mother in law

MOTHER IN-LAW

Saturday, May 22, 2010
mother in-law

MOTHER IN-LAW
I choose to critique The Kenyan soap/Drama entitled Mother in-law since it is of great interest to me and it displays what a typical family with the presence of a mother in-law could be like.
Background
This program is set in a Kenyan city or estate where a mother in-law resides with her sons and their wives.
It potrays the interferes of families by their mothers in law when they live together.

Duration of Airing
This program airs on CITIZEN TV on Sundays from 7:35pm to 8:15 pm immediately after the 7 o'clock news.

Target Audience
This soap targets the parents who have the habit of interfering with their children's marrital affairs and manipulating everyone who is brought in that family espessially the wives of their sons.

Main Characters
The main character is the mother in-law named Charity who takes an important role in the drama since all things evolve around her character and arguments with her daugthers in law.

Her husband Mwamba is cool and collected throughout and only talks when necessary and he cools things down when Charity has heated them up.

Alison is Charity's daughter in-law and she almost always disagrees with her mother in-law therefore causing chaos in the family.
Though we have other secondary and supportind characters like Swapo, Mustapha,Ras and Alison's two three sons we find that almost all the time things start with Alison and Charity.

The plot of these Drama flows well in that the premise is well maintained throughout the soap and it is used to achieve unity in families.
The flow is developed by the rising actions of the mother in-law(Charity) causing drama with the other family members who live with her in the same houise. She develops some problems when she pretends to be old enough and strong to have a say in her son's families since she is their mother forgetting that this people have their lifes to live.

She always has a hard time trying to sell her ideas to Mwamba who seems tgo be reasonable and not manipulative because he always fights for peace and what is right. This shows that the premise is well linked to the dramatic problem in order to acheive the desired outcome which according to me the writer has acheived because it warns mothers in-law who always want to rule their son's families even when they are away.

The opening of the soap is in a modern house in the city where Charity,Alison,Mwamba and their sons and their families are living. This potrays a modern family in our todays life which the sons have settled but their mothers still think that they can manipulate them in ruling their families.

Dialogue and Characterisation
The characterisation in this soap is well done since each character's personality is well displayed in their dialogue. These characters have dialogue that steers their personality and shows the theme of the drama.
The dialogue matches with each of the characters since in a normal typical Kenyan family, mothers in-law are always interefering with their son's marriages even when they are aware that that is a different home. Charity really brings out the character of a troublesome mother in law.

Camera shots and movements
The drama has made good use of camera shots to help the audience understand what is going on in the play. for example when they want to bring out the thought of one person,the close up shot has been used and when the whole family is present alot of wide and long shots have been used.

When creating a setting outside the house, long and establishing shots have been utilised thus giving us the feeling of trasition from a scene to the next.When characters are in debate and people like mustapha are busy in the kitchen moving from here to there, the following right and left has been used well to acheive the reality. The effects that have been used to bring believability in the drama have been well crafted and used.

To bring more touch to the locations, lighting has been well done to make transitions from a well or bright environment to a dull one. Also some dim lighting has been done to bring about a dull feeling in the drama.

In general this soap is a good production since the flow is well dedveloped by the characters and their dialogue in the rising of the complications in the drama.The picture of nosy mothers in-law have been brfought out in a dramatic way and it serves as a warning to them not to interefere with their children's marfital affairs as it will only cause disunity.

CALEB 08-0038
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