AS Unit G322 Section A: Textual Analysis and Representation (TV Drama) (50 marks)
The purpose of this unit is to assess your media textual analysis skills and your understanding of the concept of representation using a short unseen moving image extract (AO1, AO2)
HOW THE EXAM WORKS
This is the first half of a two-hour exam (including 30 minutes for viewing and making notes on the moving image extract) in which you answer two compulsory questions. The exam is marked out of a total of 100, with each question marked out of 50.
This is the first half of a two-hour exam (including 30 minutes for viewing and making notes on the moving image extract) in which you answer two compulsory questions. The exam is marked out of a total of 100, with each question marked out of 50.
There are two sections to this paper. This page looks at what you need to do for Section A.
Camera Angle, Shot, Movement and Composition
Mise-en-Scène
Editing
Sound
You need to analyse how the extract you are shown creates meaning for an audience, focussing on the creation of representations of specific social types, groups, events or places.
A 5-minute ‘unseen’ extract from a TV drama will be shown to you four times with one compulsory question. The question will ask you to discuss four key technical aspects of the languages and conventions of moving image media (below). You will be asked to link this analysis with a discussion of some aspect of representation within the sequence.
You must cover the four aspects below as equally as you can:
Camera Angle, Shot, Movement and Composition
Mise-en-Scène
Editing
Sound
You need to analyse how the extract you are shown creates meaning for an audience, focussing on the creation of representations of specific social types, groups, events or places.
- You will be allowed two minutes to read the question for Section A before the extract is screened.
- The extract will be screened four times.
- First screening: watch the extract; no notes are to be made this time.
- Second screening:
- There will be a brief break (2 mins) for note-making. watch the extract and make notes.
- Third and fourth screening (with 2 minute breaks between each for note-taking):
- Your notes for Section A are to be written in the answer booklet provided and must be handed in at the end of the examination. Rule a diagonal line through your notes afterwards. watch the extract and make notes.
PAST PAPER QUESTIONS
January 2009
Extract: Monarch of the Glen, Series 7, Episode 2; Dir. David Caffrey/Edward Bennett 2006
Extract length: 5 minutes approx. Timing of extract: Start 41.54, end 46.45.
Discuss the ways in which the extract constructs the representation of age using the following:•Camera shots, angles, movement and composition
•Editing
•Sound
•Mise-en-scene
Exemplar Answer for this question: http://www.slideshare.net/MissConnell/age-monarch-of-the-glen
June 2009
TV Drama sequence: Doctor Who, Series 3, Volume 4
Director: Graham Harper and Colin Teague
Date: 2007
Distributor: BBC
Country: UK
Extract Location: Episode 3, Chapter 8
Extract Length: 5 minutes 06 seconds
Location/Cues: Start: 29:20; End: 34:26
Answer the question below,
Discuss the ways in which the extract constructs the representation of gender using the following with detailed reference to specific examples from the extract only.
• Camera shots, angles, movement and composition
• Editing
• Sound
• Mise en scène
See the mark scheme for this question.
See the examiner's report for this question.
See exemplar answers for this question.
January 2010
Extract: Hotel Babylon, Episode 1, Series 5, written by Adrian Hodges, dir. Jamie Payne
Consider the ways in which the extract constructs the representation of ethnicity using the following:
•Camera shots, angles, movement and composition
•Editing•Sound
•Mise-en-scene
See the mark scheme for this question.
See the examiner's report for this question.
See exemplar answers for this question.
June 2010
Extract: Primeval Series 2, Episode 3, written by Richard Kurti and Bev Doyle, dir. Jamie Payne
Discuss the ways in which the extract constructs the representation of gender using the following:
•Camera shots, angles, movement and composition
•Editing•Sound
•Mise-en-scene
Specimen Paper
Extract: The Chase (BBC/Rollem Productions) Episode 1, Series 1 written by Kay Mellor, dir. Jamie Payne
Extract length: 5 minutes max. Timing of extract: First 5 minutes of Episode 1.Discuss the ways in which the extract constructs representations of gender using the following:
•Camera shots, angles, movement and composition
•Editing
•Sound
•Mise-en-scene
January 2011
Extract: Hustle, Series 1 Episode 4 (Written by Tony Jordan, dir. Minkie Spiro)Extract location: Episode 4; In point: 19.50 Out point: 25.01
Discuss the ways in which the extract constructs representations of gender using the following:
•Camera shots, angles, movement and composition
•Editing
•Sound
•Mise-en-scene
Watch this episode here. You will have to watch the advert, then move the cursor to 19.50. OR log on to the MediaEdu site here.
June 2011
Extract: Merlin Series 1 Episode 1, written by Julian Jones, dir. James Hawes
In point: 20.30; out point 25.30
1. Discuss the ways in which the extract constructs the representation of class and status using the following:
•Camera shots, angles, movement and composition
•Editing
•Sound
•Mise-en-scene
•Editing
•Sound
•Mise-en-scene
From 1-6 minutes of this extract below:
January 2012
Extract: Fingersmith (Director: Aisling Walsh, 2005)_
1. Discuss the ways in which the extract constructs the representation of sexuality using the following:
•Camera shots, angles, movement and composition
•Editing
•Sound
•Mise-en-scene
•Editing
•Sound
•Mise-en-scene
Exemplar essay on this clip: http://www.slideshare.net/medialauren/fingersmith-analysis
Examiner's report with useful tips for writing about this clip: http://www.ocr.org.uk/Images/58986-examiners-reports-january.pdf
Actual exam paper for this year: http://www.ocr.org.uk/Images/78553-question-paper-unit-g322-01-key-media-concepts-tv-drama.pdf
June 2012
Extract: Coming Down The Mountain (Director: Julie Anne Robinson, 2007)
1. Discuss the ways in which the extract constructs the representations of ability/disability using the following:
•Camera shots, angles, movement and composition
•Editing
•Sound
•Mise-en-scene
•Editing
•Sound
•Mise-en-scene
See a full marks answer to this question.
January 2013 (to come)
June 2013
Extract: Doc Martin, Series 1, Episode 1, written by Dominic Minghella.
1. Discuss the ways in which the extract constructs the representation of regional identity using the following:
- Camera shots, angles, movement and composition
- Editing
- Sound
- Mise-en-Scene
Exemplar essays and mark scheme for this question: http://www.ocr.org.uk/Images/179236-example-candidate-answers-from-june-2013.pdf
Why is the reprentation often gender? Well, the exam board admits that it's incredibly difficult to find a five-minute extract that includes enough to discuss on all four bullet points on anything else! But it won't always be gender! One thing you can be sure of is that the extract will be from a drama that is at least two years old, because the exam questions are written two years in advance.
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