About your article, you spotted some interesting points : about how songs help viewer to store the drama in memory, with feeling. But also, I just want to say that many drama song aren't good. But people like these song because they liked the drama. So it's a two way process. I'm almost sure if people listened only the song (without the drama), maybe they wouldn't like the song. Even if I'm not used to do that, it work sometimes on me. A drama song isn't good. I know it's bad music, but I hear the song many times in the drama. And if I like the drama, I have more tolerance for liking this bad song too, at least a little bit. I also like very much some song from drama I really don't like. So here, I just listen the song on my mp3, and it's a but frustrating I don't like the drama too. Here I can't do anything, I won't like the drama, even if the song is good.
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Yeah, I'm frustrated because most of the time, we get just "various artists" and don't know the name of musicians. I worked hard and did many research on internet just for knowing name of some musicians of the best BGM I like. When listening I was almost sure it was the same team, and it was !
I definitely understand why you think that! What would be your reaction if a drama you watched had bad background…
No, I don't stop watching if the drama is good. Plus, I don't listen really BGM while I watch, but if BGM are good, they jump at my ears. Most of the time, as if by chance, my favorite dramas get the best BGM too. I listen songs as if it was BGM during a drama. You get many different cases. Some Songs can be bad (I don't like music), but be ok as BGM. Also, some Song can be very good, but very inaccurate as BGM. I reported many case like that in the forum thread created by Sunset.
If there is only one good song, I'm happy. But overall, I think Background music is more important than songs. As an example, drama "The last empress". I don't remember any song from this drama, but background music was very effective.
It's almost impossible to answer your questions "how is the male or female lead introduced" because there's too much drama. I'll limit myself to one drama: IRIS. Both characters are very well introduced. The difficulty for the script is very high. The story must make us believe in a love story in less than two episodes, and only with a few scenes. This is because quickly, the script talks about spy story, action scenes, etc.. So, the time is very limited, but yet the meeting between the characters must be completed quickly because without delay, the story will use that later. Fortunately, the director had first made a story very close in cinema, the film "Shiri". He used his experience and knowledge of the screenplay to arrange it all within the imposed deadlines. So they are two very well introduced characters, with only a few scenes. It must strike very hard, very right, and immediately! The scene in the amphitheatre for example, where there is an indirect confrontation between the two characters.
So interesting article. Only 10% of drama have the "rich guy/poor girl" trope, and even less (because it's only a 7/2 statistic after that). As a cliché, it's more a cliché in our mind than real about all dramas.
Rules of the second male lead: - Super nice guy, not arrogant or jerk. - Wait for the girl since X years. - Have argument or fight with main male lead. - Finaly, don't play dirty, and help main female and male lead, and give up the girl.
Historical drama is my favorite genre. And often my lifesaver when I've been disappointed by too many other dramas. I have a 50% less chance of dropping a historical drama. The narration is more classic and is very solid. I just finished "Six Flying Dragons", which is in my top 3 historical kdramas now. Knowing that I had seen "Three with deep root" before, and it was fascinating to see the prequel, written by the same writers, with a lot of facts and real historical characters.
I had another one (and maybe others after). "Psychopath Diary" was unexpectedly excellent. I don't know why I watched this, I had no expectation, just luck. It turn to be the most funny comedy kdrama to date.
I dropped "Blade", with actress Shin Se Kyung.All actors was bad in this drama, and she was terrible in this (lot…
This actress has no luck or listens to bad advice because she has often played in rather bad dramas. However, she is good in historical dramas. In "Queen Seon Deok", she plays a princess in the first episodes. Unfortunately, she is replaced by a less attractive actress, for only a few years age difference in the story. But at the time she was a rookie actress, the producers preferred not to take any risks. Otherwise, she is very cute, and I like her expressions. I think she's more lively than Park Min Yung, in the same style.
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I dropped "Blade", with actress Shin Se Kyung. All actors was bad in this drama, and she was terrible in this (lot of overplay). So, when I watched "The Girl Who Sees Scents", I was very plaisantly surprised. One of the best role of this underated actress.
I'm posting some unpredictably good drama. Nine Time Travel. https://mydramalist.com/6081-nine-nine-times-time-travel I saw it because I know the writer, but otherwise I could have dropped the drama quickly. The first episode is slow and full of seemingly unimportant situations. Almost nothing happens, then the second episode is slightly less boring. Gradually, the drama takes off and by Episode 4, it reachs cruising speed and becomes an exceptionally intense drama.
lolololol! Me too, i didnt finished "descendant of the sun"... and I don't care. I didnt finished many dramas, just stuck ONE hour before end. I don't know why... Not bad dramas, even. Just I don't feel it anymore and I started to watch another drama. Hotel del luna, I know why, I tried to watch last episode. I stand this 30', no more. Suddenly, this drama I liked while I binge watched it sound different after 1 month pause. All articifial and ugly superficial, boring, I couldn't watch that. I stopped the final episode after 30 minutes and never watched the end.
