Period Dramas?!?

Period dramas are based ion historical facts, is this what makes them so special? Or is it that Period dramas transport the audience back in time giving us a glimpse of our ancestors daily occurrences? Relieving the viewers of their daily worries and stress's of life.

The most common feature to a period drama would be the set costumes from the set era. This is why period dramas are commonly known as costume dramas. also, they are usually set with an "old" "county" setting. The mise en scnen representing colours, sounds, and props taking the viewers back to the era clearly of the time. Also, colours are used allot to represent the class of a character.

In 'Lark Rise to Candleford' colours such as red, blue, Green or Violet the rather rich and luxurious colours are used to represent the higher class whereas colours like browns, grey, pastels and off white can be used to represent the lower class. Also, the grammar is poorer and accent becomes stronger for the lower class whereas the upper class and people with a general higher staus speak more formally using "standard English".

The story is set on the mid  1890's and is based on a trilogy of autobiographical novels written by Flora Thompson, about her childhood in rural Oxfordshire.  The special thing about this era in which this period drama has been set in is that the characters are then made to respect one another , most significantly across class at the end of it.

Class systems

"Lark Rise" a hamlet were the poorer working class live.

"Candleford" the upper class town were the wealthiest business' and family's live.