Torres, Mark Lester Cerdeña February 11, 2019

BS Psychology 1-1

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Submitted to: Sir Glenn Dela Cueva

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Philippine Drama
Philippine Drama – notably called teleserye and/or telenovela in television is a form of
melodramatic serialized fiction and aired in the Philippines.
Teleserye – rooted from two words “Tele” short for Television, and “Serye”, a tagalog term for
series
 Came into existence in 2000 when ABS-CBN aired its official form of teleserye, Pangako
Sa’Yo.
 Filipino Soap Operas were called either telenovelas or soap operas
 Characteristics: Social Realism of Filipinos
Teleserye are produced by two main Philippine TV networks and two independent
companies. ABS-CBN, which is Philppine’s pioneer producer and exporter of Teleseryes and,
GMA Network. TAPE, Inc. and the movie producer Viva Entertainment were two largest
companies.
Timeline
 Soap Operas in the Philippines originated in radio, then it expanded into television in
early 1960s
o The first Filipino TV soap opera was Hiwaga sa Buhay na Bato in 1963
produced by ABS-CBN
 Most Popular Daytime Soap Operas: Gulong ng Palad, Flor de Luna, Mara Clara,
Annaliza, Aguila and Valiente.
o 1996 – Soap Opera programming was moved to primetime due to the popularity
gained by Mexican telenovela, Marimar, aired on RPN 9.
 This is the start of telenovela craze in the Philippines.
 2000 – ABS-CBN, made a milestone in Philippine telenovelas when it introduced
Pangako Sa’Yo which was known to be the first official teleserye, and Kay Tagal
Kang Hinintay, which set the standard of present teleserye productions.
 Before which, GMA Network have made teledrama before ABS-CBN does but their
series does not give too much drama which the audience are irritated
 2004 – ABS-CBN revived the genre of teleserye which mixes soap opera, fantacy, myth,
magic and enchantment. This genre is called Fantaserye
o Marina – first official fantaserye that was shown on primetime TV
 Mid-2004 – GMA Network, embarked on its own term of fantaserye which are called
telefantasya. GMA produced Marinara and Mulawin
 ABS-CBN focuses on airing teleserye for its primetime slots although it sometimes
produces fantaserye as well.
 2004 – started further variations of the teleserye genre under the terms
o Superserye – Superheroes (e.g. Krystala, Super Inggo)
o Sineserye – film serialized to a TV series (e.g. Maligno)
o Cinenovela - the local word for TV movies (e.g. CineMo!)
Storylines
  Love story between two different individuals, a rich individual who fells inlove with a
poor individual, who are often separated by ill-fate.
 Search of a parent for their child or vice versa
 Focus: Love, Betrayal, Jealousy, Social Status, and Revenge between characters
Twists
 Romance between couples is that they will find out that they were brothers and sisters,
but in the end they will also find out that they were not siblings because one of them is an
adopted child.
Villains
 Created to make the life of the protagonist especially miserable.
 Old Soap Operas: were very violent and usually used the power and money to make the
protagonist miserable. Often they aim to full out kill the protagonist.
 Present Teleserye: less violent. They no longer murder a character in the story to take
revenge, except that they are still evil and cause the protagonist to suffer
Ending
 Villains meeting spectacularly violent, gruesome, painful, and gory end.
 Protagonist will end up getting married and with a child
However, the predictability of teleserye endings have become an issue and audience
sometimes complain that the plot and ending of teleseryes are becoming repeatitive, predictable
and tiresome.

Modern Philippine Drama (2006-Present)

Storylines
 Common love stories were renovated like having son or daughter to make the protagonist
easier to return their past (e.g. Bakekang, Bituing Walang Ningning and Pangarap na
Butuin)
 Former friends and siblings were fighting for fame and popularity
 Classical dramas were enhanced
 Main Topic of Drama: Love, Jealousy, Family, and Revenge
Twist
 Unpredictable twist were used even though the artist is starting the upcoming twist.
 Modern twist were being built-up in the start of the story from little additional plot which
can alter the original story path in order to further extend series
 Some twist include having the protagonists as the scapegoat for the wrongdoings of the
villain which further make them suffer.
Ending
 Allow room for forgiveness and reconciliation between the main characters.
 Some protagonists die and do not survive the tumultuous lives they lived (e.g. Crazy for
You and Maria Flordeluna)
  Opened up possibilities for a series to return whereby the finale of the teleserye leaves a
cliff-hanger leading to a nail-biting ending.
 Introducing unknown characters in the ending of the story are also being used as evident
in Maging Sino Ka Man were Angelika Panganiban and Rosanna Roces were
introduced and lead the story to Maging Sino Ka Man: Ang Pagbabalik
Additional Genres
New genres were packaged into different sub-genre and can be called:
 Suspenserye – Dead characters were mostly used (La Vendetta and the hit Patayin sa
Sindak si Barbara). Revenge was common topic on the stories
 Musicaserye – Bituin of the Superstar Ms. Nora Aunor (First Musicaserye)
o Kaputol ng Isang Awit
o Bakekang
o Bituing Walang Ningning
o Pangarap na Bituin
 Adventureserye – Adventures of Pedro Penduko and Asian Treasures
 Actionserye – Basta’t Kasama Kita, Palos, Asero, and Totoy Bato
 Comedieserye – My Girl and Full House
New Face of Dramas
 Philippine drama is very melodramatic containing complicated plot and outstanding and
critically praised storyline.
 However, due to very heavy stories involved, the audiences have diverted themselves into
lighter drama series thus prompting for a drastic change.
o Foreign and imported television series dubbed in Tagalog language
o Remakes: Mexican telenovela Marimar in Filipino version.
 Koreanovelas: My Girl, Ako si Kim Samsoon, and Full House
 Colombian series: I Love Betty La Fea
 Argentinovela: La Lola
 Older Philippine Drama series have been exported to foreign markets
o Pangako Sa’Yo which have been sold to more than 10 countries worldwide