CHILDRENS DRAMA

Codes and conventions

Most children’s dramas follow a typical set of codes and conventions. These are usually because they want to  appeal to there target audience in the best possible way without upseting or offending anyone. These usually include things like silly slapstick humour, overegsadurated acting and its all usually set in a school. These are typical features that you would expect to see in most children dramas especially comedies. A lot of programmes also include a typical set of characters like two parents who suffer due to there out of control teenage kids or an evil sibling est. it is usual for the audience to sympathise the parents for they usually suffer.

For my report I looked at an episode of the popular `Keenan and Kel` using you tube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZ8_QHMg5Hg) which was an ideal children’s drama in terms of codes and conventions. The story line was very predictable but acceptable for a children’s drama it was face paced,funny,silly everything you would expect to see. It had some typical characters in it for example:

.Keenan and kel were the out of control, reckless teenagers who the show is focused on throught each episode

.the parents were always at the centre of Keenan and kels silly antics

Throughout the episode the two teenagers get up to a lot of silly business to make you laugh which they both suffer for in the end. This is the main narrative to most of there episodes which seems to attract a lot of attention. The story always links back to Keenan and kel and they are related to most of the events. The events are all comical to appeal to a younger audience. All of the happenings are egsadurated so that the show keeps its silly grip on its children audience. Keenan and kel always learn there lesson at the end of the episode and there is usually a moral. This helps educate children and keep the parents happy and satisfied. The story uses things that kids can relate to, such as the fact kel really enjoys drinking orange soda constantly all the time. There is generally a happy sense to each episode and there is nothing evil or intimidating that would not appeal to or be acceptable for children. This means that it is the one of the best children’s drama/comedies around today available for children to watch.