characters.

My participants will be 5 people (male and female) from each of my target audience age; this means I will have a total of 25 participants as I am using an age range of 12 – 16.

A copy of the questionnaire: 


This questionnaire will be research on top of consulting my target audience.


Friday, 19 September 2014

Target Audience

Demographics
Class
My target audience will not be aimed at a particular social class. This is because throughout the different classes (working, middle and upper) their free time differs depending on their work time/ schooling time so they may not be able to watch the programme. My target audience is predominately aimed at students (still in education) therefore social class is irrelevant as class considers how much the individual is earning. 
Age
The age of my target audience will be between 12 and 16. I have decided these ages because the programme is going to be based on the struggles throughout teenage life therefore the target audience may be able to relate to the characters problems and form a relationship with them.
Gender
Both genders will be able to relate to the programme and seek advice from it also therefore my target audience will include both genders.
Ethnicity
This programme will be aired on British TV and due to Britain being a multicultural country it will be aimed at all ethnicities.

Psychographics
Personality
A typical personality trait of my target audience will be that they commonly follow the crowd and want to be like everyone else, for example in school peers may be talking about a programme they saw and because they do not want to feel left out they may begin to watch it also. However, there will be confident people who will enjoy standing out and gaining attention therefore they may watch a totally different programme to see who follows. 



Niche or Mass audience?
My product will be specifically focused at teenagers (the minority of the population) therefore my target audience is a niche audience. This is because my product features conventions that will satisfy my target audience, for example teenagers can relate to the lifestyle in which the characters live. Furthermore my magazine and DVD, in which I will be designing the front cover to, will be at a price that my target audience will be able to afford in order to purchase these products.   

Target audience vs Actual audience
As previously stated my target audience is teenagers between the ages of 12 and 16 however it is possible that people above or below these ages are able to watch it. This is because the programme would be hammocked two successful and popular TV programmes, at around the time of 6:30pm, because people who watch the programme before may not turn it over straight away and my programme may gain popularity from this. Furthermore, it will be aired at prime time because at this time many people will be free to watch the programme, for example pupils will have finished school/ extra-curricular activities and the older generation may have finished work. 

An example of Target Audience vs Actual Audience
Target audience is a particular group out of the population at which the media product is aimed at whereas the actual audience is the population of people who actually use/ watch the media product. Waterloo Road’s target audience is approximately from the age of 12 to 18 however the actual audience is very different. Because the programme focuses on a fictional school and the problems involved within, the audience may include older generations if they are teachers or head teachers or simply just parents wanting to see what the public stereotype secondary schools as. Furthermore as Waterloo Road is broadcasted at 8pm it is likely that children do not have control of the TV at this time. 

Uses and Gratifications
For socialising
Due to my target population it is common that pupils will talk about programmes they watched the night before therefore my product may gain popularity if peers decide to follow the crowd and also watch my product.
The conversations may include the narratives, the time it was on and how long it was on for and this will get people interested and want to find out about it for themselves so they can join in the talks.
To educate
My product will educate my target audience in the sense that they will be able to learn about the different struggles teenagers go through on a daily basis, this may raise awareness which can lead to peers not being as judgemental and realising that everyone is different therefore bullying isn’t appropriate.
To entertain
I hope to think my product will be entertaining. A stereotypical characteristic of a teenager is that they enjoy gossiping and they may think that by watching my programme it will seem as though they are getting the gossip on the characters in the programme.
To identify
I believe the audience will be able to form a relationship with some of not several of the characters due to the fact they may portray the same issue(s) that they are dealing with in real life.
  

Representations of Teenagers in TV Teen Dramas

Representations are one of the key concepts of media studies. It is central concept when looking at people and places within media texts. A representation refers to how those people and places are portrayed or depicted to the audience. When discussing representations are positive or negative and whether they contain any stereotypes, it is also important to consider who produced the representation and whether they have influenced it in any way.
  • Stereotypes are ideas that people have which rely on preconceived ideas about a person/ people or a place

è  These preconceived ideas can arise from a variety of places – parents, teachers, friends and the media
  • Sometimes stereotypes can become so entrenched in your mind that you believe them to be common sense – you think that everyone believes the same as you

è  For example: all blondes are stupid
  • Using stereotypes saves a lot of explanation within a text but it can be seen as a  very lazy method of characterisation
  • It can be dangerous and have a negative impact on society – encourage audiences to think large groups of people are all the same and often have the same negative characteristics as what the media text shows
  • It is possible to have positive stereotypes

è  For example: English teachers are good at spelling

  • Stereotypes help the audience to become engaged with the media text – they are able to relate to the scenarios the stereotyped character is in 

The following information was taken from another media fact file.

