NaRrAtiVe...

...NARRATIVE......NARRATIVE......NARRATIVE...

How is the narrative organised and structured? Each week a story is followed up and after each episode a sneak preview into what the next episode has to offer is shown.
How is the audience positioned in relation to the narrative? In relation to the narrative I feel as if thought the audience is positioned almost as a spectator.
How are characters delineated? What is their narrative function? How are heroes and villains created? Heroes and villians are created in eahc episodes, some hereos and villians remain constant whilst depending on the episodes heroes and villians can come in and out of the episode.
What techniques of identification and alienation are employed? Techniques of identification are employed with trying to deal with real life situations yet in a confined area. Problems such as miscarriages, illnesses, family and health problems etc are dealt with increasing identification. Alienation is employed by basing these women in somewhere most people wont have seen...a prison!
What is the role of such features as sound, music, iconography, genre, mise-en-scene, editing etc within the narrative? Sound and music plays a big part in Bad Girls however most importantly mise en scene does too...as it is set in a prison.
What are the major themes of the narrative? What values/ideologies does it embody? Most of the narrative featured on Bad Girls always has a twist in it and nothing is what it seems sometimes it can take things too far but then that is where and how the excitment is built up.