Planning: TV drama concept

A Level Media NEA – Brief 5: TV drama trailer and culture magazine

TV drama concept

Our coursework brief requires us to create our own TV drama trailer and culture magazine for an original TV drama in the crime or family drama genres. Plan the following:

Title: 

UNAWARE, Blind Sight

Tagline: Necessity is blind until its conscious. 

Genre (and sub-genre/hybrid genre if applicable):

Crime/ family drama 

Setting (note brief – at least two locations): 

Hotel,  Riverside 

Number of episodes: 8

Channel and time/day of broadcast (note brief – prime-time, pre-watershed, family audience):

 Youtube , BBC 1, 8 pm to 9 pm

Logline – one sentence that sums up the whole TV drama series and hooks people in (25 words or fewer):

A disability is always seen as a weakness or an insecurity such as no vision, the loss of eyesight however, nowadays everyone feels the need to act blind whenever a crime occurs. What if an unlawful act occurs to someone that is indeed blind. Can that case be solved?

Other successful TV dramas that are similar to yours:

Prison break 

Narrative arc – what happens in the overall series and in what order:

The story begins in a state of normality( equilibrium ) where Tayla Smirnoff is surprising her sister Mya Smirnoff for her birthday, however due to her accident she lost in touch with a lot of her friends even her eyesight therefore nothing big was planned. As Mya enters the room, shes shocked at how many people arrived but Tayla didnt invite anyone. Suddenly, due to unfortunate events, Mya is continuously stabbed and taken by these people who were uninvited. Tayla starts to file a missing case but doesn't find any luck due to their being no evidence. She calls one of her best friend from high school who is an ex commando called Jacob Frye and he insisted in finding her sister. Jacob later finds out she was dumped in a river with many stab marks. Then realises how did Tayla  know that she had stab marks when shes blind... 

Episodic narratives – what will happen in each episode?

Episode 1- Tayla gets into an accident which unfortunately resulted her in a coma for 3 months. Luckily her sister, Mya endured minor injuries from the car accident. 

Episode 2- Tayla organises a very low key surprise birthday by decorating the area. As soon as Mya enters the room, she is shocked by the amount of people that arrived however, Tayla did not invite anyone.
Episode 3- Mya is harmed by a weapon such as a knife but Tayla was unable to help due to her being blind. Mya was taken and that when the case begins
Episode 4 - Tayla went to many police station around the city of London trying to file a missing case however there was no evidence or witnesses that could of helped. Every police officer thought she just ran away from the country.
Episode 5- Jack Daniels who is an ex commando finds out that Mya Smirnoff  has been declared missing, he put everything aside to go look for her.
Episode 6- Jack Daniels speaks to her sister Tayla Smirnoff to get as much evidence he can. He found out that she was stabbed numerous of times. Jack starts to investigate the area of the scene but find no blood samples, absolutely nothing as if everything had been erased.
Episode 7- Jack Daniels finds a ring which belonged to one of the kidnappers and from there, Jack Daniels tracks each person that was involved. 

Episode 8- At last after many days of searching, Jack Daniels finds the body of Mya Smirnoff which was thrown in a river. Jack Daniel realises how did Tayla know that she had stab marks if she didn't see any thing and not one but many. 

Main protagonist – their motivation, conflicts etc.:

The main protagonist is an ex commando from the USA army who is called in to investigate a kidnapping. He refused many times until he found out who was kidnapped. Mya  was a very close friend of Jack Daniels which is why he was eager to take on the case and find his missing friend. 

Other characters, their narrative role and their audience appeal:
The antagonist is Tayla Smirnoff , Tayla  plays the fake act of being blind and feeling remorse due to her sister being kidnapped. 

Target audience for your TV drama (note brief – family audience, pre-watershed broadcast etc.): age, gender, social class, interests, psychographic groups etc.

The target audience for my TV drama is going to be 15 and  over due to it appealing to a family audience. The Tv show will appeal to  a middle class.