3 WORLD BUILDING, SPECIFICITY OF SETTING, AND REVISING HISTORY
Great television series provide us with a glimpse into an unknown world, or to a world we think we know – until we see it from an insider’s perspective.
The “arena” of your series is its setting, but it also encompasses time period, geography, weather, local customs, vernacular, style, traffic, values, social mores, and cultural, political and religious influences. In other words, all TV series are microcosms of the world at large.
The following examples and case studies are a deep dive on the importance of specificity of setting as you’re creating and/or introducing your audience to a new world.
Economic Strife in DelCo, Pennsylvania: Mare ...
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