The Flash - season 1.episode 1 (Tv Drama Analysis) HOMEWORK

The Flash – Season 1, Episode 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uie55YJz25E

• Introduction: what is the format, purpose, platform for broadcast, and describe the target audience
• Which genre codes and conventions are followed?
• How are people, places, events, values represented?
• What is the narrative structure, style and theme?

Purpose / Format / Platform / Audience:

Audience – 16+
The series/TV show is aimed at teenagers+ but is suitable for PG. This is because it's a superhero/fantasy and sci-fi TV series, however it may have some violence but not serious violence, just some fight scenes etc.

Purpose – Entertainment/Sci-Fi

Platform – The platform for this TV series in based in America and aired on TV on a channel called The CW and The Puls. The production location is in Vancouver. Although they air their show in America, people intend to broadcast it onto other websites for people all around the world to access and watch and enjoy.

Genre conventions (rules):
The genre conventions for this series is that it's all based off the comics books created before and the main genre of this TV show is superhero but also kind of fantasy but it's definitely Sci-Fi because it evolves time travel a lot and other scientific ideas. It also a theme of transformation due the things which happen; ordinary man  sees something unordinary, and then gets hit with lighting but survives and become the unordinary.

• Superhero / fantasy
  Backstory / transformation theme.

Narrative – structure, style, theme:

The main theme for season one is for Barry Allen (The Flash) to figure out everything which is happening to him because he had be hit by an accident and now is the fastest man alive. He should use it for good or bad and he’s a positive scientist and he has friends and family too but he doesn’t tell them he has the special power. He goes to a science lab. The style of season one is sci-fi and mystery; since Barry gets this new feature to his life, now he can save other people’s life and try to find out who killed his mother.

• Barry has a normal day at work as a scientist but also works for a police company with his dad like figure.
• He mysteriously gets hit by a Lightning bolt.
• Soon he gets found and a scientist in a wheelchair makes them take Barry to their lab because they believe they have better facilities rather than the hospital.
• He’s in a coma, and his dad is scared for him and touches his body but something happens and he gets rapped in a shell shaped like a cocoon.
• He wakes up after 3 months and finds out by himself outside that he can run fast, when he tries to save this woman’s purse from a thief.

Representation – people, places, events, values

Places: The places vary throughout the whole series but in the very first episode its based in America, DC and The Flash works in a police department and his home who he shares with his neighbour because his dad got arrested and his mother died when he was young, ever since then his neighbours; Joe west and his daughter Iris west looked after him and before he gets hit by the lighting, these are the main settings for the first episode. But, after he was hit with the lighting strike he was sent to a special scientific laboratory, called; 'Star Labs' and they helped him become 'The Flash', who he eventually started working with in disguise.

People: Barry Allen being The Flash (fastest man alive)

It starts of form the very beginning with the theme intro which there is a voice over of The Flash explaining who he is, what he does, how he say his parents die by something impossible as a child but then an accident occurred which made him the impossible. In private he’s the flash but to the public he’s an ordinary forensic scientist. His main goal is to find who killed his mother and get justice for his father. He just helps the public and fights crime. However, he ends up living with his neighbour and his fathers best friend Joe West and his daughter: Iris west... because when his mother died the police believed it was his father and they arrested his father.


Events: The main events in the first episode is when we are taught what happened to his mother when he was younger and why he started living with his neighbour; Joe West and their daughter Iris West. We are taught a horrible accident happened to his mother and she was killed in their own home by something abnormal and his father got arrested for it.
Then the second event being that when he was hit by lighting and actually turned into 'The Flash' but was sent to a special scientist laboratory, with doctors who eventually they worked together and the science lab ' star labs ', helped him with becoming 'The Flash'.