Quality Criteria in children TV: Narrative and Script Writing for Children’s TV 0-6

By Valerio Fuenzalida

This text is a review of some changes that have recently taken place in literary creation and script writing in TV programs for children 0-6 years; a new image of child-audience at home has recently emerged: children are actives and living in “media immersion”. New quality criteria have emerged for production of attractive socio-emotional TV programs. The review is addressed to TV professionals working in TV script design and literary creation for children audiovisual programs.

• Language: English
• Publisher: ebooks del sur
• Release date: Oct 28, 2019

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Quality Criteria in Children TV

Narrative and Script Writing for Children’s TV 0-6

Valerio Fuenzalida

Quality Criteria in children TV

Narrative and Script Writing for Children’s TV 0-6

©Valerio Fuenzalida

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©2015

eISBN: 978-956-8881-32-0

School of Communications – Catholic University of Chile

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Quality Criteria in Narrative and Script Writing for Children’s TV 0-6

Valerio Fuenzalida¹

[e-mail]

School of Communications – Catholic University of Chile

2015

Abstract

This text is a review of some changes that have recently taken place in literary creation and script writing in TV programs for children 0-6; a complex set of different influences has triggered changes on children conception; a new image of the child has emerged, different from the old behaviorist one; new quality criteria have emerged for production and exhibition of socio-emotional TV programs

Table of Contents

A different image of the child

1. Baby TV in new century

Evolution towards segmentation

Baby TV

Aspects where television cannot contribute

2. Programs for preschoolers

2.1. Interaction with child-audience

2.2. Semiotic representation within audiovisual text

a) The significant body

b) Ludic representation of singular diversity

2.3. Storytelling format

2.4. Story and protagonist child

a) Bob the Builder as protagonist and worker

b) Dora the Explorer: protagonist and host character

c) How to represent adult?

3. Game and fiction as transitional ludic space

Emotional memory

4. From school performance towards development of socio-emotional skills

5. Constructivist Reception

6. Quality criteria

References

This text will be a review of some changes that have taken place in literary creation and script writing for children’s TV 0-6 years old; there will be a brief review of the evolution mainly about animation programs. It will be stated that these changes introduced new quality criteria for production and exhibition in socio-emotional TV contents. There will be no references to aspects such as technology, management, and cost recovery. Some matters should be exposed rather in a workshop, place more adequate than a paper. In this paper, it will not be possible something fundamental: The exhibition of episodes of the referred children’s TV programs. If watching audiovisual programs is not possible it will be more difficult to understand the changes introduced in scripts.

This review is addressed to Latin-American (and Third World) TV professionals working in TV script design and literary creation for children audiovisual animation. The evolution of TV narrative will be the pragmatic focus in this analysis. Academic interpretation about that evolution