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Please look at the exemplar scripts at the bottom of this link and see the Jun 2009 high level response

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June 2010 excellent essay on Primeval

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12C March 23rd mock exam 12B March 24th mock exam

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Presentations for 12B will take place after half term. Unfortunately, on Thursday 17th Feb I'm doing a cross curricular day so we miss our double lesson. New **homework** due w/c 28/2 week b check [|Homework] link on left regularly. Will mark all blogs over half term and moderate with Anstee the following week.

Hello everyone and welcome to your exam module on tv drama - textual analysis and representation. As part of the new OCR Media Studies AS level, you will be studying the way in which representation functions within TV Drama. The study of TV Drama makes up half of the G322 exam (the other half concerns Institutions and Audiences). In the exam you will be asked to analyse a sequence from a TV Drama. You will not know what the drama is prior to the exam.

This is the order of tasks for the next two weeks. 1) First set up a wikispace and personalise it, type up a list of as many tv dramas as you can come up with. 2) Categorise them under headings such as hospital, crime, family, soap etc 3) Choose a five minute clip from youtube, create a presentation discussing the following conventions (sheet) and upload onto your wikispace to present week commencing Feb 1st -

Feb 4th - tv drama presentations Feb 10th - Looking at the clip from Waterloo road below, complete your tv drama task. Type up and upload to your wikispace please. For the storyboard sketches use paint or photos of your drawings.
 * HOMEWORK**



In order to get your preparation for this exam started, have a look at some of the links below: [|www.bbc.co.uk/drama] [|www.bbc.co.uk/casualty] [|www.bbc.co.uk/holbycity] [|www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho] [|www.bbc.co.uk/spooks] [|www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer] [|www.channel4.com/entertainment/drama] [|www.channel4.com/4od] [|www.itv.com/drama] [|www.dubplatedrama.tv]

Article on Interactive TV drama from the Guardian []

[|Practice Question]
If you are resiting your AS Media Studies exam in January you should practice making notes on a 5 minute TV drama clip. You should watch the clip 4 times, you are not allowed to take note on the first viewing in the exam. You could try different ways of organizing your ideas.

You could structure your note around the micro concepts (Camera, Editing Mise en Scene, Sound, SFX) to ensure you cover lots of detailed examples.

Alternatively you could pick three or four key points in the clip and structure your detailed analysis around how the micro features are used in those sections of drama.

//Remember the question will ask you to discus a representational area. You could get a clip from any TV drama. It does not matter if you have never watched that show - although watching TV drama analytically will help your studies. Topics likely to come up in the exam are; Gender, Age, Sexuality, Class & Status, Physical Ability, Race & Ethnicity, Regionality.//


 * Discuss the way in which the representation of class and status are constructed in the clip from 'Waterloo road'.**

media type="youtube" key="R1Gumxj21Fw?version=3" height="390" width="640" [] - the best link to explananation and examples of various film techniques

[|TV - Technical Terms Glossary]
Reaction Shot – a shot that shows the reaction of a character either to another character or an event within the sequence.
 * CAMERA SHOTS**
 * Aerial Shot** – A camera shot taken from an overhead position. Often used as an establishing shot.
 * Close Up** – A head and shoulders shot often used to show expressions/emotions of a character. Also can be a shot of an object, filmed from close to the object or zoomed in to it, that reveals detail.
 * Extreme Close Up** – A shot where a part of a face or body of a character fills the whole frame/dominates the frame. Also can be a shot of an object where only a small part of it dominates the frame.
 * Establishing Shot** – A shot that establishes a scene, often giving ther viewer information about where the scene is set. Can be a close up shot (of a sign etc) but is often a wide/long shot and usually appears at the beginning of a scene.
 * Medium Shot** – the framing of a subject from waist up.
 * Two Shot** – A shot of two characters, possible engaging in conversation. Usually to signify/establish some sort of relationship
 * Point-Of-View Shot (POV)** – Shows a view from the subject’s perspective. This shot is usually edited so that the viewer is aware who’s point of view it is.
 * Over the Shoulder Shot** – looking from behind a character’s shoulder, at a subject. The character facing the subject usually occupies 1/3 of the frame but it depends on what meaning the director wants to create (for example, if the subject is an inferior character, the character facing them may take up more of the frame to emphaise this)
 * Overhead Shot** – a type of camera shot in which the camera is positioned above the character, action or object being filmed.