Or you know like W Two worlds. That was one over hyped thrash
I don't know because I watched this drama by chance in 2017. I just saw Lee Jong Suk in the cast, and said myself "why not ?". I almost didn't watch any drama during 2016, and had no idea what was hyped or not. Maybe it's the best solution, if you don't know that, you just watch the drama and like it or not like it alone.
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But also, I just want to say that many drama song aren't good. But people like these song because they liked the drama. So it's a two way process. I'm almost sure if people listened only the song (without the drama), maybe they wouldn't like the song.
Even if I'm not used to do that, it work sometimes on me. A drama song isn't good. I know it's bad music, but I hear the song many times in the drama. And if I like the drama, I have more tolerance for liking this bad song too, at least a little bit.
I also like very much some song from drama I really don't like. So here, I just listen the song on my mp3, and it's a but frustrating I don't like the drama too. Here I can't do anything, I won't like the drama, even if the song is good.
Plus, I don't listen really BGM while I watch, but if BGM are good, they jump at my ears. Most of the time, as if by chance, my favorite dramas get the best BGM too.
I listen songs as if it was BGM during a drama. You get many different cases. Some Songs can be bad (I don't like music), but be ok as BGM. Also, some Song can be very good, but very inaccurate as BGM.
I reported many case like that in the forum thread created by Sunset.
But overall, I think Background music is more important than songs.
As an example, drama "The last empress".
I don't remember any song from this drama, but background music was very effective.
I'll limit myself to one drama: IRIS.
Both characters are very well introduced. The difficulty for the script is very high.
The story must make us believe in a love story in less than two episodes, and only with a few scenes. This is because quickly, the script talks about spy story, action scenes, etc..
So, the time is very limited, but yet the meeting between the characters must be completed quickly because without delay, the story will use that later.
Fortunately, the director had first made a story very close in cinema, the film "Shiri".
He used his experience and knowledge of the screenplay to arrange it all within the imposed deadlines. So they are two very well introduced characters, with only a few scenes. It must strike very hard, very right, and immediately!
The scene in the amphitheatre for example, where there is an indirect confrontation between the two characters.
Only 10% of drama have the "rich guy/poor girl" trope, and even less (because it's only a 7/2 statistic after that). As a cliché, it's more a cliché in our mind than real about all dramas.
https://youtu.be/jDJTk1vgqAQ?list=OLAK5uy_mdKN_meBUL5xvMfhC3xXVdsFAfcQuBsr4&t=85
Used with scenes with real historical events, wooooooo!
- Super nice guy, not arrogant or jerk.
- Wait for the girl since X years.
- Have argument or fight with main male lead.
- Finaly, don't play dirty, and help main female and male lead, and give up the girl.
And often my lifesaver when I've been disappointed by too many other dramas.
I have a 50% less chance of dropping a historical drama.
The narration is more classic and is very solid.
I just finished "Six Flying Dragons", which is in my top 3 historical kdramas now.
Knowing that I had seen "Three with deep root" before, and it was fascinating to see the prequel, written by the same writers, with a lot of facts and real historical characters.
"Psychopath Diary" was unexpectedly excellent.
I don't know why I watched this, I had no expectation, just luck.
It turn to be the most funny comedy kdrama to date.
But for me, it was not unexpectedly good.
I was already guessing it would be a good drama. ;-)
In "Queen Seon Deok", she plays a princess in the first episodes. Unfortunately, she is replaced by a less attractive actress, for only a few years age difference in the story. But at the time she was a rookie actress, the producers preferred not to take any risks.
Otherwise, she is very cute, and I like her expressions. I think she's more lively than Park Min Yung, in the same style.
All actors was bad in this drama, and she was terrible in this (lot of overplay).
So, when I watched "The Girl Who Sees Scents", I was very plaisantly surprised.
One of the best role of this underated actress.
Nine Time Travel.
https://mydramalist.com/6081-nine-nine-times-time-travel
I saw it because I know the writer, but otherwise I could have dropped the drama quickly.
The first episode is slow and full of seemingly unimportant situations.
Almost nothing happens, then the second episode is slightly less boring.
Gradually, the drama takes off and by Episode 4, it reachs cruising speed and becomes an exceptionally intense drama.
Me too, i didnt finished "descendant of the sun"... and I don't care.
I didnt finished many dramas, just stuck ONE hour before end.
I don't know why... Not bad dramas, even.
Just I don't feel it anymore and I started to watch another drama.
Hotel del luna, I know why, I tried to watch last episode.
I stand this 30', no more.
Suddenly, this drama I liked while I binge watched it sound different after 1 month pause.
All articifial and ugly superficial, boring, I couldn't watch that.
I stopped the final episode after 30 minutes and never watched the end.
I just saw Lee Jong Suk in the cast, and said myself "why not ?".
I almost didn't watch any drama during 2016, and had no idea what was hyped or not. Maybe it's the best solution, if you don't know that, you just watch the drama and like it or not like it alone.
Be careful, it could be a flabby slob like Goblin.