TV Drama – recap Mise-en-Scene and Camera

Textual Analysis

Task 1

Review these two slide shows on:

1. Mise-en-Scene

2. Camera

Practice Textual Analysis

Analyse the following TV Drama clip in class and discussing how the mise-en-scene & camera communicates meaning. First of all after watching it, summarise what the clip is mainly focused on in terms of what themes, issues, social groups are represented.

In pairs, you should aim to find 3 moments when camera is used to represent a theme, issue, social group and 3 moments when MES is used to represent a theme, issue, social group.

Glossaries & Analytical Verbs

The assessment for this essay will be looking for your accurate use of terminology to describe the specific examples you are analysing. You will also be evaluating what meaning those examples communicate about the representation of the person, place or event; this means you need a range of synonyms for ‘represent’. Please use the resources below to develop your technical and analytical vocabulary:

  1. Camera terms
  2. MES terms
  3. Synonyms for Represent

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