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Narative Time

This document discusses different narrative patterns used in various TV drama genres, including crime, period/literary, family, relationships, and hybrid dramas. It provides examples of shows that use accelerated time, compressed time, simultaneous time, and real time. YouTube links are included with brief descriptions of how some shows like The Bill, Lark Rise to Candleford, Goodnight Mr. Tom, and Gavin & Stacey employ these narrative techniques through camera movements and editing.

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Narative Time

This document discusses different narrative patterns used in various TV drama genres, including crime, period/literary, family, relationships, and hybrid dramas. It provides examples of shows that use accelerated time, compressed time, simultaneous time, and real time. YouTube links are included with brief descriptions of how some shows like The Bill, Lark Rise to Candleford, Goodnight Mr. Tom, and Gavin & Stacey employ these narrative techniques through camera movements and editing.

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Laura Dobson Narrative Patterns in TV Drama Genres Crime Period/Literary Examples The Bill, Morse, Prime Suspect, Whitechapel,

Waking the Dead. Silent Witness


Narrative patterns Accelerated time http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=gNu8xb_1wfs (2.45) In episodes of the bill accelerated time is used to speed up the action involved in the episode.

Family Examples Dr Who, Merlin, Robin Hood, Goodnight Mr Tom, Diary of Anne Frank, Pushing Daisies, Bones Narrative patterns Compressed time

Examples Little Dorrit, Bleak House, Lark rise to Candleford, Pride & Prejudice, Tess of the DUrbervilles, Oliver Twist
Narrative patterns Simultaneous time http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=0oRKOoQuqV0&fe ature=related Lark rise to Candleford in general uses simultaneous time so that the audience can see what each character are doing at the same time, camera movement is used to move through each part of the shot.

Relationships all variations of sexuality Examples Mistresses, Cutting it, Shameless, Six Feet Under, The Chase, The Lword, Gavin & Stacey, Cold Feet, Sex in the city, Queer as Folk Narrative patterns Simultaneous time

Hybrid Post-modern Examples 24, Lost, Heroes, Lost in Austen, Damages, Ally MacBeal, Green Wing, Desperate Housewives

http://www.youtube.co m/watch? v=yxtyADV5r5s&featur e=related (6.36) In this clip of goodnight Mr Tom, compressed time is used to cut down the journey that the characters are taking because as the audience we dont want to see the full journey so compressed time sees the journey cut short.

http://www.youtube.co m/watch? v=SPwoc39BmqE&featu re=relmfu (full clip) In this clip of Gavin and Stacey simultaneous time is used to show what more than one character are doing. Cross cutting and parallel editing is used to make this effect.

Narrative patterns Real time http://www.youtube.co m/watch? v=RtMGODiaS7U In this clip it portrays real time in which the audience can see what happens in the time the program was filmed.

Laura Dobson

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