S- Both go on for a long time
D- Soaps are half an hour/ LF TV Drama is not fixed.
D- LF has higher budget
Long form TV is an American concept which effectively is a hybrid of a serialised drama with the high production standards of film.
DRAMA
a show that runs in a series over years.
Starts with an intense beginning to grip their audience
They contain cliffhangers to maintain interest
TV drama is very much dialogue led.
Production values are lower than film (funded by advertising revenue or PSB)
FILM
Typical costs $100 M to produce, distribute and market a film
Funded by box office receipts
High budgets permit high end actors and high end production
LONG FORM TV DRAMA
Drama that runs in a series
they start with an intense beginning to grip their audience
They contain cliffhangers to maintain interest
they conclude the episode until the end where they conclude the episode.
very much dialogue led.
Production values are higher than TV drama (funded by subscribers)
High budgets permit high end actors and high end production
A film print costs about $2000, a digital disk less than $100.
A 90 minute movie is usually over 8,000 feet of film. Modern reels of film come in 2000 ft. lengths, so that’s almost nine reels of film per movie, and many movies last longer than 90 minutes.
With digital filming you no longer have to stop “filming” to reload film magazines
Netflix reaches 93 million people worldwide.
video streaming services such as Netflix deliver programming “on demand” via the internet, viewers can choose what and when to watch instead of watching “what’s on.”
Its popularity is achieved by providing high production content in several TV serial genres. This includes complicated serial dramas (“House of Cards”), action series (“Daredevil”), horror series (“Hemlock Grove)
TASK 4
what is the comparative production costs of a typical UK Soap e.g. Eastenders compared to an episode of House of cards
Eastenders- £141,000/ episode
House of Cards- £4.5 million/ episode
How is this reflected in the production values of the respective dramas?
Eastenders is based all of a set which is cheaper than House of Cards which is shot on the streets of Washington DC.
House of Cards hires well known actors with higher salaries
House of Cards is distributed worldwide
Camera quality is a lot better in HoC (4k)
Camera quality is a lot better in HoC (4k)
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