PSYCHE /TV DRAMA

Shay-kwon Lawrence
AB92580@student.candi.ac.uk
Mood board
 What is a TV drama

There are many

different genres a
drama but in the end
it all come down to
how entertaining it is
and who watches it .
A series of real life
situations which are
exaggerated yet
relatable, through the
use of; themes,
settings ,issues and
narrative.

Plot, action and content

Dramatic form
slow motion
Climax/anti-climax
freeze-frame
Contrast
audience
Characterisation
aside
Dramatic conventions
soliloquy
Symbols
 Memory
Memory is the faculty of the mind by which information is encoded, stored, and retrieved.
Memory is vital to experiences and related to limbic systems, it is the retention of information
over time for the purpose of influencing future action.

Sensory memory holds sensory information less than one

second after an item is perceived. The ability to look at an item
and remember what it looked like with just a split second of
observation, or memorization, is the example of sensory
memory. It is out of cognitive control and is an automatic
response.
Short-term memory is also known as working memory.
Short-term memory allows recall for a period of several
seconds to a minute without rehearsal.

The storage in sensory memory and short-term

memory generally has a strictly limited capacity and
duration, which means that information is not
retained indefinitely. By contrast, long-term memory
can store much larger quantities of information for
potentially unlimited duration (sometimes a whole life
span).
 TV dramas
Mr Selfridge
Pride and Prejudice
Upstairs Downstairs
Sherlock
CSI
Dexter
The Mentalist
Coronation Street
Emmerdale
Hollyoaks
Neighbours Soap Casualty
Holby City
ER
Grey's Anatomy
Scrubs Medical/Hospital Doctor Who
Torchwood
Stargate
Red Dwarf
Star Trek Sci-Fi Misfits
Skins
Gossip Girl
Pretty Little Liars
 Brainstorm

Memory

Short-term

Faded Long-term
Love memory
Search

Safe
Flashback
Life
Time History
Psychological
Relationships
Mind
Lost
Recall Space Mind eye

Logic
Link
Minds space Death dispersing

Reflection
Mental

Thought
Forgetting

Drifting
 Treatment

Working title: psyche

Format: HD camera or DSLR
Estimated duration: 1-3mins
Target audience: My target is C1 lower middle class teens age (15-21) and both
gender. I'm hoping to appeal to people that like E4 and shows like misfits and skins. I
hope that the audience will have a connection with the characters and their life stills.
Synopsis: my TV drama is called psyche and its about the mind or a teen and his
depression and anger changing his memory and messing with his life and
relationships. Psyche is based in to worlds one that we all see and the one in your
mind that u dont have that much control of. Psyche is one teens struggling back and
forth with happiness and pain. I wont my TV drama to be up to interstation and
memory to play a symbolic and literal roll in the story line with a narrator that keep
thing on Track. Psyche is the teens end of the world and you see him at his lowest
point with no help.
Rationale: I what to show off my skills and my ability to create direct a TV drama. I
what do some research on depression and Im going to try to show it from a teen
point of view with some facts to make it more like a documentary.
Feasibility: it will all be funded by me and I will be City providing all and equipment.
Everything will be filmed outside off school and lesson time
Equipment and software: Premier Pro, Photoshop , logic and DSLR

T S
Age: 17
Gender: male
Eye colour: green
Hair colour: brown
Hair length: mid length
Weaknesses: he's easily
made anger and has
depression
Strengths: music and art
Background: he lives with
both parents in a nice home
and he struggle's with
depression. His best friend
and girlfriend dont get a
long.
Characters
G
Age: 17
Age: 17
Gender: female
Gender: male
Weaknesses: she loyal and a
Eye colour: dark brown
good friend. She's always right.
Hair colour: dark brown
Background: she's middle
Hair length: short
classed and lives with both
Weaknesses: he's impatient
parents in a big home and she is
and dismissive
well educated. She is sick she has
Strengths: music ,art and
a brain tumour
drama
Background: he live in a flat
with his mum. Him and T have
been friend since little and he
spend a lot of time with T
 Locations

I'm going to film in stoke Newington because its an nice

locations that has a lot of middle class and working class
people in one space. Some of the locations
 Lighting: I'm mostly going to use natural lighting

Sound: there is going to be dialog and music in the background as

well as a narrator to keep thing on Track.

Props: phones, photos, lighter, and headphones

Costumes. Hoody, rings, jeans and casual clothes.

Time of broadcast:. 60% watch TV via a phone, tablet or laptop

38% do most of their TV viewing on demand. I'm going to make it
accessible online and it will be on TV at 8pm.

Channel for broadcast: on channel 4 and 4od

Finding performers: for my performers I have asked friend that can

act and can relate to there Characters
 Equipment

I'm going to use premiere pro ,

adobe Photoshop and logic pro.

I'm going to use a DSLR and a desk microphone as

equipment that should do the job. I'm editing on
a mac and a H.P laptop
 bibliography

https://prezi.com/j-j19dmp9yvj/tv-drama-definition-and-sub-genres/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/drama/drama_wjec/devisedperformance/tasko
ne4.shtml
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.5675644,-0.0823413,14z