A Study On The Artistic Characteristics Of British TV Series In The New Century

Since the new century，British TV Drama absorbs more modern creation methods andartistic means， and the theme，characters and narration are also advancing with the times，carrying forward the tradition of British TV Drama’s features and being in succession at thesame time，but also showing its new characteristics. With the improvement of creation methods,the rich access to information, and the improvement and development of shooting andbroadcasting system, the majority of the audience can enjoy more outstanding British TV Drama.In addition, its unique humanities imprint and multi-level national spirit of mutual impact, thesubversion of this heterogeneity culture has attracted large numbers of audience all over theworld.British TV Drama outshines in the drama circle because it is short and pithy, with theexample of Downtown Abbey, Sherlock and Black Mirror. This has important significance on thedomestic TV Drama market with a large quantity and little quality at present. More importantly,as a changing industry, film and television creation changes on the basis of economy, culture andpeople’s emotional needs. At present, the study of film academic research field tends to focus onthe level of director, social culture and philosophy, the study object is in favor of classical works.But taking the present works as the subject and doing ontology analysis is rare. Therefore, thestudy of British TV Drama’s artistic features of the new century is of great value.This paper mainly takes the British TV Drama of the new century as a whole, and combineswith several works to analyze its artistic features and causes, and at last summarizes theexperiences for Chinese TV series.This paper can divide into four parts:The first part mainly analyzes the category and type of British TV Drama: on one hand, itincludes three categories------elegant period drama, refined adaptation drama and sharp moderndrama; on the other hand, the typal tendency makes the form stable, and the hybridity of typeelements enrich the audience’s experience.The second part analyzes the images of British TV Drama，fit dresses and real personalitymakes the images exquisite and unique.The third part analyzes the narrative characteristics of British TV Drama: strong dramatic rhythm, concise, humor and containing rich implication character lines, as well as vividnarration.The forth part analyzes the artistic “genes” of British TV Drama: the classical worksprovides the basic plot and personality of characters. Conflicts in drama gives the charactersdeep and rich spiritual world, British performance is a guarantee of quality. British TV Drama isbetter at telling stories with pictures by Montage.