Homework for next Wednesday - The importance of Editing

Watch the clip below from 1:03 to the end then answer the questions that follow. This task should be completed on your brand new Induction blog with the label "Homelearning".

Enemy of the State, Tony Scott, 1998



1. What is the point of this sequence? Describe briefly how tension is created through the editing.
2. Look at the use of CU or Medium CU. Why are they primarily used here? Refer to specific shots (screengrab them if you can [with Fn Print Screen then Control - V on a PC] and embed them within your post).
3. Choose 15-20 seconds from anywhere in the sequence and describe each shot in detail, explaining its effect / function for the audience, as well as commenting on how the cuts (the editing) adds to the meaning.
4. How far does the editing of this sequence fit in with the genre of the thriller? Justify your opinion.

Above all, do your best to engage with the sequence and the task.

Welcome AS Students!

In the last lesson, we've introduced some important terms and had a first go at some practical work.

Your first blog will document what you were asked to do, with embedded pictures / videos (we will work on this in the next lesson).
In the meantime, you should explain what you did, what you have learnt and reflect on what you have done successfully and less successfully. Try and include as much of the terminology we introduced and explain the term or find an illustration or video online to provide examples.


Impress us!

Past exams - The extracts

REPRESENTATION OF AGE:


REPRESENTATION OF DISABILITY:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auSAGvpM7W8&feature=related

REPRESENTATION OF CLASS AND STATUS


REPRESENTATION OF GENDER


REPRESENTATION OF GENDER


REPRESENTATION OD SEXUALITY


REPRESENTATION OF REGIONAL IDENTITY

Lesson on 2.5.13 and 3.5.13 - Representation of status/power and ethnicity

Status and Power in Spooks (series 4 episode 3):


Ethnicity in Hotel Babylon:

POST-LESSON: Here is an answer on the extract. It got 39/50 marks. Hotel Babylon g322 exemplar.pdf

And here is the examiner's report on the paper. It is full of tips regarding things to avoid and ideas to include in your answer. (From page 2 particularly)

Examiner's Report on G322 TV Drama Unit (January 2010) by hgaldinoshea

Past papers and candidates' responses

January 2009 paper
TV Drama: Age (see exemplar below - ADDED: Embedded video at the bottom)
Industry: Discuss the ways in which media products are produced and distributed to audiences within a media area you have studied.
June 2009 paper
TV drama: Gender
Industry: How important is technological convergence for institutions and audiences within a media area which you have studied?
January 2010 paper
TV Drama: Ethnicity (exemplar answer here - 39/50)
Industry: "Media production is dominated by global institutions and services which sell their products and services to national audiences." To what extent do you agree with this statement?
June 2010 paper
TV Drama: Gender (see video at the bottom of this post - Primeval. I also gave you 2 exemplars on this one)
Industry: What significance does the continuing development of digital media technology have for media institutions and audiences?
January 2011: Gender again - paper not available but extract from Hustle.

Candidates' reponses - Age (Monarch of the Glen) January 2010 (Find examiner's comments right at the end of each document)
Candidate A:
TV Drama: High Level 3
Script January 09 Age Level 3 4
Candidate B:
TV Drama: low level 4
Film Industry: High level 3
Script Jan 09 4 and 3
Candidate C: That's what an E looks like (levels 1/2) Read carefully to avoid the vague comments made by this candidate. I read a lot of this in some of your practice tasks...
Examiner's Report on G322 TV Drama Unit (January 2010)

Primeval - exam text June 2010

More candidates' scripts including an A grade in this earlier post:
http://parkstvdrama.blogspot.com/2010/04/exemplar-answers.html

REPRESENTATION OF AGE - SKINS

Discuss the ways in which representations of age are constructed through the 4 micro-elements, paying particular attentin to Tony and his dad, in the opening scene of Skins.
Click here for Series 1 episode 1 (first 4 and a half minutes)

You could respond to the following questions instead. (Ignore question 4). Do use specific examples.

And here are the screenshots to help you focus on specific examples:

Skins Screenshots series 1 Episode 1 by hgaldinoshea

Home-Learning: Same question - Use the opening of Skins, series 3 episode 1 (watched in class). Write up your essay and hand it in as soon as possible. The episode is available from 4OD (see link on the right).

TV Drama 4 by hgaldinoshea

Thursday 18.4.13 and Friday 19.4.13 - Classwork

Representation of Class and Status

Shameless series 1 episode 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a056OjNHuCw&feature=sh_e_se&list=SL

TASK 1: Write up your response to 'How does the extract construct representations of social class?' Screengrabs to add to your evidence would be very worthwhile.

TASK 2: Read and annotate the model answer.

Two level 4 answers (link is also on the right-hand side)


NOTE: The first answer's structure is to write 1 paragraph for each micro-element. The second answer splits the extract in 4 parts and considers how all 4 elements construct certain representations.

TASK 3: Make some notes on the extracts below to write up your extended answer to the question:
How do the 2 extracts construct representations of social class? Refer to the micro-elements.



OR

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvYWRU2ksJE&safe=active