Jatkuu ensi viikolla : television draamasarjan tuotantotavat ja tuottajuus

Opinnäytetyö on monimuototyö, joka koostuu kirjallisesta osasta sekä teososasta. Kirjallisessa osassa tutkin television draamasarjan tuotantoa ja tuotantoketjuja Suomessa ja Yhdysvalloissa. Käsiteltävänä on myös tuottajuus Suomessa ja se, miten tuotantotavat ovat muuttuneet viimeisen kymmenen vuoden aikana. Kirjallinen osa taustoittaa aluksi television katsomista Suomessa sekä käy läpi sarjamuotoisen televisiokerronnan synnyn Amerikassa sekä sen tulemisen Suomeen. Kolmannessa luvussa selvitetään amerikkalaista monimutkaista tv-tuotantokulttuuria käymällä läpi tv-sarjan tuotantoketju ideasta televisioensi-iltaan ja selventämällä käsikirjoittajien ja tuottajien työnkuvia sikäläisessä tuotantotiimissä. Neljännessä luvussa käsitellään kotimaisia tuotantokäytäntöjä ja -ketjuja sekä käydään läpi tuottajan roolia ja tehtäviä sekä niissä tapahtuneita kehityksiä ja alan muutoksia. Luvussa viisi pohditaan draamasarjaa sisällöllisesti sekä laadulliselta tasolta että kerronnalliselta kannalta. Kuudennessa luvussa pohditaan voisiko suomalainen ja amerikkalainen tuotantotyyli ottaa jotenkin oppia toisistaan, ja mitkä ovat eri tuotantomallien edut ja haitat. Lopussa tiivistetään opinnäytetyön tärkeimmät havainnot ja pohditaan vielä, mitkä ovat tekijän mahdollisuudet päästä eteenpäin oman sarjaidean kanssa. Lähdemateriaalina on käytetty amerikkalaista tuotantoon ja käsikirjoittamiseen liittyvää kirjallisuutta sekä suomalaista käsikirjoitus- ja mediakulttuurikirjallisuutta. Merkittävinä kotimaisina lähteinä toimivat alan ammattilaisten haastattelut. Työn myötä lukijalle selviää, kuinka suomalainen ja amerikkalainen televisiosarja syntyy. AV-alan työntekijöille ja opiskelijoille kiinnostavana tietona on alalla tapahtuneiden muutosten kartoittaminen sekä erityisesti tuotanto-opiskelijoille tuottajan roolin vahvistuminen. Opinnäytetyön teososa on myyntikansio tekijän omalle kuusiosaiselle tv-draamasarjaidealle.

Television and the popular: viewing from the British perspective

The academic discipline of television studies has been constituted by the claim that television is worth studying because it is popular. Yet this claim has also entailed a need to defend the subject against the triviality that is associated with the television medium because of its very popularity. This article analyses the many attempts in the later twentieth and twenty-first centuries to constitute critical discourses about television as a popular medium. It focuses on how the theoretical currents of Television Studies emerged and changed in the UK, where a disciplinary identity for the subject was founded by borrowing from related disciplines, yet argued for the specificity of the medium as an object of criticism. Eschewing technological determinism, moral pathologization and sterile debates about television's supposed effects, UK writers such as Raymond Williams addressed television as an aspect of culture. Television theory in Britain has been part of, and also separate from, the disciplinary fields of media theory, literary theory and film theory. It has focused its attention on institutions, audio-visual texts, genres, authors and viewers according to the ways that research problems and theoretical inadequacies have emerged over time. But a consistent feature has been the problem of moving from a descriptive discourse to an analytical and evaluative one, and from studies of specific texts, moments and locations of television to larger theories. By discussing some historically significant critical work about television, the article considers how academic work has constructed relationships between the different kinds of objects of study. The article argues that a fundamental tension between descriptive and politically activist discourses has confused academic writing about ›the popular‹. Television study in Britain arose not to supply graduate professionals to the television industry, nor to perfect the instrumental techniques of allied sectors such as advertising and marketing, but to analyse and critique the medium's aesthetic forms and to evaluate its role in culture. Since television cannot be made by ›the people‹, the empowerment that discourses of television theory and analysis aimed for was focused on disseminating the tools for critique. Recent developments in factual entertainment television (in Britain and elsewhere) have greatly increased the visibility of ›the people‹ in programmes, notably in docusoaps, game shows and other participative formats. This has led to renewed debates about whether such ›popular‹ programmes appropriately represent ›the people‹ and how factual entertainment that is often despised relates to genres hitherto considered to be of high quality, such as scripted drama and socially-engaged documentary television. A further aspect of this problem of evaluation is how television globalisation has been addressed, and the example that the issue has crystallised around most is the reality TV contest Big Brother. Television theory has been largely based on studying the texts, institutions and audiences of television in the Anglophone world, and thus in specific geographical contexts. The transnational contexts of popular television have been addressed as spaces of contestation, for example between Americanisation and national or regional identities. Commentators have been ambivalent about whether the discipline's role is to celebrate or critique television, and whether to do so within a national, regional or global context. In the discourses of the television industry, ›popular television‹ is a quantitative and comparative measure, and because of the overlap between the programming with the largest audiences and the scheduling of established programme types at the times of day when the largest audiences are available, it has a strong relationship with genre. The measurement of audiences and the design of schedules are carried out in predominantly national contexts, but the article refers to programmes like Big Brother that have been broadcast transnationally, and programmes that have been extensively exported, to consider in what ways they too might be called popular. Strands of work in television studies have at different times attempted to diagnose what is at stake in the most popular programme types, such as reality TV, situation comedy and drama series. This has centred on questions of how aesthetic quality might be discriminated in television programmes, and how quality relates to popularity. The interaction of the designations ›popular‹ and ›quality‹ is exemplified in the ways that critical discourse has addressed US drama series that have been widely exported around the world, and the article shows how the two critical terms are both distinct and interrelated. In this context and in the article as a whole, the aim is not to arrive at a definitive meaning for ›the popular‹ inasmuch as it designates programmes or indeed the medium of television itself. Instead the aim is to show how, in historically and geographically contingent ways, these terms and ideas have been dynamically adopted and contested in order to address a multiple and changing object of analysis.

