2. What are we studying?
G322 Key Media Concepts (TV Drama) 2hr exam
(includes 30mins viewing and note-taking)
SECTION A: Textual Analysis and Representation
SECTION B: Institutions and Audiences
Analyse an ‘unseen’ moving image extract with
one compulsory question.
You need to know how technical aspects of the
M.I. medium are used to create meaning for an
audience.
3. The clip in the exam will be 4-5mins long
Contemporary (within last 5 years)
One off drama or series or serial drama
Scheduled on British TV, might be sourced
from other countries
4. Monarch of the Glen – age
Doctor Who – gender
Hotel Babylon – ethnicity
Primeval – gender
Hustle – gender
Merlin – class & status
Fingersmith – sexuality
Coming Down The Mountain – disability
ER – age
Doc Martin – regional identity
Downton Abbey – class & status
Treme - ethnicity
5. Do you watch any????
Features of the genre?
6.
7. The process by which the media present or
re-present things to us;
Deliberate choices have been made according
to the producer’s intentions;
Often the media creates an artificial reality – a
presentation or construction of reality;
8. The thing itself
The opinions of the people doing the
representation
The reaction of the individual to the
representation
The context of the society in which the
representation is taking place