 * CAMERA ANGLES**
 * Camera Angle** – the position of the camera in relation to the subject of a shot. The camera might be at a high angle, a low angle or at eye level with what is being filmed.
 * High Angle** – A camera angle that looks down upon a subject or object. Often used to make the subject or object appear small or vulnerable.
 * Low Angle** – A camera angle that looks up at a subject or object. Often used to make the subject/object appear powerful/dominant.
 * Canted framing (or oblique)** – camera angle that makes what is shot appear to be skewed or tilted.


 * CAMERA MOVEMENT**
 * Pan** – Where the camera pivots horizontally, either from right to left or left to right to reveal a set or setting. This can be used to give the viewer a panoramic view. Sometimes used to establish a scene.
 * Track** - a shot whjere the camera follows a subject/object. The tracking shot can include smooth movements forward, backward, along the side of the subject, or on a curve but cannot include complex movement around a subject. ‘Track’ refers to rails in which a wheeled platform (which has the camera on it) sits on in order to carry out smooth movement.
 * Crane** – A crane shot is sometimes used to signify the end of a scene/ programme /film. The effect is achieved by the camera being put onto a crane that can move upward.
 * Stedicam** - A steadicam is a stabilising mount for a camera which mechanically isolates the operator's movement from the camera, allowing a very smooth shot even when the operator is moving quickly over an uneven surface. Informally, the word may also be used to refer to the combination of the mount and camera.
 * Tilt** - where a camera scans a set or setting vertically (otherwise similar to a pan).
 * Zoom** – Using a zoom lens to appear to be moving closer to (zoom in) or further away from (zoom out) a subject/object when in fact the camera may not move (so, strictly not camera movement). Can be used for dramatic effect.


 * EDITING**
 * Editing** – the stage in the film-making process in which sound and images are organised into an overall narrative.
 * Continuity Editin**g – the most common type of editing, which aims to create a sense of reality and time moving forward. Also nick named invisible editing referring to how the technique does not draw attention to the editing process.
 * Jump Cut** – An abrupt, disorientating transitional device in the middle of a continuos shot in which the action is noticeably advanced in time and/or cut between two similar shots, usually done to create discontinuity for artistic effect.
 * Credits** – the information at the beginning and end of a film, which gives details of cast and crew etc.
 * Cross Cutting** – the editing technique of alternating, interweaving, or interspersing one narrative action (scene, sequence or event) with another – usually in different locations or places, thus combining the two: this editing technique usually suggests Parallel action (that takes place simultaneously). Often used to dramatically build tension and/or suspense in chase scenes or to compare two different scenes. Also known as inter-cutting or parallel editing
 * Cutaways** – A brief shot that momentarily interrupts continuous action by briefly inserting another related action. Object, or person (sometimes not part of the principle scene or main action), followed by a cutback to the original shot.
 * Freeze Frame** – the effect of seemingly stopping a film in order to focus in on one event or element.
 * Eye-line Match** – a type of edit which cuts from one character to what that character has been looking at.
 * Flashback** – a scene or moment in a film in which the audience is shown an event that happened earlier in the film’s narrative.
 * Graphic Match** – an edit effect in which two different objects of the same shape are dissolved from one into the other.
 * Juxtaposition** – the placement of two (often opposed) images on either side of an edit to create an effect.
 * Linear Narrative** – a style of storytelling in which events happen chronologically.
 * Montage Editing** – the juxtaposition of seemingly unconnected images in order to create meaning.
 * Parallel Editing** – a type of editing in which events in two locations are cut together, in order to imply a connection between the two sets of events.
 * Visual Effects** - visual effects are usually used to alter previously-filmed elements by adding, removing or enhancing objects within the scene.
 * Match on Action** - A shot that emphasises continuity of space and time by matching the action of the preceding shot with the continuation of the action. (For example a shot of a door opening after a shot of a close up of a character’s hand turning a door handle)


