Tuesday, 15 December 2009

Practice Question

If you are resiting your AS Media Studies exam in January you should practice making notes on a 5 minute TV drama clip. You should watch the clip 4 times, you are not allowed to take note on the first viewing in the exam. You could try different ways of organizing your ideas.

You could structure your note around the micro concepts (Camera, Editing Mise en Scene, Sound, SFX) to ensure you cover lots of detailed examples.

Alternatively you could pick three or four key points in the clip and structure your detailed analysis around how the micro features are used in those sections of drama.

Remember the question will ask you to discus a representational area. You could get a clip from any TV drama. It does not matter if you have never watched that show - although watching TV drama analytically will help your studies. Topics likely to come up in the exam are; Gender, Age, Sexuality, Class & Status, Physical Ability, Race & Ethnicity, Regionality.

Below is a clip 'Waterloo Road' that you could try analysing and here is a practice question. In the exam you will get 45 minutes to write the essay.

Discus the way in which the representation of class and status are constructed in the clip from 'Waterloo road'.
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