G322 Textual Analysis of TV Drama


Lesson on editing and Police Drama April 20th 2015

 Notes on shared conventions: focus on age…
1.Characters & Narrative – gender and age?
2.Mise en scene: lighting, ambience, framing, gestures, postures, costume, locations and setting. Set design.
3.Camera work & movement
4.Dialogue, sound and music

5. editing styles and techniques: split screen, types of cuts, focus pulls, cross cutting,

Task 2:   Scott and Bailey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpBvzoFEdpw from 22:58

A police interview: Focus on gender and
•Eye line matching
•Pace
•SRS
•Over the shoulder shots
•zoom
•Graphic and action matching
•Walk in/ out transitions
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•Feedback – now a pair task – can you identify the shared conventions?
Task3

To make notes on representations of sexuality and ethincity
Watch the extract from Skins – make no notes. What can you do in the first two minutes? [ extract on Netflix Volume 1 episode 9 from 31:48
http://www.netflix.com/WiPlayer?movieid=70140438&trkid=50263268&tctx=1%2C1%2C1af3b05a-d5b7-4545-8cb9-6c8067c571fb-309858943

Now watch it again and make notes on
2] Camera shots and movement and editing
Watch the extract from Skins –again and add notes on
3]Sound
Watch the extract from Skins –again and make notes on
4] Mise en scene
To make notes on representations of sexuality and ethincity
Sexuality – what techniques are used that effectively develop this representation? Terminology?
Consider: Friendships/ relationships/ sexuality  -   -  Associations, homosexual, father & son, family
teen, parents, grandparents, old, young, middle aged
Ethnicity- what techniques are used that effectively develop this representation? Terminology?
Consider: Friendships/ relationships/ Associations,attitudes, father & son, family, teen, parents, grandparents, old, young, middle aged. Traditions? Cultures?
REMEMBER – THESE TECHNIQUES ARE USED TO DEVELOP CONNOTATIONS!

task 4: Developing your understanding of mise en scene
Consider different representations of gender, class and status. Take notes on each different aspect


Downton Abbey - begin study of period dramas
Discuss the ways in which the extract constructs representations of class and status using the following:
Camera shots, angles, movement and composition
Editing
Sound – think about music and dialogue
Mise en scene


To identify Realism
The concept of realism: the degree to which, and the variety of ways in which media texts represent an idea of reality.
Verisimilitude: the logical, seemingly authentic world of a text.  Every text has a logical, sensible world constructed through continuity, detail and recognition.
Coronation Street. 20th May 2013



Tuesday 11th March 2014Mise en scene, camera and editing

Analysis of Lewis and Hathaway - "Well, you thought, something wasn't right.”

How does editing construct the meaning about the relationship between characters?
Work colleagues?   Friends?   Male/ female   Social group/ class
TV language?
Watch and make notes – representations of age. 


Past Papers - Revise! Revise! Revise!
What will be the focus for your exam?


Gender 

Age 

 Ethnicity 

 Sexuality 

 Class and status 
 Physical ability/disability 

 Regional identity


Section A Textual Analysis

2009 Jan:  Monarch of the Glen - age
2009 June:  Dr Who - gender
2010 Jan: Hotel Babylon - ethinicity
2010 June : Primeval- gender
2011 Jan: Hustle - gender
2011 June: Merlin - class and status
2012 Jan: Fingersmith - sexuality
2012 June: Coming down the Mountain - ability and disability
2013 Jan : ER age
2013 Doc Martin : regional Identity
2014 Downton Abbey: class and status
2015: ethnicity - Treme
2016: Gender: Sherlock

Section B Institutions and Audiences
Read the following past questions - could you answer them and use examples from your case study to support your response? You MUST revise!

2009 Jan: Discuss the ways in which media products are produced and distributed to audiences, within a media area you have studied.

2009 June: How important is technological convergence for institutions and audiences in a media area you have studied.

2010 Jan: 'Media production is dominated by global institutions which sell their products and services  to national audiences.' To what extent do you agree with this statement?
2010 June: What significance does the continuing development of digital media technology have for media institutions and audiences?

2011 Jan: Discuss the issues raised by media ownership in the production and exchange of media texts in your chosen media area. 
2011 June: "Successful media products depend as much upon marketing and distribution to a specific audience as they do upon good production practises." To what extent would you agree with this statement within the media area you have studied?

2012 Jan: To what extent does digital distribution affect the marketing and consumption of media products in the media area you have studied? 
2012 June: Cross media convergence and synergy are vital processes in the successful marketing of media products to audiences. To what extent do you agree with this statement in relation to your chosen media area? 
2013 what impact does media ownership have upon the range of products available to audiences in teh media area you have studied. 
2014- hardware and content
2015- media ownership
2016 - use of internet

Revision Task- make notes and consider how camera, editing, mise en scene and sound create and develop the representation of disability in the following linked extract: Emmerdale : Lizzie's arrival - watch up to 4:35



Home work & revision Waterloo Road

Revising camera shots, angle and movement and of course, editing! Remember, you have to say how each develops a specific representation.

Watch this clip 3 minutes 16 seconds - and make notes on how representations of gender, sexuality and age are constructed and developed through camera shots, angles, movement and editing. 



It is good revision to watch the extract 4 times and only make notes on the 2nd, 3rd and 4th time. 
If you are absent, do this task and then write up your analysis for me to mark.  


Lesson 6 editing and Trial and Retribution

For this lesson you will need to watch and note the opening 4 minutes of The Collection Part 2 Volume 5  titled The Discovery.




Lesson - Torchwood


Lesson 3: Shot Types and Styles with an introduction to semiotics. 







Representations  in 'Call the Midwife'

"Each episode is a whistle-stop tour of the issues that affect the East End poor - and specifically the women and mothers - of those days. Its basis in real life experience is perhaps its greatest virtue....While she was an exaggerated version of '50s-worship, the romanticisation of an age with clearly demarcated gender roles and notions of social propriety is everywhere from rockabilly style going mainstream to Mad Men mania. We continue to reference '50s icons like Marilyn Monroe and Ava Gardner and the perceived lifestyle their images represent. But there is a huge difference between the lot of women actually living under those social mores and the golden image we like to emulate nowadays. It is exactly this fallacious image of '50s womanhood that Call the Midwife warns against.

Here are real '50s women: Poor women who can't afford the luxuries we associate with the era, women with too many mouths to feed and a husband who expects to be cared for as a right, not a lifestyle choice. In the first episode, we meet Conchita, pregnant with her twenty fifth child. Another patient aged twenty three was on her fifth. One of the nuns comments that it will go on that way, like rabbits, until someone invents a 'magic potion'. These were the pre-Pill days when sex meant children and women were often pregnant for much of their fertile years. Motherhood was not a choice but a necessity, and women's bodies took a huge toll from the years of pregnancy and child-rearing that fell to them." From: [http://www.thefword.org.uk/reviews/2012/06/call_the_midwif]


First analyse how mise en scene, camera shots and camera angles develop representations of women


Then compare your findings for the clip below. How do representations of women also encompass representations of age and class?

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