Stereotypes of teenagers

Stereotyping has been occurring since the early involvement of teenagers in films and programmes, more specifically from around the 1950’s. Young people have suffered greatly from these single-dimensioned representations and are repeated over a variety of media platforms.

The four main stereotypes of teenagers:
Juvenile Delinquents
  • Out of control and on the path of self destruction
  • Often become involved in crime, drugs and indulge in immoral sex
  • They are usually brooding, selfish and extremely self-confident
  • Tend to become alienated from their parents and peers due to their behaviour
  • The extreme of this stereotype is ‘teen apocalypse’ who are portrayed as being bored who often act violently to a situation
Superficial Teen
  • Usually taken in by unimportant school-related problems – playing taunt, avoiding attentions and attending prom with their dream date
  • They are able to manipulate their foolish parents and teachers easily
  • Tend to get their own way in the end
  • Often learn a valuable life lesson (with the help of a sympathetic and understanding parent) – being true to themselves or learning to respect others
Dumb Teens
  • Portrayed as abusing a numerous amount of drugs or socially awkward but are always idiotic
  • Do not fit in with their peers
  • Choose to live according to their own beliefs
  • Bullied by others
Sarcastic, Self-aware but Bitter teenager
  • Distinctively sarcastic
  • Undermine other teenagers
  • Resentful of the care they receive as a result of being young
Case Study: Awkward

Awkward is an American teen comedy series, created by Lauren Lungerich for MTV. The shows main character is Jenna Hamilton, played by Ashley Rickards, a teenager who struggles with her identity and especially after an accident is misconstrued as a suicide attempt.

Premier dates
The first series premiered on July 19th 2011 but later on in August 2011 MTV renewed the series ready for the second season. The second season was aired on June 28th 2012 at 10:30pm. The following year Lauren Lungerich announced she will be exiting the show after the production of season 3. The rest of the third season began airing on October 22nd 2013.
After the exiting of Lauren two new show runners took over, named Chris Alberghini and Mike Chessler. The fourth season of the show was then premiered in April 2014.

MTV
The ideology of the institutions which produces or finances a text will influence the representations within the text. Awkward was made by Music Television (MTV). The channel is based in Los Angeles, CA and is subsidiary of Viacom Inc. It was launched in August 1981 and was originally to play music videos guided by television personalities known as ‘video jockeys’.
Their main target demographic was young adults but now their programming is primarily targeted at adolescents and teenagers.
Figures show that as of August 2013 approximately 97,654,000 American households receive MTV.

Awkward and its audience
After research I found that the series primary target audience is between the ages of 13 – 25. However, when the DVD box set was released in February 2013 it had a BBFC (British Board Film Classification) rating of 15. In attempt to gain popularity the series producers created a Twitter account which provides the audience with sneak peeks of the next series and other advertising techniques.


MTV has created an ‘Awkward’ official website page (click here). The website includes:
  • Last season’s full episodes
  • The fifth season’s release date (Tuesday, 23rd September)
  • The programmes trailer
  • ‘How far we’ve come!’ – Each character has done a video explaining their journey throughout filming and producing the programmes.
  • Sneak peeks of what is to come in the next season – ‘the cat is out the hat’ makes the audience ask questions which makes them want to watch the episode to find out
  • A synopsis
Stereotypes of Teenagers in Awkward
It is clear that the superficial teen is the main character, Jenna Hamilton. This is because her character portrays the characteristics which apply to this teenage stereotype. Firstly, she is able to effectively manipulate her parents for example initially her parents say she is not allowed to date her love interest, Matty McKibben, but with her skilful influence her parents later decide to let her and Matty be a couple. Furthermore throughout the series there is one main character that looks over her like her guardian angel this is the hopeless teacher, Val Marks. However, Jenna takes this for granted as she doesn’t appreciate her advice and simply has a bad attitude towards her.
Another characteristic of this stereotype is eventually learning a valuable life lesson. Later on through the seasons Jenna realises that her parents have never turned their back on her and have never alienated her, no matter what trouble she brings. Following on from this, Jenna successfully gets the chance to accompany Jake (her dream date at that time) to prom.

