On Wednesday you will be sit a mock media studies exam.
You will only be required to complete section A. This is not the practical part of the exam.
You will watch a video clip and answer questions on it.
You will only be required to complete section A. This is not the practical part of the exam.
You will watch a video clip and answer questions on it.
Viewing the DVD extract for Section A
You will be given 5 minutes to read through the questions in Section A (on page 2 of this Answer Book). You will be shown the DVD extract for the first time. You will not make notes.
You will watch the DVD extract for a second time. This time you will be allowed to make notes.
Make any notes on spare paper provided.
You will be allowed 10 minutes to make any further notes and to think about the answers to the questions.
You will watch the extract for a third and final time.
You will be allowed the remaining time (approximately 1 hour, depending on the length
of the extract) to complete the examination.
The paper will ask you about the settings used in the clip so be prepared to discuss how and why these settings have been used. Also, see this post.
Settings in TV drama are used to give clues to the genre. For example you would recognise a medical drama through the mist-en-scene and iconography of hospitals, ambulances etc. This gives the text producer an opportunity to link characters and storylines typical of the genre. Settings give audiences expectations.
The paper will ask you about storylines in the clip.
Discuss the roles of the different characters in the clip and use media terms; connotations, implies, intertextuallity etc.
Look for Proppian characters hero, villain, helper, dispatcher etc.
The paper will ask you about audiences so be prepared to discuss audience pleasures.
Be prepared to discuss audience categories (NRS) and reasons for audiences to watch (Uses and Gratification theory). Also, you should discuss audience appeal and how they take pleasure from a text.
Audiences are positioned using technical codes such as framing. For example a close up might be used to show a character's emotions and make the audience feel sympathy for the character.
Look at the representation of class.
Ask how audiences might respond.
The paper will ask you about representation of age. You will be asked to discuss how age was represented in a television drama you have studied.
Discuss the clip of Eastenders on this post. Answer the questions about representation that are shown here.
Explore. What stereotypes of age are. How they are constructed using visual and technical codes.
If the particular representations challenge or conform to the stereotype.
You will be given 5 minutes to read through the questions in Section A (on page 2 of this Answer Book). You will be shown the DVD extract for the first time. You will not make notes.
You will watch the DVD extract for a second time. This time you will be allowed to make notes.
Make any notes on spare paper provided.
You will be allowed 10 minutes to make any further notes and to think about the answers to the questions.
You will watch the extract for a third and final time.
You will be allowed the remaining time (approximately 1 hour, depending on the length
of the extract) to complete the examination.
The paper will ask you about the settings used in the clip so be prepared to discuss how and why these settings have been used. Also, see this post.
Settings in TV drama are used to give clues to the genre. For example you would recognise a medical drama through the mist-en-scene and iconography of hospitals, ambulances etc. This gives the text producer an opportunity to link characters and storylines typical of the genre. Settings give audiences expectations.
The paper will ask you about storylines in the clip.
Discuss the roles of the different characters in the clip and use media terms; connotations, implies, intertextuallity etc.
Look for Proppian characters hero, villain, helper, dispatcher etc.
The paper will ask you about audiences so be prepared to discuss audience pleasures.
Be prepared to discuss audience categories (NRS) and reasons for audiences to watch (Uses and Gratification theory). Also, you should discuss audience appeal and how they take pleasure from a text.
Audiences are positioned using technical codes such as framing. For example a close up might be used to show a character's emotions and make the audience feel sympathy for the character.
Look at the representation of class.
Ask how audiences might respond.
The paper will ask you about representation of age. You will be asked to discuss how age was represented in a television drama you have studied.
Discuss the clip of Eastenders on this post. Answer the questions about representation that are shown here.
Explore. What stereotypes of age are. How they are constructed using visual and technical codes.
If the particular representations challenge or conform to the stereotype.
No comments:
Post a Comment