Thursday, 10 March 2011

TV Drama and Sounds

Hollyoaks
Directed at teenage+ audience, mainly female. (ages 14+)

  • Voiceover - used in flashbacks and a narrative
  • Sting - lots of background music used
  • Ambient sounds - used a lot during the episode; birds' tweeting, dog barking, children playing, traffic, crowds, fire etc.
  • Sound Bridge - most scenes due to the episode being mostly of flashbacks
  • Melodies, atonal, rhythmic and dissonant.
  • Sound Effects - flames, cars, sirens, school bells etc.
  • Synchronous sounds - texting on mobiles, doors, flames, explosions etc.


Eastenders
Also directed at teenage+, particularly women. (age 14+)

  • Ambient sounds - used several times during the episode; birds' tweeting, dogs barking, mechanical noises, train station, traffic, people talking, children playing, the park,
  • Synchronous sounds - doors, trains, mobile ringtones etc.
  • Sound Bridge - whenever in the Queen Vic pub and cafe because of the jukeboxes

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