1. Wednesday 19th October 2011
• Today‟s Learning Objectives are:
• To understand the exam
• To identify TV drama sub genres
• To understand the term „Representation‟
• To analyse representation within TV
drama

2. Half Term Work
1. Complete your analysis of representation
for your TV Drama – 150 Words and
upload it to your Blog
2. Read your Exam Booklet and complete
one blogging task

3. Year Breakdown
50 % exam 50 % coursework
1st half term
Intro to Media concepts and theories
Practical and textual analysis skills
2nd half term
AM – Music industry exam prep
AD – TV Drama exam prep
3rd half term
January – AS Media Exam
Begin Thriller – 50 % cwk
4th half term
Thriller cwk
5th half term
Submit cwk – finish course

4. TV Drama G322
Friday 13 th January

5. Exam Board Advice: TV Drama G322
Don‟t spend lots of time exploring the genre
Do spend time looking at each technical aspect
in detail particularly editing and sound.
Do look at a wide range of TV Drama, US can be a
rich area of study but you will be examined on a
British text.

6. But enough about the exam…

7. What sub genre are these TV Dramas?
Fill in the mindmap in your booklet
Ext: Can you think
of any others?

8. REPRESENTATION
In pairs, answer the
Who is being represented? questions for each image
How are they being Ext: Why have these
represented? social groups been
represented in this way?

9. Representation is…
• Write down your own definition for
Representation
“ The way a media text re – presents or
constructs a particular group of
people, place or situation”
„A Construction of Reality‟

10. Why is The Media called The
Media?
• Because it mediates between the
information and the audience
PRODUCERS
MEDIA
TEXT AUDIENCE

11. How do you remember Mise en Scene?
MES = CLPPS
• C – Costume
• L – Lighting
• P – Production Design
• P – Props
• S - Space

12. How do you remember Cinematography?
AMPS
• A – Angle
• M – Movement
• P – Position
• S – Shot Type

13. In pairs, analyse one of the following TV Dramas
to present back to the class
•The Wire – Representation of Ethnicity
•Skins – Representation of Age
•Bleak House – Representation of Social Class
What is the sub genre? How do you know this?
How are the characters represented? Does it
conform to typical stereotypes?
Analyse using mise-en-scene and cinematography

17. You have 3 mins to present
• Audience: Think of Questions to ask the group
• What else would you like to know?
• Did the group describe or analyse?
• What media terminology should they be
using when analysing?