You will be completing a TV Drama Textual Analysis in your 2 hour exam.
- 30 mins – watching the clip and making notes
- 45 mins – writing up the response
- 45 mins – Music Industry question
You should read and make notes on the presentation below which outlines everything you need to know for TV Drama:
Suggested revision:
See classroom for resources.
Always remember that this part of the exam relies on you doing the following:
- Decoding, deconstructing the clip for meaning and show how camera, sound, editing, MES been used to represent characters, themes and issues?
- Open the essay with some key observations about what the clip shows in terms of narrative themes and issues and any representations of the characters that are significant.
- You should always hook back to these in your significance in your TEAS (terms, examples, analysis, significance).
- Use the key term represent and synonyms too – convey, portray, signify, suggests, shows, highlights, shows etc
- You should use as many terms as you can – even if you are focusing on editing, throw some camera terms in or if you are focusing on MES, then throw some camera terms in.
- You need to cover all 4 microfeatures – if you miss one out then you will lose 25% of the marks (/50).
- Make sure use plenty of adjectives for the analysis – not just powerful, weak but vary your observations of how the theme, issue, character has been portrayed, represented etc.