single camera drama

walking dead serial


the directors of the walking dead are

Ernest R. Dickerson	...	(11 episodes, 2010-2014)
Greg Nicotero	...	(11 episodes, 2012-2015)
Guy Ferland	...	(6 episodes, 2010-2013)
David Boyd	...	(5 episodes, 2011-2015)
Bill Gierhart	...	(5 episodes, 2011-2014)
Michelle MacLaren	...	(3 episodes, 2010-2014)
Tricia Brock	...	(3 episodes, 2013-2014)
Seith Mann	...	(3 episodes, 2013-2014)
Michael Edison Satrazemis	...	(3 episodes, 2014-2015)
Gwyneth Horder-Payton	...	(2 episodes, 2010-2011)
Daniel Sackheim	...	(2 episodes, 2012-2013)
Julius Ramsay	...	(2 episodes, 2014-2015)
Frank Darabont	...	(1 episode, 2010)
Johan Renck	...	(1 episode, 2010)
Phil Abraham	...	(1 episode, 2011)
Daniel Attias	...	(1 episode, 2012)
Clark Johnson	...	(1 episode, 2012)
Lesli Linka Glatter	...	(1 episode, 2013)
Jeremy Podeswa	...	(1 episode, 2013)
Stefan Schwartz	...	(1 episode, 2013)
Michael Uppendahl	...	(1 episode, 2013)
Jeffrey F. January	...	(1 episode, 2014)
Larysa Kondracki	...	(1 episode, 2015)
Jennifer Chambers Lynch	...	(1 episode, 2015)

The year of broadcast release was within October 31st 2010 and the main cast of the TV seial is andrew lincoln, Steven Yeun, Chandler Riggs, Norman Reedus, Melissa McBride, Emily Kinney, Lauren Cohan, Daniel Guirra. The walking dead is a survival post  apocaclyptic zombie TV serial which has a ongoing story of a group of survivor keeping alive and finding danger and resources along the way. The creator of the walking dead TV series would be Frank Darabond.

The format of this example would be a serial because it's a ongoing TV series which doesn't have a resolve or have a solution in each episode. This serial would be seen as a horror, sci-fi this is because of the thought of post apocalyptic scenerio where survival is key and the message of no one is safe because they're getting hunted by zombie but also getting hunted by themselves as in other humans.

The overall plot of this serial is to survive and find the cure to this zombie apocalypse, they use a linear view of walking through scenerio per episode. However, this could be seen as a non linear since once in every few groups of episode they use flashbacks to present more in depth story and scenerio of what each person in the group had to deal with before the apocalypse but also before they met each other which applies curiousity of what they had to do to get this far in survival, which also includes each episode to be a open ending and not a resolved story line which maintain the linear aspect of the walking dead. The characters roles would be for example, the hero is rick grimes since he's basically the leader of the group and allows people to join there group which is positive however only does it if the person or people haven't killed that many people through the journey to them. The heroine of the serial would be shared between the women in the group who is (Carol Peletier) Melissa McBride, (Maggie Green) Lauren Cohan, (Sasha Williams) Sonequa Martin-Green and (Michonne) Danai Gurira, this is because each female has character and persona which have a aspect of saving the group from danger such as carol is more you must learn to survive of die, Mochonne would be calm collective use anger towards the zombies but don't get reckless. The villain is similar to the usual zombie horror movie genres which are zombies, but also greed and dangerous people for example cannibals, hunter and other organisation with tyrants as leaders. The purpose of the hero and heroine would be to lead the group through tough situation and make sure that people know how to survive through the chaos. Also the villains purpose is to become the obstacle of the group depending on the danger level of the enemy organisation, they also allow to gradually let the group learn from mistakes by trusting mysterious people and seeming weak to other groups, this would also make sure to present the danger of greed and how the scenes and story changes the people's characteristics by their negative or positive thoughts of a similar situation.

The theme of the serial would be different depending on the situation since sometime they portray the theme of social inequality and some episode main factor and focus are friendship and bond between the group which group up together of the theme of the whole serial as looking at the freedom and the greed and emotion leaking out from the thought of surviving a zombie apocalypse.

The music they use within the intro of the walking dead applies suspense and curiosity to every start of the walking dead episodes which effect the audience by building up the suspense even before the episode carries on so that they keep realising that it a empty world which is gradually disappearing and the only hope now for the future is still a mystery which you have to keep watching the serial to gradually understand the true story and all the option of the final end to the destruction of the apocalyptic event. For example within the trailer they present fear and change through just the use of the sound of zombies coming closer and is a unique way to present suspense within a situation and make the characters react faster within the situation.


Gaurdians of the galaxy

the director of the marvel movie is James Gunn and is known for writting the scripts for scooby doo, the scooby doo 2: monsters unleashed but also the 2004 version of Dawn of the dead. The movie was released within 2014 and the main characters were:

Chris Pratt- Peter Quill/ Star Lord
Zoe Saldana - Gamora
Dave Buautista- Drax
Vin Diesel- Groot (voice)
Bradley Cooper- Rocket (voice)
Lee Pace-Ronan
Micheal Rooker- Yondu Udonta
Karen Gillan- Nebula
Djimon Hounsou- Korath
John C. Reilly- Corpsman Dey
Glenn Close- Nova Prime
Benicio Del Toro- The collector

This would be a featured film which would be categorised within the genre's of action, adventure and scific since it has a quite fast paced but discovering the traits of the characters but also the setting and enviroment such as space, ship and of a marvel universe. The basic plot of the film is that a group of criminal who are Peter Quill somehow are linked together to save the universe from a tyrant called Ronan. The ending of the film was more of a open ending since they ended it through flying off into space having said 'what should we do next, bit of good, bit a bad, bit ah both' and then goes into space and ends which present more by saying space has a lot to find and discover.