Nevertheless Jenna could also be classed as being the juvenile delinquent teenager. For a few episodes Jenna erupts into an out of control, self-destructive teenage girl who turns to drugs to solve her many problems. As a result of this she finds herself with no friends and a disappointed and mostly heartbroken family.
click here to see Jenna's abnormal personality


Following on from this I believe that Sadie Saxton is classed as being the juvenile delinquent teenager because she walks around with an attitude that portrays her as being cocky, self-confident and as though she owns the school. It is clear throughout all the seasons she envies Jenna for having a relationship with her dream date, Matty. Although her attitude is consistently negative the audience builds empathy for her as they soon learn that her attitude is based on how she is treated at home. Her mother is in a relationship with a younger man and end up alienating Sadie, for example constantly going on holiday and leaving her at home or pushing her out of the house so she and her boyfriend can have the house to themselves.
Sadie soon finds herself in a relationship with Austin, who is socially inept, and with no advice her relationship turns into a complete disaster as it becomes based on lies and sex.

The two following clips show completely different sides to Sadie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpAXga-5UF8 – audience builds sympathy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWW3iTHeefI – audience builds hatred 

Finally the dumb teen is Sadie’s so called best friend, Lissa (played by Greer Grammer). She relies heavily on Sadie and the audience can tell that Sadie means a lot to her. However, Sadie takes her commitment to her for granted by continuously tutting at her, rolling her eyes at her and forcing her to do her dirty work that Sadie simply can’t be bothered to do. Lissa is a character that represents stereotypical blondes, for example being dumb.

In reference to my opening title sequence this fact file has helped me to gain an understanding on how teenagers are represented in TV dramas. It is clear that after reading this, teenage stereotypes are very common and popular therefore I have decided to use stereotyping in my opening title sequence as this will make the audiences able to relate to the characters and get up to date with the narratives if they have missed the first few episodes. 

Case Studies

Waterloo Road
click here for the official website







About the show
The staff are overworked and underpaid and the budget only ever seems to be getting tighter and even worse the kids are continuing to become more trouble!
The school is full of upper to lower class pupils with a mixture of races; each child seems to have their own dramatic ways to catch pupils, teachers and the community’s attention. However, each individual pupil knows that at Waterloo Road they will always be cared for by the staff members and given much support in order for them to achieve an education. Furthermore, the teachers aren’t too perfect themselves but with every problem, with the help of a few motivated and inspiring individuals, there is always a solution.   

Christine Mulgrew
Played by Laurie Brett

Last term Christine cracked under the pressure of being Headteacher and lost sight of her leadership abilities. She had many squabbles with the Deputy Head, Simon, but finally managed to regain her natural teaching instincts. She is now more determined than ever to prove is can handle the role. However, this term doesn’t seem to bright as the risk of losing her son Connor threatens to undo everything Christine has achieved.

Will her loss send her back to the bottle?

The cast
This page on the official website allows fans and other people to learn more about each cast member. This is good as it allows the audience to form a connection with the cast members that may be in the same situation as they are.


