TV Drama

Denotation - the first and simple level of meaning of an image
Connotation - a meaning attributal to an image beyond the obvious denotational level 

Different genre's of TV drama's: 

• Romance
• Soap opera
• Murder Mystery 
• Tragedy
• Science fiction
• Action
• Comedy
• Period Drama 

Media Representation

Media means being in the middle or beneath things. People and places you see on television or in film are representations of a real person or event if it is a documentary or imagined in a particular way if it is fictional like a feature film or TV drama. 

Representation of: 

Age

Disability 

Ethnicity

Gender

Regional identity

Sexuality

Social Class