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

Representation of Age and Status in this Touch of Frost extract

Due in after Easter

Discuss the ways in which the extract constructs representations of age and representations of power/status using the following:

- Camera shots, angles, movement and composition
- Editing
- Sound
- Mise-en-scene

Answer the question below, with detailed reference to specific examples from the extract.

Welcome to the Representation in TV Drama Blog 2013!

Here you will find all you need to be successful in Part 1 of your exam:

Analysis of Representations in an unseen extract from a TV Drama.

Set up your new blog if you haven't already done so; send me the url!

To get you started...
If you're unconvinced about the way TV editing can construct representation of people, have a look at this!


And if you really want to get ahead of the game, you MUST read these articles from MediaMag (Also start browsing through the mags at the front of the Media Pod).

Open publication - Free publishing

Open publication - Free publishing

Open publication - Free publishing

Extension for those aiming for a top grade:
Read this analysis of an episode of Sugar Rush. A* quality! (from the Media Mag)

Representations of Teens and teen sexuality in Sugar Rush