This document provides guidance on analyzing representations in TV dramas through various film techniques. It discusses analyzing a 4-5 minute TV drama clip to examine how it constructs representations of gender, age, ethnicity, sexuality, class, ability, and identity. The analysis should consider camera shots, angles, movement and composition; editing techniques; sound; and mise-en-scène. It then provides definitions and examples of these various filmmaking techniques to consider in the analysis.

2. Section A
You will have to watch a short clip of TV Drama (4-5 minutes). You will
have to analyze this and explain how it constructs a representation of:
Gender, Age, Ethnicity, Sexuality, Class and status, physical ability and
regional identity.
You will do this by using:
Camera shots, angles, movement and composition,
Editing,
Sound,
Mise-en-scène.

3. Camera Shots, Angles, Movement and
Composition
There are always different shot types used within a clip some of
these are: establishing shot, master shot, close up, medium close
up, extreme close up, medium shot, long shot, point of view shot,
over the shoulder shot and extreme long shot.
The movement that is used is panorama (a horizontal movement
from left to right and right to left), tilt (a vertical movement from up
and down and down and up) and tracking (when the camera is
following someone's movement). There is also dolly, crane, steady-
cam, hand held, zoom and reverse zoom.
There are three angles that are used in within clips which are high
angle, low angle and canted angle.
The composition in clips always include framing, rules of thirds,
depth of field – deep and shallow focus and also focus pulls.

4. Editing
Editing consists of all the transitions between shots -
continuity and non-continuity systems.
Within editing there is cutting, examples of cutting are
shot/reverse shot (going from one shot to another to show
a conversation or changes between to people or things),
eye line match (someone looking at someone or something
at a different angle) and action match (seeing a action
through different shots or scenery), graphic match, jump
cut, crosscutting, parallel editing, cutaway; insert.
Other transitions, dissolve, fade-in, fade-out, wipe,
superimposition, long take, short take, slow motion,
ellipsis and expansion of time, post-production, visual
effects.

5. Sound
Within media there is non diegetic and diegetic sounds, synchronous and
asynchronous sounds, dialogue, voice overs, sound bridge, sound mixing,
sound motive and sound perspective.

6. Mise-en-scène
Mise-en-scène is used in analyzing when you’re looking at the production
design which is the location, studio, set design, costume design and
makeup. You also analyze the lighting and the colour when using mise-en-
scène.