 * SOUND**
 * Diegetic Sound** – sound that can be heard by the characters within a scene/ sound part of the imaginary world.
 * Non-diegetic Sound** – sound that the characters cannot hear and is not part of the imaginary world of the story. This includes a musical soundtrack or a voiceover (however this excludes a narration by a character within the story – referred to as an internal monologue and is diegetic).
 * Parallel -** music matches the image ie love song accompanying romantic scenes
 * Contrapuntal-** sound contrasts (opposite/juxtaposes) with the images (ie nursery rhyme song with violent scenes)
 * Score** – The musical component of a programme’s soundtrack, usually composed specifically for the scene.
 * Sound Effects** – sounds that are added to a film during the post-production stage.
 * Voiceover -** usually from a main character used to explain narrative or thoughts (as in Desperate Housewives)


 * OTHER KEY TERMS**
 * Artificial Light** – A source of light created by lighting equipment, rather than from natural sources.
 * Convention** – a frequently used element which becomes standard.
 * Disequilibrium** – the period of instability and insecurity in a film’s narrative.
 * Enigma** – the question or mystery that is posed within a film’s narrative.
 * Equilibrium** – a state of peace and calm, which often exists at the beginning of a film’s narrative.
 * Framing** – the selection of elements such as characters, setting and iconography that appear within a shot.
 * Genre** – a system of film identification, in which films that have the same elements are grouped together.
 * Iconography** – the objects within a film that are used to evoke particular meanings
 * Intertextuality** – reference within a film to another film, media product, work of literature or piece of artwork.
 * Mise en scene** – a French term, which literally means ‘put into the frame’. When analysing a sequence the term refers to everything you see in the frame (props, costume, lighting, colour, makeup etc.)
 * Narrative** – a story that is created in a constructed format (eg. A programme) that describes a series of fictional or non-fictional events.

- Watch clip [] and to a textual analysis of camera, sound, mise en scene and editing looking at the representation of ethnicity (1500 words) Riz Ahmed and Manjinder Virk play brother and sister Sohail and Nasima. Sohail is an ambitious law undergraduate who signs up with MI5 and, eager to play a part in protecting British security, begins an investigation into a terrorist cell. His sister Nasima is a medical student in Leeds who becomes increasingly alienated and angered by Britain's foreign and domestic policy after witnessing at first hand the relentless targeting of her Muslim neighbours and peers. With action set in Pakistan, Eastern Europe, London and Leeds, both feature-length episodes detail a tragic sequence of events from two distinct perspectives. At the heart of this thought-provoking drama is a revealing examination of British Muslim life under current anti-terror legislation. Britz ultimately asks whether the laws we think are making us safer, are actually putting us in greater danger.
 * Britz -The Story**

Your tv drama case studies - you have all been assigned a genre with egs or specific programmes to analyse - what next you may be asking well the answer is this - Most TV dramas attempt to convince audiences of their realism. In order to create the effect of the real world all media has to be constructed. It is literally constructed using for example sets, costume, lighting, camerawork and editing and it is metaphorically constructed to create the illusion of reality. Get it? When studying a media product like a tv drama you are therefore exploring how it is constructed in terms of genre, narrative and representation, what influences its construction (eg production and broadcasting)Research your programmes thoroughly and watch clips of episodes to get a general feel. I would like a 1000 word summary (in your own words not wikipedia's) on the genre, realism - how does the camera and mise en scene work to make it more or less realistic, characters, style, themes of episodes, representations of CAGES or their roles in life (ie doctors, cops, s tudents) representation of family. Give examples of course to support your answers. Due Tuesday thanks.



Homework 1 - what is a tv drama, name as many as you can, classify their genres. Task 1 - Complete tv drama conventions sheet 1, complete tv drama conventions sheet 2