Case study:
Thirteen (BBC 3 Drama)
This TV drama was released in February 2016, it’s a new
trailer for a TV Drama: it is in the same style and format as our TV Drama
Trailers for controlled assessment. I am analysing this TV Drama using the CEMS
analysis.
At the beginning of the trailer there is a close up of a logo
of the TV channel it will be aired on. After a few seconds the logo disappears
and appears at the bottom left hand corner. There is an over the shoulder shot
which is showing the audience what the character ‘Ivy’ sees in her vision after
thirteen years. While that scene appears there is writing which says ‘Pure
Drama’ this also tells us that this trailer is a new drama for BBC 3. Suddenly,
there is a close up of a foot which slowly crushes a flower. The foot seems
like a dirty foot which hasn’t been looked after properly. This makes the
audience want to know whose foot it is because all they know so far is that it
is a girl’s foot, but as the audience knows girls don’t usually have a foot
like that, so that makes the audience more conscious of wanting to know more.
After the foot the camera goes straight to the girl (Ivy). The camera pauses
for a bit, with a mid-shot to show the audience how the girl (Ivy) looks now.
The girl (Ivy) looks pale and shows the audience that she looks ill and hasn’t
been cared for properly. Ivy then runs off and the camera shows her running off
from the back, while the backing track appears with the voice over which then
and then cuts straight to the investigation scene.
The
investigation scene has an investigator who is sitting with Ivy who went
missing thirteen years ago, in a small room which looks cold and tiny, the room
looks as if it has been filtered to change the lighting of the light, and to
make it look dark and dull, and then there is a side shot of Ivy sitting facing
the Investigator. The camera goes straight to a lady looking into a mirror and
then the camera fades away into darkness and cuts into the bit where the girl
is running, and then the scene goes to when Ivy is in the phone box. In this
scene you could hear 3 sounds which are non-dietetic and dietetic: heavy
breathing, crying and the backing track this makes the audience jump, and
scared. The scenes jump cut when the girl is running to make the audience want
to know more. This is the flashback of what happened to Ivy when she got lost. The
colour black shows up whenever the scene moves from one to the other. Also
whenever the scene changes there is always a person ending or starting the
scene. This is used because the editor wants the trailer to flow all the way
through.
Ivy is in a room sitting silently, which shows
the audience that she is scared and her dad who is standing with her looks
worried to, this also makes us want to watch the TV drama. The camera slowly
moves sideways at the TV which is showing the news and an image of Ivy when she
was young, thirteen years ago, and then the TV gets covered by a person which
then leads the scene to another. This scene has Ivy with another man and a
voice over appears. The camera slowly fades into darkness and a close up of the
investigators legs slowly walking down in to a dark room; there is then a close
up of the investigators hand which makes the audience wonder if this was the
room that Ivy was trapped in for the last thirteen years. The camera has a
close up of Ivy’s face which looks like a CCTV clip; this means that Ivy was
interviewed. Then there is fast paced editing which makes the viewers want to
see it: it creates tension and excitement.
There is an ariel shot of Ivy running happily with someone else which tells the audience that she is happy. There is a long shot of Ivy’s back which tells us that she was not treated well and there is a close up of her eye which fades away quickly. At the end there is an image of Ivy sitting on her bed dressed up nicely which shows the audience that she is being treated well. It also ends with a question which says ‘who is Ivy Moxam?’ Also the logo reappears but bigger because it reminds us that it is a new trailer for a new TV drama. The lamp behind Ivy gives a smooth and soft feeling showing she is happier than before. There also is a voice-over of a man which persuades the audience to watch the TV drama, because the man says ‘Thirteen on BBC 3’. At the bottom there are also 3 icons for the audience to share the link. This helps with the audience viewing because if one person shares the link to someone else, then they will watch it and they will share it to someone else. At the end the picture Ivy tells us that the trailer doesn’t end there, something else will happen, I know this because Ivy is looking diagonal and her facial expression tells the audience that she is still worried of what is going to happen.
There is an ariel shot of Ivy running happily with someone else which tells the audience that she is happy. There is a long shot of Ivy’s back which tells us that she was not treated well and there is a close up of her eye which fades away quickly. At the end there is an image of Ivy sitting on her bed dressed up nicely which shows the audience that she is being treated well. It also ends with a question which says ‘who is Ivy Moxam?’ Also the logo reappears but bigger because it reminds us that it is a new trailer for a new TV drama. The lamp behind Ivy gives a smooth and soft feeling showing she is happier than before. There also is a voice-over of a man which persuades the audience to watch the TV drama, because the man says ‘Thirteen on BBC 3’. At the bottom there are also 3 icons for the audience to share the link. This helps with the audience viewing because if one person shares the link to someone else, then they will watch it and they will share it to someone else. At the end the picture Ivy tells us that the trailer doesn’t end there, something else will happen, I know this because Ivy is looking diagonal and her facial expression tells the audience that she is still worried of what is going to happen.
