Section A: TV Drama (50 Marks)Technical Areas TEST and the

representation of AGE

Friday 31st January 2014

Unit G322: Key Concepts Exam50% of Your AS Level

Homework

DUE: Wednesday 29th January – TODAY!

1) Revise for the Upcoming Mock Exam (Week beginning Monday 3rd February) using the notes you have made over the last few Section A Lessons and by visiting:

http://ncrafts.wordpress.com

There are a number of pages there to help you practice for the Mock Exam and “REAL DEAL” on May 23rd 2014.

2) Revise for a Test (Section A and B) on areas we have covered so far – this will be peer assessed and graded!

3) Complete a 4 Technical Feature answer (Introduction – Main Body – Conclusion) based on the sequence from

Why?

Aims & Objectives

• Re-cap some of the important areas covered last lesson for Section A: TV Drama (50 Marks) through a Technical Features TEST.

• Cover another area of representation – Age – and HOW the technical areas help construct the representation of both gender roles.

• YOU WILL also get the opportunity to expand your knowledge of the 4 Technical areas in the exam and see how they apply in representing a particular group of people/individuals.

• Review the learning.

So you are prepared and ready to demonstrate your “media textual analysis skills and your understanding of the concept of representation using a short unseen moving image extract (AO1, AO2)” (OCR)

YOU SHOULD visit the OCR website and download/read the Unit G322 sections of the specification!

TEST – 5 MinutesYOU MUST complete the TEST independently and to the best of your ability.

Once the time is up, YOU WILL peer assess somebody elses work to establish their understanding and at the same time improve your own.

FEEDBACK

• Make sure you are marking the work in a different colour to what they have written.

• Tally up their marks at the end and give them some feedback – WWW and EBI

Answers1) a) Mise-en-scene examples –

Lighting, Props, Colours, Facial expressions, Costume, Setting

b) Sound examples –

Diegetic Sound, Non-Diegetic Sound, Ambient Sound, Synchronous sound, Incidental music

2) a) Camera angle = High Angleb) Code = Technicalc) As weak and submissive, which is stereotypical of someone so young and inexperienced.

3) 180° Rule

4) Shot-reverse-shot

Answers - CONTINUED5)

6)

1. Single Play TV Drama =

2. Long Form TV Drama =

Answers - CONTINUED7)

Glen Creeber (2011)

8)

Anti-stereotype

9)

John Berger “Men act, women appear”

10)

a) Mid-Shot at an eye level camera angle – Connotations?b) Anguish? Struggle to escape? Weak and submissive? “Damsel in distress”

“…construct the representation of…”

In the exam, YOU WILL be asked to analyse ONE of the SEVEN areas of Representation above.This changes EVERY year so YOU WILL need to be prepared to answer a question on ALL SEVEN areas.

Today we will re-cap HOW the representation of Age is constructed to the audience in a 5 minute sequence from:

Starter Task 2) – “60 Seconds!”

You have 60 Seconds to write down HOW and WHY certain figures within the school compare to one another.

Key terms: Stereotype and Anti-stereotypes

YOU SHOULD make sure it is structured and can read out word-for-word!

VS.

Feedback

What are some of the stereotypes associated to young and old people?

Main Task 1) – 30 MinutesYou are going to watch the scene 4 times – YOU MUST NOT make any notes during the first viewing.

Viewing 2 = Make notesViewing 3 = Make notesViewing 4 = Make notes/answer the question below.

For example:

The technical code of the _______ shot, _______ angle shot connotes…..

The non-verbal code of the setting establishes the authority of the older generations at the school through….The non-verbal code of …… connotes how young people are stereotyped as….

The diegetic verbal code of dialogue “EXAMPLE HERE” connotes how Age in this Mini-series is represented as…

Remember! Identify anti-stereotypes as well!

Key Examples

“Heads down, mouths shut” “It’ll be the making of us, you’ll see”Enigma clue (Roland Barthes) to…

“You..did..take out insurance?”

Behaviour of the boys – suspicious?

Key Examples

“Concentrate on what you’re good at”

Long shot ‘signifies’ (De Saussure)….“I just made a total fool of myself”

“You look ridiculous!”Low angle shot – connotes…The non-verbal code of his outfit connotes…

Answer the Question – 45 Minutes

1 minute – Write your introduction.

10 minutes – Camera shots, angles, movement, composition

10 minutes – Editing

10 minutes – Sound

10 minutes – Mise-en-scene

“The use of technical area represents Age to be…”

2 minutes – Conclusion

2 minutes – Proof read your answer and check you followed a PEA structure.

Age

Feedback – 15 minutes

“Assess yourself”Using your Assessment Card, YOU MUST establish what level you think you have achieved in your answer.

YOU SHOULD tick ✓ the areas of success and put a ? Against anything you think has let the quality of your answer down.

Extension – YOU COULD assess someone else’s work nearby and compare/contrast each other analysis.

We will now go through these 4 Technical areas by going to:

http://ncrafts.wordpress.com

You have the remainder of the lesson to complete some silent, independent study for either Section A or B of the Exam in preparation for the Mock Exam.

What have we learnt in todays lesson?

YOU MUST explain what you need to work on in order to “Ace” the mock exam next week for Section A: TV Drama (50 Marks)

YOU COULD explain the stereotypes and anti-stereotypes associated to Age based on what you have deconstructed today.

Homework

MOCK EXAM:

Friday 7th February 2014 - Afternoon

1) Revise for the Upcoming Mock Exam (Week beginning Monday 3rd February) using the notes you have made over the last few Section A Lessons and by visiting:

http://ncrafts.wordpress.com

There are a number of pages there to help you practice for the Mock Exam and “REAL DEAL” on May 23rd 2014.