GENRE ANALYSIS BETWEEN BEING HUMAN VS THE ORDER
Genre Analysis is a process of looking
at several samples of a particular genre to analyse their similarities and
differences in terms of their purposes, macrostructure and language choice.
Drama series that I have choose to analyse are The Order (2019) and Being Human
UK (2008). Both of them were aired from different platform which is The Order
can only been watch on Netflix while Being Human was aired on television. Even
though they are many gaps these two-drama series, but still these series have
their own creativity and their own storyline. Without further ado, the genre
analysis can be done by three approaches which are aesthetic, ritual and
ideological.
Firstly,
the aesthetic approaches. Aesthetic can be known as a hybridization or a
combination of many types of genre. In the series of Being Human (UK version), Toby
Whithouse as a Director for this television series wanted to portrayed that
this drama genres are horror fiction, supernatural and comedy. In this drama, Mitchell
is a vampire and George is a werewolf. Further complicating things is the
slight question of the nascent home of the couple being visited by Annie's
ghost who is a young lady with her own unfinished business. However, this drama
is relaxing cause it is included some funny scene that can make the viewer
laugh and release their tension. While drama of The Order, Dennis Heaton as a
Director for this drama wanted to portrayed the same genres as above which are
horror fiction and supernatural. The supernatural things can be seen when Jack Morton
started to become a werewolf after been choose by the werewolf packs. He started
to join the Hermetics Order of Blue Rose and become more closer to Alyssa Drake.
By being a werewolf and being a
magician, which can do some dark arts make Jack Morton more powerful than the
others member of The Order. This drama is more serious compared to drama of Being
Human cause this drama is more focus to relationship between Jack Morton and Alyssa
Drake.
Secondly,
ritual approaches. The ritual
approach shows the value of the ritual found in one drama or movie itself.
A ritual is a sequence of activities that include movements, words, acts, or
artifacts, conducted in a sequestered position and according to a specified
sequence. As an example, in drama series of Being Human, they believe the
ghosts exist. As a result, some scenes have been set in order where the
roommates Mitchell and George have made several routines to call Annie, who is
a ghost to show herself when summoned. In the drama series of The Order, there many
scenes of ritual. As an example, scene where jack is forced to drink a cup full
of blood. He was told that, that kind of ritual is to cleanse himself from all
sin before entering the Hermetics Order of Blue Rose.
Lastly, ideological approaches.
Ideological approaches are the main storyline or main idea of the drama or movie.
Though in 10 years the time period between the two dramas series is fairly
long. The storyline that the director wanted to share is pretty close though.
Where in the drama series of Being Human, George is a werewolf and Mitchell is
a werewolf. Mitchell was born as a werewolf. He lives as a werewolf and got
that superpower since he is still young until now. In the drama series of The Order,
Jack Morton was a normal human being before he started to continue his studies
and entered university life. He started to get his superpower when he was chosen
by the werewolf pack to be one of them. However, in this drama there is some
conflict happened when Jack got two super power which are he is one of the werewolves
and can-do dark arts. It is because it is something that are related with his
background that he doesn’t know. However there are same idea that the director
wanted to show in both drama series which is, the werewolf need to learn how to
control their anger or else they will harm people who are close to them since
he got strong energy than the others.
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