Pretty Little Liars: The Use Of Compositional Elements In One Tree Hill

Aria, Hanna, Spencer, Emily, and Alison were friends in high school. Alison suddenly disappears and is said to be dead. The group falls apart but they all begin to receive texts from a mysterious “A” and are determined to find out who it is. The journey takes them on all kinds of chases. They eventually find Alison alive and she joins them. The girls realize there are more people on the “A” team and are determined to find out and stop who is harming them. Flash forward 5 years and everything is settled, all of them have decent jobs and some have started a family. Pretty little liars focuses on four themes throughout the 7 seasons: groups and organization, deviance and crime, race and ethnicity, and sex and gender. These themes are somewhat controversial. The show takes your typical group of high school students and turns them into manipulative people who are only there for

Our dictionary is about the TV show Riverdale. With it having so many twists and turns there are multiple words and phrases that many people may not know or understand. In addition, there are different aspects and keeping up can be hard and it’s easy to get lost.

John Jurgensen’s article asks us an interesting question: how many TV series can our brains take? As television series expand to grandiose levels, it gets harder to follow what is happening: who people are, and what their place in the overall story is hard to follow for a large number of viewers. Jurgensen attempts to address this within his article, and it has some interesting points.

Sara Magee’s article, “High School is Hell: The TV Legacy of Beverly Hills, 90210, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer” (2014), argues that both television shows positively changed and impacted teen-based programs during and after their air time. Magee supports this claim by providing descriptions of how teens were depicted in teen-based dramas prior to the 1990’s and how these two shows introduced controversial topics that made teens think about their actions. Magee’s purpose is to point out how these two shows broke the norms of traditional teen dramas that focused on the ideal teen lifestyle in order to show that Beverly Hills, 90210 and Buffy the Vampire Slayer are the predecessors of controversial teen dramas of the 21st century. Based on the

The Reality TV Show I chose for this assignment is The Bachelor. This TV show is very dramatic and definitely leaves you on the edge of your seat. The Bachelor is about one man who is looking to find love, and approximately 20 women competing for his love. In the season I chose to watch, Sean Lowe is the bachelor. Each week he sends another women home until he is left with his future wife. The three episodes I chose to watch were the last three of the season. Which included the home town dates, the final two, and then the finale, where Sean picked the women he wants to spend the rest of his life with. This show is definitely odd; however, it is extremely entertaining. The audience for this show is typically female teenagers and

Watching them transition from adolescence to adulthood has not only been encouraging but I guess almost satisfying in a way. The show has not only given me ideas about my future but has also made me question where I see myself when I reach their age in just a few short years. To say the show gives me some type of hope is an understatement, just as saying I relate to only one character from “One Tree Hill” is impossible… I’d truly like to say I’m a lot like all of them. I can only hope anyways! For example, I’d like to think I’m as caring as Haley James or as independent as Brooke Davis. I’d like to think I go after all my dreams with great passion just as Nathan Scott and find the little things in life, the best things just like Jamie. I’d like to think I am as strong as Peyton Sawyer, always bringing something positive out of terrible situations. I’d like to think I am as decisive as Lucas Scott, always thinking out each option with such diligence. Each character has their share of good moments but like all people, they have their share of downs as well. The show itself is simple and relatable. The characters’ lives are far from perfect. They struggle just as everyone else, but in their world they fight back with courage. They don’t allow the challenges, risks, or decisions to bring them down. They use them to grow and stand back up taller than

The Office and Parks and Recreation are two widely popular shows that capture their audiences with their unique story lines, “mockumentary” style, and captivating characters. These two shows have won many awards and are praised by critics and viewers. When analyzing these shows it was important to pay attention to their narrative structure. Also, breaking the fourth wall gave these shows a twist that was different from other situation comedies. The characters are loveable and funny and truly develop the simple plots. The Office and Parks and Recreation are two situation comedies with a firm grasp on the concept of narrative structure with intriguing characters that have developed through their many seasons.

Shaping cultural status, shows on television have influenced a divorcing force in significant modern social frameworks. Giving artistic agency to some shows over others, this separation specifically defines those who choose to watch some programs over other ‘bland nonsense’ programs. Carrying with it this tone of primacy, shows like those on HBO propagate social position like gender within their plots and characters, where older, white men hold esteem and power over their minority and female counterparts. An example is Aaron Sorkin’s HBO political drama series The Newsroom that ran from 2012 to 2014. Known well as an outspoken writer in Hollywood, Aaron Sorkin delivered Newsroom much to the same spirit of his other acclaimed works, building

Economy Carefully crafting a script that relays the intended message while adhering to a time limit of two to three minutes for the entire story

It is a mistake to start watching a drama series, and stop watching it after some time, but it is a sin to watch the whole drama series, and still not understand it. Many people make such mistakes. One of the reasons can be the number of characters. It is necessary for a show to have enough actors so as to not create a plot ‘hole’. The same can be said about the popular high school show ‘Glee’. It has more than ten actors, and all can be classified by their impact on the singing club ‘Glee’ such as characters who had a direct impact, indirect impact, and no impact.

People have claimed over the course of the modeling industry that size zero model should be banned, why should someone be fired from their job because they’re a size zero? In this paper I will be covering the following, health problems, the designers point of view, and equality.

Imagine you’re a highschool boy, who doesn’t have a father because he went off and had a kid with someone else. The kid he had is only 3 months younger than you and is an incredible basketball player. This kid’s a jock and a complete jerk. He’s your half-brother and you’ve never spoken a word to him. You’re a good basketball player too, but you won’t try out for the team because of him. This is the life of one of the main characters in the show One Tree Hill.

The purpose of my essay is to examine the how “Community” manipulates genre, and whether or not this show can be defined as a Sitcom. My aim is to take a look at the television series through its construction and the way in which Community plays with different genres. I will also examine the way conventional genres are not considered in this show, by looking at the use of intertextuality, the identity of the characters and the narrative of the show.

The scene shows a scene from the show, Pretty Little Liars. In the scene, the character Hanna has a flashback of when she struggled with bulimia. She is reflecting on a time when she used to binge eat, to deal with her feelings. During her flashback, she remembers how a girl she was sort of friends with told her she could fix her problem of binge eating, by throwing up her food after she ate it. The end of the scene shows a conversation between Hanna and her friend Aria, where Hanna talks about how she knew she was stronger than her bulimia, and how she was done with that part of her life.

A narratively complex show thus rejects the episodic convention of a return to the original status quo at the end of each episode, as one might see in an episode of Friends. Problems are often left unresolved to be expanded upon in future episodes. Narrative complexity is thus cumulative and unconventional: it is a combination of episodic closure and serial accumulation, and employs new and engaging narratives and forms of storytelling (Jackson). Of the many ways to achieve narrative complexity, Mittell discusses “operational aesthetic,” which can best be described as something similar to special effects. Operational aesthetic is augmented in certain moments within a narratively complex program. That being said, complex television employs something called the narrative special effect, which is when a program makes use of certain storytelling tools, to engage the viewer (Mittell 43). It is by way of the narrative special effect that the media makers attempt to foster engagement in audiences by planting clues, and this can be achieved through, for example, shifts in perspective or time, dreams or fantasy sequences, and the absence of clear storytelling cues. The result is that audiences focus and speculate on form and structure in addition to content (Jackson).