Hollyoaks
click here to see what IMDb has to say

The facts
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollyoaks
  • A British soap opera, first broadcast on Channel 4 on 23rd October 1995
  • Originally devised by Phil Redmond (also devised the Channel 4 soap Brookside)
  • Set in a fictional suburb of Chester, called Hollyoaks
  • Features a large cast of characters primarily between the ages of 16 and 35
  • Begun with a cat of just 7 major characters in 1995 but now the serial has approximately 50 main cast members – high cast turnover in comparison with other British soaps
  • Currently UK’s youngest television soap opera
  • Won many awards – 28 British Soap Awards, 11 Inside Soap Awards, 1 TRIC Award and 1 National Television Award
  • Latest achievement was at the 2014 British Soap Awards, it won ‘Best British Soap’ foe the first time in 15 years
  • Produced by Lime Pictures (formerly known as ‘Mersey Television’ prior to its takeover by All3Media)
  • Filmed mainly at studios in Childwall, Liverpool
Broadcasting
  • Main transmission is currently broadcast at 18:30 each weekday on Channel 4, with the launch of Channel 4 +1 in 2007 allowing viewers to see the main broadcast replayed at 19:30
  • Since the channel’s launch in 2001, Channel 4’s digital sister station (E4) airs daily ‘First Look’ feature at 19:00 each weekday – the viewers are able to watch the episode to be shown on Channel 4 the following day
  • Repeats of each day’s edition air of E4 the following weekday – previously at 14:35, but as of 2012 this occurs at 12:30 (E4 +1 at 13:30)
  • In July 2012 4seven was launched and Hollyoaks was repeated of the preceding day’s at 11:30, but now has moved to the early hours of the morning
  • All the week’s episodes are also complied into an omnibus edition
Opening title sequence and theme tune
  • On 26th February 2007, the programme launched a revamped title sequence with a faster version of the theme tune, the new sequence regularly underwent minor changes usually caused by characters leaving and joining the programme
  • March 2008 saw an updated ‘style’ to the titles, with a purple background and new character segments
  • 26th December 2008saw the background change from purple to black
  • 1st June 2009 saw the pink and blue lettering changed to monochrome and the characters shown in full colour before and after the advert segments
  • The next title sequence was delayed for many months, the titles (when they were finally aired) were different from pictures of filming of the original credits suggesting a reshoot was the reason for the delay

è  Paul Marquess: "We're sorry to the fans who have been waiting to see them, but they've taken a while to perfect. I'm very happy with them and I hope that the fans like the new-look show

My prior knowledge

  • Over the years I have watched a vast range of children’s TV – Dora the Explorer to Waterloo Road
  • Focused my studies on TV drama in year 12 (conventions)
  • Very basic creations of a magazine in lower school
  • Watched and analysed TV drama throughout year 12 for my AS level exam

Year 12 coursework

Unfortunately I did not get the opportunity to take Media Studies as one of my GCSE options so when I decided to choose it as one of my A-Levels I was pleased to find out that the course involved coursework. Our Year 12 coursework task was to complete an opening title sequence to a film and our research, planning and general progress to our final product was recorded on www.blogger.com.

This following year’s coursework will also be recorded on www.blogger.com which is great because I believe my prior knowledge (from Year 12) will help me in the process. 
 
Evidence of my Year 12 blog:
"Megan Edwards: AS Media”
 
Following on from this my Year 12 coursework also involved filming and editing. To edit our footage we used Final Cut Pro X, by having prior knowledge of this I will feel much more comfortable and confident when it comes to editing my footage this year for my Teen Drama title sequence.

Evidence of my editing and filming skills:
“Megan Edwards: AS Media 





 
Finally, another task in my Year 12 coursework was to use my analytical skills. An example of when I did this was when I analysed ‘We Were Soldiers’ opening sequence, in my written report I used a lot of media language and terminology. This will help me this year when I have to analyse more Teen Drama opening sequence’s and, for my two ancillary tasks, analysing magazine and DVD front covers.
Evidence of my analytical skills:
http://meganedwardsmedia.blogspot.co.uk/
“Megan Edwards: AS Media”







Research into similar products: Logos

 This photo is an example of a bird’s eye view camera angle; you can guess that this teen drama is based in or around a school due to the technique of spelling out ‘Waterloo Road’ in tables which are most commonly seen in high schools.
This gives the audience an idea that they may be able to relate to the programme and approximately shows what age group the production have aimed this series at.

 
 
The use of the gender symbols connotes that the programme is suitable and may be aimed at both genders.
This is also shown through the colour use, the two dominating colours are blue and purple, blue is typically a boy’s colour and purple is typically a girl’s colour.



Good:
  • The only text is the title of the television drama

è  Memorable

è  Easy to identify the TV drama you are watching

  • In Waterloo Road and Grange Hill the logos are see throughout the series, for example on the uniform