Extract: Footballer's Wives (ITV)
Extract length: 0.0 - 4:14.
Answer the question below, with detailed reference to specific examples from the extract only.
1 Discuss the ways in which the extract constructs representations of
class and status using the following:
· Camera shots, angles, movements and composition
· Editing
· Sound
· Mise-en-scene
Extract length: 0.0 - 4:14.
Answer the question below, with detailed reference to specific examples from the extract only.
1 Discuss the ways in which the extract constructs representations of
class and status using the following:
· Camera shots, angles, movements and composition
· Editing
· Sound
· Mise-en-scene
- Read the June 2009 C grade and A student essays from June 2009
- In the exam you cannot write about every single element of the extract - pick a few MICRO elements that you think help construct representations
- The extract in the exam will offer a constructed representation of one of the topics (age, gender, race etc.) Have an opinion; argue whether you feel the contructed representation is fair and accurate or unfair and stereotypical.
- State the genre of the TV drama (Cop Drama, Hospital Drama, Soap etc.) State whether the typical codes and conventions of the genre are in the extract.
- State the target audience for the extract
- Remember that nothing is left to chance. Everything in TV Drama is planned in detail to communicate meaning to the audience. MICRO elements give the audience essential information about characters
- Every scene in TV Drama communicates INFORMATION and EMOTION.
Below are some example student responses from the June 2009 exam:
The examiner marks your work under the following headings:
Explanation/analysis/argument marked E/A/A on scripts – (0-20 marks)
Use of examples – marked E on scripts(0-20 marks)
Use of terminology - marked T on scripts(0-10 marks)
This is the exam question:
This is a Grade C response:
This is a Grade A response:
The examiner marks your work under the following headings:
Explanation/analysis/argument marked E/A/A on scripts – (0-20 marks)
Use of examples – marked E on scripts(0-20 marks)
Use of terminology - marked T on scripts(0-10 marks)
This is the exam question:
Open publication - Free publishing
This is a Grade C response:
Open publication - Free publishing
This is a Grade A response:
Open publication - Free publishing
The essential guide for TV soap analysis:
Click here for TV drama Soap blog
Kate Harwood is currently the Head of Series and Serials at the BBC
Click here for TV drama Soap blog
Kate Harwood is currently the Head of Series and Serials at the BBC
Tuesday, 21 April 2009
An overview of the main camera shots, sound and editing techniques used in TV:
http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/short/gramtv.html
http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/resources/educational/handouts/crime/camera_shots.cfm
http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/short/gramtv.html
http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/resources/educational/handouts/crime/camera_shots.cfm
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