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A Study on TV Drama Adopted from Cartoon ― Focused on Love the Island(Tamnanun-doda)

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1가톨릭대학교

ABSTRACT

It has become a common practice in the recent media environment to adopt novels or cartoons to reproduce films or TV dramas. The issue here is to define unique characteristics of each medium and apply appropriate measures to adopt it into a new medium, for the characteristics of each medium radically differ from one another. The main focus of this study was an influence of the time and spatial composition on the colors of pictures, especially color contrast. Cartoons are produced only with black and white colors so that mise-en-scene is established by the thickness of black color. Night scenes in cartoons are not exclusively expressed as darkness. Thus a ratio of the night and day is not important in a time composition in cartoons. On the other hand night scenes in TV drama should be constantly expressed by dark colors. Love the Island in particular is an exemplary case, for its major scenes take place against the natural landscape of Jeju Island. Here, night scenes of the TV drama Love the Island occur too often and repeatedly compared to other TV dramas adopted from cartoons or other period dramas, hence generating a general dark tone in pictures. Furthermore a spatial background is often dark and dim including cave, gambling venue, port for black market trading, room for secret handling, and small and narrow room. Such ineffective arrangements of dark colors in pictures could provide TV audience not with familiarity or vividness but discomfort or stifled feeling. TV drama Love the Island attracted devoted followings with its creative subject matter and excellent acting, however, it ended early due to the significantly low rating. Among many factors affecting the TV rating, overbearing dark colors of pictures in Love the Island served as one of the reasons for failing to attract larger audience.

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