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:Trap stories

Tagline:Trapping ain't dead.

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

crime-involving drugs,knife,guns 

Setting (note brief – at least two locations):
Heston bridge near my house and the alleyway
Greenford high school
Grover food and wine(corner shop)


Number of episodes:6

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

Pre watershed

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


Other successful TV dramas that are similar to yours:


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

A new school kid  is trying to settle in school but he can't because of his colour and background that he is from .Furthermore then the school kids bully him and make him get into drug dealing, money laundering for them.After that the kid sees young man being affected by the drugs that he is selling and gets frustrated and plans out against the people who bullied him.At the end as the cliff hanger  he gets weapons ready to fight the villain and the boys who bullied him.

Episodic narratives – what will happen in each episode?

Episode 1:Introduction of the characters
Episode 2:The protagonist's first day in the schooling how everyone makes fun out of him
Episode 3:The protagonist is  getting bullied and forced to work for selling drugs and money laundering.
Episode 4:The protagonist selling drugs and doing money laundering.
Episode 5:The protagonist getting frustrated by the people and doesn't like what he doing after seeing a young boy affected by drugs.
Episode 6:The protagonist plans revenge from the people who he gets bullied by and gets a gun trend the villain.

Main protagonist – their motivation, conflicts etc.:

The main protagonist's motivation is trying to settle into his new school and be friend. with everyone.

Other characters, their narrative role and their audience appeal:

Other characters in the play are influencing him to do bad things for them like money laundering and
drugs.

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 is teenagers aged 15-18, the tv drama will appeal to this age group because the concepts in the show may be very relatable such as drug dealing, money laundering also the class the tv drama will relate to is working class due to the grimy living style.