TV Drama Exam Revision

Tv drama revision_booklet from leannacatherina

YEAR 12 HOMEWORK

1. LAST CHANCE to improve research and planning posts - verbal feedback will be provided to everyone by Friday. Continue to ad construction evidence to blogs and keep up with journal posts - blog will be marked again Friday 3rd March
2. TV Drama homework from half term to be completed by Monday 27th Feb click here 
3. Make sure you have been reading the Section C film exam revision notes - keep going over them we will return to this week commencing 6th March as your mock exam will be a question from Section C remember you have all the past exam questions
4. Redraft/finish the essay you did in class for Section C (Film) at the end of last half term Friday 3rd March

Essay feedback

Question: How far do the film opening sequences of the films you have studied for this topic introduce key messages and values?

• ·         Nobody completed the essay – if you did I could tell it was rushed so the second half wasn’t as good as the first
•        For the most part everyone followed the ‘formula’ for the introduction and so they were quite good (Shanie’s was very good)
• ·         BOTH of the films are about crime this section of your exam is called ‘Living with Crime’ so therefore when discussing key messages and values you HAVE to discuss elements that link back to the overall crime theme e.g. some good point made about the effects of crime and the binary opposites of old vs. young
• ·         Some over simplified references to ‘youth’ – you need to discuss in detail how they young people at the start of Harry Brown are represented as marginalised youth and being a ‘Family’ in contrast the ‘family’ representation portrayed in Wild Bill
• ·         A minority of people were able to successfully discuss the opening of Wild Bill referring in detail to how the crime theme was set up from the start with the sound of keys and jail cells opening – others skipped this fact and went straight to talking about the boys
• ·         It’s important to discuss how the audience may feel while watching and even how you are feeling (but not to strongly)
• ·         DON’T JUST MAKE POINTS that show how good you are at micro analysis LINK your points back to the social-political issues that the film is trying to portray to the audience
• ·         Most of you made the point that enigmas are presented in opening BUT didn’t refer to any that could link to the messages and values

Composition In Storytelling

Storyboarding!

Selective Color

How to make Stylized Film Titles

Year 9 Homework

In your book write out a film idea for a brand new Action-Adventure film do this using Todorov's 5 stages (your story should include Propp's characters)

In your book design a film poster to promote the film

Look through the PowerPoint for reminder of the theories AND how to do your poster

Half term homework (Yr9) from Belinda Raji

FEB HALF TERM HOMEWORK

Half Term Media Homework - Monday 20th Feb

DECONSTRUCTING

What is it?

Looking at the choices in production. Picking them apart.

What should we look at?

• Camera (angles, shots, movement)
• Sound dialogue, effects, music)
• Editing (pace, transitions)
• Mise-en-scene

Watch the YouTube video below, it's full of EXCELLENT guidance on how to answer the exam question for the TV Drama exam.

Watch it several times - make sure you take note of the observations he has made - can you see how he came to those observations through deconstructing the use of 'micro features'?

NOW answer the exam question below using the tips given to you. You will be handing in your notes AND your answer to the question.

GAME OF THRONES
Discuss the ways in which the extract constructs the representation of gender using the following:

• Camera (angles, shots, movement)
• Sound dialogue, effects, music)
• Editing (pace, transitions)
• Mise-en-scene

Half Term Media Homework - Thursday 16th Feb

Please also check you blog lists to see what blog work needs to be completed over half term AND of course you should be filming!

Half Term Film Homework - Tuesday 21st Feb
You MUST read through all the resources provided to you for Section C of the Film AS exam (To Kill a Mockingbird and A Time To Kill) most importantly the last hand outs given to you that give you DETAILED advice on how to answer different exam questions.

Codes and conventions of a film opening

Codes and conventions of a film opening from haverstockmedia

Exam Dates

YEAR 12

FILM
Tuesday 16th May (2hrs 30min)
FM2: British and American Film 2 Hours 30mins

Section A: Producers and Audiences 

Section B: British Film Topics Living with Crime - Harry Brown (Daniel Barber, 2009) & Wild Bill (Dexter Fletcher, 20011)
Section C: American Film – Comparative Study To Kill A Mocking Bird (Robert Mulligan, 1962) & A Time To Kill (Joel Schumacher, 1996)

MEDIA

Thursday 18th May (2hrs)

G322/01 Key Media Concepts (TV Drama)

Section A: Textual Analysis and Representation (Unseen moving image extract)
Section B: Institutions and Audiences