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'Prison: A place for the confinement of persons in lawful detention, especially persons convicted of crimes.' How are the women of Larkhall Prison represented in this multi- award winning drama?

Bad Girls is a serial that depicts the life of many women who have done wrong at some point in their lives. The usual thought of women committing crime because of peer pressure or their husbands or stealing for their family to feed their children has now been left behind and Bad Girls explores the other reasons to why these women are where they are (in jail!) To begin with it enters the sifferent world of these jail convicts who do nothign all day but plan and plot tomake mayhem and trouble in their wing. Each episode welcomes new arrivals which along with them bring their baggage of mischeif, and evil!

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Talk about recent represtations of women and then changing representations of women over time. How serialss and dramas such as Bad Girls have had an impact on the way viewers view certain issues and things in society, things are not always what they seem. Although representations of women in prison are being shown doesnt mean that every woman in every prison is like that and reacts in those same ways. Also it diesnt man each that each prisons ideologies and values are set and the same as the enxt as this is totally not true. One has to take into account that this is TV and not real.

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Whilst women are portrayed and represented on screen as being these sexual desiring sex objects in most serials, or perhaps the sexy independent know all powerful women, Bad Girls makes this representation seem surreal. Each woman has their own status in Bad Girls and it is their status that makes them who they are. It is iintrodduced to viewers as a serial viewing the real world...or so it may be of HMP Larkhall Prison, its full of corrupt officers, vying prisoners and many tragic stories.

However the prison also acts a source of comfort for many, strong freindships are formed and trsut and loyalty are tested to the max. Many reviews of Bad Girls have bagged it off to be a special serial depicting the life of individuals that havent been represented before in a while. Most critics argue that Bad Girls is quite dramatised and exagerted and that half the things that do take place in Larkhall Prison couldnt take place in any real prison. With titles such as

Them And Us; Drug Wars; Love Rival; The Victim; Tangled Web; A Big Mistake; Playing With Fire; Falling Apart; Pay Back Time; Love Hurts, one could only guess what kind of action and drama takes place at this prison.

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The audience has much impact on the way they view things, younger people may be easily influenced and beleive certain issues that go on in HMP LArkhall prison go on everywhere in each and every womens prison however some may also see that it is merely a tv programme. However one could also relate the issues in the prison to real life issues such as illness and problems within ones family. These problems could then be easily tackled as one would feel more comfortable that that problem has appeared on television and then one might feel more brave to deal with it. It also relates to realisma and being able to relate tot he chracters one does not have to be a criminal to relate to any of the ladies in Larkhall.

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Drama serial... Because they are in prison one expeccts them to be bad behaved and mischievous.
The audiences expectations are very much fulfilled as each episode contains much action and mischevious cunning behaviour.Current series 8 is written by Liz Lake,

Produced by Sharon Houlihan and Directed by Barnaby Southcombe.I would say that the target audsience of a serial like Bad Girls is mainly women. Starting form the age of about 17 targeting onwards to an odler audience too. First being the whole serial itslef is based around a womens prison. So this can be implicit that the target audience is mainly women.
Bad Girls comes on every thursday at 9.00pm.

Women back from work may watch it and also teenagers. ITV every thursday, viewers that do not have additional packages such as sky and cable can also watch it. Likely size of audience is large, also because it is only on once a week makes it more interesting to watch as it only comes one once in the week.

Because we are still quite young we do not get to see or hear about the things that happen in female prisons, therefore makes it more interesting. This programme gets down to things they could happen and also things that are so rare that may happen in prison that we dont even get hear about in the media. And also being female ourselves its good to see how different females think and deal with things.

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The institutional source of the text is ITV, Shed Productions.It is a drama serial, made to entertain.
Commercial institution. The difference it makes is that it features commercials and as it is an hour long is has regular breaks.Each week a story is followed up and after each episode a sneak preview into what the next episode has to offer is shown.

In relation to the narrative I feel as if thought the audience is positioned almost as a spectator. 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. 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!

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.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.