The American drama series known as the True Blood that is broadcasted in HBO network is developed and produced by Allan Ball. The novel series known as The Southern Vampire Mysteries written by Charlaine Harris is the foundation of the story line of this drama. The play outlines the life of human beings and vampires living together at Bon Temps which is a fictional little town at Louisiana. The main characters of this play are Sookie Stackhouse (this role is played by Anna Paquin), a telepathic waitress at a bar, and Bill Compton (this role is played by Stephen Moyer), a vampire. The substance of the story is the love affair that develops between the vampire Bill Compton and the human being Sookie.
The HBO cable network broadcasts this show in the US. The play is co-ordinately produced by HBO and Allan Ball’s film Production Company. The show was first broadcasted in the year 2008 on the seventh of September. There was a great acclamation for the first season of this show among the TV viewers. The first season received a Golden Globe award and an Emmy award among many other awards. The second season of the show started being broadcasted in the year 2009, on the fourteenth of July. It was widely announced on the thirtieth of July 2009 that there would be a third season too of the True Blood. The shooting for the third season began on the third of December 2009 and started being broadcasted on the 13 of June 2010. The True Blood got renewed on the 21st of June 2010 for premiering in summer 2011.
History of how True Blood came to Television
An earlier drama series show called Six Feet Under that was broadcasted by the HBO for five seasons was also directed by Allan Ball. After the end of Six Feet Under, Allan Ball signed an agreement for two years with the HBO in the year 2005 to create and produce pilot program for HBO network. The foremost series under this project is the True Blood. After getting well acquainted with Southern Vampire Mystery books written by Charlaine Harris, read Dead Until Dark. This kindled his interest to bring Harris’s imagination to TV shows. Although Harris had previous offers to adapt for his written series, he selected working with Allan Ball since he was attracted to it.
The project got finalised with the above mentioned deal and Allan Ball took up the writing, direction and production of the show. In the early summer of the year 2007, the shooting for the series began.
Settings for True Blood
Digital Kitchen, the production studio which produced the title sequences for the shows Showtime’s Dexter and Six Feet Under produced the title sequence for True Blood too. The title sequence’s major portion is comprised of portrayals from Deep South setting. The sequence is played with the background music of the country music artist Jace Everett’s Bad things.
The title sequence is constructed based on “the whore in the house of prayer”. It blends contradictory images of religion, violence and sex, and displays these from the view point of a supernatural predator noticing humans from darkness. The sequence proceeds from dawn to dusk, thus expressing views like redemption and forgiveness. Major part of the footage that shows up in the title sequence was shot on location when on a four day trip around Louisiana by the production crew. There are also shots from Chicago and Seattle. Many crew members of Digital kitchen have also shown up in the title sequence.
The shots for the title sequence was framed in such a way to illustrate the way “religious fanaticism” and “sexual vigour” can bring out an animal out of a man.
The music for the True Blood series is supervised by Gary Calamar, according to whom the idea behind True Blood’s sound track is to create something “swampy, bluesy and spooky” and to bring in local musicians at Louisiana. The soundtrack albums of True Blood have been nominated for the Calamar Grammy Award twice. Musical instruments including guitar, piano, cello, glass harmonica, etc are played by one single man Nathan Barr, the composer who writes for True Blood series. As discussed earlier, the theme song is Bad Things by Jace Everett.
The play portrays some regular central characters and a group of temporary but rotating supporting characters. Although the story line of the True Blood series is fundamentally on Bon Temps, there are several roles played by actors who are not naively from America. Allan Ball, the producer of the show has sought people who would act out the characters naturally, rather than seeking actors who match the appearances described in the book. Harris, the writer of these books has accepted the reinterpretation understandingly.
Expectations
True Blood explores more of sex and violence in this third season of it. Sex has reached its wild peak in its third show “It Hurts Me Too”. Michael Ausiello of the Entertainment Weekly said that the show will the most "twisted sex scene in television history” before It hurts me too was broadcasted. It was only when the viewers saw it that they realised it was more than what was expected.
Ausiello has further revealed that a minimum of three central characters will be shot dead in the forehead early in this season. This is expected to bring in a twist into the story.
The story line which was going quite boring revved up in the 9 Crimes when the revelation on the reason why the werewolves were under the control of King Russell. The fact that he supplies vampires’ blood to these werewolves in order to get them work for him has finally brought in some sense into the story.
Too many subplots if cut off and if more concentration gets paid for the central characters of the play, there will be a greater acclaim for the show.
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