Glossary

Drama:  TV drama is a broad genre. At its simplest, it is fictionalised action in narrative form.

Long-form TV drama: Long Form Drama is a term coined to describe the recent shift of interest towards television series of high quality that many consider having replaced the cinema as a locus of serious adult entertainment. Unfolding over multiple episodes, hours, and even years, these TV shows are seen to provide a content, often dark and difficult, and an innovative style that strain against the conventions of cinema as well as network television.

Media convention:  A code is a system of signs which can be decoded to create meaning.In media texts, we look at a range of different signs that can be loosely grouped into the following: technical codes - all to do with the way a text is technically constructed - camera angles, framing, typography etc. verbal codes ...

Code: a system of signs which can be decoded to create meaning.

In media texts, we look at a range of different signs that can be loosely grouped into the following:

•technical codes – all to do with the way a text is technically constructed – camera angles, framing, typography etc

•verbal codes – everything to do with language -either written or spoken

•symbolic codes – codes that can be decoded on a mainly connotational level

Genre:

A genre is basically the category of any type of art or literature, for example, categories of a movie would be a comedy, horror, thriller etc. 

Genre Hybridity

Some media texts are hybrid genres, which means they share the conventions of more than one genre. For example, Dr. Who is a sci-fi action-adventure drama and Strictly Come Dancing is a talent, reality and entertainment show.

verbal codes ...

Synopsis  -   A brief summary of the major points of a written work

Code Theory
*-Enigma Code

The Hermeneutic Code refers to any element of the story that is not fully explained and hence becomes a mystery to the reader.

 • The purpose of the author in this is typically to keep the audience guessing, arresting the enigma, until the final scenes when all is revealed and all loose ends are tied off and closure is achieved.

*-Action Code
The Proairetic Code also builds tension, referring to any other action or event that indicates something else is going to happen, and which hence gets the reader guessing as to what will happen next. Applies to any action that implies a further narrative action.
-Semantic Code 
EG Red Rose has connotations of love, lust, sex, perfection, england, perfection, Labour (politics)
-Symbolic Code
-Referential Code

Subvert
Going against authority (undermining their power)

Verisimiltude 

the appearance of being true or real.