Materialien zur Kunde des alteren englischen Dramas.

Reprinted 1963.

Versailles

television drama series written for Canal+ in France - for worldwide distribution.

Narrativa transmedia y percepción cognitiva en El Ministerio del Tiempo (TVE)

Introducción: En el presente trabajo se analiza la serie de ficción de TVE El Ministerio del Tiempo con el objetivo de determinar si el mayor conocimiento de la serie de ficción, el uso de las redes sociales y los recursos multimedia modifican la percepción del espectador. Metodología: Se procedió a realizar un trabajo de campo compuesto por 124 observadores a los que se les ha aplicado la escala EDI (Escala de identificación con los personajes). Resultados: Se concluye que un mayor conocimiento de la serie y el uso de las propuestas transmedia produce una mayor identificación con los personajes de ficción, aunque solo en los ítems que definen una mayor carga emocional o sentimental. Discusión: Lo anterior evidencia sin embargo, que no es aplicable a la evaluación cognitiva de aquellos espectadores más fieles a la serie. Conclusiones: Con los resultados obtenidos es posible afirmar que los contenidos transmedia se suceden en la percepción de los observadores desde lo racional a lo emocional. El conocimiento previo de la serie y el uso de las propuestas transmedia alarga la relación con lo visionado más allá del disfrute ocasional.

A guide to the reading of the Greek tragedians; being a series of articles on the Greek drama, Greek metres, and canons of criticism,

Mode of access: Internet.

The theatre of the Greeks, a series of papers relating to the history and criticism of the Greek drama.

The first 3 editions of this work appeared under the name of the original author, P.W. Buckham. cf. British Mus. General cat. of printed books.

Armageddon; a modern epic drama in a prologue series of scenes and an epilogue written partly in prose and partly in verse,

Mode of access: Internet.

Manon Lescaut : a lyric drama in four acts

Oletettavasti sama levytys kuin CD-julkaisussa RCA Victor Gold Seal Opera Series, 60573-2-RG, jossa tosin Plinio Clabassin tilalle merkitty Enrico Campi.

Playground Series

Playground is intended to open a window into a world, however familiar it may first appear, that resonates with one of our universal compassions and the icons of contemporary life: the act and ritual of taking photographs. This project aims to magnify the extraordinary in the ordinary, revealing facial expressions, gestures or body language of the subjects behind their own visual recording device. It is about the drama of people in their private moments, when their face or body language reveals the most hidden parts of their inner world in public places. The interplay between private and public, individual and social are the main inhabitants of this photographic project.

Strife : a drama in three acts /

Originally issued in the author's Plays: first series, New York, Scribner's, 1918.

Six anonymous plays. First series (c. 1510-1537) comprising Four elements--The beauty and good properties of women (usually known as Calisto and Melibæa)--Every man--Hickscorner--The world and the child--Thersites--Note-book and word-list, ed.

With facsimile reproductions of original title-pages.

The forest rose, or, American farmers.: A drama, in two acts.

Series title at head of t.p.

Answer me this. Miscellaneous series ...

"General production notes," no. 1, p. 9.