The main heros and charcter such as gamora, peter quinn, drax, rocket and groot have different skills which fill the gaps of ech other weaknesses for example Star Lord who is Peter Quinn who has leadership and good combat skills but is careless and childish and gamora is cunning however untrusting and suspicious which then goes towards rocket whos intelligent and confident but hot headed and inprotected without someone big by his side like groot who has great strength but stupid and cant be left alone. Finally drax who is full of rage and really strong however reckless who's filled up with hate and doesnt think straight through revenge. The villain would be Ronan who trys to take
Xander and kill everyone on it to overthrow the truce between his and Xander's race. Theres also a character named Yondu which took Peter Quill then nurtured him to become a criminal robber but then gradually seen to just hunt down the stones to sell for a lot of money but then help the gaurdians infiltrate ronan's ship. The theme of the film would be  mixed fom the start was emotional where peter quills mother died from cancer then too freedom from the though of a terrorsit tyrant wanting to destroy their universe. However I would lso say how theirs themes being presented by the characters stories before they met such as peter quill mainly did it for money but everyone else but groot and rocket who did it for friendship did it fo revenge like gamora who is sworn to take down the person who killed her parent who would be Thanos who is the boss of Ronan, Drax does it for revenge for his life and daughter who Ronan killed with the rest of drax's kind.

I personally love the use of music since they used classic music within scene to present a casual atmosphere while danger and romance to help the essence of the scene to be obvious through the use of the chosen music used. A example of this would be within 19 seconds of the clips which present how he makes a bad and horrible place to be at into somewhere joyful and positive through use of music and dance scenes. This would also appal to the story of Peter Quill due to his mum gave him the sound track before she died which apply sympothy to him since that the last thing he has from her and treasures it dearly.

The examples of a variety of camera angles use would be within the scene where they use of a extreme long shot where they were heading towards the traveller and identify the location as a ancient being who died long ago and used as a resting place. Another example would be how within most scenes which consists of music but also dancing scenes to bring humour towards their marvel fans were presented within a full body or rarely a mid shot which allowed the audience to not just see most of the scene but the surrounding to basically make fun of making a dramatic situation within a action genre into a comedic dance off. An example of this would be within the beginning of the end fight scene within Peter Quill trying to distract Ronan enough for the other to get ready for another attack on his staff. Mainly the use of close of extreme close ups where portrayed when something dramatic or important information is being given within a scene such as love, hatred or sadness to capture the moment and help the audience know whats going on and manipulate how they should feel within a specific situation of a scene.


The Flash

The year of broadcast for 'The Flash' was within 2014 which makes the series quite resent. The main cast of the show are Grant Gustin/ Barry Allen, Candice Patton/ Iris West, Danielle Panabaker/ Caitlin Snow, Carlos Valdes/ Cisco Ramon, Tom Cavanagh/ Dr. Harrison Wells, Jesse L. Martin/ Detective Joe West, Rick Cosnett/ Eddie Thawne, Malese Jow/ Linda Park. The format of this tv show would be a series since even though it has a big story to it, within each episode they present a conclusion by either defeating a meta- human or just finding information which would link to other future episodes such as finding information which Barry Allen could reach closer and closer to finding who killed his mother but also releasing his dad from prison. The Genre of the flash would be a action due to fighting of meta- humans and having the title of a super hero series, adventure which is shown through the story line of finding out the big question of who killed Barry Allen's mother but also who is Harrison Wells. This could also be represented as a drama since they add in section of a girl who names Iris who Barry knew since child that he loves but wouldn't be able be together since she just think of him as a friend and is going out with her dad's police partner. The basic plot is they set within american called Central City and Barry Allen get struck by lightning and is hospitalised, which then turn out that he gain the power of a meta human who can run super fast and have high healing regeneration. However, trying to find out who killed his mother and reclaim justice for his father locking up other meta human's along the way with the help of star labs, Iris and Detective Joe West. Within the series they use linear endings so that it doesn't make the audience feel that it's done not much will happen later but they want the audience to think ahead of whats going to happen next which applies curiousity to their though and keep them wanting to see more of the series. The character such as Barry Allen and as the flash is used for security a model to protect the city from what they haven't discovered they cannot understand which gives hope to the citizens of central city but also towards the audience to present peace. The people at star labs such as cisco, Caitlin and Dr Harrison well's is seen as aid and the source of information as for what power each meta human has and how to stop stop them but also crucial to find out who killed Barry's mother. The characters who keep Barry and other character at bay also play as a weakness of the super hero would be Iris and Joe since they play as a responsible but also suspicious characters who mostly get into trouble and get the main character into harms way which portray's what the audience the be feeling but also support on different situation on how they should be feeling. I feel the theme would be friendship of being their for each other to help within a similar goal but also revenge on taking action and applying justice to what the killer placed upon Barry and his family. The main sound effect which is key to the episodes would be when to zooms past the city which is applied within the intro to apply both mistery and speed with the intro but also throughout the episodes. The Key camera shots mainly use repeatively throughout the episode are when he run towards a direction the camera pans within a full body shot in which direction he's running towards which there are example within the intro of the series this emphasis the speed and shortens the clip to make it more fluent in the flash's movement in front of the camera.