This document provides guidance and materials for studying representations in TV drama. It includes a list of possible representations to analyze such as gender, ethnicity, age, and disability. It also lists common TV drama genres and technical codes to consider like mise-en-scene, camerawork, editing, and sound. The document provides examples of how these elements have been addressed in past exam questions. It offers tips for effective note-taking, analysis, and structuring answers.

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4. what do you have to do?

5. Exam task
• the question

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

7. 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

8. TV drama genres

9. Crime

10. Soap

11. Medical

12. Historical

13. School

14. Action

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

16. 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

17. mise-en-scene

18. what different elements of mise en scene are present?

19. prize

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

21. denotation/connotation
signifier/signified

22. prize

23. camerawork

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

25. quiz sheet for editing
six features of continuity editing

26. answers

27. Continuity editing
• master shot/establishing shot

29. Continuity editing
• master shot/establishing shot
• 180 degree rule

31. Continuity editing
• master shot/establishing shot
• 180 degree rule
• shot/reverse shot

33. Continuity editing
• master shot/establishing shot
• 180 degree rule
• shot/reverse shot
• eyeline match

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

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

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

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

41. ways of taking notes

42. MES CW C.ED S
P
D
Grid
Q

43. MES CW C.ED S
location angle shot/reverse
P
point to cover costume
D concrete urban look down on her boy/girl argue
data-
Grid
examples, evidence
Q reinforce or asbo kids
challenge stereotypes?

44. scan of handwritten script (BAD)

46. organising your answer

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

48. opening sentence
In this sequence from xxx, the technical features
combine to construct representations of yyyyyy
concluding sentence
As we have seen, the representation of
xxxx is constructed by the combination of
the technical codes in the sequence.

49. Top tips
• have a system for your notes- PDQ
• be selective from the text- richest
moments
• know your terms- media language
• make it readable on the page- highlighter,
paragraph gaps

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