1. introduction to representation

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

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

Year Breakdown

50 % exam 50 % coursework

1st half termIntro to Media concepts and theories

Practical and textual analysis skills

3rd half termJanuary – AS Media ExamBegin Thriller – 50 % cwk

5th half termSubmit cwk – finish course

4th half termThriller cwk

2nd half termAM – Music industry exam prep

AD – TV Drama exam prep

Friday 13th January

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.

Exam Board Advice: TV Drama G322

But enough about the exam…

What sub genre are these TV Dramas?Fill in the mindmap in your booklet

Ext: Can you think

of any others?

REPRESENTATION

Who is being represented?

How are they being

represented?

In pairs, answer the questions for each image

Ext: Why have these social groups been represented in this way?

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‟

Why is The Media called The

Media?

• Because it mediates between the

information and the audience

MEDIA

PRODUCERS

AUDIENCETEXT

How do you remember Mise en Scene?

• C – Costume

• L – Lighting

• P – Production Design

• P – Props

• S - Space

MES = CLPPS

How do you remember Cinematography?

• A – Angle

• M – Movement

• P – Position

• S – Shot Type

AMPS

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

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?