TV Drama

1. Tv Drama

3. what do you have to do?

4. Exam task
• the question

5. possible representations
• gender
• ethnicity
• age
• status/class
• sexuality
• regional identity
• disability/ability

6. past questions
• Monarch of the Glen and age
• Dr Who and gender
• Hotel Babylon and ethnicity
• Primeval and gender
• Hustle and gender
• Merlin and status/class
• Hotel Babylon and ethnicity

7. how it is marked
• EAA 20 (explanation, argument, analysis)
• EG 20 (use of examples)
• T 10 (use of terminology)

8. skills
• note-taking
• understanding technical codes/knowing
media language
• relating technical codes to representation
• backing up points with examples
• keeping it readable
• writing it in the time

9. mise-en-scene

10. setting/location
props/objects
mise-en-scene
colours
costume
performance
hairstyle choice of actor
make-up
posture/g
esture
placement in the frame
decor
lighting

11. camerawork

12. tilt pan
track
focus
angle movement
Camera
low
high
framing shot distance
inside outside ECU CU MS LS

13. Continuity editing
• master shot/establishing shot
• 180 degree rule
• shot/reverse shot
• eyeline match
• match on action
• insert shot

14. other features of editing
• cross-cutting
• graphic match
• ellipsis
• montage
• types of transition

15. Sound
• music
• dialogue
• ‘atmospheric’
• diegetic and non-diegetic
• ‘sound bridge’

16. ways of taking notes

17. Grid

18. location angle
costume
Grid
shot/reverse
concrete urban
asbo kids
look down on her boy/girl argue
point to cover
data-examples,
evidence
reinforce or
challenge stereotypes?

19. organising the answer

20. Structure
• four areas...four sections?
• constant reference to the representation
• no big intro- get on with it
• keep conclusion short